“I’ve got to warn you he’s kind of a CARTOONISH figure!”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Hedley
IS IT BECAUSE YOU INTERVIEWED A CARTOON, HOWARD KURTZ????? IS THAT WHAT YOU’RE IMPLYING HOWARD
KURTZ??? IS THAT WHY HE MIGHT HAVE A CARTOONISH DEMEANOR?????
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
oh Howard Kurtz…why hasn’t Jon Stewart snapped you up yet? He’s just playing hardball Howard Kurtz, don’t worry. Your star is rising.
Why does something like this come across as playful in text on ABC, but forced, awkward and generally grating live?
I want to remind everyone that I’m going to fail this class if I don’t maintain a twitter.
I love Doonesbury, but this isn’t much more than free advertising, which makes my skin crawl. Still, if there’s one thing you can count on journalists reporting on, it’s something tangentially related to journalism.
But what’s interesting is that something that is fairly innocuous as a little sidenote on ABC’s site, really is so bad that it produces a physical reaction on CNN.
Part of the problem is that when you give Roland Hedley a real life voice, it counteracts the voice that a reader has already established in his own head, and that creates a kind of cognitive dissonance. I suppose the same dissonance might apply to putting twitter on the TV; you’re asking us to accept a format change fundamentally against the format you’re trying to highlight.
Or maybe it’s just that TELEVISION seems so much more authoritative than the lowly internet that when you put tweets on it, it seems to undermine that gravitas.
Jake Tapper, reminding us how shitty the news was before it had a visual element.
It helps a lot that Jake Tapper kind of jokes along like he knows Hedley, and adds to the fantasy with lines about his “unusual non-work related battery operated device” (I laughed) while Howard Kurtz tries to like, call Roland Hedley out on his stance in advertising. What weirds me out is that neither of them act like the book isn’t a straight up satire of the kind of twittering they both do.
You know what, forget formatting — Trudeau is mocking them TO THEIR FACES, and their reaction is to shrug and say “heh-heh, yeah twittering is pretty stupid?” I know Trudeau’s satire is loving, but it’s kidding on the square and they’ve pretty much owned up to the criticism. That’s weird to me.
You see what I’m saying? They’re responding to jokes about narcissistic, self-indulgent tweets with narcissistic, self-indulgent tweets/on-air filler. Bizarre.
It’s shit like this why people hate us, gang.
Hello Giant Andy Warhol Howard Kurtz, thanks for stopping by. Yes, I think I did write "Narcissistic" just now. That must be my mistake Giant Andy Warhol Howard Kurtz, I have no idea what gave me an idea so ludicrous.
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I think they mostly hate us because 80% of what’s in the news anymore is pretty much useless, so yeah, narcissistic self-indulgent tweets.
Haha, there was a lot going on in this post, but it definitely was entertaining. The cartoon on the left and the word “twinterview” caught my eye…and for the record, I hate twitter too.