Introducing the Edward R. Murrow of the Bush crisis in 2007: Keith Olbermann of MSNBC

01.12.07 - 2:19 pm | Bruce Brugmann |

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By Bruce B. Brugmann

The mainstream media who helped President Bush march us into war in Iraq have a lot to answer for.

One of the most eloquent answers these days comes from Keith Olbermann, who has become a passionate critic of the war and the Bush administration as the host of MSBNC’s “Countdown.”
He has night after night laid out some of the most scalding commentaries ever made on televsion by a major broadcast figure against a wartime president. Read more »

Mr. Sensitive

01.12.07 - 1:45 pm | Steven T. Jones |

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By Steven T. Jones
How brittle will Mayor Gavin Newsom be at his town hall meeting tomorrow, when he's expected to be confronted about ducking real political debate? If this interview that aired on KGO-TV last night is any indication then watch for him to flee under fire again. Are we watching a full-blown meltdown of a big city mayor?

NOISE: Daze of Caroliner and Smiths tribs

01.12.07 - 1:44 pm | Music Blogger |

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Boy, a busy weekend is upon us - and how! First up Saturday is Caroliner's rare performance, after a reception for the ensemble's CCA's Playspace Gallery show, "Twenty-three Years of Hernia Milk and Ergot Dreams: A Retrospective of Caroliner." The reception runs 6-8 p.m. Jan. 13.; the music/noise begins at 8 p.m. at the Graduate Center on Hooper Street, SF. The exhibition continues through Jan. 19. Read more »

NOISE: MV/EE hit the bummer road

01.12.07 - 1:22 pm | Music Blogger |

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Ecstatic Peaceniks MV/EE and the Bummer Road will be hitting that asphalt hard in conjunction with their new album, Green Blues, out Jan. 23. They appear Feb. 26 at Hotel Utah; meanwhile cock a sleepy yet strange ear to their version of "Powder Finger," courtesy of Arthur mag.

HAILING ALL MEDIA NERDS

01.12.07 - 10:39 am | Amanda Witherell |

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by Amanda Witherell

If you didn't make it down to Memphis for the Third National Media Reform Conference, there was a great show on Democracy Now this morning about it. Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez are broadcasting from Tennessee for the duration of the conference and had a conversation this morning with Robert McChesney of the Free Press and Jonathan Adelstein, one of the two Democratic FCC commissioners. Read more »

We accept you -- one of us!

01.11.07 - 9:42 pm | Cheryl Eddy |

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I've been at the Guardian awhile -- it'll be eight years next month, in fact. I started as a fresh-faced, eager intern, and since 1999 I've met many other fresh-faced, eager interns, intent on careers in media or academics or giraffe-tending (for real! If you're out there, intern-who-reviewed-movies-but-was-also-a-zookeeper, email me and let me know how you're doing.) But I've only known a few who were determined to segue from film writer to filmmaker -- and one of 'em was Dina Gachman, who just finished her graduate thesis film at USC.

Flush 'N Fish

01.11.07 - 3:50 pm | Marke B. |

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We've been inundated with emails promoting this amazing toilet-cum-aquarium for the past few weeks -- to the point that some of us around the office have created a running joke about making a movie about a killer fish that lives in the toilet called FIN ROT! It's a fish tank, it's a toilet tank, it's a terrarium (yes you can put a lizard in there), it's .....

FISH 'N FLUSH! Read more »

NOISE: Lady Sov with Jelly on top

01.11.07 - 2:57 pm | Music Blogger |

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Oh by the way if you wanna check out oodles of MC Jelly Donut footage (the Killing My Lobster pastry that challenged Lady Sovereign to battle), visit this portion of YouTube. Sweet.

SF can't stop pulling Sovereign's jammie leg. Read more »

So Bush, like LBJ in Vietnam, is sending more troops into Iraq. So the Guardian will regularly print the surging casualty reports. How many more will die because of Bush's mistakes?

01.11.07 - 2:25 pm | Bruce Brugmann |

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By Bruce B. Brugmann

On April 2, 2003, as Bush started a preventive war and invaded a small country that posed no danger to the U.S., the Guardian publshed a cover story predicting the U.S. would soon be mired down in the "The New Vietnam," as our front page head put it. As our editorial warned at the time, "Taking Baghdad will afterward be difficult and bloody--and ruling the divided nation will be, to make a phenomenal understatement, something of a trick...All of this will only lead to increased anti-U.S. Read more »

NOISE: Britney in bikini shape? And K-Fed 2.0?

01.11.07 - 1:35 pm | Music Blogger |

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Whoa, the juicy Brit Spears "gossip" of the day is pictured on TMZ, you non-TMZ junkies. Check the new Britney consort. Who is the mystery dude? He's more muscular than the ex, yet still somewhat K-Fed-esque, and for all we know, he hasn't recorded any "music" yet! Always a plus. Now about that bandana...

Ahoy, baby weight! Courtesy of www.tmz.com.