Remember Judith Miller And Valerie ‘Flame’

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a999doubleexposure_2050081722-33166I find it just ridiculous that the U.S. job economy is a mess, Congress is a bunch of 4-year-olds running around sandboxes with adult scissors and NOW, it’s snoop-o-rama.

Glenn Greenwald is an outstanding investigative journalist who writes for a British paper of record (with a US bureau) The Guardian.

NY Representative Peter King (R) needs to STFU and cease and desist on his call for
Greenwald’s arrest.

Thankfully we have our “fourth estate” protected by the First Amendment. Oh drat, that went out the window with the DOJ AP/Fox investigations and the NSA or “No Such Agency” politely backing up all of our personal records in the Cloud for our later review?

NOW if you are in agreement with King’s views on journalism and anybody else on this bandwagon, why not hold up Judith Miller, the NY Times – “Leaker/Reporter”
covering security surrounding the War On Iraq as the poster child for punishment.

Twitt

Social Media Editors Are Not Dead Just Anemic

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Social-MediaAn article published Thursday from Buzzfeed – announcing the death of social media editors – was met with a mixture of suicidal depression and fury for those of us wearing
social media hats & journalism caps & consultants’ pins. While so many are looking for
full-time employment in social media as a new market, Buzzfeed kind of just threw the
merits of social media editors under the bus.

AdWeek saw the need to immediately hold a live round-table (watch here) on Friday
with Buzzfeed and various interviewees in the article to smack back the flurry or fury.

What I HAVE noticed as a social media consultant for corporate and as a social media editor in journalism, if you want to take advantage of said platforms, paying a kid $10/hour because they know “twitter” is a BAD idea albeit cheap and will just leave you following bots and spammers.

More & more, social media directors and consultants work with Marketing and
PR departments.

And guess what, long gone are the days where journalists could jump ship and head to PR to make real money. Knowing how to write a press release is useful. But understanding
audience engagement and analytics is what gets your hired. Oh and Microsoft Office.

Oh and like myself, you have shunned Excel and PowerPoint your entire life, THIS JUST IN: employers prefer secretarial skills to professionally engaging with humans. If you don’t know PowerPoint and Excel you will NEVER get hired even for pizza delivery gigs (kind of JKing). Take it from me and my unemployable cat as we enjoy ice-cubes regularly because I can’t use PowerPoint based on some silly feminist notion from grad school in the 90s.

So I while I know what a “deck” is, I am having one helluva time creating a fake one for myself for practice. Any tips? Leave a reply, please!

Excel experts in the Pharma industry — are there drugs that automatically get you through the math portion of the program? If so, do you take health insurance?

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The GOP Killed The ONION – For Realz

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the-onion-logoSince I posted this, it has been brought to my attention that this is actually a hoax. But given the nature of satire and a hoax or freakin’ twitter hack, I am leaving it here to misinform and entertain.

Written prior to hoax confirmation via buddy on Twitter:

I am so upset, like beyond comprehension upset, that I have a little over a year left to read The Onion. It’s true.

According to this interview in the Daily Kos, Onion staffers full-on blame the GOP. And while I can see their point, I feel like it’s still letting the GOP win.

And the fact that I have now posited the GOP against The Onion, instead of the Democrats against the GOP, shows where I am on the current state of politics and government.

Seriously, reality has gotten so bad that in can no longer be made fun of? SIGH…

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It’s Not OVER More ‘Spite TV’ This Summer On Cable

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I just got all excited for my Sunday night dose of Revenge on ABC. Then I remembered the season finale was last week and I was sad (poor Nolan). Then I realized I had watched the last episode of Scandal on ABC too (go Olivia’s dad). And Vampire Diaries (CW) is over (and no Originals until the fall).

I am without all my wildly hot evil bitches and assholes on TV. If anyone like me was worried, all shows have been renewed.

pretty_little_liars_season_4BUT as I write this, I am feeling the Matcha latte kick in. And HOW did I forget about cable TV lineups for summer!

While there are like tons of “real scandals” in the news IRS, AP-DOJ, Syria WMD, they lack sexy. Like made up TV scandals. However I will say the spies getting kicked out of Russia with the 80s retro wigs, I think the wigs are real because the Russians wear the SAME wigs in the Americans on FX. Drat, another beloved TV show about evil on hiatus.

Pretty Little Liars (ABC Family and total oxymoron name for that network) will be returning with new red coats to sport and them the newly minted Ravenswood spin-off for us to love or hate. Still perfect for with “spite TV” fix.

The Lying Game (ABC Family), I believe, is returning as well. And really — if you watched Buffy and VMars, how can you NOT stay addicted to all the Botox and body shaving Charisma Carpenter treats herself to every other day. Seriously…

TRUE BLOOD (HB0) will be back and more twisted than ever with a truly evil Bill Compton.

As for the corporate evil, I hear House of Lies (SHOWTIME) will do a summer season. YES PLEASE.

Next post…Does Arrested Development fit into “spite TV”. See what the new season (Netflix) holds on May 26th.

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A breakup Coach? WTF!

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Being single, I find reading breakup columns and articles about breaking up comforting since I seem to have much more traction in that column.

But a hiring break-up coach? Really, I am more than willing to read out loud “It’s Called a Breakup Because It’s Broken: The Smart Girl’s Break-Up Buddy” by Greg Behrendt and Amiira Ruotola-Behrendt of SATC.

And I am happy to take $89 an hour a session for the newly-minted, broken-hearts to be
tortured while I laugh out loud instead of LOL at you.

Twitt

If Bambi Were Around, She Would Yell THUMPER

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Remember the old adage, if you don’t have anything nice to say then don’t say anything at all.

So I went back to a piece I did on the portrayal of American Muslims and American-Arabs in the US media and how difficult it is to slap the ignorance out of people.

IF you don’t understand Islam and choose to be uninformed, don’t say anything at all, please.

This is my story from 2003 when we were dealing with the aftermath of 911 but WOW it still resonates today.

American-Muslim, American-Arabs Complain About US Media. READ: http://bit.ly/18aPM3S

(originally aired on Voice of America 7-22-2003)

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