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How the fuck…?

Published by flohtingPoint on November 19, 2007 in oprah, Moosecocked idiots, The Media and Reggie Bush. 2 Comments

“It’s true, you are a good woman. Then again, you may be the Antichrist.” - Doc Holiday, Tombstone

There are times when I’ll be sitting at work, not particularly working, just day dreaming of some sort, when an epiphany will hit me like a ton of bricks.  Last week was my latest one…  There I was, minding my business and staring at the ceiling with a blank stare when it dawned on me. HOW THE FUCK DOES OPRAH HAVE SO MUCH FUCKING MONEY?

Successful people utilize exceptional marketing techniques.  Some people capitalize off the business savvy (ie: IBM in the 80’s), some people capitalize off slave labor and sweatshops (ie: Nike) and some even capitalize off the stupid (ie: George and Reggie Bush).  Oprah doesn’t follow any of these paths.  In fact, when you break it down, the path she follows sounds like a sure fire way to LOSE money, not make it.  Oprah capitalizes off the unemployed. Her fucking TV show comes on when anyone who actually makes fucking money is at work!

“But floh, she has a successful magazine,” you might vomit onto my shoes.  Right, you ever read that piece of shit?  It might as well say OPRAH on the fucking cover, then have 200 pages of advertisements in it.  I mean shit, at least Good Housekeeping and Cosmo teach you how to properly fuck your man… You’re not winning any Pulitzer Prizes writing for this stack of flapjacks n’ feces.


Shopping and John John’s plane crash…
Truly innovative journalism there.

According to Forbes, Steve Jobs is worth 5.7 billion and he made it through being extremely innovative in the Microsoft dominated world of IT.    Bill Gates is worth ten times that much from stealing from Steve Jobs.  Oprah, while only worth about half of Steve Jobs’ net, made billions (yea, plural), from… marketing to unemployed morons.  And people wonder why I fucking hate money.

Near afternoon edit:
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Ever been addicted soda and wrote a blog about trying to quit?  If so, you’re equally as dumb as Reggie Bush fans our unbelievably stupid blog of the day: http://shauntaysblog.blogspot.com/ 

Hi dis is Shauntay and I am gonna try not to drimk soda for 30 days. I love soda. I drink soda more than 5 times a day, and people say that drinkin soda is really bad for me. But I dont listen to them. So when I found out that Mr.C was doin a 30 Day project with us I thought that this would be a great oppurtunity for me to try not to drink soda for 30 days. If I like not drinkin sodas for 30 days then I might just do it for the rest of my life.(LOL)

A Requiem For Journalism

Published by Amaysing1 on October 1, 2007 in The Media. 0 Comments

Journalism sucks…

Take a look at CNN’s website. On the front page of the website, this headline perverts my eyes:

“Spears will lose custody of children.”

During a time when America’s sons and daughters are at War…When the Blackwater USA controversy has further ingrained the stereotype of the arrogant American who breaks laws and does whatever he pleases…When all of this takes great precedent over all, what news are we greeted with by the Cable News Leader?

That Britney Spears is losing custody of her children

Give me a break.

Who cares about the dead troops in Iraq? Britney Spears has a new haircut!

Congratulations CNN. You have joined the ranks of the NY Post, Fox News and Matt Groening’s The Simpsons. Yet, CNN is far from standing alone. Sensationalism reigns supreme. Ratings are King and controversy is what sells. I would and could expect this from tabloid magazine but this trend has spilled over into notable news outlets, sport magazines and any genre imaginable to the human mind. People turn to The Daily Show for their news. Perhaps the tragedy in this is that The Daily Show is one of the very few avenues where both sides of the story, left and right, are told.

Note this great article.

In it, they list 10 assumptions of journalists. It is quite amusing. For instance.

1. We know the truth, and we’re here to impart it to you.

7. We’re smarter than you; we can become experts in any subject.

Think for a moment. When was the last time that you received intelligent, impartial news? Money dictates the news. Don’t believe that your news is bias? Grow up. Fox News is well documented in regards to their controversies.

” There’s no crying or truth in journalism”

No type of genre is safe

Halo 3 was the most anticipated video game of the year. Halo 2 received a 9.8 rating out of 10 from IGN and a perfect 10 from EGM and Game Informer. With a proven success rate, it would be thought that reporting would be thorough and very informative. Kat Mowbray of Aeropause reports that in Time Magazine Lev Grossman calls gamers ‘lonely and alienated.’ It is also reported that he called Halo ‘ghetto.’

This confused me. Halo is Ghetto. Last time I checked, a video game wasn’t part of a disenfranchised group of people living in poor conditions and housing. Nor was it sound to use such terms in a acclaimed magazine to describe frankly, anything.

In addition to this, I guess Halo’s lonely and alienated fans must have some common cause. Gross sales from Halo 3’s opening day broke the record for highest grossing opening day in entertainment history with an astronomical 170 million dollars in sales. Something tells me that Halo can’t be too ghetto.

Halo may be doing great…

…but journalism still sucks