Alas, Alaska!
Sarah Palin is either terribly ignorant or shockingly inept, if you watch her scripted answers in an exclusive interview with CBS News anchorwoman Katie Couric. Related story: Couric, Letterman too much for McCain and Palin
Tag Archives: media
Western media: Many axes to grind
You know, I was casually scouring the Net for coverage on the Olympic closing ceremony and I am disgusted by the amount of negative press generated by Western media, which used every opportunity and reason to criticise China. If the US had topped the gold medal tally, would anyone have questioned its legacy in Iraq?… Read More »
Thanks? No, thanks!
From The Economist:Both the chairman and chief executive of Alcatel-Lucent resigned as it reported its sixth consecutive quarterly net loss. The merger in 2006 of France’s Alcatel and America’s Lucent formed one of the world’s biggest suppliers of telecoms infrastructure. Since then its market value has fallen by half, thanks to difficulties with integrating the… Read More »
Looking through coloured eyes
In her article, “Fox In Yahoo!’s Henhouse“, Wendy Tanaka of Forbes wrote: “Icahn will have help in getting a Microsoft deal done. As part of his settlement with Yahoo!, two of his cronies will also get seats on the board.” Regardless of your opinion of Carl Icahn, I find it odd that a reporter for… Read More »
iExtort
In his post “The iPhone iFiasco“, Mitch Wagner wrote about his seven-hour ordeal buying an iPhone 3G and concluded: Well, some kind of apology would be nice, along with a bit of cash to compensate customers who had problems with activation, similar to the gift certificates Apple gave out last year when they cut iPhone… Read More »
The $48 billion lie
Once again, mainstream media are falling over themselves to parrot special interest group statistics. I’m referring to the annual study on software piracy published earlier this month by the Business Software Alliance, which alleged that piracy cost the software industry $48 billion last year, up by $8 billion from 2006. Instead of questioning the reliability… Read More »