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September 8, 2005
MTV News coverage of Katrina
From its coverage, it’s obvious that MTV News knows who is responsible for the Katrina devastation: The (Republican) federal government. They also know why the federal government response was “delayed”: because most victims were black. It looks like viewers think the same thing in a poll they bill as Kanye West vs. George [...]
Eric Anderson at 1:51 am
September 2, 2005
NBC pulls Kanye West comments
After a disgraceful tirade by Kanye West, NBC has pulled the comments from its West Coast airing of Concert for Hurricane Relief. The comments were broadcast live Friday Night to the East Coast.
Zebrality has the video.
The Drudge Report had this up almost immediately after it was broadcast:
KANYE WEST ON NBC FUNDRAISER: ‘GEORGE [...]
Eric Anderson at 9:23 pm
August 28, 2005
50 Cent - Fat Joe beef heats up
50 Cent has a few words for some audience members.
The 50 Cent-Fat Joe beef heated up at tonight’s MTV Video Music Awards. The words started when Fat Joe was presenting an award and ended with: “I just wanna say how safe I feel in here tonight with all of this police presence courtesy [...]
Eric Anderson at 9:04 pm
August 13, 2005
Shocking: Iran finished nuclear plant while stalling EU
The European Union has made another sizable mistake, this one trying to negotiate with Iran regarding its aspirations to pursue nuclear technology. The Telegraph reports that the Iranian shell game worked perfectly:
An Iranian foreign policy official has boasted that the regime bought extra time over its stalled negotiations with Europe to complete a uranium [...]
Nathan Novak at 5:15 pm
Independent commission exonerates Paula Abdul in Idol scandal
Almost all of America’s news coverage was short-circuited by the bombshell of bombshells back in the Spring of 2005 when Corey Clark, an ousted contestant on Fox Network’s smash-hit singing contest show, American Idol, told a national television audience on ABC’s Primetime Live that he had engaged in a sexual affair with Idol judge and [...]
Nathan Novak at 1:56 pm
August 2, 2005
As weight-loss ploy, scientists seek to program subjects to dislike fatty foods
It reads like something directly out of Aldous Huxley’s classic novel Brave New World: Scientists take people who are struggling to lose weight and implant in them a belief that strawberry ice cream made them sick when they were children. The scientists’ conditioning efforts are successful, turning a total fabrication into that which is [...]
Nathan Novak at 6:45 pm
August 1, 2005
Teen health hit pieces
Summertime means hot weather, long nights and plenty of teen health hit pieces.
Big today: How the media forces kids to meet unattainable standards of looks. Boys need to be big and strong. Girls need to be rail thin yet toned. Here is a piece from USNews.com:
Sculpted arms without breaking a sweat? [...]
Eric Anderson at 8:09 pm
July 31, 2005
Nuke Alert: Iran ready to stick it to the world
As Iran prepares to lead the world down the perilous path toward a nuclear Islamofascist regime, French President Jacques Chirac is looking for Tehran’s “word”. According to USA Today, Britain, France and Germany are ready to make a “generous” offer to Iran in exchange for assurances that the Iranians will abandon their nuclear ambitions. [...]
Nathan Novak at 7:42 pm
July 22, 2005
Terror Failure 7/22 - London Edition
It’s tough be a suicide bomber when you’re lying dead on the ground with five bullets in you.
“One of the police officers was holding a black automatic pistol in his left hand.
“He held it down to him and unloaded five shots into him. I saw it all. He was dead, five shots. I was literally [...]
Eric Anderson at 7:54 pm
July 19, 2005
Bold and brilliant: Bush tabs Roberts for Supreme Court
It is just after 9 PM in Washington and President Bush has just given the floor to the Honorable John Roberts of the D.C. Circuit after announcing his choice to make the fifty year-old Roberts the next Supreme Court Justice. Roberts, a distinguished “Double Harvard” who has served for the past two years on [...]
Nathan Novak at 6:23 pm
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