Entries Tagged 'Media' ↓
Surprising No One.
September 24th, 2008 — Controversy, Media
Is the Shine Coming Off the Dime?
September 22nd, 2008 — Media, Politics
Sarah Palin’s sudden and immense rise in popularity and star power has been truly astounding. Her nomination to the VP position on the GOP ticket has completely electrified the Republican party.
But is the party already over? According to New York magazine,
as voters have dug deeper into Palin’s, you know, actual record and positions, they’ve begun to sour on her — and swung the race back to Obama.
Check out the evidence:
People Just Ain’t Buyin’ This Crap.
September 22nd, 2008 — Controversy, Media, Race
Hey, had to get this in: Remember the LeBron James / Gisele Bundchen controversy, back in March? Well, when the numbers came in some months later, it turned out that the issue sold like vomit.
Solange Knowles Best.
August 28th, 2008 — Black Music, Controversy, Media, TV
Unless I’m wrong, Solange Knowles’ tempest-in-a-thimble with KVVU-TV’s Monica Jackson wasn’t the most interesting note to come out of the 2:28 clip.
The most odd detail is that she, perhaps inadvertantly, confirmed Jay-Z’s marriage to her older sister, Beyoncé, by making mention of her “brother-in-law’s establishment,” and thus affirming she has a legal, familial relationship with him through marriage.
“Now they’re asking for four more years. How ’bout four more months?
August 27th, 2008 — Media, Politics
Best anti-McCain / G.O.P. line of the night, as delivered by Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey Jr., above. He’s also the guy who said, “John McCain calls himself a maverick, but he votes with George Bush 90% of the time. That’s not a maverick. That’s a sidekick!”
All the pro pundits are salivating over “No way. No how. No McCain”? That’s just copy editors looking for a headline-ish-sounding headline, or a tidy pull quote. Instead, imagine the eruption if Hillary had dropped either of the Casey quips. Bra-freakin’-vo, guy.
Olympic World-Chumpions
August 26th, 2008 — Media, Sports
Ooo, that’s gotta hurt: Katie McVean disagrees with her horse, Forest
Two weeks of video highlights, color announcers screaming, and Michael Phelps have made me so ready for the glory of people like equestrian Katie McVean from New Zealand, above, who, in individual jumping, came in 71st place. In other words, the kind of folk Jonathan Crowe “celebrates” on DFL, a blog about the lame-O’s who ranked, as he puts it, “Dead F%$@in’ Last” in their Olympic sport.
METRO Gives Up the Love!
August 18th, 2008 — Blogs, Media
A super-special shout-out to the people at my favorite free daily, METRO, for their tip-of-the-hat to MEDIA ASSASSIN in the paper’s “Voices: Blogarithms: A look at the best of the blogs” section this past Thursday, right. (The piece ran in their NY, Boston, and Philadelphia editions.) I absolutely was not expecting the coverage, or the reproduction of my recent “Mackin’ On-the-Go” post. So, imagine my surprise when picking up the paper to search its nonexistent movie listings. I was hit with a sudden, “That Looks Familiar…Oh, WOW!” slightly-out-of-body experience. Wonderful, just wonderful to receive all of the support we’ve gotten. Thank you, METRO, so much for including us in your oft-wry, smartly-written publication.
Ready for the World.
August 8th, 2008 — Media, NONFICTION, Radio, Religion
Muslim Girl magazine, published bimonthly since January 2007, targets the 400,000 women, ages 18-24, in the U.S. and Canada, who practice Islam. It’s the only beauty and lifestyle publication that does.
“It’s a huge, niche population that’s very underrepresented,” says Ausma Khan, editor-in-chief of Muslim Girl, and part of the original planning group that created the periodical. “And yet Muslims are in the media all the time, overrepresented in very negative ways, where their stories are constantly being told about them from the outside, and their own voices are very rarely added to the mix.”
Ausma Khan is the guest today on my WBAI-NY / 99.5 FM radio show, NONFICTION, this afternoon, Friday, August 8, 2 pm ET.
Give Me a Break.
July 15th, 2008 — Magazines, Media, Politics, Pop Culture, Race
Come on: I get it that, right about now, Ebony is probably starving for any kind of contact with Obama, or for any reason to put him on the cover, but seriously….
Our Lips Are Sealed.
July 9th, 2008 — Controversy, Media, Politics
Not talking, either: Cindy McCain on The Today Show
It’s the question that won’t go away. Since The Huffington Post reported John McCain’s foul outburst back on April 7, and MEDIA ASSASSIN followed up with its own post on April 16th, “Does John McCain Suffer from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder?”, more and more folks in the blogosphere are asking: Did John McCain once use an unprintable epithet—the so-called “c-word”—in a tirade against his wife?
