Rumblings: Your Media World
>>>…is changing! CN8 is finally closing up shop, firing a few hundred people, and implicitly yielding that they suck, which you already know. Didn’t they already fire everybody, like, forever ago? Anyway, we’ll be getting “The Comcast Network.” The extra-localized public affairs programming will probably be too small-potatoes for Ed Snider, who has NO FUCKING SOUL, to hire Sarah Palin as a host. But we know an anchor who’ll be looking for work around May! [Broadcasting & Cable via SmartBrief]
>>>…will soon deliver “Preston & Steve” directly to your iPhone with only one touch. This is only the first step in the Manyunkization of fancy-phone technology, so we are buying ourselves rotary phones and reconnecting our landlines for Christmas in the hopes of slowing the electronic douchiness contagion. [WMMR's corporate overlords via MarketWatch]
>>>…is cold and lonely. The Evening Bulletin reports that one of their writers, Mary Worthington, is the proud recipient of the annual chastity award from a group called Generation Life. Reporter Erin McGuire discovers that Worthington “was first exposed to chastity as a child.” Weren’t we all, friends, weren’t we all. [Evening Bulletin]







November 25th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
“Manyunkization” is the most succinct and spot-on description of that stupid radio show ever. Thank you for that.