Entertainment or News

| November 19, 2003

Jack at Random Fate suggests that media bias is money-driven. Maybe. Once upon a time, the News divisions of the TV networks were semi-autonomous departments that could operate in such a way as to actually try to tell important stories. These old-style newsrooms consistently lost money. They were considered a “loss leader,” I guess you […]

Oooo, what a lucky man

| November 19, 2003

I was going to say that, with the breaking news of Michael Jackson’s legal troubles, that the “lucky” man would be Scott Peterson, whose notoriety is somewhat out of proportion to his alleged crime. The 24-hour-news-cycle can focus on someone else for a while. Let’s face it – your “average wife-killer suspect” [as if there […]