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Steven ThrasherMunro interrupting President Obama in the Rose GardenAfter reading Megan Carpentier’s Raw Story article about our experience in the White House Rose Garden standing next to Daily Caller
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The monopoly mindset:Â
The business model that the owners of the metro dailies gravitated toward in the decades after World War II was this: 1) establish monopoly, 2) milk that monopoly. The monopoly was on the delivery of printed advertising messages into homes in a given city or (better) metropolitan area: department store ads, supermarket ads, car dealer ads, and, most of all, classifieds. Notice that I didn’t mention news. That’s because, once a monopoly was established, the editorial content of a newspaper had no detectable impact on its financial success.
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Republican sources confirmed to ABC’s Jonathan Karl that Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., often mentioned as a top contender for the second spot on the GOP presidential ticket, is so far not being vetted by Mitt Romney’s vice presidential search team. Â
It has been almost two months since Romney picked long-time aide Beth Myers to head his veep search. The fact that Rubio has not been asked to turn over any official documents to the campaign by now suggests that the senator is not on Romney’s short list.
via Homepage http://www.nationaljournal.com/2012-presidential-campaign/report-rubio-not-being-vetted-for-veep-slot-20120619
FRANKENMUTH, Mich. – When Mitt Romney travels to Wisconsin, people tell him to choose the Badger State’s Rep. Paul Ryan as his vice presidential running mate. In Ohio, they urge him to pick their senator, Rob Portman.
“I get a very biased audience depending on the state I’m in,†the presumptive Republican presidential nominee told reporters on a flight from Iowa to Michigan on the eve of the last day of his six-state “Every Town Counts†bus tour through key battleground states.Â
Romney has campaigned with all four officials in the past, but not since the vice presidential vetting process has begun. On this tour, the scrutiny was intense and Romney’s bus companions played it safe. There was no going off script and no attempt to divert the spotlight from the man who may one day be their running mate.
Staffers at the Los Angeles Times all got a missive today from Tribune’s TV boss talking up the new late-night talk show coming next year from Arsenio Hall. The rationale for bringing Hall back off the television bench is because the people who watched his show from 1989-94 are now…older.
From: Tribune Communications
Sent: Monday, June 18, 2012 2:12 PM
Subject: Message from Sean Compton/The Arsenio Hall ShowTribune and CBS Television Distribution are announcing today the return of The Arsenio Hall Show, set to premiere in Fall 2013. The nightly show will be taped each day in Los Angeles. The content of his new show will be an updated version of his successful 90’s late night show, targeting much of the same audience; Arsenio was the youngest skewing successful talk show in late night history. While the baby boomers were watching Johnny, their kids were watching Arsenio. Those boomer kids are now 35-49 years old, a perfect fit for our Mon-Fri late night time period, which has 3 times more 35-54 viewers than 18-34.
In addition to The Bill Cunningham Show that launched this past fall, the return of Arsenio’s show is another step into the original programming business for Tribune Broadcasting. The Arsenio Hall Show will be seen on Tribune stations, no cable or video on demand, and as an investor we will benefit from the show in addition to the success it delivers to our local stations.
You’ll find more details in the attached press release, which was issued just a few moments ago.
Sean Compton
President/Programming
Tribune Broadcasting
Meanwhile, Sam Rubin — a Tribune employee at the “KTLA Morning Show” — chatted up Hall in Rubin’s “Hollywood Uncensored” hat. That show airs on Reelz later this week.
via LA Observed http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2012/06/new_arsenio_hall_show.php
The idiotic campaign non-news of today is that Mitt Romney has never heard of WaWa stores. This apparently, makes him “out of touch.” No it doesn’t. Then he was struck by those amazing gizmos where you touch a few buttons on a screen and you get a Hoagie. That doesn’t make him out of touch either. Technology is a marvel. When my gym recently added fingerprint i.d. for everything from a massage, a sweatshirt or a smoothie, I was impressed too. I’m just not sure about that second hand story Romney told about it taking a businessman filling out a federal government form to change his address. He says he had to fill out 33 pages, then had to fill them out again. It wasn’t just a change of address form (that couldn’t be simpler); it had something to do with federal reimbursement for optometrists. Is it true? Could a reporter find the optometrist and check it out?
More to the point, it seems quite clear to me that MSNBC aired an edited version that removed Romney’s core point about public vs private service and competition. The full version is here. It’s a good point, if, as always with Romney, an eternal platitude rather than a concrete proposal or argument.
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Marketing guru and fab writer Seth Godin recommends Kickstarter for the similarly situated, having just raised over $120K on it in less than a day.
From the moment 73-year-old Carl Ericsson rang his old high school classmate’s doorbell in January, verified the man’s identity and then shot him dead, the question had been what prompted him to confront a man he hadn’t even spoken to in years.
As you might assume, being Bristol Palin means a life of continued anguish and suffering. In her somnolent Lifetime reality show, “Bristol Palin: Life’s a Tripp,†which premieres Tuesday night, we keep hearing about the painful glare of media attention that snapped on nearly four years ago when her Âvalues-preaching mother, Sarah Palin, ran for vice president on the Republican ticket just at the time a teenage Bristol was pregnant with a son. That glare never ended, mostly because Bristol keeps reaching to turn the switch back on.
via Style: Culture, Arts, Ideas & More – The Washington Post http://www.pheedcontent.com/click.phdo
Today MSNBC aired footage of Mitt Romney marveling at the Wawa hoagie-ordering process during a campaign stop in Pennsylvania, saying, “You press a little touchtone keypad — you touch this, touch this, go pay the cashier — there’s your sandwich. It’s amazing.” He’s so corny and out of touch! Except, the full three-minute clip shows that Romney was actually describing his Wawa outing as part of a metaphor about government bureaucracy. The guy may be rich, but he’s ordered a sandwich before.
The gaffe has been gaining traction today, with “Wawa” trending on Twitter and Matt Bevens, a surrogate press coordinator for the Obama campaign, remarking, “So out of touch he’s never used a gas station touchscreen.” Yet, in context, Romney was contrasting the simplicity of ordering a sandwich at Wawa with the difficulty a local optometrist had changing his address on government forms. He concluded, “People in the private sector have learned how to compete. It’s time to bring some competition to the federal government.”
On her show today Andrea Mitchell dubbed the incident Romney’s “super market scanner moment.” She’s more accurate than she realized. In 1992 George H.W. Bush was painted as out of touch after it was reported that he was “amazed” by the device at a National Grocers Association convention. He actually wasn’t looking at the standard scanner found in most grocery stores at the time, but new technology that could weigh food and read torn bar codes.
Wawa-gate is a textbook “Out-of-Context Gaffe,” plus, even without the edited footage there was enough material for a story on Romney’s awkward attempt to embrace Pennsylvania’s local cuisine. He repeatedly referred to the chain as “Wawa’s,” not “Wawa,” and used the (unimpressive) touchscreen to order a meatball hero with pickles and sweet peppers rather than a classic hoagie.
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