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Friday, March 7, 2008

News Good Morning, News!

Posted by The Unpaid Intern on Fri, Mar 7 at 8:30 AM

Goodmornin’ Folks! Welcome to Today! So…

1. Paper bagging a beer in NYC will totally get you arrested. Geez!

2. People don’t trust the press?? You don’t say!
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3. Merge - home to Camera Obscura, Arcade Fire, M.Ward, the Magnetic Fields, and Neutral Milk Hotel - launched a digital music site this week. Also, Pitchfork is launching an all music tv station on the web. hmmm…

4. Speaking of which, the Ruby Suns just got a good write up. Give a listen…

The Ruby Suns - Maasai Mara

5. Hillary, Step Away From The Phone! - Larry David

6. Last month, worst job loss in 5 years. Oh recession, you are so adorable.

7. Why CNN looks like Monday Night Football.

8. Apple opens the floodgates in June. IPHONERS REJOICE!

9. And Finally, To All Ye Sinners!

Have a Nice Day People!!!

Comments

Let's see...

Blog-posting via pseudonym (Unpaid intern? More like Matt Davis hiding behind a meat shield)... not overtly standing up for America by posting image of American flag in post... unfriendly demeanor (I don't buy that "good day" BS for one minute)... and I'm sure you've got some political bias, somewhere. Everyone knows Matt Davis LOVES him some Barack Obama....

Yup. You guys are screwed...

Actually that wasn't me. But great job, Jon. In a week you've turned from an intelligent being into someone our readers can mistake for me. Your talent clearly knows no bounds.

The problem with the media poll is that it lumps "internet sites" ie, wikipedia, answers.com, cnn.com, etc. together with blogs. One respondent could be thinking of engadget and fcc.gov and another could be thinking about 911truth and Encyclopedia Dramatica.

Then it asks about "Media," but fails to define the term.

It doesn't ask about newspapers, magazines or other media archetypes.

And it also doesn't differentiate between news radio and opinion radio.

I'd say the poll doesn't say much of anything at all except that 54% of those questioned don't like the word "media."

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