Obama Speech: Any Fair and Balanced Left in the News?

August 28, 2008 - 11:14 pm , By Rob - UPENN

If so, I can’t find it.

So Obama is done giving his speech, and I am flipping between MSNBC with Chris Matthews/Keith Oberman and FOX.

If Matthews and Oberman were any more up Obama’s ass - they would have been covered in sh*t. FOX on the otherhand, might has well have been burning pictures of Obama and were tearing apart every vocal inflection he made.

What ever happened to impartial news reporting? I remember growing up and feeling that I could believe anything the news people reported, because there was this integrity of impartial news reporting. Those days are gone.

If you were to flip, as I am right now, you would think the reporters watched 2 completely different speeches. You can’t argue the fact that Obama is a great public speaker, but why not simply highlight the points he made? No, of course not. Everyone needs to give their 2 cents as to what they took away from him.

But Keith Oberman? Really? Dude, you were on SportsCenter…please stop. Tell me what you think about Favre moving to the Jets, don’t interpret political language and positioning.

That was exhausting just to watch.

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David Elms: The Most Powerful Man In Prostitution

June 18, 2008 - 11:30 am , By Andrew - Hunter College

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In the world of online prostitution, if you’re a hooker not on TheEroticReview.com, you might as well go f**k yourself. The Site, which has 500,000 to 1 million unique visitors a month, allows johns to rate their experiences with particular prostitutes from 1 to 10, write reviews for individual prostitutes and brothels, and find exactly the girl they’d like to, um, hire…As the industry moves from the street corner to the PC for generating business, The Erotic Review’s power to make or break a working girl has become absolute.

But with the Site’s owner, David Elms, on trial for being caught in a hotel room with a pile of coke, a loaded handgun and a prostitute, the future of The Erotic Review is on the line, along with the entire sex industry. “In dozens of conversations and in postings on the Internet in recent weeks, prostitutes have expressed concern that if The Erotic Review goes offline it could hurt business,” reports The New York Times. But that doesn’t mean they want Elms to keep his power. Read More »

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Pay Attention when you are Stuffing Your Face!

December 9, 2007 - 10:00 am , By Phil - Pace University

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Watching television and cramming for tests are the two times when I know that I have the tendency to mindlessly consume food. But now, I will be paying closer attention to just how much I am eating due to a recent article published on msnbc.

The article discusses a study where a free chicken wing buffet was offered to 52 graduate students while they watched the Super Bowl at a sports bar. Hey now - who could pass up free chicken wings?

As part of the study, the waitresses were told to clear the dishes at only half of the tables. If people had their tables continually cleared, they continually ate. Each of these people ate an average of seven chicken wings apiece. The students who did not have their table bused ate less and had eaten an average of two fewer chicken wings per person, which is 28 percent less than those whose tables had been bused. Read More »

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A Business Lesson for Communication Majors from Jim Cramer

November 8, 2007 - 9:30 am , By Mike - Montclair State U

Jim CramerBusiness majors shouldn’t be the only people having fun with money!

Although communication majors go to school to do “dumb artsy” things we shouldn’t be afraid to get informed and jump into the investing arena.

Jim Cramer from MSNBC’s Mad Money will share with us a few investing tips so when we enter the “real world” we too can be rolling in the green.

Here’s how to start making Mad Money:

Should we be optimistic about money?
I’m advocating that stocks are great - I mean multi-year great. I see many years of tremendous opportunities to make money outside of your paycheck… I want to emphasize that people should be investing furiously from when they are 15 to when they are 65. Read More »

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