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Social Media Week: Richard Roeper, Steve Dahl, Robert Feder, Nancy Loo
September 26, 2011
Four Chicago media personalities discuss Reinventing a Media Career on Alternative Platforms.
9/11: Iraq erased from 'War on Terror'?
September 10, 2011
When remembering 9/11, are soldiers who died in Operation Iraqi Freedom to be counted among the casualties of the War on Terror?
No WI income tax paid by SC Johnson companies, reports Pulitzer winner
August 31, 2011
No state income tax is paid by Wisconsin’s SC Johnson companies, according to veteran journalist David Cay Johnston.
TV news: Kerry Sanders drives while reporting live
February 8, 2011
Reporting live from behind the wheel: Is NBC’s Kerry Sanders on the cutting edge of a TV news trend?
Sarah Palin is a Tic-Tac-Toe playing chicken
July 21, 2010
Do you believe that a chicken can beat people at Tic Tac Toe? Do you believe that Sarah Palin writes her own Facebook notes?
WGN-TV shuts out The Museum of Classic Chicago Television
September 30, 2009
WGN-TV has reportedly forced The Museum of Classic Chicago Television to pull all WGN material from the museum website.
Glenn Beck on Fox News + Jon Stewart, Keith Olbermann = Hilarious!
September 5, 2009
Keith Olbermann and Jon Stewart’s segments on Glenn Beck’s lunacy have been hysterical. Do not miss these.
Blogging how-to: 'The Huffington Post Complete Guide to Blogging'
July 13, 2009
Perhaps not the best blogging book if you’re looking to make money blogging, but still an entertaining and inspiring read.
'Morning Joe' Scarborough brews up Jon Stewart feud over Starbucks
June 10, 2009
Is there any connection between Scarborough picking a fight with the ‘Daily Show’ host and the launch of his campaign for, uh, his book?
Stephen Colbert reports from Iraq this week
June 8, 2009
‘The Colbert Report’ should be especially good this week, with Stephen Colbert on location in Baghdad, Iraq.
Epic fail: Twitter mutes @replies, squelches 'social' networking
May 13, 2009
Twitter has made a colossal blunder by muting tweets to the friends of your friend.
The new yellow pages: Google advertising shines in NPR segment
May 6, 2009
‘All Things Considered’ looks at how small businesses are using Google Adwords to attract local customers.
'Tweezing': How to pluck yourself big money from Twitter
April 22, 2009
Carve out an exciting a new career in the 140-character economy.
ABC's 'World News Now' (or is it 'America This Morning'?)
April 16, 2009
Whatever it’s called, it’s a pretty good early-morning news show that deserves its own website.
Will Wisconsin's Time Warner Cable customers soon see Road Runner caps?
April 6, 2009
In some cites, Time Warner Cable is reportedly going to start charging premiums for Internet bandwidth usage. How does $200 per month sound to you?
Rick Santelli, CNBC in hot water on 'The Daily Show with Jon Stewart'
March 5, 2009
Finally someone on TV takes a closer look at Rick Santelli’s much-hyped bailout rant.
Rachel Maddow ridicules Racine's Rep. Paul Ryan
March 3, 2009
The recession is Rep. Paul Ryan’s chance to become more visible, and he’s taking it.
T.D. Mischke show returning March 4 via CityPages.com webcast (updated)
February 18, 2009
Great news: Tommy will be heard again beginning the first week of March.
Drew Peterson's ex-fiancée Christina Raines on the CBS 'Early Show'
February 2, 2009
This morning’s interview capped the latest breathtaking stunt in Drew Peterson’s circus of distraction.
MSNBC: Interactive inauguration, complete text and video
January 20, 2009
MSNBC’s ‘Explore’ feature is a cool new marriage of online video and text.
Breathtaking images
January 20, 2009
We’re watching the inauguration on C-SPAN, and the streaming HD video from CBS.
L. Randolph Cook hopes to save souls by claiming Oprah freebased crack cocaine
January 17, 2009
The ‘Chicago businessman’ is the subject of the latest National Enquirer exclusive. He says he just seeks closure.
Newspapers, magazines get small
January 13, 2009
While the world waits for everyone to buy a Kindle, newspapers and magazines get smaller and smaller.
Time Warner Cable to drop Viacom, including Comedy Central?
December 31, 2008
Our cable provider is Time Warner Wisconsin, and we might lose all of our Viacom channels tonight, as the New Year is rung in .
NPR: 'Bread in the Water,' where ducks walk on fishes
December 30, 2008
I heard a truly original piece on NPR today, about an obscure Pennsylvania tourist attraction “Where the Ducks Walk on the Fish.”
Wisconsin's million-dollar Web designers depict Minneapolis skyline
December 30, 2008
Why is there a picture of the Minneapolis skyline on the Wisconsin Campaign Finance Information System website?
Barack Obama: Jerk or Jedi?
December 29, 2008
Does the media really have to fan every flame and cover every sandwich?
Rick Sanchez and baby talk news
December 24, 2008
Rick Sanchez and the new, superficial, Twitter-it-yourself news. Is it Quality?
Steve Dahl Show items at Chicago Tribune
December 19, 2008
Links to LaNell’s letter on the anniversary of Terry Armour’s passing, and what Steve Dahl has been up to since his radio show was canceled.
Drew Peterson engaged to 23-year-old woman? Maybe not (updated)
December 17, 2008
Drew Peterson’s publicist confirms his client has become engaged to a 23-year-old woman. Drew wonders how this got out.
Could free TV make a comeback?
December 17, 2008
Our neighbor gets plenty of digital channels — for free — on the same old TVs she has owned for years.
Reporter throws shoes at George W. Bush
December 14, 2008
FishbowlDC posts NBC video and three entries about one Iraqi reporter’s farewell today to President George W. Bush.
Attention, Richard Roeper: The new media flows two ways
December 12, 2008
Richard Roeper sends these tweets to 1,142 followers, but he follows not a single one of them in return. Where Ebert is vigorously interactive, Roeper is one-way.
And now Kevin Matthews has MS
December 8, 2008
I just opened a Google alert to read ‘Kevin Matthews returns to the airwaves after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis’ via Kyle Koster’s Sun-Times .
Oh, crap -- Mischke too (updated)
December 7, 2008
My two biggest radio heroes have both been taken off the air on the same day — first Steve Dahl, and now T.D. Mischke.
Gwyneth Paltrow's GOOP is getting panned
December 6, 2008
If Gwyneth Paltrow wants to be the Thin White Next Oprah, she may need to kick her GOOP down a notch.
Total Oprah
December 5, 2008
Robyn Okrant has been living, breathing, and eating Oprah for nearly a year.
She loves me, she loves me not
December 5, 2008
If we play a role in creating the world and our own future in it, then the part where we toss our crystal ball back and forth between the one hand and the other hand is crucial.
The news is in my house
December 4, 2008
Steve Dahl called me to say that CBS Radio is canceling his show, so I am losing my job.
Live blogging Election Day 2008
November 4, 2008
Election Day 2008, as experienced in our living room.
Racine's minute in ABC's 'World News' spotlight
October 11, 2008
The Dow drops 679 points and throng of Obama supporters gathers in downtown Racine. ABC World News, here in our city to cover the election, shows none of this.
Four weeks wandering Web 2.0
September 11, 2008
My four weeks playing with Twitter, Rejaw, Ping.fm, Delicious, Digg, StumbleUpon, MySpace, Facebook, Google Reader, FriendFeed and etc.
I'm not Oprah-worthy
November 3, 2007
I friended Oprah on MySpace, but after ten days, she still has not reciprocated.
Matt Taibbi, a breath of fresh air
October 21, 2007
This ‘Rolling Stone’ writer covering the campaign is brutally funny and frank.
Magazines and coffee beans
June 15, 2007
Sure, they’re obsolete — but magazine are still fun to read and offer depth.
Movie review: 'Blogumentary'
February 11, 2007
Watch the full movie online — a look at the blogging phenomenon and a number of the most well-known bloggers.
Faster, faster, the lights are turning red
December 13, 2006
Why do places like Reykjavik and Slovenia have Internet speeds 100 times faster than the USA?
Keith Olbermann's special comments
October 22, 2006
His occasional seven to ten-minute editorial essays on MSNBC take the Bush administration to task through sharp writing and dry wit.
When in Racine
July 6, 2006
Since moving to Racine, we’re beginning to appreciate some of the special things here.
The Bean: A shining, elastic success
May 16, 2006
Like the Mona Lisa, Anish Kapoor’s sculpture captures swarms of humans in wordless aesthetic arrest.
Labeling immigrants
May 1, 2006
How did CNN’s graphic designers arrive at this odd choice in branding their coverage of immigrants?
British law to protect religion from hatred -- and laughter?
June 26, 2005
Under a new law in Britain, it might be llegal to mock religion.
