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Monthly Archives: March 2008
Delta’s pre-flight safety video a hit
Delta Air Lines has a new safety video that it shows before flights and it is becoming quite the hit on YouTube. It currently has over 460,000 views.
I am not sure what is causing it to get so many views, but it was entertaining and different than what you currently get.
Check it out:
The only thing I noticed is that I never see that much room in between seats anymore on flights.
You can read more about the video on Delta’s blog, Who Says Safety Can’t Be Sassy?.
Update: I improperly used the term Delta Airlines instead of Delta Air Lines. I have fixed this in the post.
Media not covering the Presidential Election as much as they used to
The cost of covering the 2008 Presidential Election has grown to a point that newspapers aren’t covering it with their own reporters as much as they used to.
In an article that ran in the New York Times, The Buzz on the Bus: Pinched, Press Step Off, they discuss how major newspapers aren’t covering the presidential campaigns.
For most of the others, the price of admission — more than $2,000 for just one person to travel on Mr. Obama’s charter flights that day — was too steep, in an era in which newspapers in particular are slashing costs and paring staff, and with no end in sight to a primary campaign that began more than a year ago.
It is just getting too expensive for them to cover the events and who does that hurt? The voters. We are not getting the information we need but are getting bombarded with information that does not help us make an educated decision on who we are going to vote for.
Bloggers help, but for the most part they drive a lot of misinformation. Who should we believe?
Only a few newspapers are covering it full time. Most are relying on wire services for their coverage.
It is a sign of the times that things are changing in the media industry, but I wish something would come along that would provide the services that these news organizations used to provide.
IOC’s Rogge employing ‘silent diplomacy’ with China-Tibet protests
ESPN – IOC’s Rogge employing ‘silent diplomacy’ with China-Tibet protests – Olympics
The pressure is beginning to build on China, but they are not relenting and are again telling lies to the world and their citizens.
“Beijing’s official death toll from the rioting is 22, but the Dalai Lama’s government-in-exile has said 99 Tibetans have been killed.” To me, China does not want to admit that they are the reason for this problem. The are trying to blame the Dalai Lama for this problem, but it is China’s intolerance to anything that challenges their belief.
This is why they Olympics should never had been awarded to them until they clean up their human rights abuses. They do not tolerate any dissent in their country, they jail and kidnap anyone who disagrees with them, and they encourage genocide in other countries (see Sudan and Darfur).
Even the Olympic organization was putting down protests today by not allowing protesters at the lighting of the Olympic Flame today in Greece.
China should get their act together soon or the games won’t go as smoothly as they want. The world will see that it is not all roses in a country that will see more dissent and controversy as the years go by.
For some strange reason I want more quarterlife
For some strange reason I have become quite interested in quarterlife. The part of the site that I am interested in is an internet only broadcast that follows a group of twenty-somethings who are trying to find their place in life.
The segments are only about 7-10 minutes and they have now hit the 36 episodes they have produced, but I want more. Marshall Herskovitz, one of the creators has posted that, “To our new viewers and members — yes, we’ve come to the end of the 36 episodes that we produced — but we’re working very hard to bring you new episodes as soon as we can. Keep watching the site for announcements — also for announcements about new content we’re producing.”
Here, check out the trailer. Continue reading
Fox News Anchor Walks Off Set
An interesting thing happened on “Fox and Friends” this morning when anchor Brian Kilmeade walked off the set after his co-hosts Gretchen Carlson and Steve Doocy had a disagreement with him over remarks Barack Obama had about his grandmother. I learned of this on the Huffington Post.
Chris Wallace even came on later and was not happy with the two co-hosts and how they had been bashing Obama.
For a main stream television news show to constantly attack Obama for a comment that is being played over-and-over again, albeit out of context, is not professional journalism. It is sensational and uncalled for. When someone tried to balance the conversation and move the conversation to something else, they attacked them.
I watch quite a few political shows and yesterday and today there were some good conversations and debates about this quote, but this was not a good conversation or debate. It was an attack.
I have watched “Fox and Friends” a few times and what they call news is horrible. It is quite bad, not objective, and worthless. In fact, I think that Fox News is entirely sensational and does not truly represent the news.
It would be nice if we could get beyond race in our discussions, but people in this country won’t let that happen. Right now it is hurting Obama. We should be focusing on a debate of ideals and issues, not whether they are a particular race or what they say about race.
Idaho to hire Verlin as Men’s Basketball Coach
FoxSports is reporting that the University of Idaho will hire Utah State associate head coach Don Verlin as the new Head Coach.
Verlin has been coaching with Stew Morrill for the past 15 seasons, the last 10 at Utah State.
This seems awfully quick to me. There are a bunch of good coaches out there, many of them are still coaching in the NCAA Tournament. To make a decision this quick, Spear was set on one person and he was going to get that person.
That may or may not be a good thing.
According to FoxSports, a press conference will be held on Monday at 8:00 P.M.