The Media Drop

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The American Family Association is running a new poll entitled “Does America need a TV network pushing the homosexual agenda?”
I strongly urge all of TMD’s readers to go to the site and vote. Yes, I know you have to provide personal information, but it is mostly used in order to stop “stuffing” of the […]

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The Gwinnett Daily Post writes, “Disc jockeys who use vulgarity and offensive programming to attract listeners are not only lacking in judgment but, apparently, also in talent. The real talent doesn’t have to take the minds of listeners down to the gutter level in order to be entertaining.”
I think that might be the case in […]

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My read for the day is this post by Tim Porter where he describes his coinage “informational incest” to a T. If you didn’t understand what the term was before, read the post and the included links, and it should be clear as day.
By telling is how it is, not by being “media personalities…commentators…hawkers, […]

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Some of it is all in good fun, I’m sure, but what is the common reader and, furthermore, letter (email?) writer to think when a columnist responds with one of the two following things after some commentary about their work:
Exhibit A: Jim Romenesko points out that Neil Steinberg of the Chicago Sun-Times sends a […]

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