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Overheard at the Obama event in Shaker Heights – newspaper woes

So I’m sitting in the press pen next to two newspaper reporters talking about how to save their business.  It’s hilarious.  They moved from Connie’s proposal to ban linking for 24 hours, on to micropayments, to paid online subscriptions, and various other wild and crazy ideas.  It was like listening to two passengers on the [...]

Total, epic, media FAIL on Iran

Unfortunately, I am old enough to remember media coverage of the collapse of the Soviet Union, Tianenmen Square, both of which I observed from the US, and the fall of the Berlin Wall, which I watched live on the BBC while living in London.  At the time, media were unencumbered by competition from the internet, [...]

Only thing missing from big box payola blackmail is a thick Italian accent

You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video After thinking about yesterday’s whining from big box bloggers about NOT GETTIN PAID by interest groups seeking to get out their message, I’ve realized that I’ve been blogging about this for a long time – it’s payola.  Pure and simple.  Admitted in black and [...]

Another election cycle arrives, another opportunity to laugh at Ohio MSM

It’s been a bit like Groundhog Day here at Blogger Interrupted world headquarters.  Another US Senate race heats up, a primary is in the offing, and here we are with basically no blog coverage of the biggest political story of the year so far, from the major media outlets in Ohio.   Yesterday’s Lee Fisher-Jennifer Brunner [...]

Best MSM rant. EVER.

Glenn Greenwald and I do occasionally agree. Politico’s media reporter, Michael Calderone, does an unintentionally superb job of conveying the vapid, wretched soul of the American political media, with his list… Anything that includes in its first paragraph the phrase “vapid, wretched soul” is a must read, in its entirety.  Do click through.  Especially you PD people.