Posted by TFG on 20th April 2006
Exhibit #JJJJJJJJ on why journalism is circling the drain.
Short version: major, leftist, Pulitzer Prize-winning LATimes ‘journalist’ posts comments around the blogosphere under two different assumed names, applauding and defending the columns he wrote under his real name, then talks back to himself using real name, and/or refers to himself in the thrid person. Hilarity ensues.
Yet, we’re still expected to take these gasbag mediots seriously. Layers of editors, bevies of fact-checkers, major accountability, etc. Plus, you’d think, with a frikkin’ Pulitzer under your belt, you might have an eensy bit more integrity. You’d think.
UPDATE THE FIRST: Forgot to say Via Proty-Dub…
UPDATE THE SECOND: Mr. Enormous El Lay Pulitzer Dork has been suspended by the paper. Credit where due, to the bosses at LAT.
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Posted by TFG on 20th April 2006
Caught this late on Sunday, and thought it looked cool.
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Posted by TFG on 20th April 2006
New Technology May Force TV Ad Viewing
In this era of easy ad skipping with TiVo-like video recorders, could television viewers one day be forced to watch commercials with a system that prevents channel switching?
Yes, according to Royal Philips Electronics. A patent application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office says researchers of the Netherland-based consumer electronics company have created a technology that could let broadcasters freeze a channel during a commercial, so viewers wouldn’t be able to avoid it.
The pending patent, published on March 30, says the feature would be implemented on a program-by-program basis. Devices that could carry the technology would be a television or a set-top-box.
Philips acknowledged, however, that the anti-channel changing technology might not sit well with consumers and suggested in its patent filing that consumers be allowed to avoid the feature if they paid broadcasters a fee.
Completely laughable. The vast wasteland of teevee just got vaster and…ah, wastier. These idiots seem to believe that teevee is indispensible. For some, it may well be. But is Phillips going to make me leave the boob-tube on 24/7 so I can see all the dumb commercials? And once I turn it off, why in the hell would I turn it back on?
Tempest, teapot, probably. Convergence means it’ll get hacked, guaranteed. And the fact that these schmoes are even thinking about forced ad-watching means I’ll never buy another Phillips product again. Sorry, Holland.
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