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Friday, October 31, 2003
Blame it on Drudge. Just got
back from a field trip to Nashua, New Hampshire, only to find bad
news on Drudge.
-- Liberal comedian turned pathetic
Bush apologist Dennis
Miller is getting a talk
show on CNBC, which shows the idiots at NBC have decided that what's
not working on MSNBC can fail just as miserably on the sister
station.
As soon as Barry
Crimmins, a former writer
for Miller, weighs in on this distressing development, I'll put up a
link.
-- Microsoft wants to swallow
Google, the best damn search engine there is. According to
this
New York Times article,
Google would rather go ahead with its planned IPO, but what Bill
Gates wants, he eventually gets. If he succeeds, the question is, how
will he ruin the experience?
Earlier this year Google acquired
Blogger, the Web-based software that powers Media Log. It's Bill's
world, and we're all just visiting.
Disingenuous bishops. Leave
it to a conservative, independent Catholic to call the bishops'
bluff.
Today's Herald quotes Phil
Lawler, editor of Catholic
World News, on the
bishops' claim that the media got it wrong recently when they
reported that the Church was softening its stance on benefits for gay
and lesbian couples.
The Herald's Eric Convey and
Elisabeth Beardsley write:
Phil Lawler, editor of
Catholic World News, a conservative Web site focusing on church
affairs, and a former editor of The Pilot, defended the secular
media.
"The way it was played in the
media is pretty much the only logical way to play what was out
there," he said.
Asked why church leaders would
challenge that interpretation, Lawler said: "Plausible
deniability."
Here
is the Globe story on the same subject.
Little People, Big
Apple. I'll be talking about Little
People tomorrow from
noon to 1 p.m. on Simply Put, on Bloomberg Radio, which is
heard in New York City on WBBR (AM 1130), on all three satellite
networks, and in streaming audio at Bloomberg.com.
The hosts are two Boston guys --
Democratic political consultant Michael Goldman and MetroWest
Daily News columnist
Tom Moroney.
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Dan Kennedy is senior writer and media critic for the Boston Phoenix.
