Media

Media Monday: Putting Depression into Great Depression

October 13, 2008

CNN.com ran the following story (which has several good points about saving and the value of negative thinking) with the headline “Ready to eat squirrel soup?” I’ll give you an excerpt: Memories of salvaging and stealing to avoid going hungry are part of the legacy of the Great Depression. Some iReporters say they can’t help [...]

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End of Days!!!

September 11, 2008

If you watch any of the local Houston newscasts, we’re pretty much the walking dead now, or so they would have you believe. One weatherman, hopped up on something (jonesing for a hurricane!!), used the word catastrophic several times. The ironic thing is how this particular station likes to tout how they don’t want to [...]

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Media Monday: Shut your pie..er, Black hole

June 30, 2008

Seems the media loves a good catastrophe-in-waiting. Instead of the usual Armageddon stories of asteroids, super volcanoes and pandemics, they’ve gone a bit more sci-fi. From CNN: The most powerful atom-smasher ever built could make some bizarre discoveries, such as invisible matter or extra dimensions in space, after it is switched on in August. But [...]

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Media Monday: Why I couldn’t be a producer

May 19, 2008
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I know I’ve already blogged about this in my last post but this edit of Bill O’Reilly’s rant is not unlike my initial reaction. Thankfully I have my “Filter” which allows me to be in public and not say what I’m thinking. Plus they use the word “troglodyte”. From Barely Political:

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The Past reflects upon the Present

May 15, 2008

One of the things I hear a lot from overly positive people is that we should forget the past and look toward the future. Unfortunately, our past actions create our present. A pattern of behavior in the past gives us understanding of how behavior will be in the present. We learn from our experiences (I [...]

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More proof that the US is in trouble

April 22, 2008
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Sadly, many see the political process as this: Proof that Rome is Burning. Tweet

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Media Monday: Will blogging be the death of me?

April 7, 2008

Blogging, not unlike pimping, ain’t easy. It takes up time and takes a bit of effort. And now, a major newspaper in direct competition with this new found media and is losing subscribers is telling me it might kill me. From the newspaper of record: They work long hours, often to exhaustion. Many are paid [...]

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Media Monday: Pure as the driven snow?

March 3, 2008

Here’s another story with ominous overtones that amounts to nothing. But it does it’s job by making you nervous. From CNN.com: Those beautiful snowflakes drifting out of the sky may have a surprise inside — bacteria. Most snow and rain forms in chilly conditions high in the sky and atmospheric scientists have long known that, [...]

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Media Monday: Attack of the Killer Jellyfish!!

February 11, 2008

Here’s a prime example of why I dislike the media. This sensationalist piece of tripe is what goes for news at the Telegraph: It could easily have been the role model for the terrifying creature in the film ‘Alien’. Except the alien in “Alien” had a hard exoskeleton, acid for blood and was an aggressive [...]

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Media Monday: Super Bowl Ads

February 4, 2008
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Wanted to post some ads that utilize “Negative Thinking“. Will Ferrell on how not to shoot a beer commercial: Dwayne Wade learns why you should learn to say “no” : When bad ideas become big mistakes: Always have a back-up plan in case things go bad: And then there is this Pepsi ad: I just [...]

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