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Monday, March 18, 2013

News The Monday Morning News

Posted by Dominic Holden on Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 8:54 AM

Readers Abandoning News Sources: Thirty-one percent of Americans surveyed say they've left a news outlet because the coverage was worse than it used to be; 60.7 percent blamed "less complete" coverage and 23.5 percent cited "fewer stories."

What Do You Mean Worse Coverage? How about the Seattle Times getting a key fact wrong—on a story used as the prime reason to pay for their paper—and then begrudgingly issuing a half-correction.

Coming Soon to Theaters Near You: Based on a true story after "two Quebec inmates climbed up a rope into a hovering helicopter to make a daring daylight escape Sunday from a jail northwest of Montreal, authorities said."

The Man in Charge of Suing Seattle: Thomas Perez is being nominated to become Obama's next Secretary of Labor. As head of the US Department of Justice's civil rights division, Perez oversaw litigation and negotiations to reform Seattle's haplessly abusive police department.

Skyfall: A twin-engine Hawker Beachcraft crashed into three Indiana homes yesterday afternoon, killing two and injuring three.

A Death in Florida: Authorities says a Florida college student was found dead, an apparent suicide, in his dorm stocked with explosives.

Ignored ol' Painting: Turns out to be a Rembrandt self-portrait worth $30 million.

How Could this Go Wrong for the GOP? Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus conducted the “most comprehensive post-election review in the history of any national party” and found they need more Latino voters (that took a study?), and also there's a perfect place to sell their ideas...

The party also hoped to establish an “RNC Celebrity Task Force of personalities in the entertainment industry” and encourage candidates to speak to outlets like Comedy Central’s The Daily Show in an effort to reach younger voters.

I've Seen Some Hippie Shit Before: But this... it's time to let Rama "activate your DNA."

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Who put the ram in the rama lama ding dong? SCIENCE!

Posted by gttrgst on March 18, 2013 at 9:17 AM

I've abandoned the Wall Street Journal due to the poor quality since it was sold to News Corp and now reads like FOX News. It's a shame, the old WSJ had some decent reporting.

Posted by WestSeven on March 18, 2013 at 9:38 AM

Murdoch has ruined journalistic integrity.

Posted by Pope Peabrain on March 18, 2013 at 9:40 AM

True hippies are like 65 or so now. That guy is just some 30something trying to make a buck. Hippies just wanted to get high.

Posted by Sargon Bighorn on March 18, 2013 at 9:45 AM

That made me want to cry.

Posted by ejamadoodle on March 18, 2013 at 9:48 AM

"You bring those experiences with you. You bring the TV with you, you bring the radio with you, you bring the traumatic experience with relatives with you.

I'm I the only one that went "Wait...what?" with the randomness of the traumatic experience mention.

Talk about coming out of left field.

Posted by Pick1 on March 18, 2013 at 9:56 AM

Wow, butchered that second sentenced and I even previewed it.

"Am I the only one..."

Posted by Pick1 on March 18, 2013 at 9:58 AM

Oh please, yes, more crazy rightwingers on the Daily Show. Show younger voters how detached from modern reality you are, while Jon Stewart makes hilarious jokes at your expense.

Posted by Hernandez

on March 18, 2013 at 10:03 AM

I'm cutting down on the number of news sources I read because so many of them carry the AP wire. If something important happens literally the exact same story can be found on dozens (hundreds?) of different sites. Ultimately I only need to read one reasonable AP feed site and then a couple more local sites like this one.

Posted by fletc3her on March 18, 2013 at 10:27 AM

I love it how "journalistic integrity" is simply liberal code for political dispositions in op ed pieces that they disagree with.

Posted by raindrop on March 18, 2013 at 10:54 AM

I Reinced my Priebus this morning when I showered.

Posted by Frank Blethen's vodka distiller on March 18, 2013 at 11:03 AM

He should just change his name to Prince Reibus, and be done with it.

Posted by treacle on March 18, 2013 at 11:09 AM

ummm ...the indigo children '
baby needs a sandwich... a blt or something.. a toasted triple decker..something other than talking to keep his mouth busy..

Posted by reverend dr dj riz on March 18, 2013 at 11:26 AM

Actually I rather warmed up tp McCain when he was on the Daily Show. This was back before he sounded completely wack but if you have something reasonably defensible to say Stewart will actually listen and ask interesting not-very-snarky followups.

Something similar happened on Maddow with an old time Republican. They disagreed but this guy could argue why he thought what he thought clearly. It got heated but it almost made me cry to hear an actual reasoned debate. I still think he's wrong (we start with different postulates) but now acknowledge he's thinking. Nice. Ryan et al are selling. It's a different thing and those are the people i want to see go.

Since 1: Obama adapted most of the Republicans defensible ideas and 2: As near as i can tell the sole criteria to oppose an idea is Obama adopted it.....this is currently a problem.

Posted by david on March 18, 2013 at 11:46 AM