A common theme on the Babalu Radio hour (Reminder: Tonight, 8:00 PM) is frustration with the news media. Beyond their obvious bias, I am frustrated with their lack of originality. A true maverick could do a whistle blowing story on……

Hockenberry’s complaints illustrate this perfectly: they boil down to anger about NBC refusing to let his preferred liberal narrative color his stories. As Tantor points out, his silliness with the exploding confetti is just one example of this.

Hockenberry might consider changing his street theater so that it reflected reality: Iraqi civilians randomly imprisoned, tortured, or executed to maintain Saddam’s reign of terror.

Hockenberry’s struggle with the standards exec at NBC sounds a lot like the Hollywood screenwriters struggle with the Hays Office and its Production Code back in the 1930s. Hockenberry’s effort to get fresh reporting through the bowels of the NBC corporate bureaucracy sounds very much like the old Hollywood screenwriters’ effort to get fresh and edgy screenplays through the studio system, only to have them converted into banal pap.

Just like TV knocked down the movie industry, I suspect that the Internet will knock down TV. TV had the advantage of lower production values than movie studios. The Internet has the advantage of much lower production values than TV, allowing solo authors to publish their stuff. Technology is removing the barriers to entry for the common man to the media and demolishing the monopoly the stale, stuffy, orthodox liberal bureaucrats hold on the public forum.

Let the creative destruction begin.

NBC News the record industry sucks because management doesn’t get how to use technology; news record executives are a cowardly herd of unoriginal thinkers; GE their CEO empty suits blocked…..

Get the Fork, it’s DONE!!

Tonight’s News (by segment):
“Sports – Eurotrash sports star arrives with Skank wife, will re-make American sports scene”

Hey, at least those Eutes got married before they started cranking out the kids. That’s major bonus points in my book! (Unlike the latest American pop-tarts gracing the rags at the checkout counter.)

“Editorial – Bush/Cheney/Halliburton/Blackwater, America should be France”

Can we put ol’ Sarky in charge?

He told Corvo he could make room in the prime-time lineup for firefighters, but then smiled at me and said, in effect, that he had no time for any subtitled interviews with jihadists raging about Palestine.

This illustrates exactly why network news and series have lost millions of viewers: move along folks, nothing to see here. They look down on us and pander to what they think is America. This was Prez Clinton’s attitude too, which led to 9/11 and to a rejection by many, like me, of their liberal views.

Michelle, I didn’t even know Phillips was still on the air other than as the butt of an occasional SNL joke