How the Media will report the Apocalypse.

Also includes a picture of a goat, but trust me, you're clicking through for the bits about The Daily Mail and Slate.

So quite a few folks pointed me to this screed from Alexis Madrigal, an online editor at the Atlantic, written in response to this annoyed post by Nate Thayer. Both the original post and the response have garnered a lot of attention, although I agree with the commentators on the post that the response is less about current pay rates at the ( Read more... )

I meant to add this to my last post, but got distracted by thoughts of chocolate, as you do. Anyway.

If you missed it, this may be one of the worst opinion posts published by the Washington Post, like ever, containing this particular "gem":

He has overcome numerous obstacles, struggled against opposition both internal and external - in order to ( Read more... )

Ok, yes, the Olympics are over. But not necessarily my ranting! (And for those of you freaking out, no worries - this blog will be returning very shortly to its usual habits of completely ignoring sports.)

( Positive comments about the actual sports will be in the next entry. )

NBC: Fail ( Read more... )

So I was indulging in my guilty pleasure of Revenge tonight (I admit; I have a severe crush on Nolan. And a minor crush on the actress playing "Amanda.") and unusually enough didn't turn off the TV before the local news came on ( Read more... )

Summing up journalism today:

New York Times asks if they should be, you know, checking statements to see if they are true.

Good lord, New York Times, even I - a non journalist - do some (very basic) fact checking, both on this blog, my Tor posts and even in my science fiction where I'm allowed to just make stuff up.Just reading this made me feel ( Read more... )

Today's irritation actually started yesterday, when I saw some news outlets reporting * on the arrest of IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn for alleged sexual assault and attempted rape as a sex case or sex scandal. (Many of these headlines were later altered, but Roger Ebert repeated the term in a tweet, showing that it had entered the ( Read more... )

So my brother and I came home from the Game of Thrones watching, and I figured I'd check email, Twitter, head to bed ( Read more... )

Annalee Newitz, taking the correct response of actually thinking, rather than just sputtering in response, asks, really, why would men ever watch the Game of Thrones. Hilarious stuff.

Eat it, New York Times, indeed. (Statement stolen shamelessly from Twitter's Bryan Cogman.)