Zeitgeist: My favorite videos of the week from Next Media Animation
Welcome to the early 21st Century, when the best reporting comes from comedians. I rank the writers and animators at Next TV right up there with Stewart and Colbert for telling the truth in an entertaining way. They also understand the spirit of the times in the U.S. as well as anyone living here. Not bad for a bunch of upstarts from Taiwan.
First up, their most popular video of the week: Wikileaks reveals US' undiplomatic side.
Click to viewWhistleblower website Wikileaks has created a media storm after releasing 250,000 classified US diplomatic documents. Details of the papers reveal scathing criticism of many world leaders by US diplomats.
Wikileaks was such a big story that four of Reuters' most read articles on Wednesday were about the Assange's site.
Next up, the most palatable summary of Ireland's financial problems I've seen yet.
The Celtic Tiger's roar is no more. Two decades of uninhibited economic growth have come to a shuddering halt in the wake of the financial crisis and the Irish government and its people are now feeling the pain. Forced to accept an IMF/EU bailout, things are now so bad some fear a return to the past when Ireland's young were forced to look overseas in the search for opportunity.
Next TV loves sex scandals and weird news with a sex angle. Here is their tribute to their favorite lewd stories of the past year.
It's hard to believe that it's been a year since Tiger Woods had his little accident. That incident resulted in Next Media Animation's first world-wide viral hit. Ever since Tiger, cheating men has been a mainstay subject for NMA. We'd like to take the opportunity to thank all the "leading men" that has appeared in our animation over the past year. Let's take a look back with Vanessa and Jen-Jen, the anchor girls.
Speaking of sex and the zeitgeist, here's a story that involves Bristol Palin and The Situation from Jersey Shore--what an odd couple!
The Palins get, if anything, too much of my attention, as I'm a charter member of Sarah Palin's hatedom (I have more abour her in an open tab), but I don't think I've blogged anything about Jersey Shore before. As I tell kaligreeneyes, these are the Italians that the Italians in Chicago make fun of. She agrees.
Teen pregnancy is the hot new trend in the United States. Thanks to shows like '16 and Pregnant' and 'Teen Mom', getting knocked up is the 'in' thing to do.
Girls have been known to form 'pregnancy pacts', whereby they all get knocked up together.
Teen birth rates had declined for 14 years, before climbing again in 2005. In fact, the United States leads in teen pregnancy among industrialized nations.
Teen mother Bristol Palin has recorded a public service announcement to warn teens against pregnancy. Joining her in the PSA was 'The Situation'
Finally, it wouldn't be a post about Next TV from me without a Weather Girls video.
Hey weather girls fans heres Saturday's weather girl Umi hopping and dancing into your dreams tonight. And giving you todays weather report of course.
Merry Christmas!