I have been warned by several people, including some people in his own camp, that Bieber has a very short attention span. This is correct. He is amazingly distractible. He also bursts into song a lot, at random intervals, no matter who’s around. (…Money on my mind and you on my mind, too much on my mind…) If it were anyone else, this would be annoying, but this is Justin Bieber, so every improvised song fragment is intended as a present to whoever’s around him, like that SNL skit in which Picasso dashes off sketches on scraps of paper and hands them to anyone walking by.
Justin Bieber is now 18 years old. And when you’re a teen superstar who has just turned 18, there are really only two options for where you can go next: You can mature into a “real” artist, or you can swan-dive straight onto the pop-cultural scrap heap with all the other reality stars and drug addicts. A small cottage industry has been erected around Bieber to make sure he doesn’t choose Door No. 2, and so the rebranding of a more grown-up Justin Bieber has begun… To commemorate the birth of Bieber 2.0, GQ asked me to fly out to Los Angeles and make a man out of him… The goal was explicit: Get Bieber to experience some kind of rite of manhood…
Finally, after I sat in my hotel room for another day and ran through as many imaginary conversations with the Beeb as any of his 12-year-old fangirls, word came down from the mountaintop: I would meet Bieber at his studio at 6 p.m. that night and we would box. Given all of our suggestions that had been rejected, this made no sense. Well, we can’t have Justin openly buying pornography—why don’t we just endanger his singing voice and orbital bone structure instead? But only a fool would argue. If someone asks you if you’d like to punch Justin Bieber in the face, the answer is yes.
Finally, after I sat in my hotel room for another day and ran through as many imaginary conversations with the Beeb as any of his 12-year-old fangirls, word came down from the mountaintop: I would meet Bieber at his studio at 6 p.m. that night and we would box. Given all of our suggestions that had been rejected, this made no sense. Well, we can’t have Justin openly buying pornography—why don’t we just endanger his singing voice and orbital bone structure instead? But only a fool would argue. If someone asks you if you’d like to punch Justin Bieber in the face, the answer is yes.
Drew Magary’s piece will put a smile on your face. Go read it.
Of all the presidential candidates studied in this report, only one figure did not have a single week in 2012 when positive coverage exceeded negative coverage—the incumbent, Democrat Barack Obama,” reports [Pew Research Center].
Report: Media Favored Horserace Over Issues in Presidential Primary
Damned liberal media! Oh, wait a minute…
![The Anti-Obama Emails Roger Ailes Forwards to His Underlings[Gawker] recently obtained the following emails, all of which were sent by [Fox News chief Roger] Ailes (or his assistants, on his behalf) to staffers at The O’Reilly Factor in 2008 and 2010. They offer a peek inside the Fox News sausage-making machinery, and demonstrate that not only does Ailes buy into some of the more conspiratorial, paranoid programming on his network—he instigates it.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2so0pmo5E1qztsh3o1_1280.jpg)
The Anti-Obama Emails Roger Ailes Forwards to His Underlings
[Gawker] recently obtained the following emails, all of which were sent by [Fox News chief Roger] Ailes (or his assistants, on his behalf) to staffers at The O’Reilly Factor in 2008 and 2010. They offer a peek inside the Fox News sausage-making machinery, and demonstrate that not only does Ailes buy into some of the more conspiratorial, paranoid programming on his network—he instigates it.
And this is why, after CBS Sunday Morning ends, I turn off the television.
I always intended to keep my mouth shut. The plan was simple: get hired, keep my head down and my views to myself, work for a few months, build my resume, then eventually hop to a new job that didn’t make me cringe every morning when I looked in the mirror.
That was years ago. My cringe muscles have turned into crow’s feet. The ten resumes a month I was sending out dwindled into five, then two, then one, then zero. No one wants me. I’m blacklisted.
I work at Fox News Channel.
Gawker: Announcing Our Newest Hire: A Current Fox News Channel Employee
Yesterday Barack Obama went to the annual Associated Press luncheon and exhorted journalists to avoid the “false equivalence” syndrome in coverage of controversial events… [T]he false equivalence problem is that although it’s convenient and “objective”-seeming for reporters simply to quote “both sides” of a public issue, the results can be misleading when one of the sides is simply making things up.
Today the same Associated Press published an article on his speech that perfectly exemplified the problem Obama was complaining about, and was all the more piquant for being presented as a “fact check.
Today the same Associated Press published an article on his speech that perfectly exemplified the problem Obama was complaining about, and was all the more piquant for being presented as a “fact check.
Whoever edited that piece at NBC should be fired. That’s not some simple mistake, it’s blatantly lying. And how sad that Faux News and Newsbusters had to be the ones to expose this? Of course if anyone knows about selectively editing news to put a slant on it, it’s those two right-wing propaganda outlets.
Update, April 8, 2012: The producer has been fired.
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