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Wednesday, October 20, 2004
COLD COMFORT. Keeping their
Sox on atop
Mount Washington at 7:31
this morning.
MORE ON STEWART. CNET's got
a good
piece by Matt Hines on the
Net's fastest-growing phenomenon - Jon Stewart's appearance on
Crossfire. "The volume of downloads outpaced CNN's recent
ratings numbers for the actual show," Hines writes, which isn't
exactly a surprise.
Hines also describes
Crossfire as a "hit" in its current 4:30 p.m. time slot,
reporting that it drew an average audience of 615,000 during the
month of September. I guess it all depends on your point of
reference. The three network newscasts draw between 20 million and 30
million viewers depending on the news, and National Public Radio's
All Things Considered has about 10 million listeners. Just
trying to put into perspective Stewart's accusation that Paul Begala
and Tucker Carlson are personally dragging down the level of
political discourse.
Meanwhile, Media Log reader C.P.
suggests a useful expansion of my comment yesterday that "I know
Carlson a little, and he's not a dick, although I'll admit that he
often plays one on television." So here's a reminder
about how Carlson earlier this year dismissed John Edwards's
representation of a little girl whose intestines were sucked out by
faulty swimming pool motor as a "Jacuzzi" case - and of how he kept
returning to that theme over and over even after the record had been
set straight.
Disgusting and shameless, to say
the least. C.P.'s point: If you play a dick long enough, you
eventually become a dick.
THIS IS HILARIOUS. The only
thing missing from this
fantasy is Christopher
Reeve rising from the dead and walking again. (Thanks,
Bill.)
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Link? http://www.needlenose.com/win04/vote.htm
Have you seen Tucker Carlson's PBS show? He's remarkably... not a dick. He's pretty laid back and asks some interesting questions. Which is a shame, because I really wanted to continue thinking of him as a jackass.
-- Kristen
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Dan Kennedy is senior writer and media critic for the Boston Phoenix.
