‘NewsBusted’ 7/14/09 — Fake News from the Right
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‘NewsBusted’ 6/12/09 — Fake News from the Right
by NewsBustersIn this episode, “NewsBusted” covers: China, Venezuela, The Fairness Doctrine, General Motors, President Obama, Minnesota Voters, Climate Change, Al Gore, Bob Woodward, the NBA, and Britney Spears.
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When Reality TV Stars Go Bad, Who’s to Blame?
by Pam MeisterApparently, reality TV couple Spencer and Heidi Pratt – who got their start on MTV’s The Hills and are now a part of this summer’s I’m a Celebrity – Get Me Out of Here – have run afoul of one of NBC’s reality programming head honchos with their latest attention-getting antics.
“They are everything that’s wrong with America,” executive vice president of alternative programming for NBC and Universal Media Studios, Paul Telegdy, said in a statement to Access Hollywood. “They are insincere, lazy, entitled and they claim the devil has possessed them.”
Apparently the couple not only demanded the royal treatment, but threatened to quit more than once and basically acted like a couple of spoiled brats.
I’d like to ask Mr. Telegdy: what did he expect? Reality shows take everyday people and turn them into minor celebrities overnight. It’s not like they had to work for years honing their craft while they waited tables and went on endless auditions, hoping and praying for their big break. (Of course, if one or both of your parents is Hollywood royalty, you skip that part and move right on to the big time.) The only “work” involved in reality stardom is standing in line to audition, hoping to get picked; although sometimes people with unusual life circumstances are approached by producers who hope to exploit their lives for ratings that translate into dollar signs (think Nadya Suleman, lovingly referred to by society as the “Octomom”). (more…)
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“NewsBusted” 3/27/09 — Fake News from the Right
by Eric PeterkofskyIn this episode, “NewsBusted” covers: President Obama, Jimmy Carter, Leno, Letterman, Nancy Grace, Cuba, JFK, telePrompters, Senator Harry Reid, Congress, I Love You Man, Britney Spears, “Fight Club,” and VH1’s “Rock of Love.”
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Ugly Pop World Drives Beauty Underground
by Mike BaronThe disconnect between beauty and popularity in music has never been greater. Where once America sang the Beatles or Motown (”The Sound of Young America”), today the music industry is severely fragmented. Gangsta rap. Speed metal. Trip-hop. The major recording companies whine about declining profits even as they pay Mariah Carey $18 million not to record.
Unanimity of public opinion over popular song has passed. Music, which used to unite, now divides. Eminem and Ludacris would have been unthinkable thirty years ago. We live in an antinomian age where it’s hip to defy conventional wisdom long after every vestige of conventional wisdom lies in tatters. Where Keats’ Grecian Urn once proclaimed, “Beauty is truth, truth beauty,” today’s antinomian consumer proclaims, “Whatever,” in a voice oozing ennui. (more…)
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