Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Wounded Tiger Hiden Dragon
Anyone who is a regular follower of my blog (follower in the sense of paying attention like Aaron Morey, not follower in the sense of bowing down and worshiping as in the case of President Obama {sorry I had to piss of Alex somehow}). Technically I was still in the middle of a sentence but it got too complicated so lets take it from the top.
If you've read me before you've noticed that one of my favorite past times is pointing out some of the absurdities that come alone with our modern mainstream media. Now this is not a blog about liberal or conservative bias. No this is about just how many stupid things they can do in the course of a newscycle. And since Wolf Blitzer invented the 24 hour newscylce, they can do a lot of stupid stuff.
One of the things that I find myself laughing at the most as well as getting pissed off at is all the things they attempt to put on their screen on top of their actual programing news. You have the telecast your watching. Below that you have a "ticker" updating you on some headlines. Usually just giving you tidbits that you can brag about to your friends. Unless one of your friends pursues a higher level of journalism than CNN or Fox or MSNBC does and you know actually asks you a follow up question. You have NO more information. All you saw was a 15 word headline. And that's probably all CNN knows too.
So you have the telecast and a ticker nice right? Well thats not all. Than you have the time and temp, then sometimes you have the business ticker. Then you have a picture in picture thing showing you the press conference they are going to cover next. And then there is a changing box telling you the pedigrees of the pundents you are listening too. Then that changes and tells you about the BREAKING NEWS or DEVELOPING STORIES that these pundits are currently discussing. By no means are these breaking news. And then on top of it all some networks offer an inside look at Wolf Blitzer's beard! I KNOW!!!!!!!!!!!
American Philosopher actually called CNN out on this thing.
Anyways my biggest complaint about this crawler is how incredibly vague it can be. And if they don't go out of their way to explain it, you might have not any idea what they are talking about.
Today I was watching CNN Newsroom and on the bottom of the screen read
UPDATE: Wounded Tiger faces rankings challenge.
Go head, right now and write down what you think that is talking about.
I honestly had NO IDEA!! I am a pretty bright guy, I mean I watch CNN, I should be able to at least translate there language right?
My first thought was Dick Cheney shot another tiger, oh way that was Putin. But then I thought, is this referring to a BCS bowl rankings challenge? Is this wounded tiger not getting the respect from the AP because it's strength of schedule rating wasn't high enough?
Why would a tiger be in a college football game? And who wounded it?
So then I decided it was time to google the phrase and see what happened. While I was waiting for my computer to boot up, (20 hours or so). I thought to myself, oh maybe its a race horse.
Finally I googled the phrase and got a CNN website no doubt. Fortunately they had taken time to post an entire story.
Wounded Tiger faces rankings challenge
Look at your piece of paper again. How many of you ACTUALLY thought, Oh I bet thats about Tiger Woods!
That is just a terrible use of language if you ask me. First of all Tiger Woods wasn't wounded, he was injured. I am not sure if there is a definitive difference, but I think the connotations are slightly different in the United States.
Second of all the man's name is Tiger, so let's use the language in a way that doesn't make it sound like he was an animal that was shot by a Russian dictator. Seriously.
Yes this was a long one, but I hope you enjoyed it.
Ladies and gentlemen take my advice, if your going to use parenthesis as often as I tend to, you should probably figure out how to do it properly. By no means is my blog a proper template for correct gramatical format. If your looking to me for that, then perhaps you need a stimulas package too. THATS WHAT SHE SAID!!
If you've read me before you've noticed that one of my favorite past times is pointing out some of the absurdities that come alone with our modern mainstream media. Now this is not a blog about liberal or conservative bias. No this is about just how many stupid things they can do in the course of a newscycle. And since Wolf Blitzer invented the 24 hour newscylce, they can do a lot of stupid stuff.
One of the things that I find myself laughing at the most as well as getting pissed off at is all the things they attempt to put on their screen on top of their actual programing news. You have the telecast your watching. Below that you have a "ticker" updating you on some headlines. Usually just giving you tidbits that you can brag about to your friends. Unless one of your friends pursues a higher level of journalism than CNN or Fox or MSNBC does and you know actually asks you a follow up question. You have NO more information. All you saw was a 15 word headline. And that's probably all CNN knows too.
So you have the telecast and a ticker nice right? Well thats not all. Than you have the time and temp, then sometimes you have the business ticker. Then you have a picture in picture thing showing you the press conference they are going to cover next. And then there is a changing box telling you the pedigrees of the pundents you are listening too. Then that changes and tells you about the BREAKING NEWS or DEVELOPING STORIES that these pundits are currently discussing. By no means are these breaking news. And then on top of it all some networks offer an inside look at Wolf Blitzer's beard! I KNOW!!!!!!!!!!!
American Philosopher actually called CNN out on this thing.
Anyways my biggest complaint about this crawler is how incredibly vague it can be. And if they don't go out of their way to explain it, you might have not any idea what they are talking about.
Today I was watching CNN Newsroom and on the bottom of the screen read
UPDATE: Wounded Tiger faces rankings challenge.
Go head, right now and write down what you think that is talking about.
I honestly had NO IDEA!! I am a pretty bright guy, I mean I watch CNN, I should be able to at least translate there language right?
My first thought was Dick Cheney shot another tiger, oh way that was Putin. But then I thought, is this referring to a BCS bowl rankings challenge? Is this wounded tiger not getting the respect from the AP because it's strength of schedule rating wasn't high enough?
Why would a tiger be in a college football game? And who wounded it?
So then I decided it was time to google the phrase and see what happened. While I was waiting for my computer to boot up, (20 hours or so). I thought to myself, oh maybe its a race horse.
Finally I googled the phrase and got a CNN website no doubt. Fortunately they had taken time to post an entire story.
Wounded Tiger faces rankings challenge
Look at your piece of paper again. How many of you ACTUALLY thought, Oh I bet thats about Tiger Woods!
That is just a terrible use of language if you ask me. First of all Tiger Woods wasn't wounded, he was injured. I am not sure if there is a definitive difference, but I think the connotations are slightly different in the United States.
Second of all the man's name is Tiger, so let's use the language in a way that doesn't make it sound like he was an animal that was shot by a Russian dictator. Seriously.
Yes this was a long one, but I hope you enjoyed it.
Ladies and gentlemen take my advice, if your going to use parenthesis as often as I tend to, you should probably figure out how to do it properly. By no means is my blog a proper template for correct gramatical format. If your looking to me for that, then perhaps you need a stimulas package too. THATS WHAT SHE SAID!!
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Grover Cleavland Spanked me on Two Non-Consecutive Occassions
My friends, welcome to the first posting of the new year and the new administration. Do you think President Obama would be funny enough to end every sentence today with the phrase, "In the new administration?"
"Do you deliver pizza in the new administration?"
No I wouldn't think so either. But since Aaron Morey is probably the only person that will read this blog, I feel obliged to at least give him some type of inside joke.
So here we go. Only minutes, even SECONDS into his Presidency, Barack Obama lied to the American people.
According to the Associated Press "FACT CHECK" in the third line of his speech, the newly inaugurated president claimed that, "44 Americans have now taken the presidential oath."
Now I don't intend this to be a hate on Obama blog, but AS soon as he said that, I shot straight up from the couch. Having ventured to Rockford for the historic return of Trolley Car #36 I was relaxing in my parents living room watching history unfold. Or in this case watch history be misquoted. Now consider the fact that I had been up since 5pm the previous day as to how easy an error this was to spot.
What was the error you ask? Obama is our 44th President. Well this is entirely true. But as any avid Simpsons fan could tell you, Grover Cleavland held the Office of the President on two NON consecutive occasions. Meaning that he is recorded as being both the 22nd and the 24th President of the United States.
Now the funny thing is that I have yet to find a major news agency pick up this story. I have only found blogs and the APs "FACT CHECK." which hardly qualifies. I have actually done a extensive amount of reserach for this blog. I ran through google and found a website dedicated to Language that discusses it. As well as a CBS News blog that seems hardly confident in admitting the 44th President's error.
In the end I guess it doesn't matter. One way or another this Inaguration will be making Marv Alberts Blooper reals. (I would encourage my Catholic friends to pay attention to the 1:23 mark of the video). Though the reason for making the blooper real would be less the President's fault and more the Chief Justice's error. Now this is a story every agency IS picking up on. As you may have noticed there was a little stumbling on the administering of the oath of office, or as one blogger cleverly called it, the oaf of office. My favorite part was when the Chief Justice turned the "So help me God" part of the oath, into a question, rather than a statement the President was to repeat.
You may not care about my opinion, but on the other hand your reading my blog. My guess is the Chief Justice screwed it up and it confused Obama, who was proably pretty nervous and most presumedly had practiced it before stepping on stage in front of 8 million devotees who were in all actuality waitng for the Kanye concert to start.
So I don't know about the error in counting thing. Though if you look at White House.gov official listing of Presidents, which is now run by the Obama administration, that there have been 44 presidents and only 43 men who have served as president. I think they need to fire a speech writer or 7. Toby Ziegler would be pissed.
Maybe President Obama got some bad intel?
Ladies and gentleman take my advice, I would seriously encourage you to look at every link posted. The add value to the overall humor of this post. I would also encourage you to not flame me for this post. I am really not hating on the President. But I think a lot of people who would normally make fun of the President are not going to, so it will be my cross to carry. Oh and did I mention that I like turtles?
"Do you deliver pizza in the new administration?"
No I wouldn't think so either. But since Aaron Morey is probably the only person that will read this blog, I feel obliged to at least give him some type of inside joke.
So here we go. Only minutes, even SECONDS into his Presidency, Barack Obama lied to the American people.
According to the Associated Press "FACT CHECK" in the third line of his speech, the newly inaugurated president claimed that, "44 Americans have now taken the presidential oath."
Now I don't intend this to be a hate on Obama blog, but AS soon as he said that, I shot straight up from the couch. Having ventured to Rockford for the historic return of Trolley Car #36 I was relaxing in my parents living room watching history unfold. Or in this case watch history be misquoted. Now consider the fact that I had been up since 5pm the previous day as to how easy an error this was to spot.
What was the error you ask? Obama is our 44th President. Well this is entirely true. But as any avid Simpsons fan could tell you, Grover Cleavland held the Office of the President on two NON consecutive occasions. Meaning that he is recorded as being both the 22nd and the 24th President of the United States.
Now the funny thing is that I have yet to find a major news agency pick up this story. I have only found blogs and the APs "FACT CHECK." which hardly qualifies. I have actually done a extensive amount of reserach for this blog. I ran through google and found a website dedicated to Language that discusses it. As well as a CBS News blog that seems hardly confident in admitting the 44th President's error.
In the end I guess it doesn't matter. One way or another this Inaguration will be making Marv Alberts Blooper reals. (I would encourage my Catholic friends to pay attention to the 1:23 mark of the video). Though the reason for making the blooper real would be less the President's fault and more the Chief Justice's error. Now this is a story every agency IS picking up on. As you may have noticed there was a little stumbling on the administering of the oath of office, or as one blogger cleverly called it, the oaf of office. My favorite part was when the Chief Justice turned the "So help me God" part of the oath, into a question, rather than a statement the President was to repeat.
You may not care about my opinion, but on the other hand your reading my blog. My guess is the Chief Justice screwed it up and it confused Obama, who was proably pretty nervous and most presumedly had practiced it before stepping on stage in front of 8 million devotees who were in all actuality waitng for the Kanye concert to start.
So I don't know about the error in counting thing. Though if you look at White House.gov official listing of Presidents, which is now run by the Obama administration, that there have been 44 presidents and only 43 men who have served as president. I think they need to fire a speech writer or 7. Toby Ziegler would be pissed.
Maybe President Obama got some bad intel?
Ladies and gentleman take my advice, I would seriously encourage you to look at every link posted. The add value to the overall humor of this post. I would also encourage you to not flame me for this post. I am really not hating on the President. But I think a lot of people who would normally make fun of the President are not going to, so it will be my cross to carry. Oh and did I mention that I like turtles?
