[Translate] Apparently not waiting for the social media protest party to come its way, AOL announced it was no longer sponsoring Rush Limbaugh today. According to Laura Bassett and Ryan Grim of The Huffington Post, AOL spokesperson Maureen Sullivan said “At AOL one of our core values is that we act with integrity. We have monitored the unfolding events...
[Translate] What i don’t get — someone explain it to me — is how some of these guys like now-former AOL head John Miller get to be the new CEO of Fox News Digital (a new title made for him) when Miller’s never made a website! Plus, according to ValleyWag, they say he’s, well, not really all that and a bag of chips. See my point? I can name lawyer after lawyer who was gotten to run a digital media corporation and none of them would be able to write the code for an anchor link to save their lives. ...
[Translate] AOL — the conservative place on the Internet — ran this article reporting three separate economic models predicting November election victory for Senator Barack Obama. The reason is that the Economy is in terrible shape and it’s a subject Obama scores better than McCain on in polling. But of course, AOL being well, Southern (based in Virginia) and stupid (because they appeal to racist-tendencies) they had to run a poll asking who viewers wanted to win. Most of the AOLers picked McCain by ten percent...
[Translate] Someone over at CNN said to me that the media loves to make controversy of nothing. Here’s an example. Michelle Obama was taking up a theme that the Senator himself started on Father’s Day: the responsibility of men — black men — to their families. She’s making a basic point that you have to have your family life in order if you’re going to run the White House. For anyone to spin that to a Clinton issue is just plain retarted. AOL’s trying to do this, but then AOL’s been...
