Fair & Balanced

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The Elected Pundocrisy

“I never, ever have seen media this way. It’s almost indescribable. Making up stories, refusing to run real stories. It’s making themselves look like utter fools. There's no journalism, there is no media. There’s pure, full-fledged advocacy here.”

—Rush Limbaugh, radio host 

 

• Editorial Comment: What?! Seriously?

• Yesterday’s WORD: Did you miss yesterday’s WORDs from Dr. Gonzo, Hunter S. Thompson, on TV, plastic, thieves, pimps & dogs? Click here. 

• Faculty Wanted: Join our merry band! The JCOM Department at Utah State University has opened searches for two new tenure-track faculty, a Media Generalist and a specialist in PR/Strategic Communication. Interested? 
   

News from USU’s award-winning student news site, The Hard News Café
• Sundance 2013 closes: What a great party! by Ben Hansen
• Review: A glimpse inside the ultra-private Orthodox Jewish world, by Dani Hayes 
• Quadside concert series will continue this semester with local talent, by Manda Perkins 
• Cough! County to impose emissions testing, but inversion will remain, by Curtis Lundstrom 
• Aggie TV News (Jan. 29, 2013): More winter storms, area traffic accidents, the northern Utah inversion, sports, weather & more, anchored by Emily Landeen & Aaron Griffiths• Aggie TV News (Jan. 24, 2013): Winter snow, Arts Week, sports & weather, anchored by Brandon Fonda and Victoria Hepworth 
• Providence Council says unanimous no to school district’s plans, by Paul Christiansen • No decision yet by Hyde Park on request to build ‘green home,’ by Zack Dau
• Paradise Valley Orchards will offer vegetables this season, by Dawn Otterby 
• Review: More like the unnecessary death of a good cast in a bad movie, by Katie Swain • North Logan parents give school board an earful on new high school, by Jonathan Larson

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Thieves & Pimps

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TV Land

“The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.”
  

—Hunter S. Thompson (1938-2005) writer and gonzo journalist. More: Great stuff from Thompson biographer Bill McKeen. WaPost obit.

 • Editorial Comment: Shoot the TV guys; spare the dogs.



 • Yesterday’s WORD: Did you miss yesterday’s WORDs in the form of a hilarious TV listing for “The Wizard of Oz,” written by journalist Rick Polito in the Marin Independent Journal in 1998? Click here. See Polito’s That TV Guy Facebook page and blog.

• Faculty Wanted: Join our merry band! The JCOM Department at Utah State University has opened searches for two new tenure-track faculty, a Media Generalist and a specialist in PR/Strategic Communication. Interested?   

News from USU’s award-winning student news site, The Hard News Café
• Aggie TV News (Jan. 29, 2013): More winter storms, area traffic accidents, the northern Utah inversion, sports, weather & more, anchored by Emily Landeen & Aaron Griffiths
• Aggie TV News (Jan. 24, 2013): Winter snow, Arts Week, sports & weather, anchored by Brandon Fonda and Victoria Hepworth 
• Review: A glimpse inside the ultra-private Orthodox Jewish world, by Dani Hayes 
• Quadside concert series will continue this semester with local talent, by Manda Perkins 
• Cough! County to impose emissions testing, but inversion will remain, by Curtis Lundstrom 
• Providence Council says unanimous no to school district’s plans, by Paul Christiansen 
• No decision yet by Hyde Park on request to build ‘green home,’ by Zack Dau
• Paradise Valley Orchards will offer vegetables this season, by Dawn Otterby 
• Aggie TV News for Jan. 23: Gun control, worst air in the nation, therapy dogs & more, anchored by Katrina Warburton & Courtney Robinson 
• Review: More like the unnecessary death of a good cast in a bad movie, by Katie Swain 
• North Logan parents give school board an earful on new high school, by Jonathan Larson

PeezPIX by Ted Pease

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Original PeezPix archival prints, matted at sizes from 5x7" to 16x20" or larger, available for sale: $14 (5x7), $28 (8x12) and up. email ted.pease@gmail.com. Thanks for asking.


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JCOM @ Utah State University—The best little professionally oriented journalism program in Utah.

TV (Mis)Guide

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The Dystopian Nightmare of Oz

“Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first woman she meets and then teams up with three complete strangers to kill again.” 

—TV listing for the 1938 movie The Wizard of Oz, (yes, it’s a real TV listing, by Rick Polito in Marin Independent Journal), 1998

 • Editorial Comment: As unnatural weather batters America’s heartland, a disingenuous child kills within moments of the film’s beginning, traveling on a murderous, opium-addled vendetta with a nightmare trio of sidekicks—techno ax-man, geneticized all-organic experiment gone awry, and ferocious mutant feline . . . And a little dog, too.

• Yesterday’s WORD: Did you miss yesterday’s WORDs from President John F. Kennedy, on “the discomfort of thought”? Click here.

• Faculty Wanted: Join our merry band! The JCOM Department at Utah State University has opened searches for two new tenure-track faculty, a Media Generalist and a specialist in PR/Strategic Communication. Interested?  
 

News from USU’s award-winning student news site, The Hard News Café
• Review: A glimpse inside the ultra-private Orthodox Jewish world, by Dani Hayes
• Quadside concert series will continue this semester with local talent, by Manda Perkins 
• Cough! County to impose emissions testing, but inversion will remain, by Curtis Lundstrom
• Providence Council says unanimous no to school district’s plans, by Paul Christiansen
• No decision yet by Hyde Park on request to build ‘green home,’ by Zack Dau
• Paradise Valley Orchards will offer vegetables this season, by Dawn Otterby

• Aggie TV News for Jan. 23: Gun control, worst air in the nation, therapy dogs & more, anchored by Katrina Warburton & Courtney Robinson 
• Review: More like the unnecessary death of a good cast in a bad movie, by Katie Swain
• North Logan parents give school board an earful on new high school, by Jonathan Larson
• The Eagles land at Sundance with new documentary of 41-year run, by Ben Hansen

PeezPIX by Ted Pease

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Original PeezPix archival prints, matted at sizes from 5x7" to 16x20" or larger, available for sale: $14 (5x7), $28 (8x12) and up. email ted.pease@gmail.com. Thanks for asking.


(Be)Friend Dr. Ted, Professor of Interesting Stuff 

JCOM @ Utah State University—The best little professionally oriented journalism program in Utah.

Thinking

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The Discomfort of Thought

“Too often we hold fast to the clichés of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”

—John F. Kennedy (1917-1963), 35th president of the United States, Yale University Commencement address, 1962

• Editorial Comment: Thank goodness for pundits, who do our “thinking” for us.

• Yesterday’s WORD: Did you miss yesterday’s WORDs on chowderheaded writers from Kurt Vonnegut? Click here.

• Faculty Wanted: Join our merry band! The JCOM Department at Utah State University has opened searches for two new tenure-track faculty, a Media Generalist and a specialist in PR/Strategic Communication. Interested?  
 

News from USU’s award-winning student news site, The Hard News Café
• Review: A glimpse inside the ultra-private Orthodox Jewish world, by Dani Hayes
• Quadside concert series will continue this semester with local talent, by Manda Perkins 
• Cough! County to impose emissions testing, but inversion will remain, by Curtis Lundstrom
• Providence Council says unanimous no to school district’s plans, by Paul Christiansen
• No decision yet by Hyde Park on request to build ‘green home,’ by Zack Dau
• Paradise Valley Orchards will offer vegetables this season, by Dawn Otterby

• Aggie TV News for Jan. 23: Gun control, worst air in the nation, therapy dogs & more, anchored by Katrina Warburton & Courtney Robinson 
• Review: More like the unnecessary death of a good cast in a bad movie, by Katie Swain
• North Logan parents give school board an earful on new high school, by Jonathan Larson
• The Eagles land at Sundance with new documentary of 41-year run, by Ben Hansen
• Sundance 2013: ‘Don Jon’ paints grim picture of doomed romance, by Katie Swain 
• Rejected by Sundance, moviemaker’s ‘Depression’ a sign of the times, by Dani Hayes 

PeezPIX by Ted Pease

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Original PeezPix archival prints, matted at sizes from 5x7" to 16x20" or larger, available for sale: $14 (5x7), $28 (8x12) and up. email ted.pease@gmail.com. Thanks for asking.


(Be)Friend Dr. Ted, Professor of Interesting Stuff 

JCOM @ Utah State University—The best little professionally oriented journalism program in Utah.