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Mildly amusing:


Glenn Beck also mocked the media coverage.

To make it even more of a circus the sheriff says that he was playing the media so that he could gain the trust of the media manipulators:

The sheriff, who on Friday had largely dismissed suggestions from reporters that the balloon flight might be a hoax, said that he had, to some extent, manipulated the media in order to gain the trust of the Heenes.

"I bumped against the line of misleading the media," he said. "I hope I didn't cross that line. I bumped up against it by perhaps overstating our assurance or belief that there was nothing behind this."

And he's looking into whether the media may have been involved:

We certainly know there's a conspiracy between the husband and wife. You've probably seen some of the e-mails and things on the internet suggesting that there may be other conspirators. We're certainly examining that possibility, including the possibility that even some of the media outlets may have had some knowledge about this.

I'd be shocked if the media were involved. Dupes, yes but willing accomplices to fraud, don't think so.

Here is another story of how the print media are planning yet again to charge for online content. Blah, blah, blah! The problem for them is that this is a global market, I can get my news from the UK, Germany, MSNBC, Fox News, etc. I don't need to read the NY Times or Pittsburgh Post-Gazette to find out what's going on in the world, there are so many other places I can go. If one or multiple sites start charging for content, I can find many more that are not.

I think the print media needs to hire a business consultant who could teach them the concept of value added. If they find something that other media can't deliver, I might be tempted to pay. Case in point, Hugh Hewitt has been giving his podcast away for free for years. He hooked his customers on his radio show and now he's charging for the podcast. I'm hooked, it has become a part of my day. He's even sweetened the deal by giving a $20 discount until the end of September. He reels me in before I decide I don't really need the podcast.

Did you guys see the ad ABC and NBC refused to air? Here it is:

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Here's a report about it:

BTW, Obama plans to cut payments to "heart and cancer doctors by $1.4 billion next year."

He also died of cancer, bladder cancer. Unfortunately for him, his death is overshadowed by Kennedy's. He was a man of many careers including writer, producer and journalist. At 50 he overcame addiction to drugs and started writing. He produced many novels and eventually became a writer for Vanity Fair. His first article for Vanity Fair covered the murder trial of John Thomas Sweeney, his daughter's boyfriend and the man who murdered her:

Dominick Dunne, a best-selling author and special correspondent for Vanity Fair, died today at his home in Manhattan. He was 83.

The cause of death was bladder cancer, said his son Griffin Dunne.

Dunne--who joined Vanity Fair in 1984 as a contributing editor and was named special correspondent in 1993--famously covered the trials of O. J. Simpson, the Menendez brothers, Michael Skakel, William Kennedy Smith, and Phil Spector, as well as the impeachment of President Bill Clinton.

Prayers for his family and friends, especially his wife and two sons.

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Evidently, the Obama/Hitler protest signs were created by single-payer protesters (LaRouche -- now there's a blast from the past). Way to go, MSM:

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It's as if they think we haven't a clue what's been going on over the last month with Obama hectoring us about the need for healthcare "reform" before the August recess:Reid said reporters created a fictitious deadline of a successful...

That's what Ryan Chittum of The Columbia Law Review found out:"We want to stop wholesale misappropriation of our content which does occur right now--people who are copying and pasting or taking by RSS feeds dozens or hundreds of our stories."...

Here's an interesting article on Hollywood blogger, Nikki Finke, who breaks many Hollywood stories. It's pretty negative, she's called a thug. Don't think she liked that too much. Best quote from the article: "I really don't see covering Hollywood as...

And the MSM gush over it. Isn't it amazing how Obama can swat a fly and be president at the same time? (Good Morning America actually looked at in slow mo!) Our MSM are easily amused! BTW, just bought an...

American Society of Magazine Editors "Best Cover Contest" for 2009 includes the category "Best Obama Cover" (And both Time and Newsweek have so many contenders :-) Media imitating parody: We thought we were being a little bratty last year when...

You be the judge. How many times has this happened at the NY Times? Can't they keep their writers in line? Dowd's excuse? A friend told her the line but didn't mention that it wasn't original: i was talking to...

For those making a big deal about the press standing for Obama when they didn't for Bush, here's an explanation. (via)...

Equating saving a newspaper to saving Darfur demonstrates just why this paper is failing. They think that they are on a par with saving a country where thousands of people are being systematically killed, tortured and raped. The arrogance of...

Um...not exactly separated at birth, huh? (via)...

Beliefnet has a list of the 12 most powerful Hollywood Christians. It seems a little odd to be calling a fellow Christian powerful (2 Corinthians 12:9) but I guess some of them are pretty powerful, others are not as well...

If you missed the Shepard Smith-Naomi Wolf exchange you can watch it here. It's pretty funny that she lets slip her true feelings about the previous Democrat candidates and then is annoyed that he follows up with a question about...