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Started by RAT900, March 30, 2011, 04:19:30 AM

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redxblack

#30
March 30, 2011, 11:55:24 AM
I heard someone else say "disaster porn," but I think it fits well.

As far as yellow journalism - good call! I'm a big fan of http://policegazette.us/ That journal was one of the best of the era, lovingly digitized and occasionally current events get the Police Gazette mock up.

Monster Dave

#31
March 30, 2011, 01:21:51 PM
Whenever I find myself in need of a more extreme delivery of the news, I tune in to 'The Savage Nation'.

That guys over-the-top!

lethe

#32
March 30, 2011, 03:17:54 PM
I check the news real quick before I leave the house in the morning, mainly to make sure it's worth going out to start up the car. If the actual end of the world is going on or something, make the beast with two backs it, I'm going back to bed.
Same thing at work, need to check the news every so often from the Blackberry just to ensure I'm not wasting my time worrying that I need to complete whatever I'm working on.
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erkishhorde

#33
March 30, 2011, 03:41:15 PM Last Edit: March 30, 2011, 03:47:34 PM by erkishhorde
I saw this on Evil Milk before I heard anything about Libya on the news and that was last Friday.
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AJ

#34
March 30, 2011, 04:12:43 PM
Quote from: wbeck257 on March 30, 2011, 04:54:40 AM
Unscientific based on their website:

BBC: Lead = Japan, Libya = 2nd
FOX: Lead = Libya, Japan = 3rd
CNN: Lead = Japan, Libya = 2nd
NPR: Lead = Japan, Libya = 2nd
ABC: Lead = Japan, Libya = Not on the front page.

Looks like Japan is still leading the (web) news.

To continue the unscientific study:

NY Times:  Libya = 2nd, Japan = 4th.
Wall Street Journal: Libya = 1st, Japan = 2nd.
Washington Post: Libya = 1st, Japan...a piece on emotions of survivors is 3rd and actual news is a sub link.
LA Times: Libya = 1, Japan has two articles down in the World section of the front page.
SF Chronicle: lots of drivel, then Japan tainted seafood fears & Libya tucked down in the World section.
Financial Times: Libya = 2nd, Japan = not on front page.
The Times (UK): Libya = 1, Japan = not on front page (although Prince Harry's arctic water training had two prime spots & picture)


Quote from: lethe on March 30, 2011, 03:17:54 PM
I check the news real quick before I leave the house in the morning, mainly to make sure it's worth going out to start up the car. If the actual end of the world is going on or something, make the beast with two backs it, I'm going back to bed.
Same thing at work, need to check the news every so often from the Blackberry just to ensure I'm not wasting my time worrying that I need to complete whatever I'm working on.
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Monsterlover

#35
March 30, 2011, 04:39:36 PM
Quote from: JEFF_H on March 30, 2011, 11:39:50 AM
I get all my news coverage from the Daily Show.
at least they know what they are.


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MendoDave

#36
March 30, 2011, 04:49:30 PM
Quote from: AJ on March 30, 2011, 04:12:43 PM
To continue the unscientific study:

NY Times:  Libya = 2nd, Japan = 4th.
Wall Street Journal: Libya = 1st, Japan = 2nd.
Washington Post: Libya = 1st, Japan...a piece on emotions of survivors is 3rd and actual news is a sub link.
LA Times: Libya = 1, Japan has two articles down in the World section of the front page.
SF Chronicle: lots of drivel, then Japan tainted seafood fears & Libya tucked down in the World section.
Financial Times: Libya = 2nd, Japan = not on front page.
The Times (UK): Libya = 1, Japan = not on front page (although Prince Harry's arctic water training had two prime spots & picture)

[laugh] [laugh]

CBS evening news: Has been replaced with something called March madness?!?

I hate that even more!

RAT900

#37
March 31, 2011, 12:22:09 PM
Basketball is one of my core hatreds...from my earliest days with my father on the court drilling me (reference the movie The Great Santini w/Robert Duvall ) to gym class, to even a make the beast with two backsing glimpse of it on TV

I would sooner immerse myself in a year-long Dr. Phil meets the Kardashians marathon than watch "B-Ball"

The Great Santini
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Kopfjäger

#38
March 31, 2011, 12:24:24 PM
Quote from: RAT900 on March 31, 2011, 12:22:09 PM
Basketball is one of my core hatreds...from my earliest days with my father on the court drilling me (reference the movie The Great Santini w/Robert Duvall ) to gym class, to even a make the beast with two backsing glimpse of it on TV

I would sooner immerse myself in a year-long Dr. Phil meets the Kardashians marathon than watch "B-Ball"

The Great Santini

I love me some "Round Ball" and that Movie was awesome.  [thumbsup]
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Speedbag

#39
March 31, 2011, 12:31:19 PM
Quote from: RAT900 on March 31, 2011, 12:22:09 PM
Pro sports Basketball is one of my core hatreds...

Fixed
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RAT900

#40
March 31, 2011, 12:33:24 PM Last Edit: March 31, 2011, 12:36:30 PM by RAT900
It is an outstanding movie...cut me to the core

Pat Conroy...who also wrote Prince of Tides etc....

Santini was autobiographical as it was his childhood as well
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RAT900

#41
March 31, 2011, 12:34:51 PM
Quote from: Speedbag on March 31, 2011, 12:31:19 PM
Fixed

yup...until they come out with full-contact team golf I cannot watch any of it
This is an insult to the Pez community

DesmoLu

#42
March 31, 2011, 12:51:33 PM
I love the fact that so many people here don't have tv. I've never owned one and I often wonder how people can stand it? 90% of what is one is an insult to humanity, and the remaining 10% is still plagued with commercials that make me want to dig my eyeballs out with a rusty spoon.

As far as news go, I've gotten into the habit of picking up the 'leftover' news at the gym - everyone's discarded magazines. My Economist subscription lapsed a couple months ago and since I've been really busy, I let it go. I know I'm in the general minority when I say I prefer to read things then have someone tell them to me - I find people's voices generally annoying for the most part.

Kopfjäger

#43
March 31, 2011, 01:04:53 PM
Quote from: DesmoLu on March 31, 2011, 12:51:33 PM
I love the fact that so many people here don't have tv. I've never owned one and I often wonder how people can stand it? 90% of what is one is an insult to humanity, and the remaining 10% is still plagued with commercials that make me want to dig my eyeballs out with a rusty spoon.


If you have "never" owned one, how do you know what's on?

Oh and what does all your furniture point at?  :D
Woohoohoohoo! Two personal records! For breath holding and number of sharks shot in the face.

Le Pirate

#44
March 31, 2011, 01:22:47 PM
I listen to NPR in the mornings.


Everyone at work says that makes me a "liberal"


But I like it, because I've yet to hear a story about Charlie Sheen or Lindsey Lohan on the NPR morning news.
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