Killed When Cleaning Gun: Alibis That Never Make Sense
In the annals of crime, crime fiction, and crime news stories even to this day is the phrase killed when cleaning the […]
Category: Dissecting Reality
Crime Up and Down at the Same Time: Meet Your New Local News – Hoodline
Local news is in shambles, no doubt about that. Hyper-local newspapers are either struggling or no longer exist. In my community, the […]
YouTube’s Video Discovery System is Creepy
As if we needed another example of how technology is creeping into our brains, how about this one: YouTube’s Video Discovery System? […]
Saving Computers: Death of US News Media, LA Times-Style
The Los Angeles Times continues its descent into tabloid world with the headline on this article about the conviction of e-waste recycler Eric […]
Did Young Turks’ Ana Kasparian Really Say “Balls Deep”?
Lesson #1 of YouTube captioning: don’t rely on automatic captioning. But the mighty media empire behind The Young Turks couldn’t hire someone […]
Is Prego’s “Welcome to the Family” Ad Real or Fake?
It’s the type of TV commercial we’ve grown accustomed to: the mock feel-good reality event with actors portraying actual people. In this one […]
“Vibrant” Means “Squalid”: Celebrating 7 Years of Vibrancy
Vibrant! Nothing wrong with vibrancy, is there? Actually, there is trouble in River City and it is vibrancy. In 2010, when I […]