Thursday, October 9th, 2008
So the AP published this photograph yesterday of Gov. Sarah Palin. The young man photographed is looking up at the vice presidential candidate. The way the photograph is cropped and the angle from which it was taken adds innuendo where there is none.
The question is whether or not it is appropriate for a news organization to publish a photograph like this.
Another woman, Hillary Clinton, ran for president. I do not recall seeing any suggestive photographs of her. I do not recall any suggestive photographs of Sen. Obama or McCain either. Please point them out if I am mistaken. Only Gov. Palin.
Had there been a similar photograph of Michelle Obama published by Fox News, do you think there would have been a stir?
I do not believe professional photographers should snap photographs between the legs of the subjects they are shooting unless they are in the pornographic business. Should a photographer do so, I certainly expect there to be editorial oversight to keep those photographs from being published. (Isn’t that what the MSM always points to as to why it is better than the blogosphere?)
This election cycle has revealed a lot of shennanigans. We are not better off because of it, regardless as to who is at fault.
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Sunday, September 14th, 2008
Y’think liberal media bias is made up? Allow me to introduce you to Jill Greenberg . . . Speaking of media bias, I actually turned off NBC’s halftime report as soon as I heard Olby. I couldn’t stand to hear if the there was a Worst Person in the World segment. I wonder what advertisers I missed . . . The GC.com fora have become unreadable for me. There is so much chaff, I have decided not to even seek the wheat any longer . . . the Chargers were screwed on a bad call today . . . The consequence of big days of caching is that it takes a whole day to write the logs, post the images, etc. And I don’t even log on some of the listing sites . . . I expect my crawfish to arrive this week . . . my wonderful wife weeded our front today. Wow! . . . Is it possible to have smoker withdrawal? . . . to make up for being out all day and night yesterday, I made the big breakfast this morning: pancakes, eggs, bacon, adn toast . . . btw, Comcast still sucks . . . say what you want, Tina Fey nailed Sarah Palin last night on SNL . . .
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Tuesday, July 10th, 2007
Ack! The latest AP article about New Jersey taxes is poor journalism.
New Jersey voters support dedicating all money earned from last year’s sales tax increase to property tax relief and borrowing $450 million to fund stem cell research, according to a new poll.
Earned?
Merriam-Webster defines earn as:
1 a : to receive as return for effort and especially for work done or services rendered b : to bring in by way of return <bonds earning 10 percent interest>
2 a : to come to be duly worthy of or entitled or suited to <she earned a promotion> b : to make worthy of or obtain for <the suggestion earned him a promotion>
The state of New Jersey did not earn this money; rather, it taxed this money. That is a huge difference.
When the “objective press” frames a 16% tax increase as money the state earned, it is no wonder reform never occurs here.
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