CelebriPresident Mock Election Starts Today!
This election has been nothing short of dramatic, but my friend Marc Mitchell, creator of Celebrifantasy.com, is taking the game to the real thespians with his CelebriPresident competition. He asked me to serve as the contest’s Election Commissioner, and I happily obliged. From the Celebrifantasy newsletter: Celebrifantasy is proud to announce Celebripresident, a month long [...]
Get Over Russell Brand!
Just trolling through HuffPost comments about Russell Brand’s performance as host of the Video Music Awards, and it is horrifying how so many people can’t handle a celebrity with opinions and a sense of humor.
Editor & Publisher: Can Entertainment and Social Media Be Considered News?
I received an overwhelming “No!” response to last week’s column, so this week I challenged that assumption a bit deeper. “The journalism-school side of my brain was inclined to agree with [the reader] because certainly one can defiine as, say, an A1 story about Iraq from the New York Times or a report on the [...]
Hybrid Media Love Fest at HuffPost Luncheon
A cast of entertainment, media and political heavyweights discussed the role of new media in the 2008 election this afternoon. Moderated by Charlie Rose, the lineup included Rahm Emanuel, George Stephanopoulos, WaPost’s Katharine Weymouth, Will.i.am, YouTube’s Chad Hurley and the guy who plays Barack Obama on Saturday Night Live. While a lot of the usual [...]
Boobs for Obama
Jon Voight may not like Obama, but Pam does. And that’s all that matters. [Photo courtesy of Megan, a.k.a. Hope Santa]
Dubya: The Caped Crusader?
Ted wrote this interesting post in response to Andrew Klavan’s Bush-is-Batman oped in the Washington Post and Teresa proclaimed over the weekend via Twitter that she “want[ed] 2.5 hours of [her] life back” after seeing “The Dark Knight.” Megan and I saw the flick over opening day weekend and loved it. We were stunned by [...]
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