Former NBC News Producer Yells at NPR For Missing Leftist Wall St. Protest
September 29, 2011 No Comment
What do NBC News producers do after they retire? Sandy Goodman has become a writer for The Huffington Post, where he has demonstrated how liberal they have been for years at NBC. His latest post denounces NPR in an “open letter” for taking 11 days to notice a leftist “Occupy Wall Street” protest on the air. Goodman declared: “I've hated Ralph Nader ever since he was personally responsible for George W. Bush's election in 2000, but he and others sure are right when criticizing NPR for not covering the left and these protests (his phone call no doubt helped lead to NPR's belated coverage). If the Tea Party farts, that's news. But God forbid you should cover anything too far left of center.” NPR ombudsman Edward Schumacher-Matos aroused Goodman’s ire when he wrote on Monday about leftist complaints that NPR was ignoring these leftist protests. The ombudsman dutifully quoted Dick Meyer, the network’s executive editor: “The recent protests on Wall Street did not involve large numbers of people, prominent people, a great disruption or an especially clear objective.” Goodman was correct to be angry that NPR wanted some blood in the streets or broken windows before there was “news.” But neither NPR nor Goodman seems aware that tens of thousands of abortion foes march on Capitol Hill each January in a “March for Life,” which NPR routinely ignores. The NPR ombudsman ruled “the complaints have validity,” but did not reflect on the notion of pro-Obama media bias, that perhaps protests are less newsworthy when they have the potential to embarrass a Democratic president. He began: “What a disgraceful decision to have avoided coverage for so long, and having your ombudsman
Continue reading …The cantaloupe-borne listeria outbreak has now spread to 18 states, and it’ll probably get worse before it gets better, health officials tell the LA Times . While the official death toll is still at 13, that’s expected to rise as more testing is done on suspected listeria victims, and as more…
Continue reading …Puppy lovers, rejoice. Officials in eastern China last week canceled the Jinhua Hutou Dog Meat Festival. If that name makes you a little queasy—well, there’s good reason for that. The 600-year-old tradition saw at least 5,000 of dogs slaughtered on the spot, and served up as the main…
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The only thing slimming down here is Reebok’s profit margins. The athletic company agreed to pay up to $25 million this week in refunds to customers who bought their EasyTone brand sneakers. This settles a recent complaint filed by the FTC, which posited that Reebok’s claims about the health benefits of the shoes were false.
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Continue reading …Seven-inch Huawei tablet headed to T-Mobile, priced at $200 on contract?
September 29, 2011 No Comment
It looks like T-Mobile is getting a seven-inch stablemate for the incoming Galaxy Tab 10.1. According to these shots from TmoNews , Huawei’s dual-core MediaPad will arrive in magenta clothing, though branding is limited to a few apps and an additional press shot, included after the break. Aside from a 1280 x 800 IPS display and 4G goodness, details remain sketchy, though pricing is expected to be around $200 with a two-year agreement. No word either when it’ll go on sale, but if Huawei’s earlier promises of end-of-year availability apply to carrier-branded versions, you can expect to get your hands on it at some (vague) point between now and 2012. Continue reading Seven-inch Huawei tablet headed to T-Mobile, priced at $200 on contract? Seven-inch Huawei tablet headed to T-Mobile, priced at $200 on contract? originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 29 Sep 2011 17:18:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Today’s testimony in the Conrad Murray trial doesn’t exactly speak to his skills as a doctor. One of Michael Jackson’s security guards said that when he entered the singer’s room, he saw Murray performing a shoddy version of CPR—using only one hand, intermittently, reports the Los Angeles Times . Murray…
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(YouTube link) To inaugurate the new partnership between LEGOland and Ford, engineers built a Ford Explorer out of LEGO bricks for the theme park in Florida. It probably took them a long time to put the 380,000 bricks together, but thanks to time=lapse video, you can watch it in about 90 seconds. -via Buzzfeed Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Neatorama Discovery Date : 26/09/2011 22:17 Number of articles : 3
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Click here to view this media At a campaign event in Des Moines, Iowa Thursday, Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich answered a question from a woman who was concerned that he supported the idea of religion imposing values on Americans. “I’m very concerned that a branch of Christianity has gotten some of its tenets into our laws like stem cell research, linking foreign aid to reproductive issues and so forth,” she told the former House Speaker. “If you were president, would you work hard to make Christian social issues the law of the land?” “I don’t know that the two you just cited are Christian social issues,” Gingrich replied. “I think Orthodox Jews probably have as profound a belief as Christians do on both those issues.” “I don’t regard that as imposing a particular branch of Christianity. That’s an argument about what values do you have whatever your religion happens to be. My argument about religion is different. We said in our founding document, we are endowed by our creator with certain unalienable rights. Now should we teach children that or not? Should they learn what the founding fathers meant or not?” He continued: “The idea that taking school prayer out in 1963 made the country better, I don’t see any evidence that children who don’t spend a moment recognizing that they’re subservient to God let’s you approach God in anyway you want to. There is an enormous difference between a culture which believes that it is purely secular and a culture that believes that it is somehow empowered by our creator. And I always tell my friends who don’t believe in this stuff, “Fine, how do you think we came to — we’re randomly gathered protoplasm? We could have been rhinoceroses but we got lucky this week?’” “Now, that is if you assume it is lucky to be human rather than rhinoceros. I don’t want — knowing the way the news media works, I do not want ‘Gingrich announces anti-rhinoceros hostility’ to come out of this meeting.” EDITOR’S NOTE: Rhinoceros, Newt, really? Do you think a dude who’s cheated on his wives as many times as you should open himself up to a series of “horny” jokes?
Continue reading …President Obama’s half-uncle was in court today on drunk-driving charges —and he seemed to find the media’s attention rather funny, notes the Boston Herald , which describes him as giggling and “stifling laughter” a number of times. Accompanied by attorneys and an unidentified man, Onyango Obama made a very brief appearance…
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