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Re: The Media Gap
« Reply #20 on: May 23, 2008, 12:02:48 AM »

THEY ARE SO ICE, AND SO CLIMB.

COMING UP NEXT: HILLARY CLINTON, TOO SEXY TO BE PRESIDENT? AND ALSO WHY OBAMA MAY HAVE A PROBLEM WITH CLOSED MINDED BIGOT VOTERS.

ALL THAT AND MORE, COMING UP ON THE SITUATION ROOM.
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Re: The Media Gap
« Reply #21 on: May 23, 2008, 12:11:43 AM »

I think Obama's greatest problem is that he's an Afganny Muslim with secret ties to Al Queda, Sadam Hussein and the Ten Rings, as well as having a reverse-racist Muslim pastor who preaches hate against white Americans like myself.

That all said, he's still my pick for president.
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Re: The Media Gap
« Reply #22 on: May 23, 2008, 11:41:05 AM »

The man's got connections.  What's not to like!?
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Re: The Media Gap
« Reply #23 on: May 23, 2008, 12:44:30 PM »

Today's Media Gap is on E.D. Hill, substitute host of The O'Reilly Factor.

Tobin Smith was on the show talking about oil prices internationally. Tobin makes the claim that gas prices are self-maintained. He further states that Congress is hurting the US American economy by not allowing our oil-product peddlers to compete internationally. Tobin presents the following statistics:

Sales (refineries) internationally:

Diesel: 10% profit margin
Gasoline: -3% profit margin (the combined sales of gasoline and diesel is, according to Smith, the only way refineries are able to continue to produce gasoline)
Google: 50% profit margin

Congress is riding these oil executives to defend their high paychecks. According to E.D. Hill it's just gouging. The problem I have with Smith's point of view, and the reason for my anger today, is that gasoline is more than a commodity in this country to many millions of people. Without gasoline many of us would be unable to get to work to feed our children.

When a product is a need and not a want it's called a utility, and in this country we subsidize utilities with unit-elasticity (no matter the price across a wide range the hard-line profit remains the same). I'm not mad at Smith, I'm mad at Hill. Rather than point out the utility of gasoline she continues to berate oil company executives for their "high" paychecks (while it's true that the pay margin between worker and executive is on the rise in US America this is not a factor in the oil price debate but rather an economy-wide issue).

E.D. Hill is a fine substitute for the loudmouthed O'Reilly.
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Re: The Media Gap
« Reply #24 on: May 23, 2008, 01:05:40 PM »

I'm not sure what exactly you're saying.

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Re: The Media Gap
« Reply #25 on: May 23, 2008, 01:08:02 PM »

I think he's saying that Google is price-gouging on their web searches.
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Re: The Media Gap
« Reply #26 on: May 23, 2008, 01:08:59 PM »

That would explain why I had to pay $25 for my last search of "Adam Sessler's Hot Asshole".

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Re: The Media Gap
« Reply #27 on: May 23, 2008, 01:09:54 PM »

Uh, Google makes money off of companies the way newspapers do.
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Re: The Media Gap
« Reply #28 on: May 23, 2008, 01:15:04 PM »

That would explain why I had to pay $25 for my last search of "Adam Sessler's Hot Asshole".

They charge so much because people are willing to pay that much for nude shots of balding, nebbishly uncharismatic hosts on fourth-rate television stations.  Keynesian economics, you know.
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Re: The Media Gap
« Reply #29 on: June 28, 2008, 11:47:43 PM »

(Originally posted this in the News Sources thread, but decided, with gritted teeth, that it makes more sense in this one.  Please don't make me regret necroing this thread.)

...So mostly I'm just reading whatever's on Google News right now.

It recently prompted me for my zip so I could get local news.  On the plus side, I am now slightly more up on local events than I was before; on the minus side, I fucking hate both major local papers.

Case in point, an excerpt I read on the Google News page a little bit ago:

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Bordow: Fans’ hatred making ASU-UA rivalry ugly
East Valley Tribune - 4 hours ago
Somewhere between Tempe and Tucson, in a ditch alongside Interstate 10, lie two corpses. They died an ugly death, victims of a gang mentality prevalent in living rooms, stadiums and on message boards.

I was fucking horrified.  So I clicked on the article.  Only to find that the next sentence was:

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Their names: Civility and decency.

Now, it's not the author's fault that Google News clipped his article at two sentences.  But it IS his fault that he wrote a horrifically misleading, melodramatic lede, and that he is an out-of-touch schmuck writing about how people say mean things on the Internet as if it qualifies as news.

My comment, for those who don't want to bother to click the link:

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So you know, Scott, the Google News link to your article only excerpts the first two sentences. I thought you were telling me people actually died over this. Instead, you're just revealing that people on public Internet forums say offensive things. Well, stop the presses.

Name any subject -- any subject at all -- and there are people having really vicious and offensive arguments about it. Wii or Xbox? DC or Marvel? And that's BEFORE you get into legitimate hate speech, as on race or sexual orientation.

Nobody's dead. People on the Internet are just acting like people on the Internet. (A Webcomic called Penny Arcade summed it up in a 2004 strip, http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19/ -- salty language warning.) Stop being melodramatic. I read enough news about corpses that belong to actual human beings.

PS: Go Jacks.

(The Lumberjack is the mascot of Arizona's third university, Northern Arizona U, which is of course my own alma mater.)

Perhaps the most amazing thing of all is that my comment originally contained the phrase "you melodramatic jerk" but the Trib refused to post it.

That's right, this guy is freaking out over things he read on a comments section with a filter so strict IT WON'T ALLOW THE WORD "JERK".

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Re: The Media Gap
« Reply #30 on: June 29, 2008, 04:13:11 AM »

So a university in a state with no trees has a lumberjack as its avatar?

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Re: The Media Gap
« Reply #31 on: June 29, 2008, 05:55:11 AM »

Who do you think took out the trees?

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Re: The Media Gap
« Reply #32 on: June 29, 2008, 06:29:41 AM »

It was to make room for YOUR house, Sir Poppington!

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Re: The Media Gap
« Reply #33 on: June 29, 2008, 06:50:02 AM »

I just couldn't resist making that joke again.

EDIT:

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Re: The Media Gap
« Reply #34 on: June 29, 2008, 07:04:02 AM »

So a university in a state with no trees has a lumberjack as its mascot?
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srsly.
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Re: The Media Gap
« Reply #35 on: June 29, 2008, 08:39:34 AM »

Wow, I have been on the internet TOO FUCKING LONG.

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Re: The Media Gap
« Reply #36 on: June 29, 2008, 08:44:10 AM »

Optional hilarious comment: It's actually a 2' dwarf, who does manly battle with towering mesquites and tamarixes.

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Re: The Media Gap
« Reply #37 on: June 29, 2008, 08:57:43 AM »

These replies aren't funny, you jerks.

 :omg: Such salty language!!!
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Re: The Media Gap
« Reply #38 on: June 29, 2008, 09:47:19 AM »

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Re: The Media Gap
« Reply #39 on: June 29, 2008, 12:59:51 PM »

FLAGSTAFF IS CLOSER TO COLORADO THAN PHOENIX

YOU CUNTS
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