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Glenn Beck’s Experimental Melodrama

In late September, President Barack Obama conducted a series of five one-on-one White House interviews with reporters from CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, and Univision. For some reason—perhaps he’s housing a secret civilian security force in the Roosevelt ...

From GREG BEATO, Reason,  12 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  White House,  Glenn Beck,  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,  Jon Stewart

Politically correct political incorrectness

While the men and women of science often seem to spend the bulk of their time dreaming up novel ways to sink great sums of money into projects with limited utility for humanity, every so often they invent something that truly benefits us all. In 1952, ...

From GREG BEATO, Globe and Mail,  6 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Arnold Schwarzenegger,  Leonardo DiCaprio,  Tom Petty,  Kevin Federline,  Don Draper

Bizarre Love Triangle: Breitbart, Reuters, and the Drudge Report [Feature]

For years, Andrew Breitbart, second-in-command at the Drudge Report, labored in the shadows cast by his boss's legendary fedora. Now, he's known as a major media player in his own right, the architect of a burgeoning conservative news network that's ...

From GREG BEATO, Gawker,  5 Nov 2009
Related Topics: RPC, Inc.,  Matt Drudge,  Washington Post Company,  New York Times Company,  New York Observer

In Defense of Extreme Pornography

In late September, as a controversial movie director spent the first week of her year-long sentence at FCI Waseca, a federal prison in Minnesota, Harvey Weinstein didn’t bother to circulate a petition demanding her release. Debra Winger didn’t ...

From GREG BEATO, Reason,  27 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Harvey Weinstein,  Debra Winger,  Roman Polanski,  Whoopi Goldberg,  Marilyn Manson

Fading Print

To save what’s left of the newspaper industry, serial entrepreneur Steve Brill has launched a new startup, Journalism Online, which will help news organizations charge for their digital content. So far he has convinced at least 506 people in ...

From GREG BEATO, Reason,  22 Oct 2009
Related Topics: American Society of Newspaper Editors,  Dan Rather,  Barack Obama,  U.S. Congress,  Megan Fox

In Defense of Lingerie Football

It didn’t take long for the Lingerie Football League to live up to the low expectations of its critics. All spring long, LFL personnel had been promising serious hard-hitting action among skilled players who just happened to be sexy women. But in early ...

From GREG BEATO, Double X,  16 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Dane Cook,  Serena Williams,  Susan Boyle,  Peyton Manning,  NFL

Smile, You're on Hidden Camera

No one wants to see Sean Hannity or Michael Moore pursuing truth in crushed-velour ass pants, but thanks to the efforts of investigative pranksters James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles, such spectacles may be in the offing. Posing as the world's least ...

From GREG BEATO, Reason,  22 Sep 2009
Related Topics: ACORN,  Michael Moore,  Sean Hannity,  Glenn Beck,  Rush Limbaugh

Sarah Palin, Maverick at Last

When Sarah Palin aborted her gubernatorial career in its final trimester, pundits and political insiders reacted with shock, bafflement, scorn, and dismay. “Resigning strikes me as very strange,” National Review columnist Jonah Goldberg offered with ...

From GREG BEATO, Reason,  17 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Sarah Palin,  American Idol,  U.S. Republican Party,  Maureen Dowd,  Caribou (musician)

Real TV: From doomsday angst, a new survivalism

On May 31, 2000, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 4.8 points to 10,522.33. Life was no longer as great as it had been just a few months earlier, but it was still pretty great. Code Orange threat alerts, weaponized anthrax and toxic, ...

From GREG BEATO, Globe and Mail,  4 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Discovery Channel,  Dow Jones,  Al Gore,  Al-Qaeda,  Jeff Probst

How the Other Half Lives

Have you seen that new ABC sitcom starring Kelsey Grammer as a 9-year-old Cuban immigrant who moves to America without a dime in his pocket, pays his way through high school and Harvard by scrubbing toilets and investing wisely in the stock market, ...

From GREG BEATO, Reason,  25 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Kelsey Grammer,  Joan Rivers,  Harvard University,  Cy Young,  Pedro Martinez

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