The Media Drop

Because everyone needs features and things added to their blog’s publishing schedule, I’ve added “seen in my RSS reader,” which will randomly report on things that were just too good to be true.
Enjoy this one. Awww, poor Carson Palmer.

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If there’s one YouTube video you watch today, it has to be the call for entries for the Austin Chronicle’s Bacheloser contest. Austin, of course, is the city that ABC’s latest Bachelor, Brad Womack, hails from. When people said that the alt-weeklies looked at different goings on in an alternative way, they were most certainly […]

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The Onion has chosen to take out some frustrations on TNT for its random running of James Bond film marathons.

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According to Variety’s Josef Adalian, Britney defender Chris Crocker has scored a TV deal to do a “docusoap,” whatever that really is.

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From my pal Vodkafish, we find this gem of a story, which I believe ran via the AP. Nope, the article’s just fine, but check out the hed. The correct one is here.

I guess there’s no AP style guide for which sports teams are in which league. Not very nice for someone to go […]

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In an apparent call for help, Chris Thilk has injected 1337-speak into article titles, including this one at MarketingVOX, where he points out that “Glam Pwns iVillage, Becomes #1 Women’s Network.”
Nice.

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Okay, so those are some not-so-good numbers in my RSS reader from the Chicago Tribune… 7 wonders, okay, 5 convicted, 4 dead, 2 killed, ugh.

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If you haven’t seen the crying girl, Ashley Ferl, then you’ve probably been under a rock since 9pm on Tuesday night. I, for one, flew home from California with her sitting just across from me last night. Turns out she and her family were on their way to New York City to go on NBC’s […]

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Contrary to what someone wants you to believe, this is most likely not really MSNBC’s Contessa Brewer, though it is pretty funny to see on my Twitter feed.

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In the wake of various television networks’ inability to deal with YouTube, The Onion had some fun things to say about Viacom’s thoughts on YouTube “stealing” its viewers.

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