Andrew Golis

The Onion takes on cable news:

How many media organizations does it take to establish that the President thinks Kanye West is a jackass?

Well, the President made the comment while waiting to start doing an interview with CNBC (1). ABC (2) reporter Terry Moran posted the comment to Twitter (3), but immediately deleted it because he realized that it was supposed to be off the record. Two reporters from Politico (4) saw the tweet before it was deleted and published it for the world to see. So, Moran apologized to CNBC and the White House, as reported by another reporter from Politico (4.5).

But what’s a tweet? That’s not confirmation! TMZ (5) was able to get the audio and posted it for all to listen. Then Ben Smith of Politico (see 4, 4.5) was able to get the video and post that on Brightcove (6)! But Joe Weisenthal of Silicon Alley (7) noticed that Smith quickly took it down! But don’t worry! CNN (8) grabbed the video before Politico pulled it down and TPM (9) grabbed the CNN video and uploaded it onto YouTube (10) for the world to see. Why did Politico pull it down? Gawker (11) was on the case.

So the answer is eleven. Eleven media organizations and something like a dozen individual reporters.

Welcome to the future!

Went on GritTV again yesterday to discuss the day’s news with Michael Musto of the Village Voice and and Esther Armah of WBAI.  Enjoy.

Jason Jones has a look at “aged news”:

A little after the four minute mark:

One of my favorite sites on the interwebs is the wonderful OldJewsTellingJokes.com. It is, well, exactly what it says it is. And the jokes are quality.

But I was dismayed to watch today’s joke by “Jerry.” Hilarious as it is, it’s clearly stolen from the hidden track on the 1996 album “Picture This” by Santa Rosa-based ska band Tin Circus. I think “Jerry” should be honest about the fact that he was clearly hanging out with me in my teens in the back room of Clover Restaurant and Bar listening to bad ska.

This is like some sort of tripped out DVD extra for the new media age.

Via: Kottke.

Newspapers.  Ouch.

Via: FishbowlNY.

Jack Black as Jesus in “Prop 8 – The Musical” below reminded me of another wonderful Jack Black cameo as a historical figure. Namely, Jack Black as George Washington in the pilot for Awesometown!

One of my favorites from a few years back. Awesometown didn’t get picked up by Fox, but the web show’s popularity did get Andy (Sanberg, of SNL viral video fame), Jorma and Akiva hired by SNL.

And so, so much more (like Neil Patrick Harris):