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This is a crazy footage of a reporter doing a piece on what appears to be the varieties of grapes. And then he gets the shock of his life. It is more entertaining than it reads. Srsly! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_DYox-MVXs]
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The rules for interns at the New York Sun, newspaper that makes the New York Post look like a NPR mouthpiece, are downright draconian! Gawker helpfully got a copy and highlighted the extreme ones.
I cannot wait to say "goodnight" to this rag of a newspaper when it goes out of business. The day will come.
To see rest of the "Guidelines for Interns" click here.
Fox News Megyn Kelly prepping herself, making sure her makeup and hair is fair and balanced during Joe Biden's vice presidency acceptance speech at the recent DNC. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8NTXX4HJvc]
This is one of those "gotcha" moments, but still, shouldn't she be, as an on-site "reporter" pay attention to what's taking place behind her? But what really is interesting about this to me is that I'm reminded of the Latin phrase "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes" which roughly translates to "Who watches the watchers?" Well, in todays epoch of digital recording, citizen journalism and blogging, YouTube, and high speed internet, we all do. We all do.
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Note the bottom-screen text in this screen capture from Fox News. It may be the stupidest thing I've ever seen...and I really hesitate to use "stupid" because it makes the word "stupid" look bad. I don't care what end of the political spectrum you subscribe to, because the idiocy presented there onscreen is plainly obvious. Otherwise, anyone that buys into this should really not be allowed to breed.
If anything, this is what I see:
OSAMA/BIDEN
AWESOME BID!
COINCIDENCE?
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It ain't just the Spaniards. Kathie Lee Gifford joins the club and does her best "Chinese." Or rather imitates Al Roker's imitation of "Chinese old man." I hate you all. Al, please eat another donut and be unable to leave your house. Seriously. What purpose do you serve in life? Weather? Uh, thanks weather.com. And Kathie Lee. What do you contribute to humanity? Can anyone answer that? Anyone? Bueller?
The onscreen below her plastic face should read: "Ho Is Back From Beijing."
The always outspoken Helen Thomas writes in response to reader criticism of the Post "rare" decision to publishing an Associated Press photograph taken in Baghdad "of a critically wounded Iraqi child" following a US airstrike, and she wonders aloud why the traditional news media is reticent and more restrained today in its war coverage as opposed to during the Vietnam War when it's editorial decisions helped spread and distribute now iconic images--E.g., Police Chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan street execution of a Viet Cong suspected member--that symbolizes the horrors and savagery of war. She correctly states:
Too often in this war, the news media seem to have tried to shield the public from the suffering this war has brought to Americans and Iraqis.It's not the job of the media to protect the nation from the reality of war. Rather, it is up to the media to tell the people the truth. They can handle it.
Read more here.
I think it's especially important today more than ever that the media fulfill its journalistic due diligence with photographs and videos as our society becomes increasingly visual and multimedia based. As Bill O'Reilly understands a video today can spread faster than any newswire.
Did you know that Helen Thomas' (who really is quite a remarkable lady) parents are Lebanese immigrants? I like reading trivia like that because they remind me how great our country can be and should aspire to be.
A German ad agency was asked to create an ad for a family run hat shop in Bonn. This was the winning result:
Obviously, this ad demonstrates using iconic imagery and symbolism, from both pop cultural and historical sources, the transformative power of hats.
I think the ad is interesting, and stylistically brilliant. Although I can't help wonder about the reaction if a non-German ad agency created this. Either way, the debate surrounding it makes me recall this quote I came across awhile ago:
Is it possible for anyone in Germany, nowadays, to raise his right hand, for whatever the reason, and not be flooded by the memory of a dream to end all dreams?
-- Walter Abish, How German Is it?
Follow these easy steps and make like a CK underwear model. 1. Be in Manhattan.
2. Go to Chashama art gallery at 217 E. 42nd Street.
3. Go inside photobooth.
4. Push button inside photobooth. Do CRAZYINSANEMODELY things immediately as the photobooth will take 30 pictures immediately.
5. You now have less than 15 minutes to walk to the Conde Nast building at 4 Times Square (Broadway between 42nd and 43rd).
6. Approximately 15 minutes after your "photo shoot," an animation from the 30 photos of you will be displayed for all the immobile Times Square tourists to gaze upon and ponder "how did this ugly mofo ever become a model?" Whatever you do, do NOT use this occasion to write "Be my wifey?" on a piece of paper to propose to your girlfriend.
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I subscribe to a number of advertising industry related emails, such as those sent out by MediaPost. Yesterday I received a daily round up of advertising and media related articles of note, and one in particular caught my attention. As a lead in to a San Francisco Chronicle article about Bradley Horowitz, a vice president executive at Yahoo charged with inspiring and sparking in-house innovation within the company, the MediaPost summary states:
Yahoo needs a superstar executive. Apple has Steve Jobs, Google has Eric Schmidt, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, and Microsoft has Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer and Ray Ozzie. Former CEO Terry Semel and former Chief Sales Officer Wenda Harris-Millard are gone, and the understated Jerry Yang lacks panache. Yahoo's Bradley Horowitz, vice president of advanced development, stands out. And advanced development is exactly what Yahoo needs--to be first in the Next Big Thing.
What's interesting to me about this is the author's choice in subjectively characterizing Yang, co-founder and the newly appointed CEO of Yahoo, as "understated" and lacking "panache." I wish I could get my sources together on this, but one of the significant barriers facing Asian Americans climbing the management corporate ladder is that eventually they bump into a glass ceiling that prevents their ability to rise from middle to upper executive management, because of an inherent impression among those in the management elite that believe Asians in America lack a certain elan and savoir faire to effectively lead and inspire a company. This perception of course is simply an extension of the pernicious racial stereotype that Asians are submissive and passive.