The measure that really matters is the market’s, and on that score Mr. Hinton was at the helm when we again became America’s largest daily. via Review & Outlook: News and Its Critics – WSJ.com. To be fair the Wall Street Journal is a good publication excluding aside some of their crazy opinion pieces that [...]
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Upset that Netflix is raising its prices? Go buy meth where your local Blockbuster used to be! -robdelaney rob delaney on twitter If your a Netflix subscriber (and I am currently not, but I do join on and off when I get in the mood to watch some movies) you have no doubt heard about [...]
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While many if us in Ohio are still getting over Lebrons departure to Miami we gotta start looking to the future and move on. So despite that one quick post on Lebron, well not really him, but rather the economics of Lebron. But before that I will mention that I don’t mind him leaving if [...]
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Just saw on Ars Technica that This American Life has come out with an iPhone app. I for one being a huge fan couldn’t be happier – why you ask? Well the current podcasts are great, but often times when driving on a road trip I’d love to catch up on some older episodes, can’t [...]
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Lou Dobbs, the longtime CNN anchor whose anti-immigration views have made him a TV lightning rod, said Wednesday that he is leaving the cable news channel effective immediately. via Update: Lou Dobbs to Quit CNN – Media Decoder Blog – NYTimes.com. I’ve got to admit I’ve given up on almost any TV news, probably [...]
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While I might not be a huge fan of Fox News (or fan at all), I think I going to be happy with the move of Champions League Football from ESPN to Fox Soccer Channel this year. ESPN never made the tournament a priority, didn’t work to get an HD feed even when showing it [...]
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While lying in bed sick over the weekend I caught up on some Real Time with Bill Maher (via the podcast as I don’t have HBO) the show translates quiet well to an only audio experience and I applaud HBO for putting out the full show as a podcast. Anyway in his closing bit, ‘new [...]
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Host Ira Glass speaks with Harold Wilshinsky about a piece of advice he gave to his daughter and son-in-law over 15 years ago: take your money out of the hands of Bernie Madoff, and diversify. Reluctantly, they listened to Harold, even though his son-in-law’s family was making a fortune investing with Madoff. But as history [...]
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The Telegraph is one of the newspapers that I regularly read (although admittedly mostly for football stories) one of my favorite sections is called “Sign Language” and consists of funny signs from the UK and around the world…one such example below.
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Guess it should come as no surprise, papers were suffering before the downturn in the economy, but its still sad to see. “The Dispatch is reducing the size of its newsroom, laying off 45 people effective on April 3, management of the newspaper announced today.” via The Columbus Dispatch : ‘Dispatch’ announces 45 layoffs on [...]
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