The Media Drop

Tomorrow is the long awaited Kentucky Derby, one of thoroughbred horse racing’s crown jewels, and part of the Triple Crown (Visa’s, of course). This week, it was announced that jockeys could add advertising to their silks in order to make a little money.
If you’re not familiar with how racing works, the jockeys […]

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Charles Wright at Australian publication The Age wrote earlier this week about the music site operating out of Russia that seems to have gained a bit of popularity - allofmp3.com. The site, which of course isn’t working as I write this, was apparently selling music downloads by the megabyte. Or, more specifically, US$5 […]

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So let me get this straight….talk about something sexual or excretory, and you get fined. But film a sex video with your significant other, have it get blown out all over the Internet, all while being the daughter of a pretty well to do family, and you become a superstar who companies are marketing […]

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If you have something you’d like to say in support of Ted Koppel’s planned reading of U.S. soldiers’ names tonight on “Nightline”, then drop by CableNewser’s site. He’s thinking of maybe taking a ride up to Sinclair Broadcasting’s headquarters and will take your emails along if he goes…

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Rox starts off the morning with her soundtrack for today, and thankfully - I brought my iPod to work with me. So here’s mine. Perhaps this should be a Friday habit….

1. “Ice Cream” - Sarah McLachlan
2. “A Young Girls Heart” - Lindi Heart
3. “Resurrection - PPK” - George Acosta
4. […]

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Bill Hobbs points out that InfoWorld is running a job description for an IT reporter, and at the bottom of the request is “Prospective candidates can expect to write at least one online news story daily, and experience in blogging is a plus.”
Put that in your pipe and smoke it - allllllll weekend long.

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OxBlog’s David Adesnik puts about 50 shots across the New York Times‘ bow, commenting about their article discussing a “sharp decline” in support for the war in Iraq in a recent poll. He believes that they are misstating the results, and the “sharp decline” is really the result of an artificial high in public […]

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Well, in case you didn’t notice, the new logo is up. Thanks to Dorkafork for creating it on behalf of the Spirit of America fundraising project.
I really like it, and it was worth much more than the $10 that I donated to the cause. You’ve got three more hours to donate - thanks […]

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Tim Karr at mediachannel.org writes today about how the Sinclair Broadcast Group, who chose to pre-empt Friday’s “Nightline” could have a political agenda behind their decision.
Mediachannel reports about a statement that Sinclair sent to the media today, where they state that “ABC is disguising political statements as news content.”
If that’s the case, then […]

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In response to the announcement by ABC that we discussed earlier this week about Ted Koppel reading the names of soldiers who have died in Iraq on this Friday’s “Nightline” show, we now find out that some affiliates are not going to show the program. Thanks to Atrios for pointing this out. He’s […]

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