Super-Litigious 'Pinball Wizard' Is the World's Biggest Victim [Lawsuits]

John Luckett asserts that the lawsuits he files every the time, against everyone, are not "frivolous" at all. "I've meet had a intense undergo of the whole concern disagreeable to screw me. I hit had a aggregation of horrible things happen," he tells the Las Vegas Weekly. More »

Extra, Extra: Those Aren't FireworksÂThey're Gunshots

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Reliable Sources Debate On Coverage Of Marriage Equality A Pointless Mess

On Sunday morning’s Reliable Sources, a speaking over the media’s treatment of New York’s fresh passed Marriage Equality Act, between conservative radio patron Dennis Prager and AmericaBlog’s Evangelist Aravosis apace devolved into a program of tangents and interruptions that missed the whole saucer of host Howard Kurtz’s question. Kurtz wondered if there was anything wrong with the news media’s “relentlessly positive” news of the law’s passage. At the heart of this discourse lies a pivotal distinction most the persona of journalism, a persona which the media has consistently abdicated in souvenir of false balance. It’s a familiar criticism; the facts irresistibly support digit conclusion, but the media decides to also throw in a “some feature the sky is actually pink” clause to equilibrise things out. In the housing of wedlock equality, the discourse should be, did the media training good sentiment in its coverage? Is there a compelling “other side” to the story?

Instead, Aravosis opens with a undignified premise, locution that “whenever you hit a political contest, and digit side wins, they cover the victor.”

Not only is that postulate false, it papers over the relevant fact, that news of the Marriage Equality Act is a thin warning of the media doing its job. The media’s news of Proposition 8 (which Prager aright cites), and modify more recently, the Citizens United Supreme Court decision, did not pore on the so-called “victors,” but on the perverse consequences of apiece of them. Aravosis does saucer discover that anti viewpoints intend plentitude of airtime in every of these cases, but misses the saucer that the tenor of the news in these cases wasn’t the termination of some “cover the winner” default, but of good editorial judgment.

In the housing of wedlock equality, it appears that journalists hit prefabricated the sentiment that, some your individualized beliefs, the disparity between the rights of merry and straight people to unite is unjust. It’s the same sort of sentiment that journalists hit prefabricated most another forms of discrimination, long before they were codified by law, and which shew digit of journalism’s most essential functions: to behave as our domestic conscience, to stop the wrongful accountable.

That duty was mostly abdicated in the run-up to the Irak War, and has gradually eroded in souvenir of horse-race political news and he said/she said “balance.” Kurtz and his guests missed a quantity to saucer that out.

From there, the “debate” got sidetracked into a communicating of Prager’s reasons for anti wedlock equality, and Aravosis’ unceasing interruptions of same. Even here, he doesn’t engage Prager’s easily-rejoined objections. Prager seems to conceive that the media ought to cover the fact that some churches would kinda take their adoption intelligence and go home, kinda than treat same-sex couples as equals. Instead of pointing discover how this says more most those churches than it does most wedlock equality, Aravosis opts for transparent straw-man arguments, bizarrely saying, at digit point, that “Now, Dennis is talking most I’m trying to invoke him into a woman.”

Here’s the clip, from CNN’s Reliable Sources:

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Jackass Stars Release Memorial Video For Fallen Friend Ryan Dunn

It’s true, not many credit videos unstoppered with a instance of the fresh deceased existence slapped in the face by a colossus mechanical hand. However, what added would be more pertinent in a recording celebrating the chronicle of Jackass grapheme Ryan Dunn who died last hebdomad in a sad car accident? And, sure, while the recording haw show a aggregation of clips of Dunn effort punched, kicked, and herb launched into a hornlike mound of dirt, it also shows heaps of footage of a teen Negro smiling, laughing, and doing something (however stupid) that brought experience to heaps of people.

The recording was edited unitedly by Dunn’s Jackass crew and played at a credit this past Wednesday. It has since been mutual online by Dunn’s friends for his fans. It was accompanied by this statement:

“This recording tribute to Ryan Dunn was featured at the credit assembling that took locate at Paramount Pictures in Los Angeles on the period of Wednesday, June 29. The second conception of this icon cut unitedly by Rick Kosick includes a specially finished strain for Ryan by Roger Alan Wade, ‘The Light Outlives the Star’. ‘Ryan was rattling disturbed most my cousin Roger,’ said Johnny Knoxville, ‘He idolized his penalization and rattling looked up to him. Rog’ was equally as disturbed most Ryan and, same everyone else, was shook by his passing.’

Rest in peace, brother. We love you.”

Johnny Knoxville, the seeming ringleader of the full group has also mutual his comments from the credit online in which he says of Dunn, “He lived his chronicle wanting to vocalization and wanting you to vocalization with him.” You can feature the full abstract here.

(h/t HuffPo)

Americans Refuse to Buy Anything 'Eco-Friendly' [Marketing]

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