Tuesday, April 16, 2024
Miles from the Mainstream
D. R. ZUKERMAN, proprietor
Observations - April 2007

 

APRIL 24, 2007 --

LPR Answers NewsMax.Com …

The question from NewsMax, April 21, was: "Should criminal aliens be deported or released? LPR believes they should be sent to the space station for transfer to the planet of origin.


APRIL 24, 2007 --  

An LPR Media Suggestion ...

Let's take a speech by President Bush and a speech by Speaker Pelosi and give it to ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, PBS, MSNBC, CNN -- tell these media outlets to edit to ten minutes (including anchor bridging) and see what happens.


APRIL 24, 2007 --  

Not a Stock Symbol ...

Once again LPR posts a photo of Time Warner Center, which, rising high above Columbus Circle in Manhattan, does NOT symbolize the performance of Time Warner stock--
on a slow decline these weeks of glittering Dow-Jones performance. (Full disclosure: this writer holds Time
Warner stock, alas.)


APRIL 24, 2007 --

Maybe It Was a Typo …

Yahoo had a feature, April 21, on the importance of chemistry for romance. Curious, LPR checked it out and clicked one of the accompanying photos -- of Erin,
said to be 25 -- to see what would happen. This led to a profile indicating that Erin was, in fact, 28.


APRIL 24, 2007 --

Personal Punctuation Pills …

The New York Times had a front page story April 20 about a pill that could affect periods in view of the prim and proper image of the paper also known as the
Gray Lady LPR had no need to read beyond the headline because the story must have been about a pill that would make it possible for the person to write without need of periods LPR is interested in this new medical marvel that helps the reader to decide where thoughts should be divided in the newsprint the current system imposes word thought organization on the reader LPR applauds any step that expands the partnership of newspaper and reader which in this case
might be summed up We give you the words you provide the periods


APRIL 24, 2007 --

Objectivity at Newsweek …

Newsweek magazine last week offered an assessment of talk radio hosts.

The assessment was very critical of conservatives. The assessment was provided by Media Matters, acknowledged by Newsweek as a liberal group.



APRIL 24, 2007 --  

A Former Member of Salon Imus …

Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, photographed last fall by LPR outside the United Nations. Ms. Mitchell was a
media friend of Imus. LPR notes that most of the media friends of Imus did not exhibit "I am Spartacus" solidarity once the I-man came under fire and, then, was fired. As of April 16, "media friend" could refer to someone whose "friendship" knows a great many
bounds.



APRIL 24, 2007 --
 

As GE goes ... ?

Time Warner joined GE in fighting against the Dow-Jones rise, last week.


APRIL 24, 2007 --  

NOT Witchcraft ...

Imus reportedly lost his radio program because advertisers like Procter and Gamble dropped him. Please note, what the soap-flakes company did to Imus
was not witchcraft. Just -- arguably -- witch-hunting.



APRIL 24, 2007 --
 

It's Not Senator Reid Who Matters ...

For LPR, the issue is not the senate majority leader's (pessimistic) take on Iraq. The question is: Does the president have the will to win?



APRIL 24, 2007 --
 

BTW ...

It might be useful if President Bush went on television to remind the country just what the war in Iraq is all about and, uh, just who is the enemy.



APRIL 24, 2007 --
 

Immelt-ing …

GE, which owns NBC, did not participate in the Dow-Jones upswing to a new record, last week. LPR would ask GE head Jeffrey Immelt to focus more on the bottom line and less on the left's party line.

(Since writing this, LPR noticed a Reuters report, April 25, indicating that GE head Immelt is frustrated by the performance of the company stock. Isn't the date of the annual shareholders' meeting coming up?)


APRIL 18, 2007 --

Hey Imus …

LPR is the first listing out of 204 on this Yahoo search: "imus ranch robert frank's" -- referring to the Wall Street Journal's probe by Robert Frank two years ago, about the way you managed the ranch as work/play facility for tragically-ill children.


APRIL 18, 2007 --  

Auto Show Sparkle …

Caption clearly gratuitous …



APRIL 18, 2007 --

Where Should We Go?

A wrongly-accused political figure once wondered, after the matter was dismissed, where he should go to get his reputation back. LPR wonders where citizens
should go to get approval for their words and thoughts? LPR is unaware of any criticism of those compiling lists of the members of now-shuttered Imus Political Salon. But, of course, the compilers
won't have Don Imus to kick around, anymore -- or will they, on-air, or not.


APRIL 18, 2007 --

LPR Wants to Know …

Was that "red car" waiting for Gov. Corzine's vehicle to approach? Rosie O'Donnell, please copy. Was there an air bag in the governor's vehicle? If so, did it work? If there was an air bag in the vehicle and it did not work, why not? Does Imus pass the proximate cause test in this accident?


APRIL 18, 2007 --

LPR Wishes …

… a full and speedy recovery to Gov. Corzine. And hopes he does not face a seatbelt violation.



APRIL 18, 2007 --  

An LPR Exclusive?

LPR is not certain that this is the only image taken at the 2007 Auto Show at the Javits Center in New York City of a gentleman standing next to the car.




APRIL 18, 2007 --
 

LPR is VERY Concerned …

… that the death of singer Don Ho, April 14, is further indication that omens of "You Can't Make This Up" world will multiply the longer Imus is kept off off MSNBC and CBS radio. (Sumner Redstone, please copy.)


APRIL 11, 2007 --

Following the (Political) Campaign Money …

Action remains pending on military appropriations

But continues nonstop on presidential campaign donations

American troops distant from home -- under attack

Mainstream media tells us which senator leads the fund-raising pack


APRIL 11, 2007 --

Easter Elegance …

LPR got this image on Fifth Avenue, Easter Sunday. More images of
Easter, 2007 on Fifth Avenue, next LPR.


APRIL 11, 2007 --

LPR"s Question for NBC's Jeff Zucker (Rev. Sharpton please copy) …

Didn't Saturday Night Live, some years ago, feature an Eddie Murphy skit with him as "Velvet Jones" selling a book called: "I Wanna Be a Ho"?


APRIL 11, 2007 --

Visitors to NYC on chilly April 3 …


These visitors from Spain admired Yankee Stadium, with some imagining they were at-bat -- notwithstanding the fact that baseball is not widely played in Spain, a few of these tourists acknowledged to LPR.


These high school students from Wisconsin paid homage to Ground
Zero.



APRIL 4, 2007 --

Just a thought …

Perhaps the media might switch from polls of pols running for president in an election that, politically, is light years away, to asking movie-goers what they thought of the weekend-opening highest money-making movie. Blades of Glory topped the money-making movie list
last weekend. LPR was one of this movie's paying customers -- and now realizes what "ugh" stands for: utterly grossly horrible, Or, to borrow from the
initials in the title, it is a "bog."


APRIL 4, 2007 --

April Fool's Briefly Noted …

If all was right in our USofA, 29.99% interest rates, $115 parking fines, health insurance cancellations deriving from a tussle between Medicare and HMOs would be April Fool's jokes --- along with, among other things, reports that the major league baseball season began on April 1.
LPR rests its case that April Fool's have declined from prank to reality.


APRIL 4, 2007 --

Windy Thursday …

LPR's cap got blown off three times on Madison Avenue. This woman didn't have a hat, the wind just blew her hair across her face.


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