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Why no wedding videos on local news sites?
One of my guilty RSS pleasures is Intern Alexis at Gawker and her weekly rating of weddings reported in the New York Times (previously satirised here), and more recently the New York Post. Sadly the absence of such public nuptial reportage in the UK denies social satirists valuable additional material. But seriously, are there not…
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How to talk your way off air in just 36 years
Don Imus – the I-Man – is one of American radio’s institutions. Imus in the Morning has been on the air one way or another since 1971. For UK readers, think of John Humphrys with the forty years of reporting replaced by shock-jocking, cocaine and alcohol addiction. Then stick a Stetson on it. That’s Imus.…
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The News
THE News, indeed! – pray do you call it newsWhen shallow noddles publish shallow views?Pray is it news that turnips should be bredAs large and hollow as the owner’s head?News, that a clerk should rob his master’s hoard,Whose meagre salary scarcely pays his board?News, that two knaves, their spurious friendship o’er,Should tell the truths which…