Krang o’ Lantern.
We’d like to take a break from Hurricane Sandy coverage to present MikeV’s amazing idea for any last minute pumpkin carvers out there that also happen to be die-hard TMNT fans like we are.
We have a joke around here. Pretty soon we’re going to have such long commercial breaks that people are going to tune in and all they’ll hear is: ‘Hello, welcome to News 3. And goodbye.’Lisa Howfield, general manager of local NBC-afficiliate KSNV - Commenting on the increasingly long, and repetitive, commercial breaks that are beginning to wear thin on many television viewers in/around Las Vegas. The city just set a new record for most political ads in a single year, passing the old record of 73,000, with nearly a month to go before Election Day 2012. In total, 98 ads are currently in circulation on Las Vegas television networks, and are being run more than 10,000 times per week. source
Bad News Community Fans: NBC has decided to pull the plug on the October 19 debut of the fourth season of Community (Whitney too) and has not scheduled a new premiere date at this time. “Given the success we’ve had for the past four weeks – including winning the first week of the season in A18-49 – we’ve decided to continue to concentrate our promotional strength on our new NBC shows that are scheduled Monday through Wednesday,” explained NBC in a statement, adding, “Without having to launch these comedies on Friday at this time, we can keep our promotion focused on earlier in the week.” (Photo via Gawker) source
Many who paid the $4.95 to stream “The Rumble” between Jon Stewart and Bill O’Reilly that aired online last night weren’t able to check out the debate dance moves due to internet issues. This morning, O’Reilly responding to the question of refunding those who couldn’t connect said “If you want your money back, it’s going to charity anyway, but we’ll do it. It crashed – the server crashed, we had so many people coming in.”
[Source: New York Times]
Get the impression I was lucky to be able to liveblog this for you guys.
On tonight’s episode of “Glenn Beck”, Glenn laid out a new theory regarding the attacks on American Ambassador Chris Stevens in Libya. On the show, Glenn stated that he believes, based on his research and analysis, Stevens was not killed as a result of spontaneous riot spurned by the video spreading around YouTube parodying Muhammad. Instead, Glenn believes he was killed in a targeted attack and that the protests were just used as a distraction.
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Before the attack, one of the guards who died alongside Stevens, Sean Smith, posted the following on an online gaming message board: “assuming we don’t die tonight. We saw one of our ‘police’ that guard the compound taking pictures”.
Glenn wondered if all the elements of the timeline above and the message from Smith really match up with the story circulating Washington D.C. and the media – that the attacks were the result of a spontaneous protest spurned on by the YouTube video. He had a different theory.
Get your tinfoil hats ready: Glenn Beck thinks that Stevens’ last words to his friends on EVE Online are proof that the SomethingAwful forums are a front for CIA communications. We couldn’t make up stuff this fantastic/sad if we tried.
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Why the Internet Is About to Replace TV as the Most Important Source of News
The headline conclusion of Pew’s latest monster survey of the media landscape was the demise of TV news. “There are now signs that television news is increasingly vulnerable,” the authors wrote, “as it may be losing its hold on the next generation of news consumers.”
But the larger story is the rise of the Web, which has surpassed newspapers and radio to become the second most popular source of news for Americans, after TV.
Read more. [Image: Pew]
One point: News online is so varied — much more varied that newspaper or TV journalism. It’d be interesting to see what kinds of of things people are reading online that are considered “news.” Blogs? Twitter? Buzzfeed? Wire stories? All of the above?](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mb8d9uzWRd1qcokc4o1_500.png)
Why the Internet Is About to Replace TV as the Most Important Source of News
The headline conclusion of Pew’s latest monster survey of the media landscape was the demise of TV news. “There are now signs that television news is increasingly vulnerable,” the authors wrote, “as it may be losing its hold on the next generation of news consumers.”
But the larger story is the rise of the Web, which has surpassed newspapers and radio to become the second most popular source of news for Americans, after TV.
Read more. [Image: Pew]
One point: News online is so varied — much more varied that newspaper or TV journalism. It’d be interesting to see what kinds of of things people are reading online that are considered “news.” Blogs? Twitter? Buzzfeed? Wire stories? All of the above?
The Cast Of ‘Full House’ Reunited (Minus the Olsen Twins) | BuzzFeed
For the 25th anniversary of the show.
Is it just us, or does Jon Stamos actually look like he’s gotten younger?
The Democrats who were watching thought I was going senile, and the Republicans knew I was.Clint Eastwood • On Ellen Degeneres’ talk show, this afternoon, regarding his now infamous address of an invisible President Obama. During Eastwood’s appearance, the actor also took a moment to re-affirm his support for same-sex marriage, citing his Libertarian beliefs, and told Ellen that believes the government should just “leave everybody alone!” We expect a Chris Crocker mash-up any minute now. source
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Master Debaters: On October 6, Daily Show host Jon Stewart will face O’Reilly Factor host Bill O’Reilly in a 90 minute debate — appropriately named “The Rumble In The Air-Conditioned Auditorium” — to raise money for charity. Interested parties will be able to watch “The Rumble” via livestream, though not for free, and half of the event’s proceeds will go to a number of charities chosen by Stewart and O’Reilly. We wholeheartedly recommend clearing your schedule that evening, setting aside $5 for the livestream, and plan to spend 90 minutes glued to your computer screen. After all, “It’s why Al Gore invented the internet.” source
The year was 2002. A famously nerdy, well-loved 1990s alt-pop band, looking for the perfect foil for their music-video rep, pulls out a dormant pop-culture phenomenon and breathes new life into it. That band was Weezer. That phenomenon was The Muppets. It took another try or two to fully pull it off, but The Muppets managed to earn their place back in the A list thanks to the template set by that video. Can lightning strike twice? Fortunately, there’s another famously nerdy, well-loved 1990s alt-pop band looking for the perfect foil for their music-video rep. Aren’t comebacks splendid, Ben Folds Five and Fraggle Rock? source
What’s that? You haven’t wanted to put your foot through your tv screen in about 12 months?
Don’t worry, Glenn Beck is on the case.
Breaking Bad is as addictive as Walter White’s blue meth, even to people who work on the show.
Before the pilot aired, composer Dave Porter saw it at a colleague’s house and knew he was going to need more than one fix of AMC’s nervy drama that stars Bryan Cranston as a chemistry teacher who makes a fascinating descent into the drug trade.
“I was absolutely hooked,” Porter told Wired in an e-mail. “After that, I was as persistent as I could be until I was hired.”
So addictive, he had to work on the show.
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