April 27, 2013

The Celebritization of The Media (Niedermeyer's Dead Horse)
— Open Blogger

This topic deserves someone such as Ace to do it justice, but I do think it worthy of discussion.

Tom Brokaw says "No thanks" to White House Correspondents Dinner (WHCD) and in the process blames Lindsay Lohan for the decline of, what, the dignity of the event. (?)

Today's journalists are not content to report the story, they want to be part of it. By inviting celebrities to attend the WHCD they get to up the ante and live vicariously through the celebrity of their guests which, this year, includes Nicole Kidman and Ashley "Puffy Face" Judd.

Other journalists argue that Brokaw has it wrong. "It's a fun event" they say. New Yorker editor David Remnick defends "Look at what we publish." he adds "Does it seem like it corrupts us?" (Serious, you guys)

Brokaw asks, "What kind of image do we present to the rest of the country?"

Well, I for one wonder...

Isn't it a little late to be asking that question?

What do you think?

(Open thread)

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1 Fresh thread. Thanks NDH.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at April 27, 2013 02:50 PM (4Mv1T)

2 New thread smell.

Posted by: TheCriminalBarrister at April 27, 2013 02:51 PM (W4Lhz)

3

He should've used the term...'Media Whores'.

 

Their little heads would've gone splodey.

Posted by: wheatie at April 27, 2013 02:52 PM (3B3wv)

4 Their all narcissists, like Sir Putz-a-lot.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at April 27, 2013 02:53 PM (4Mv1T)

5 The best part is where Brokaw thinks he, himself, is immune to the taint.

You're already neck deep in the muck idiot. Way to prove yourself better then a drug addict. Such a hero.

Posted by: Gaff at April 27, 2013 02:54 PM (iV8i3)

6 Ahhhh.... nice place you've got here... shiny!

Posted by: Yip at April 27, 2013 02:54 PM (/jHWN)

7 Half the time the media is reporting on itself.

Posted by: Real Joe at April 27, 2013 02:55 PM (PD2ad)

8 7 Half the time the media is reporting on itself. Posted by: Real Joe at April 27, 2013 06:55 PM (PD2ad) "Reporting on"? I'd have said something else...

Posted by: JeremiadBullfrog at April 27, 2013 02:55 PM (Y5I9o)

9 The best part is where Brokaw thinks he, himself, is immune to the taint. You're already neck deep in the muck idiot. Way to prove yourself better then a drug addict. Such a hero. *** He seems to have no problem with the rubbing of elbows between the reporters and those in office they cover. NO! It seems his real problem is that the celebrities steal the show.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 27, 2013 02:56 PM (piMMO)

10 I have given up on television altogether. Would cancel cable of I could get ESPN somehow for my 16yo sports fanatic. Cancelled the newspaper last week. Have read it everyday since 1984, when I started giving a damn. I now depend on Vic and the HQ morning link dump.

And a few other assorted sites.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at April 27, 2013 02:56 PM (4Mv1T)

11 Sometimes I wonder: If these people are so painfully oblivious to their bias (either that or they just flat out lie) are we also, one way or another, that delusional (even though by and large we acknowledge that we're biased)? I mean, it just seems that since they're so incredibly jacked up that, since we too are humans, some of that has to have rubbed off on us, or something.

Posted by: TheCriminalBarrister at April 27, 2013 02:56 PM (W4Lhz)

12 I think fuck Brokaw. If there's one thing worse than the cool kids ganging up to give the freshman a wedgie and duct-tape him to the basketball pole, it's the ex-cool-kid who pens a hand-wringing nanny column to the school newspaper. Whatever. If "to hell with all of them" isn't the answer, what is?

Posted by: Skip Tracer at April 27, 2013 02:56 PM (2+bRt)

13 Somewhere Andrew Breitbart is laughing his head off.

Posted by: Basement Cat at April 27, 2013 02:56 PM (PYgEb)

14

Referring to so many celebrities being there...

 

"Brokaw asked. “Are we doing their business, or are we just a group of narcissists who are mostly interested in elevating our own profiles?""

 

Uh...yep.

 

Wosers.

That's what they are.



 

Posted by: wheatie at April 27, 2013 02:56 PM (3B3wv)

15 MFM delenda est. Because they're so inured to the lies they tell that they could pass a lie detector test. That's dangerous.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s][/u] at April 27, 2013 02:56 PM (qyfb5)

16 that new thread smell it smells like victory or Al Roker

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at April 27, 2013 02:56 PM (MQajh)

17 They ( the f-tard media ) make their own agenda and then when one of them does something, they circle the wagons and embargo the coverage.  Too, whenever there are disputes about someone getting fired or something.  They'll cover corporate shit in other industries, but never talk about their own.  Hmmm

Posted by: Yip at April 27, 2013 02:57 PM (/jHWN)

18 They're in denial, or simply lying, about their current role as the feeble enablers of the Democratic party. Their dinner impacts this truth not at all.

Posted by: wte9 at April 27, 2013 02:57 PM (6Tcdo)

19 "Brokaw asks, 'What kind of image do we present to the rest of the country?'"

That you're little more than the Democrats' teammates, you fucking piece of shit.

Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at April 27, 2013 02:57 PM (0mFz1)

20 Tom Brokejaw's trying to pick up shattered pieces of his integrity like a stripper grabbing at dollar bills.

Posted by: EC at April 27, 2013 02:57 PM (doBIb)

21 What do you think?

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I think it's amusing that HE thinks WE think they are serious journalists. 

Posted by: mama winger at April 27, 2013 02:58 PM (P6QsQ)

22 I hurried over to this thread so fast I forgot I had to take a shit... ooops... just dropped a duce in my shorts... heh, heh..  no control, no control

Posted by: Al Roker at April 27, 2013 02:58 PM (/jHWN)

23 In the old days, the military academies did not have majors--everybody studied a common curriculum, naturally heavy on military topics. That "ghettoizing" in one's future profession was apparently viewed as too anti-intellectual and limiting, so they introduced majors in the 60s (I believe) to improve the breed. I won't discuss whether it was a right or wrong move, because both arguments have merits, and I don't honestly know, and there is no way there would be a switch back anyway. So I won't say. I will say that I wonder how many pure journalism majors are going to be at that correspondent's dinner tonight.

Posted by: T. at April 27, 2013 02:58 PM (DoBsq)

24 I think it's hilarious that Lindsay Lohan stole the show last year. Fucking. Hilarious.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 27, 2013 02:59 PM (piMMO)

25 13- everytime someone says that it makes me sad that he's not around anymore. such a loss.

Posted by: keena at April 27, 2013 02:59 PM (M5qgo)

26 Tom Brokaw wishes he had the integrity of a stripper scrabbling for dollar bills. Hell, he probably thinks he does. You know, "false consciousness."

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s][/u] at April 27, 2013 02:59 PM (qyfb5)

27 Kneel before me!!1!

Posted by: Honey Boo Boo, The Form of the Destructor at April 27, 2013 03:00 PM (Vk2pI)

28

it seems like an occasion for a bunch of egotistical people to pat themselves on their backs for another year of great Presidential blow jobs.

 

 

Actors take themselves way too seriously these days, and including them in this sort of bullshit just contributes to the problem. It elevates them to a place they do not belong. They are not my betters, but they sure like to think they are.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at April 27, 2013 03:00 PM (RZ8pf)

29 Oh... and the guest list: http://www.deadline.com/2013/04/white-house-correspondents-dinner-2013-hollywood-guest-list/

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 27, 2013 03:01 PM (piMMO)

30 actually, if you read the first article NDH linked, Brokaw isn't opposed in principle to celebrities going to the WHCD, he is opposed to trashy slutty celebrities like Lindsey Lohan going.

so he's trying to have it both ways.  fucker

Posted by: chemjeff at April 27, 2013 03:01 PM (BBWjt)

31 What kind of image do we present to the rest of the country?

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The image of Belshazzar.


מנא ,מנא, תקל, ופרסין

Mene, Mene, Tekel, Parsin

You have been weighed in the balance and found wanting.

Posted by: mama winger at April 27, 2013 03:01 PM (P6QsQ)

32 'New Yorker editor David Remnick defends "Look at what we publish." he adds "Does it seem like it corrupts us?" ' Heh. They can't cover baby butcher Gosnell, but they can cover every idiot actor out there. Someone needs to ask that genius Remnick how many survivors there were at Benghazi, what were their injuries and how serious were their injuries, are any of the survivors disabled, were they members of the military or civilian state department employees or private security employees? And Brokaw is as big a douchebag as the rest of them. Who the hell does he think he's kidding? He hasn't been shilling for the democratic party?

Posted by: nerdygirl at April 27, 2013 03:01 PM (Fc8Zx)

33 Next year they're going to bring the dancers from the Camelot Show Bar to entertain the group.

Posted by: Dept. Of Acuracy at April 27, 2013 03:01 PM (MhA4j)

34 And Sunday golfer Bronco Bama says "God Bless You" to the atheists that shielded baby-killer Dr Kermit Gosnell for so many years.  It's a whacky world they live in there.

Posted by: Starboardhelm at April 27, 2013 03:02 PM (hHgxI)

35 the fall of Rome continues apace. Assholes. Do they provide them a vomitorium at the event? Will they be dining off the naked bodies of peasants?

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at April 27, 2013 03:02 PM (RZ8pf)

36 "Celebrities" are generally professional liars, so every time they get together they should just try to one-up each other with ever more grandiose lies. Wait, what?

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s][/u] at April 27, 2013 03:03 PM (qyfb5)

37

15 MFM delenda est.

 

Because they're so inured to the lies they tell that they could pass a lie detector test. That's dangerous.

 

Yeah it's dangerous, Mero.

It's...abuse of power.

 

Worse than that, it's a predatory abuse of power.

 

They are preying on the low-info people out there, who think:

"I don't have to search for the Truth myself...that's what the media does for me."

 

Posted by: wheatie at April 27, 2013 03:03 PM (3B3wv)

38 You nailed it -- the media wants to be part of the story. This used to be, and should be, an "event" only for the people that are part of the media biosphere in DC. Like a company Christmas party. But these corrupt tiny propagandists what to be celebrities and the WH is happy to pander. So act like it's the Academy Awards dinner and maybe no one will notice that all the "stars" are incompetent whores.

Posted by: Endeavor to Persevere at April 27, 2013 03:04 PM (zZJJp)

39 Will they be dining off the naked bodies of peasants? Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at April 27, 2013 07:02 PM (RZ8pf) Or coke off a hooker's ass? Wait a minute, that gives me an idea, BRB...

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s][/u] at April 27, 2013 03:04 PM (qyfb5)

40 But enough about me, let's talk about you... what do YOU think of me?

Posted by: your betters in the Media at April 27, 2013 03:04 PM (bAGA/)

41

I'm with Chemjeff,

Brokaw wants his WHCD "pure" just he muckity muck he likes to muck with.

To him Lohan turned it into a circus.

Of course that doesn't mean that in principle the WHCD dinner is bad to him, only in that incarnation.

 

But to cover his angst he made a point (that perhaps we all agree with).  The very idea of a WHCD separates the press from the commoner in a way that's bad.

Sadly he won't connect the problem of a celebrity president to that.

Posted by: tsrblke at April 27, 2013 03:05 PM (GaqMa)

42 Ah journalists. Doing the job any drunken hobo off the streat could do, and feeling smug doing it.

Posted by: Lauren at April 27, 2013 03:05 PM (wsGWu)

43 Didn't Brokaw recently link the Boston terrorist attack to US drone strikes?  Some BS about indescriminate killing of civilians or some such.  I realize we are not dealing with the sharpest knive in the block here.  However, when someone is incapable of determining the moral superiority between team A, who goes out of their way to limit collateral damage (including putting their own team at increased risk), and team B, which by design SPECIFICALLY targets non-combatants, I have to conclude that Tom is far too morally compromised for me to give a shit about any opinion he may have. 

Posted by: WVinMN at April 27, 2013 03:06 PM (4Pleu)

44 The MSM should invite the Kardashians to the event, they're the epitome of prostituting yourself and making a shitload of money and achieving fame with no kind of talent whatsoever

Posted by: kbdabear at April 27, 2013 03:06 PM (mCvL4)

45 Lohan may be a shoplifting, coked-up, fire-crotched skeeze-magnet, but I'd sit next to her before I'd sit next to Brokaw.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s][/u] at April 27, 2013 03:06 PM (qyfb5)

46 I just hope world events haven't dimmed Dear Leaders infamous sense of humor.

Posted by: RWC at April 27, 2013 03:06 PM (Wl/Ht)

47 Yeah, let's toss it over to Dan Rather for an objective, unbiased .....oh, forget it!

Posted by: Devan at April 27, 2013 03:07 PM (aQJJu)

48 New Yorker editor David Remnick defends "Look at what we publish." he adds "Does it seem like it corrupts us?"


Tossed out, the question just laid there, steaming like a fresh pile of turds dropped in the middle of a dance floor.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 27, 2013 03:07 PM (8ZskC)

49 It is a cheap shot at Lohan and Greta what's her name who invited her. Lohan is hardly the first celeb to have been invited and attended this stupid dinner. Didn't har Brocow mooing about them.

Posted by: waldo at April 27, 2013 03:08 PM (y2XjR)

50 Geraldo derides the narcissists who argue over the narcissism of the event. Geraldo Rivera ‏@GeraldoRivera 5h I think agonizing over the narcissism of the correspondents dinner is narcissistic Then tweets a mirror-image photo of himself heading out to the event. http://t.co/ykkY1PUjay

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 27, 2013 03:08 PM (piMMO)

51 The image I'm presented with is an industry who thinks its job is to help Obama get elected and govern the country by providing uncritical support and cover in the national media space. So far, the media, headed by Brokaw, has ignored Fast and Furious, the Gosnell Trial, Benghazi, the travesty of the passage of Obamacare. The green investment failures, the failed stimulus, the failed cash for clunkers. Solyndra, Fisker. This is a list of failure. Good God! Is Brokaw this unknowing? His industry is currently the Pravda that the USSR wished it could have had. Had they only known.

Posted by: Jack at April 27, 2013 03:08 PM (Zv1QB)

52 why do you think I've been calling them publicists everything we see is one big whole goddam infomercial

Posted by: soothsayer at April 27, 2013 03:08 PM (LL42r)

53 I know Dan Rather....and Brokaw's just like him.

Posted by: BignJames at April 27, 2013 03:08 PM (H9MGI)

54

and $20,000 goody bags, WTF? With as crappy as things are for regular citizens right now, what sort of messages does showering themselves with $20,000 of crap they probably won't even keep send?

 

 

Assholes. I can't say that enough. I feel like these guys are grade A assholes.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at April 27, 2013 03:08 PM (RZ8pf)

55 Brokaw wants his WHCD "pure" just he muckity muck he likes to muck with.
To him Lohan turned it into a circus.
Of course that doesn't mean that in principle the WHCD dinner is bad to him, only in that incarnation.  Posted by: tsrblke at April 27, 2013 07:05 PM


I'm sure she wasn't the only cokehead in the room.  Barry and half of Hollywood were there.

Posted by: huerfano at April 27, 2013 03:09 PM (bAGA/)

56 Yeah, let's toss it over to Dan Rather for an objective, unbiased .....oh, forget it! *** Meadow

Posted by: Dan Rather at April 27, 2013 03:09 PM (piMMO)

57 48 New Yorker editor David Remnick defends "Look at what we publish." he adds "Does it seem like it corrupts us?" Asking the questions they dare not answer.

Posted by: Jack at April 27, 2013 03:09 PM (Zv1QB)

58 33 Next year they're going to bring the dancers from the Camelot Show Bar to entertain the group. Posted by: Dept. Of Acuracy at April 27, 2013 07:01 PM (MhA4j) 18th & M. By Ozio's. Next to Bell Wine. Never heard of it.

Posted by: RWC at April 27, 2013 03:09 PM (Wl/Ht)

59 Lilo wouldn't give the hypocrite fossil the time of day. O tempora, o mowwrres!

Posted by: Hail Cork Master at April 27, 2013 03:10 PM (I88Jc)

60 and $20,000 goody bags, WTF? With as crappy as things are for regular citizens right now, what sort of messages does showering themselves with $20,000 of crap they probably won't even keep send? Assholes. I can't say that enough. I feel like these guys are grade A assholes. *** The stuff I saw in the goody bags was a bunch of crap from the drug store.

Posted by: Dan Rather at April 27, 2013 03:10 PM (piMMO)

61

42 Ah journalists. Doing the job any drunken hobo off the streat could do, and feeling smug doing it.

 

Churnalists.

We have a new name for them.

 

And Wosers....wannabe posers.

 

 

Posted by: wheatie at April 27, 2013 03:10 PM (3B3wv)

62 Hey, we were corrupted way before we ever showed up at one of these Presidential ball-licking festivals.

Posted by: David Remnick at April 27, 2013 03:11 PM (8ZskC)

63 and $20,000 goody bags, WTF?

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Who pays for that?  Serious question.

Posted by: mama winger at April 27, 2013 03:11 PM (P6QsQ)

64 Edward R  Murrow wept.

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 27, 2013 03:11 PM (BAS5M)

65 The stuff I saw in the goody bags was a bunch of crap from the drug store.


Some reporters are still unfamiliar with dental floss so don't knock it.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 27, 2013 03:12 PM (8ZskC)

66 But these corrupt tiny propagandists what to be celebrities and the WH is happy to pander. So act like it's the Academy Awards dinner and maybe no one will notice that all the "stars" are incompetent whores. E! will be covering it...complete with red carpet, and limos. I'm surprised they aren't handing each other awards yet.

Posted by: Sticky Wicket at April 27, 2013 03:12 PM (eyJh9)

67 Tom Brokaw getting all in high dudgeon about this is just hysterical. Now that he's the semi-retired Elder Newsman and can spend all of his time performing certain deeds on his Montana Ranch or hanging out with Harry Reid and sharing in all the things that Harry Reid may possibly do in his leisure time, he feels the need to pontificate about the decline of the noble profession of journalism.

But these people have always been groupies and disgusting wannabe star-fuckers. It's who they are. It's what they do. They never had any dignity to begin with. Lindsey Lohan has as much "dignity" as your average MFM soul-whore.

Posted by: Stu-22 at April 27, 2013 03:12 PM (k4bdL)

68 I think the press rates lower than congress right? Fuck 'em all. I live in the DC area and it is in now way distressed or bothered by a bad economy so they are all livin' large while real suffering is happening everywhere except here. We need a cleansing fire and we need it soon. This can't go on.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at April 27, 2013 03:13 PM (jucos)

69 I believe the term is "Puffyface", NDH. All one word. ;-)
And, yes.

Posted by: Nick Shaw at April 27, 2013 03:13 PM (9Y452)

70 off sock

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 27, 2013 03:14 PM (piMMO)

71 #s 10 and 11 have some pretty good points. Brokaw, like most media stars and professional politicians are pretty much insulated from the policies they pull for. Not sure that applies to anyone here.

Posted by: Jack at April 27, 2013 03:14 PM (Zv1QB)

72 There's a difference between whores and the media. The whores actually work for their money.

Posted by: Blue Falcon in Boston at April 27, 2013 03:15 PM (KCvsd)

73

63 and $20,000 goody bags, WTF?

 

 

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Who pays for that? Serious question.

 

That *is* a good question, mama winger.

Who pays for the goody bags? ...Who pays for the whole event?

 

Posted by: wheatie at April 27, 2013 03:15 PM (3B3wv)

74 I believe the term is "Puffyface", NDH. All one word. ;-) And, yes. *** I stand corrected.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 27, 2013 03:15 PM (piMMO)

75 "Actors take themselves way too seriously these days, and including them in this sort of bullshit just contributes to the problem. It elevates them to a place they do not belong. They are not my betters, but they sure like to think they are. Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle" I heard a line recently, might have been on Redeye, that actors get paid to "pretend". How they think that that qualifies them to tell us who to vote for and how we should think on important issues, I'm not sure.

Posted by: nerdygirl at April 27, 2013 03:15 PM (Fc8Zx)

76 "You have been weighed in the balance and found wanting." Posted by: mama winger at April 27, 2013 07:01 PM (P6QsQ) "Your kingdom is divided, it can't stand You're weighed in the balance and found wanting Your houses are built upon the sand" http://tinyurl.com/yl85zv6 >btw, I love this JC song - it succinctly sums up the hubris of those who are powerful, yet foolish.

Posted by: Johnny Cash at April 27, 2013 03:16 PM (JqnAE)

77 Who pays for that? Serious question.

That *is* a good question, mama winger.
Who pays for the goody bags? ...Who pays for the whole event?

Posted by: wheatie at April 27, 2013 07:15 PM (3B3wv)

 

 

One of the articles suggested the WHCD is actually a charity event.

For what? Dunno. Even Wikipedia doesn't know.

Posted by: tsrblke at April 27, 2013 03:17 PM (GaqMa)

78 One of the articles suggested the WHCD is actually a charity event.For what? Dunno. Even Wikipedia doesn't know. *** It's for J-school scholarships. No kidding.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 27, 2013 03:19 PM (piMMO)

79 Brokaw sucked a lot of O-dick, but now he's pissed he was lied to...

...it didn't really taste like strawberry.

Posted by: @PurpAv at April 27, 2013 03:19 PM (GJtYt)

80 Explosion at Detroit refinery http://bit.ly/12QuMwQ

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 27, 2013 03:20 PM (piMMO)

81 "Brokaw isn't opposed in principle to celebrities going to the WHCD, he is opposed to trashy slutty celebrities like Lindsey Lohan going." Yeah, Lindsey Lohan is trashy, but celebrities like George Clooney who belongs to the skank of the month club isn't. Okay, he may not get a new one every month, he may put up with f**king the same woman for 4 months, but he isn't much more stable than Lohan, he just puts a better face on it. If Brokaw were half as intelligent as he thinks he is he would realize that almost all of these successful celebrities are shallow, self indulgent, and have the emotional development of 8 year old children. Poorly raised 8 year old children.

Posted by: nerdygirl at April 27, 2013 03:21 PM (Fc8Zx)

82 J-school is for those people that cannot hack the academic rigors of a Phys.-ed degree. They truly are the stupidest people on the planet.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at April 27, 2013 03:21 PM (jucos)

83 The goodie bags are provided by product manufacturers that want to get their products into the hands of ahem....famous people. This year's haul looks like random crap from the 'one dollar and under' bargain table at CVS.

Posted by: Sticky Wicket at April 27, 2013 03:21 PM (eyJh9)

84 #80, well there goes summer gas prices and one hopes no one was hurt. Better be an accident and not sabotage.

Posted by: Blue Falcon in Boston at April 27, 2013 03:22 PM (KCvsd)

85 Explosion at Detroit refinery http://bit.ly/12QuMwQ Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 27, 2013 07:20 PM (piMMO) -------------------------------------------------------- I'm shocked! There is still businesses in Detroit?

Posted by: Truck Monkey at April 27, 2013 03:22 PM (jucos)

86 The swag bags are paid for by the sponsors, or contributors. They donate products and services- to those with enough money that they will throw the stuff away. I wish just one time someone would aucton theirs and give the money to charity. Contributors for WHCD swag bag- Alba Botanica, Alex and Ani, California Baby, C Wonder, Demeter Fragrance, Eastern Collective, Edge Shave Gel, Georgetown Cupcake, GoGo squeeZ, GoMarco In., Good Karmal, Grooming Lounge, Happy Socks, Herban Essentials, illy issimo, Incase, JASON, John Masters Organics, JustinÂ’s, KIND Healthy Snacks, Kusmi Tea, LeSportsac (the bag itself), LÂ’Oreal Paris, MADHOUSE by Michael Aram, Manduka, Neuro Drinks, Peeled Snacks, PirateÂ’s Booty, Praim Gorup, Preserve Products, PRITI NYC, Purely Elizabeth, Quinn Popcorn, Red Bull, Revision Skincare, RUSK, SAMY FAT HAIR, Sara Kety Baby, Schick, Scholastic, Sheila GÂ’s Brownie Brittle, Somersault Snack Co., SpaRitual, Starbucks, Stila, Supersmile, TableTopics, Taza Chocolate, Theo Chocolate, Toyota (alas, a mug, not a car), Twistband, Urbanhalo Headbands, VEGA, Weleda.

Posted by: RWC at April 27, 2013 03:22 PM (Wl/Ht)

87

J-school....is that Journalism School?

 

Posted by: wheatie at April 27, 2013 03:22 PM (3B3wv)

88 Oh, and I'm not saying that a man shouldn't have a right to screw a lot of different women. This is a free country. But pretending that actors like Clooney are less shallow and self-indulgent than Lohan is ridiculous.

Posted by: nerdygirl at April 27, 2013 03:23 PM (Fc8Zx)

89 Andmit was Time/People that rounded up all those vendors.

Posted by: RWC at April 27, 2013 03:24 PM (Wl/Ht)

90 Explosion at Detroit refinery

See, the West TX dealio was due to lack of regulation lack of unions, etc.

This one will be simply a tragic unavoidable accident because...Democrats.

Posted by: @PurpAv at April 27, 2013 03:24 PM (GJtYt)

91 J-school is for those people that cannot hack the academic rigors of a Phys.-ed degree. They truly are the stupidest people on the planet.

 

 

Posted by: Truck Monkey at April 27, 2013 07:21 PM (jucos)

 

Whew!

Posted by: Education Majors at April 27, 2013 03:24 PM (BAS5M)

92 Actors take themselves way too seriously these days... Plato's Ion reveals it as a hazard of the job. I'd say we're just paying those clowns more attention now than they deserve.

Posted by: Hail Cork Master at April 27, 2013 03:24 PM (I88Jc)

93 J-school....is that Journalism School?

 

Posted by: wheatie at April 27, 2013 07:22 PM (3B3wv)

 

 

Very close.  Jackwagon school.

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 27, 2013 03:26 PM (BAS5M)

94 Funny, I was just reading Wretchard's take on this, and much more: http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2013/04/26/freedom/ Don't miss the part about the 900 pages deleted from FBI training manuals.

Posted by: rickl at April 27, 2013 03:28 PM (sdi6R)

95 I have long wondered when the media elite would begin to worry that the product they produce would reflect unfavorably on themselves. The work they do not only represents their own individual character but that of their employer and their profession. Sounds like some of them are worried that all those other journalists are doing harm to the profession, not thinking for a moment that they themselves are also doing harm.  "It's not me, it's them. Those guys are ruining it for all of us ( us meaning me)."

It's kinda comical to see a few develop a conscience because they have noticed that Obama is a megalomaniac wannabe tyrant surrounded by sycophant suck ups, and a few of the suck ups are starting to worry.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at April 27, 2013 03:29 PM (k9esy)

96 "42 Ah journalists. Doing the job any drunken hobo off the streat could do, and feeling smug doing it. Posted by: Lauren" If you have ever been witness to an event that was reported on in the newspaper, or worse yet, had a reporter talk to you and then quote you, you would know that a drunken hobo could do a more accurate job. Years ago our newspaper did an article on a woman that I worked with. It was a fluff piece, nothing controversial. So this reporter interviewed me over the phone, asked me some softball questions about her. The article came out and quoted me as saying things I had never said. It wasn't anything negative or damaging, it was just that I had never said those things. I think the dolt made the stuff up.

Posted by: nerdygirl at April 27, 2013 03:29 PM (Fc8Zx)

97 There is a reason that cops and crooks donÂ’t hang out together.

Posted by: Lucky Pierre at April 27, 2013 03:29 PM (5fSr7)

98

86 The swag bags are paid for by the sponsors, or contributors.

 

So...they inflate the 'value' of the junk that they contribute, and then take it off their taxes.

 

The celebrity elitists sure do know how to do charity scams.

They are experts at it.

 

Posted by: wheatie at April 27, 2013 03:29 PM (3B3wv)

99 There is a reason that cops and crooks donÂ’t hang out together.

Unless its Baltimore, then they're partners

Posted by: @PurpAv at April 27, 2013 03:30 PM (GJtYt)

100

Having watched a few of these on C-SPAN,  I can tell you the laughter and humor is shallow and the responses are forced.

 

I can recall some years ago at one of these during the Bush Administration, someone said something mocking about Clinton, and the camera was on Carville in the audience, and you could read his lips saying  "F*** you!"

 

They are all a bunch of shallow  and petty children, with no substance behind them.  That's what we're losing to;  shallow, petty children.  This has been contrived and foisted on us.

 

"Idiocracy" was on cable again this afternoon.  In case we forget what the future will probably hold.

Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes more nonsense..... at April 27, 2013 03:30 PM (Md8Uo)

101 See, the West TX dealio was due to lack of regulation lack of unions, etc.

This one will be simply a tragic unavoidable accident because...Democrats.

Posted by: @PurpAv at April 27, 2013 07:24 PM (GJtYt)


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And perish the thought that the Detroit incident might be some of the fine immigrant success stories in Dearborn conducting a test run. We must not jump to conclusions like the highly plausible one that I just jumped to.

Posted by: Stu-22 at April 27, 2013 03:31 PM (k4bdL)

102 Since this thread is open...and technically ot no matter what's discussed, I thought I'd toss this out there, (Stolen shamelessly from Insty). Baby dies in FL from whooping cough after it's parents declined to vaccinate the infant out of fears of autism. http://tinyurl.com/cfseq79

Posted by: Sticky Wicket at April 27, 2013 03:31 PM (eyJh9)

103 I never leave the house without my UrbanHalo headband.

Posted by: lincolntf at April 27, 2013 03:31 PM (ZshNr)

104 Let the burning times begin. Let's start in DC.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at April 27, 2013 03:32 PM (jucos)

105 Anna Wintour ignored the E reporters on the red carpet,  no matter how much they groveled.

Posted by: Miss Marple at April 27, 2013 03:32 PM (GoIUi)

106 I don't think the swag bags are actually worth $20,000. I read that they weigh over 20 pounds. Yeah, the stuff in the bags is all donated by the companies as targeted advertising.

Posted by: LindaFell at April 27, 2013 03:33 PM (PGO8C)

107 I wonder how many months going back 50 years have had two major plant explosions and a terrorist attack?

The number zero keeps popping into my head as the most likely answer.


Posted by: @PurpAv at April 27, 2013 03:34 PM (GJtYt)

108 RE: Industrial accidents.
Been a rash of'm lately, eh? Those refineries are all the time catching fire and blowing up. Wait, this was a tank of diesel? Under what conditions is diesel explosive? Even atomized it doesn't have a burn rate high enough to count as explosive does it? Well, we just have to wait for an investigation in a year or so after everyone has forgotten all about it.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at April 27, 2013 03:35 PM (k9esy)

109

107 I wonder how many months going back 50 years have had two major plant explosions and a terrorist attack?

 

The number zero keeps popping into my head as the most likely answer.

 

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Seems like we're racking up a lot of...coincidences...doesn't it, PurpAv.

Posted by: wheatie at April 27, 2013 03:36 PM (3B3wv)

110 Anna Wintour ignored the E reporters on the red carpet, no matter how much they groveled.
Posted by: Miss Marple at April 27, 2013 07:32 PM

Wait a minute, you mean there is a red carpet for reporters and other reporters are trying to get an interview and pictures? Whoa, junior reports trying to get an interview with high status reporters? How cool is that?

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at April 27, 2013 03:39 PM (k9esy)

111 Baby dies in FL from whooping cough after it's parents declined to vaccinate the infant out of fears of autism *** What an awful way to die. I remember my sister having whopping cough when she was tiny. I was tiny, too, but I'll never forget that sound. My mother, my grandparents, everyone around was distraught. I don't even remember if there was a vaccination available back then. Thank God my sister survived.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 27, 2013 03:39 PM (piMMO)

112 See, the West TX dealio was due to lack of regulation lack of unions, etc. This one will be simply a tragic unavoidable accident because...Democrats. Posted by: @PurpAv at April 27, 2013 07:24 PM (GJtYt) The hypocrisy, it BURNS!!! The left says Gosnell happened because the onerous regulation of abortion clinics make it difficult it provide safe affordable care to womens. Which is it? Too much regulation or too little? You can't have it both ways.

Posted by: LindaFell at April 27, 2013 03:40 PM (PGO8C)

113 Re: Bad Month Actually there have been at least five failed sabotage events and a couple of failed terror attacks this month, too, IIRC. Someone called to ask what they fuck they ever did to us. Caller ID says "April."

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s][/u] at April 27, 2013 03:41 PM (qyfb5)

114 This "nerdprom" business is an annoying humblebrag, as well. Nerds are people with above average intellects and below average social connections. Media members are the exact opposite of that.

Posted by: ashowalt at April 27, 2013 03:41 PM (vo9xB)

115 The hypocrisy, it BURNS!!! The left says Gosnell happened because the onerous regulation of abortion clinics make it difficult it provide safe affordable care to womens. Posted by: LindaFell at April 27, 2013 07:40 PM (PGO8C) Juan Williams strongly implied Gosnell was a Political Prisoner. Because, presumably, aliens.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s][/u] at April 27, 2013 03:43 PM (qyfb5)

116 "Now that he's the semi-retired Elder Newsman and can spend all of his time performing certain deeds on his Montana Ranch " Yuch. Does he have to stand on a footstool to reach?

Posted by: nerdygirl at April 27, 2013 03:44 PM (Fc8Zx)

117 114 This "nerdprom" business is an annoying humblebrag, as well. Nerds are people with above average intellects and below average social connections. Media members are the exact opposite of that. Posted by: ashowalt at April 27, 2013 07:41 PM (vo9xB) It is a particular but not unique conceit of the left that they are Smarter Than Everyone Else. They're always praising themselves and each other for being smart. But it's a hollow affectation - it doesn't matter how smart you are if you refuse to think.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s][/u] at April 27, 2013 03:46 PM (qyfb5)

118 This is what passes for news reporting in Michigan in the local media : this is the Detroit News report in it's entirety.

A fire broke out Saturday evening at the Marathon Detroit refinery in southwest Detroit.

A caller to The Detroit News said an explosion could be heard from the site and black smoke can be seen rising from the refinery.

Shane Pochard, with Marathon Oil's corporate public affairs office, said "a fire started in one of our smaller tanks" on the site located at Interstate 75 and and Fort Street.

Pochard said the refinery's on-site fire crews and "local first responders" from Detroit and area communities where [sic] handling the fire.

(Ok screw it, Detroit News want's a link, and dis blog don like annoying long lines of text : http://preview.tinyurl.com/ch63v9y)

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at April 27, 2013 03:46 PM (k9esy)

119 Back during the Cold War we had Kremlinologists who deciphered official statements filtered through Pravda to decode what they were REALLY saying

Kremlinology is a useful tool to decipher what the MSM shits out may or may not be true

http://tinyurl.com/cv283vo

Posted by: kbdabear at April 27, 2013 03:48 PM (mCvL4)

120 A few more sessions of yoga and I will be able to perform my own B.J. Then I can move up to the national market.

Posted by: Neal Marx, Newsman at April 27, 2013 03:48 PM (SzAZ7)

121 Apologies to PGiS for the echo. Wine "tasting" makes my eye wander over comments faster than the brain can...do whatever it does.

Posted by: Hail Cork Master at April 27, 2013 03:48 PM (I88Jc)

122 "I'm shocked! There is still businesses in Detroit? Posted by: Truck Monkey " Often when people refer to Detroit they are referring to the entire area, including all of the suburbs, which aren't perfect but are a hell of a lot better than the stinkhole city.

Posted by: nerdygirl at April 27, 2013 03:50 PM (Fc8Zx)

123 Michigan Militia (do they even exist anymore?) gets blamed in 5...4...3...2...

Morris Dees ran up a big Visa bill last month and needs to get paid

Posted by: @PurpAv at April 27, 2013 03:50 PM (GJtYt)

124 Protestors outside of the event- with pics of Breitbart, and questions about Gosnell. Nice.

Posted by: RWC at April 27, 2013 03:51 PM (Wl/Ht)

125 Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at April 27, 2013 07:41 PM

So if someone launched a terrorist attack and no one noticed, would it still be terrorism?

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at April 27, 2013 03:51 PM (k9esy)

126 Refinery explosion in the Democrat strongholds of Detroit and Michigan

According to our superiors in the MSM, it's only low tax low regulation careless GOP strongholds like Texas where industrial accidents happen

Posted by: kbdabear at April 27, 2013 03:52 PM (mCvL4)

127 Mencken said that the only direction from which a journalist should look at a politician is *down*.

Today, the likes of the White House Press Corps instead look *up*, worshipfully, to the likes of Barack Obama. They don't deserve a gala dinner. They deserve to have sets of well worn kneepads contemptuously tossed at them.

Meanwhile, the bosses of the media companies who employ these so-called journalists wonder why the public are turning their backs on the product. Perhaps commissioning a few more marketing studies will shed some light.

Posted by: torquewrench at April 27, 2013 03:53 PM (gqT4g)

128 So if someone launched a terrorist attack and no one noticed, would it still be terrorism?

Posted by: Skandia Recluse .........TFG's plan in nutshell !

Posted by: t-dubyah-d at April 27, 2013 03:56 PM (u6lBN)

129 There's a whole circuit of pomp in Washington where our betters go to toast themselves and revel in their own glory. The Corresponents' Dinner is but one slot of the Washington social dance card. The only saving grace of it is that it's the one with the camera. For that reason alone there may be some value in it, as window into a world trafficked by few. But on the whole the whole scene in Washington is toxic, stale, putrid, and in sore need of serious housekeeping.

Posted by: Cowboy at April 27, 2013 03:56 PM (FMrA0)

130 {future news}
"experts" are blaming the explosion on a faulty valve made in TEXAS, at a NON-UNION facility, owned by the KOCH brothers, that pays its slave laborers in Cheetos.
{/future news}

Posted by: MSM at April 27, 2013 03:56 PM (GJtYt)

131

Hey, Joe,


I'm goin down to shoot my old lady.

Posted by: soothsayer hendrix at April 27, 2013 03:59 PM (3iJ6i)

132 I had whooping cough as a toddler - I still have some blurry, hallucinatory memories of it.  It took me a long time to get over it - many nights of staggering to my mom's bedroom because I couldn't breathe and I was vomiting at the same time.  I think a doctor even made a house call to see me, I was so sick - must be almost 50 years ago.  Terrible way for a baby to die, unable even to ask for help.  All three of my children have some form of autism, and I've NEVER believed that crap about the MMR vaccine causing it.  It's genetic in almost all cases, I think.

Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at April 27, 2013 04:00 PM (FkH4y)

133 Niedermeyer, good post but you already know what we think. Brokaw is an ass-clown. The press, by and large, are all ass clowns...

Posted by: RobM1981 at April 27, 2013 04:01 PM (zurJC)

134 Actually,  the only value in watching this is the pre-game show,  when we get to see all of these people interpret glamor with disastrous results.

I am cutting out before Conan O'Brien and TFG speak.

Posted by: Miss Marple at April 27, 2013 04:03 PM (GoIUi)

135 {future news}
"experts" are blaming the explosion on a faulty valve made in TEXAS, at a NON-UNION facility, owned by the KOCH brothers, that pays its slave laborers in Cheetos.
{/future news}

Posted by: MSM

Too late. The Demoshats already blame it on TX's lack of regulations or not enough 'boots on the necks of industry.'

That was the whole point of the cockbite cartoon in the San Francisco Chronicle.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at April 27, 2013 04:03 PM (Yr6sH)

136 Contributors for WHCD swag bag- Georgetown Cupcake Posted by: RWC at April 27, 2013 07:22 PM (Wl/Ht) While I know that they have a TV show, I do not understand why people are willing to line up for upwards of 2 hours in all sorts of weather in order to partake from Georgetown Cupcake. There are several other establishments in the immediate area without lines like that. Furthermore, the cupcakes, while fine, are not worth standing in line for. Not that anyone will feel sympathy, the parking and line-standing snafus caused by Georgetown Cupcake upset Georgetown residents to no end, especially the parking.

Posted by: I lurk, therefore I am at April 27, 2013 04:05 PM (RwRRP)

137 How about this angle from the Marathon refinery explosion: the refinery sells petcoke to (gasp!) Koch Industries. And it's getting supplied by the tar sands, a la Keystone. Detroit activists who have striven mightily to shut this refinery down are set to launch in full on fury mode.

Posted by: Cowboy at April 27, 2013 04:06 PM (FMrA0)

138

There was a Drunkin Hobo...They called him The Voice.....or something

 

Fifteen minutes mahap of fame.

Posted by: Rats Alley at April 27, 2013 04:19 PM (XACbv)

139 As a former newspaper reporter and editor, I can assure everyone here that J-school attracts those for whom the intellectual rigors of Ethnic Studies are too arduous. Most editors I knew back in the day would gladly hire someone with a degree is anything else before they hired a journalism major.

Oh, and they talk like fags and their shit's all retarded.

Posted by: Aloha Akhbar @PirateBallerina at April 27, 2013 04:19 PM (/lWM8)

140 Why is this whore of a terrorist mom always making these aggressive poses?

Posted by: waldo at April 27, 2013 04:26 PM (y2XjR)

141 These assholes should be paying taxes on those $20,000 swag bags. Hey better have come with a 1099.

Posted by: TexBob at April 27, 2013 04:27 PM (6S4Ai)

142 Also, there used to be a major distinction between puff pieces and straight reporting. Advertiser opening up a second store? Puff piece. Political or real news? Straight reporting. Apparently, straight reporting (or as we called it (sarcastically) reportage (rhymes with the frog word for cheese)) is too difficult for the special snowflakes in the biz these days.

Plus, of course, they talk like fags and their shit's all retarded.

Posted by: Aloha Akhbar @PirateBallerina at April 27, 2013 04:35 PM (/lWM8)

143 Note Brokaw thinks George Clooney & Claire Danes are fine. He thought Donald Trump & Lindsay Lohan are catering to the downmarket. He is expressing contempt for ordinary Americans who don't know who Claire Danes is.

Posted by: Baldy at April 27, 2013 04:54 PM (opS9C)

144 Plus, of course, they talk like fags and their shit's all retarded. *** Poetic

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 27, 2013 04:58 PM (piMMO)

145 Up at 9:00, CNN live coverage of the event

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 27, 2013 04:58 PM (piMMO)

146  Dissing LiLo is a NoNo/ToBro

Posted by: art garfunkels ugly kid at April 27, 2013 04:59 PM (mwp5i)

147 96; Look up Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at April 27, 2013 05:07 PM (dEtCk)

148 [The media are] always praising themselves and each other for being smart. But it's a hollow affectation - it doesn't matter how smart you are if you refuse to think. I don't think the problem is that our "smart" journalists refuse to think. The problem is that our "smart" journalists are not smart. J-school beckons mediocrities, as does the news room, and we have only ourselves to blame for listening to them.

Posted by: ashowalt at April 27, 2013 07:13 PM (vo9xB)

149 The irony is that Mr Brokaw wrote a book, The Greatest Generation, about his father and the men who fought WWII, who, had they been reported on by Mr Brokaw and his peers in the manner in which they reported on our generation, would have have made them the worst generation. Exemplified by Crosby, Stills, & Nash in "Old Man Take A Look At My Life", where a spoiled brat child of the '60s tells his father, a child who grew up during the Depression, fought in WWII & Korea, that "it was a lot like mine"!! Yeah, right.

Posted by: Electric at April 27, 2013 07:55 PM (S+L7S)

150 Shame on Brokaw and all the so called journalist community.  Their mantra used to be 'speaking truth to power". Turns out the only time they think they need to do that is when Republicans are in power. Fucking propagandists. That's all they are.

Posted by: LGoPs at April 28, 2013 06:15 AM (6WS/s)

151 The more these turds pipe up, the worse they smell. I don't what's sweeter, the fact that they look and sound like teenyboppers with menstrual cramps, or the fact that nobody gives a shit.

Posted by: Dirty Old Man at April 28, 2013 06:39 PM (u7qzk)

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