Manhattan Offender

The media, shockingly, has it wrong about the Oscars being thuper-gay. The Oscars were something else entirely.

All the talk this morning from NPR to Gawker has been about how GAY the Oscars were.  It's not like it was the Tony's.

No, what the Oscars were was Asian.  (India is in Asia!)  Unfortunately this story is being ignored so the media can focus on "gay".  (And yet no one mentions Hugh Jackman and his "long-time" business "partner" John.)

Anyway, the Oscars were the most Asian Oscars since ever.  And Asians are not gay.

Via:  Secretly, the Oscars Have Always Been This Gay.

AM New York paper-handing-out guy makes my day and breaks my heart with a poem for the new great-with-a-small-'g' depression-with-a-small-'d'.

On Park Avenue South, rings out an elegy for the new economy:

AM New York,

Please take one.
Make me feel useful,
Please take one.

AM New York,
Here you go.
Take away my depression,
Here you go.

AM New York,
Please take one.
I need a job just like you so
Please take one.

(The above is a direct quote.  While I can't confirm that he was thinking in terms of poetry, it reached my ear as such.  Whether the paper-handing-out guys are at risk of job loss is something I don't know, but it would seem this fellow is lacking in job security.)

Instead of indicting the schools, indict the generation or maybe just the mirror, Fox News.

Oh, Fox News, this "We're populist," mantra is so funny, especially coming from you.  You list the CEO's of many of the nation's failing businesses along with their educational background.  You note that many are from top schools.  You draw the obvious conclusion that the schooling is the problem.

Could it maybe be generational though?  The majority of those listed graduated college before my generation had even finished grade school.  From the Fox listing, it seems that the baby boomers have sort of run out of ideas on how to generated revenue.  The argument could easily be made to throw out the baby boomers with their decrepit bathwater. 

Fox can stick with their argument though.  There are some massive dolts attending some of the world's top schools.  Here's a short list of them:

• Rupert Murdoch, Oxford
• Bill O'Reilly, Boston University
• Chris Wallace, Harvard
• Geraldo Rivera, Columbia
• Greta Van Susteren, Georgetown
• Sean Hannity, NYU

Granted, I'm from a state school, so maybe my perception is neither fair nor balanced.

Brides magazine will outlive the New Great Depression for the brides, like cockroaches that will forever rule.

Seen on the street (outside of Credit Suisse, natch) is your latest installment of Brides magazine phone-booth advertising.  The purpose of the ad is to communicate that Brides magazine was founded during the Great Depression, so this New Depression is not a reason to, um, cancel your subscription*, or, um, cancel your wedding, or, um, stop loving?  In contrast to multitudinous layoffs at Conde Nast, it is mysterious thing.  In final assessment, perhaps the message is "Sure the economy is bad, but we'll still be around and in fact spend money on conundrumic advertising and to prove that print isn't  dead we'll run our ads on phone booth kiosks because phone booths aren't dead either, not at all."

*On a ponderous note:  Do ladies actually subscribe to Brides?  Do they keep it under the bed like lady-porn?  Surely you can't bring a guy home and have that guy-scaring periodical on the coffee table. 

Alas, the mother of modern "media media" is put again in the nursing home.

$2.99 at Borders, Columbus Circle.

Just in time for Halloween, a ghost is writing Radar.

One of my favorite sites written/edited by some of my favorite folks died late last week, but somehow the site is carrying forward with mysterious posts by "FI Staff".  Whether the new staff is a carryover, or someone from new step-sister National Enquirer (whose parent purchased the online rights to Radar) is uncertain.  With Halloween right around the corner though, it is very chilling.

Inspired by:
Ron Burkle: Ron Burkle Owned Radar !.  (Which beats a dead horse.)
Fresh Intelligence : Radar Online : SNL: Missing Amy Poehler.  (Which could have been written by a dead horse.)

Disclosures department:
My one-and-only contribution to Radar, sniff.

Hey, CNN, like, this "Leslie Sanchez" person? Is she blowing Blitzer or something, because, let's face it. The woman is a fucking tard.

So, like, she's a lady and a Republican and she has a latin surname, pero incluso no la felicitaría llamándola un coco! She just spouts talking points and contributes nothing.

Granted, she did make an impressive showing on The Apprentice.  (Actually?  She was sent home in the fourth week.  Also actually?  It was the Martha Stewart version of the show.)  Other than that, her career has mostly been about being an opinion-spout for the Republican party in one way or another. 

While worse options exist (see Malkin, Michelle), surely CNN can find someone with an education or background that exists beyond that of public punditry.  Ugh.   

Link: Democratic National Convention report card - CNN.com.

* - I wouldn't even compliment her by calling her a coconut.

Via Wonkette

If you've ever cocked your head when a reporter was talking about oil and energy policy, thinking "Geezus fuck, but reporters are incompetent," then there's a nice little article for you to read.

From August's Portfolio (low on my reading pile, but got to it this morning), Howell Raines not only shows how media coverage is currently wrong (with a nice evisceration of Matt Lauer), but gives direction as to how the story should be covered.  A favorite bit:

The digital-news era is good at letting us know what happens now. But it’s lousy at reminding us of what’s happening again.

Link: Criticism of Media's Energy Coverage - Media Column - Howell Raines - Portfolio.com.

ManHunt founder's donation to McCain and subsequent resignation mostly point out the inability of modern journalists to think of follow-up questions.

Yes, Jonathan Crutchley, donated the maximum to John McCain's presidential campaign.  And, yes, the  ManHunt co-founder resigned as Chairman of the company.  These facts have been reported.  There are remaining questions though, many of which would be expected to be asked by anyone that survived Journalism 201.  (J101 didn't exist and J110 was a history class at my school.  It wasn't until the second year that you started getting into the nittay grittay.)

• What is the deeper history of Crutchley's contribution to the Republican party and Republican candidates?
• More importantly, does Crutchley still have an ownership stake in ManHunt?

Addendum:  The comments section of the Boston Herald story covering this matter is, uh, stunning.  Or numbing.  Those two are often hand-in-hand for me.

Claudia Parsons either hates her job for making her write insipid articles or she's a complete toe-jamb for brains idiot

Link: More women want to carpool with Obama than McCain | Politics | Reuters.