Lou Dobbs’ Job Being Outsourced To India
Thursday, May 10th, 2007
Meet the new Lou Dobbs: He’s still a smug, loud-mouthed Mexican-hating phony, but he’s also a Bangalore call-center worker. And instead of orange hair, he’s got normal brown hair. And he’s got an Indian accent — just listen to him roll those R’s when he says “America’s Broken Borders” 39 times per broadcast. MORE »
Meet the new Lou Dobbs: He’s still a smug, loud-mouthed Mexican-hating phony, but he’s also a Bangalore call-center worker. And instead of orange hair, he’s got normal brown hair. And he’s got an Indian accent — just listen to him roll those R’s when he says “America’s Broken Borders” 39 times per broadcast. MORE »
‘I Met Wolf Blitzer At the Big Massacre!’
Wednesday, April 18th, 2007
This Virginia Tech massacre is like the White House Correspondents dinner and 9/11 combined! You never know what bigshot news anchor you’ll meet. This reporter from some education trade mag was pretty much hanging out with Wolf Blitzer this morning:
I got up this morning to ride the exercise bike in my hotel’s tiny fitness center, where the CBS Early Show was on. I was watching the Virginia Tech coverage and pedaling away when Wolf Blitzer, the CNN anchor, walked in. Not surprisingly, he looked like he had just gotten up. He climbed on a treadmill and started walking.
Thanks for the insight. Oh, and “He’s way smaller in person.” MORE »
This Virginia Tech massacre is like the White House Correspondents dinner and 9/11 combined! You never know what bigshot news anchor you’ll meet. This reporter from some education trade mag was pretty much hanging out with Wolf Blitzer this morning:
I got up this morning to ride the exercise bike in my hotel’s tiny fitness center, where the CBS Early Show was on. I was watching the Virginia Tech coverage and pedaling away when Wolf Blitzer, the CNN anchor, walked in. Not surprisingly, he looked like he had just gotten up. He climbed on a treadmill and started walking.
Thanks for the insight. Oh, and “He’s way smaller in person.” MORE »
The Politico Hates America’s Youth
Wednesday, April 11th, 2007
Hot journalism-job gossip from The Politico’s newsroom: If you are a “twenty-something” reporter, you can clean out your desk. Don’t forget the “iPod” or whatever! MORE »
Hot journalism-job gossip from The Politico’s newsroom: If you are a “twenty-something” reporter, you can clean out your desk. Don’t forget the “iPod” or whatever! MORE »
Icy Sexpot Dana Perino Makes a Funny!
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007
So you’re elevated to your current position because your predecessor got cancer, and every single official you represent is a thieving scumbag with 2% approval ratings, and the country is so crippled that Honduras could probably launch a successful invasion. What do you do, Dana Perino? You make Alex Trebek jokes, obviously:
MS. PERINO: Les.
Q Yes, thank you, Dana. Two questions on American business. In the -
MS. PERINO: American business for 200. (Laughter.) I’ve always wanted to be on that show. Go ahead, Les, I’m sorry.
But what was the question? Something about how America has been intentionally deindustrialized and wages have stagnated or dropped for all but the top 10% of earners and blue-collar union jobs have been eliminated leaving a vast working class with no hope for anything beyond lifelong credit-card debt and children who finish school unable to read?
Ha ha, of course not. Let’s run down the category JOURNALISTS ARE SELF-OBSESSED TWATS, after the jump.
So you’re elevated to your current position because your predecessor got cancer, and every single official you represent is a thieving scumbag with 2% approval ratings, and the country is so crippled that Honduras could probably launch a successful invasion. What do you do, Dana Perino? You make Alex Trebek jokes, obviously:
MS. PERINO: Les.Q Yes, thank you, Dana. Two questions on American business. In the -
MS. PERINO: American business for 200. (Laughter.) I’ve always wanted to be on that show. Go ahead, Les, I’m sorry.
But what was the question? Something about how America has been intentionally deindustrialized and wages have stagnated or dropped for all but the top 10% of earners and blue-collar union jobs have been eliminated leaving a vast working class with no hope for anything beyond lifelong credit-card debt and children who finish school unable to read?
Ha ha, of course not. Let’s run down the category JOURNALISTS ARE SELF-OBSESSED TWATS, after the jump.
Pulitzer Finalists: A Bunch of Three-Part Articles Nobody Read
Thursday, March 8th, 2007
Every year about this time, a group of elderly newspaper editors is slowly led to a table and shown stacks and stacks of three-part investigative reports about the recent problems with polar bears, the long boring process of building some civic auditorium, or the proud journey of a little Guatemalan girl born with six heads. The senile newspapermen drool a bit on the “finalists,” and pretty soon Editor & Publisher has posted the leaked list. MORE »
Every year about this time, a group of elderly newspaper editors is slowly led to a table and shown stacks and stacks of three-part investigative reports about the recent problems with polar bears, the long boring process of building some civic auditorium, or the proud journey of a little Guatemalan girl born with six heads. The senile newspapermen drool a bit on the “finalists,” and pretty soon Editor & Publisher has posted the leaked list. MORE »
Washington Post Losing Ads, Circulation, Income, Everything
Wednesday, February 28th, 2007
The bloodletting continues at the Post. Here’s all the bad news from the last quarter of 2006: MORE »
The bloodletting continues at the Post. Here’s all the bad news from the last quarter of 2006: MORE »
Bush Boldly Tries To Kill Reporters With Tractor
Wednesday, January 31st, 2007
This would be much funnier if he actually killed the White House press corps, but George W. had some “fun” yesterday by briefly acting like someone who worked for a living. Bush got on a tractor — we don’t know why he’s going to tractor factories, do you? — and solemnly putted around for a moment. MORE »
This would be much funnier if he actually killed the White House press corps, but George W. had some “fun” yesterday by briefly acting like someone who worked for a living. Bush got on a tractor — we don’t know why he’s going to tractor factories, do you? — and solemnly putted around for a moment. MORE »