Entries Tagged as 'Business & Media'
How to Shag a Sheep: Adventures in Modern Journalism
Good heavens. As Mark Steyn himself says of it, “This is a long piece but it does have underage sex and bestiality in it. So enjoy!”
Steyn Online - THE SHAGGED SHEEP
If I were celebrated toilet photographer Warren Kinsella or leading Canadian Internet Nazi Lucy Warman, I’d sue. But I’m not. Nor, despite a [...]
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Part 1 of My Black Friday
My mother needed a new computer. And iPod charger (to replace the one my sister had that she lost), and new wireless but we ended up skipping that.
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In-Flight Wifi, Is It
A strange moment yesterday at San Jose airport:
Waiting for my mother to pick me up, standing curbside, I waited for Google Reader to load, and was rather confused to look down again after scanning the traffic for a moment to see a blue page with lots of whippy-around elements instead of Google’s pleasingly anonymous interface, [...]
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Bah, Humbug, and Good Night
Instapundit:
MEGAN MCARDLE ON CHRISTMAS AND THE ECONOMY: “The only good thing that I can possibly think of about this financial crisis is that it may break the rat race of constantly ratcheting consumption, which has surrounded most Americans with nice things that don’t really make them happy. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with buying [...]
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Absolutely the Funniest Item of the Day CCI
This isn’t funny. Yes it is.
Tim Blair - DAVE’S KAMPH
Do click on the links.
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That’s Not a Ripoff Price For a Crappy Car, It’s a “Legacy Cost”
Popular Mechanics - GM in Crisis—5 Reasons Why America’s Largest Car Company Teeters on the Edge
So a lot of it’s obvious, but this is interesting, in numbers like these:
3. Legacy Costs Every car GM makes carries “legacy costs”—the costs of providing healthcare and pensions to scores of retired workers. For every GM [...]
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What the Hell Is Going On In the Western Media?
MSM round-up from the turkey! being slaughtered! while it lived! story, mostly from Tim Blair:
NBC finds the video – shot by an NBC affiliate – “too grisly for some”. … Wonkette labels this a “celebration of death”. Writes one commenter: “She is the dumbest whore I have ever seen.”… [...]
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The International Crowd Is Finally Starting to Notice the Auguries
The Times - Car Trouble The new administration should resist demands to rescue US car manufacturers; aid risks diverting scarce resources and provoking trade retaliation
The American car industry is in deep trouble. Sales in October fell to their lowest level since 1991. The big three manufacturers - General Motors, Ford and Chrysler - recorded [...]
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El Rushbo in the Telegraph
It’s very long, but very good (his little cat! I remember that tragic episode…):
Telegraph - Rush Limbaugh: The man who’s always Right Global warming? A hoax. Barack Obama? A disaster. John McCain? A winner. So says Rush Limbaugh, America’s most listened-to and influential – not to mention richest - radio personality. But will America prove him [...]
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Spreading American-Style Democracy Through the Islamic World
Wheat & Weeds - Turkey Adopts The Fairness Doctrine
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Caesar’s Wives and Press Corps
The Times - Let my social life affect my work? Never How pompous, how unself-aware we are, in the modern media, by Matthew Parris
I agree to record a second short interview about Corfu, Lord Mandelson, George Osborne, oligarchs, yachts, canapés etc. Now I put on my severe face and gravely opine that what these [...]
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A Strange Sort of Whistleblower
LGF - LA Times: ‘We Keep Our Promises’
“The Los Angeles Times did not publish the videotape because it was provided to us by a confidential source who did so on the condition that we not release it,” said the newspaper’s editor, Russ Stanton. “The Times keeps its promises to [...]
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Raise Your Hand If You Suddenly Find the NYT Unexpectedly Conservative
The New York Times: endorsed a Republican presidential candidate as recently as 1956.
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Raise Your Hand If You Suddenly Find Slate Magazine Unexpectedly Conservative
Slate Magazine: As many ineligible English interns as McCain voters.
Kind of a fun exercise, tho.
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