News Roundup

MACKLEMORE DRESSES UP AS OFFENSIVE JEWISH CARICATURE AT SECRET SHOW

http://bit.ly/1qPcieC

Anti-Semitism is in our rearview mirror just like racism...not.

Anti-Semitism is rooted in ignorance. Stereotypes are reinforced as those perpetrating the myths have little to no contact with Jews.

Macklemore is lauded at the Grammys for supporting gay marriage and then pulls this stunt.

He needs to be re-educated.

Furthermore, every day the rights of African-Americans are pushed down further. Whites are trying to eradicate their right to vote and to pull themselves up by gaining an education. Yet the rest of the country shrugs its shoulders as the oppression continues.

As for those who believe people should pull themselves up by the bootstraps... Tell that to a child born into poverty. We have to help our brothers, but this can't happen if we all marinate in hate.

Take that Grammy back.

KENDALL JENNER CAN'T READ

http://bit.ly/1lFY4FS

But she looks good in clothes!

Student debt is insane, but we laud nitwits like Kendall Jenner as opposed to those truly striving to better themselves.

You've got to be able to read today, the Internet is based on reading...

As for the "Billboard Music Awards," if you care who won you're the target audience for this excuse to run commercials. Yup, that's what this back from the dead show is about, a way to make money, just like every publication now has a conference... But it's hard to get those who truly have something to say to attend...

THE NEW YORK TIMES KERFUFFLE

And if you think we'll be talking about this in two weeks...

The right wing keeps talking about the right to fire, but the "left wing newspaper" does so and it's unjust, huh?

Forget the details, all I know is this is the typical news cycle... Headlines about anything but the news. With everybody following the scorecard but nobody following the game.

The "New York Times" airs its dirty laundry and its competitors revel in it.

And I'm not saying the "Times" is perfect, but I am saying all its competitors run a distant second, or third, or...

HYPE

Am I the only one who can't read the "Los Angeles Times" Calendar section because it's endless hype?

Neil Young has a new album... WHO CARES!

Let it bubble up, let it sustain, let people other than those in the press talk about it.

They should publish the names of the PR people, they're the real stars.

NATE SILVER

Started over and lost his audience.

That's the hardest thing to do in the Internet age, gain an audience. Nate had one at the "New York Times," he left for greener pastures, and has now been forgotten.

People are time-challenged, they've got their favorites. Katie Couric has been downsized to nothing at Yahoo and for David Pogue it's almost as bad.

Don't give up your platform too soon.

Howard Stern moved to Sirius before Internet cacophony. Satellite radio itself would have a hard time triumphing in today's world. And it took years of hard work and being a judge on "America's Got Talent" to bring Howard back, bigger than ever, that's the power of network television.

So, before you jump, ask yourself, do I really have an audience, is it really going to come with me?

One thing you can say about Stern, he's got a loyal audience and he prepped them for a year re his move to Sirius. What prep did Silver, Couric or Pogue do? How did they let those who might follow them know they were moving? They didn't. And they had a gap of time before they re-emerged, Howard started on Sirius right after terrestrial.

GODZILLA

Maybe some futuristic monster will come down and squash Hollywood, which is creatively bankrupt. They've moved all production from L.A., they might as well move their studios to China or Europe, where their real audience lives.

GLOBAL WARMING

That's what it is kids, even if it's colder in your neighborhood right now, we don't need to call it "climate change," because the people who don't want to believe in it don't care what we call it. But the truth is it's not about people, but corporations, never sleeping, munching profits. They're going to agitate against anything that might cost them money. Corporations run this country, and the only way to take our nation back is to educate yourself and vote, but people like Macklemore demonstrate that most people are stupid and the right wing is doing its best to make sure the disadvantaged don't vote.


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