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“Get Your Peanut Butter — Before Prices Soar”: Josh Harkinson & The New News Cycle

It’s really hard to sum up Occupy Wall Street or even what happened at Washington Square Park tonight. This work should definitely be left to the pros, namely Josh Harkinson (http://twitter.com/#!/JoshHarkinson), but I felt a need to post here because so many of my friends and family members know little or nothing about what’s happening at Zuccotti Park (I told my mom I was going to Occupy Wall Street and she said, “What’s that?” She called me back after I hung up on her and explained: “If it’s that protest, make sure you meet up with someone you know.”)
The people I know had little or no interest in joining me in Times Square. The level of indifference that seems to languish inside of most citizens on this issue is shocking. I can’t really blame them, though. If something is important, it’s on the news. News networks so far have been unable or unwilling to cover this story.
I don’t understand why. The last three tweets from the top three news networks were as follows: MSNBC: “It’s a Friday toon-off! Which cartoonist got it right on the death of Obama’s jobs plan? View & vote at http://on.msnbc.com/pWXGwO”, Fox News: “Diapers Found Near Where Missing Missouri Baby Was Last Seen”, and CNN: “Get your peanut butter — before prices soar.” As filmmaker @MikeDougherty so eloquently stated on October 11: “Last tweets from @cnn @foxnews @yahoonews were about NBA, tanning beds, and yoga for pregnant women. Great job, guys. #occupyboston #OWS”. Josh Harkinson summed it up perfectly: ” @JoshHarkinson My thought: Old concept of news cycle is obsolete.”
It’s very possible that the network bosses have forbidden news producers from discussing Occupy Wall Street in depth. It’s possible that correspondents are worried about getting arrested—a fate Josh Harkinson barely escaped (seriously, only keep reading this if you’ve already read his tweets from last night, they’re amazing).
What I think is more likely is that it’s a Saturday and a lot of important news people have the day off. But, I interned for NBC News promos, and I know that when the bridge collapsd over the Mississippi river in 2007, people were awoken in the middle of the night to work on that breaking news story.
THIS is such a breaking news story. But, now it’s literally been broken by a better, more active and utterly fearless group of journalists. No amount of future coverage can undo the shame the networks should feel for having millions of dollars at their disposal and getting shown up by a man with a Twitter account and the will to be in the thick of these protests, somehow managing to post eloquent, thoughtful, incisive news stories—140 characters at a time.
The next time a baby falls in the well, I know you news channels will be all over that, but it really is a shame that you had an opportunity to prove your worth, to show that a 24-hour news cycle CAN be more than a propaganda machine, and you failed. As hard as you possible could.
THE OFFICE is Good Again.

I’ve gotten really excited by the past five episodes of THE OFFICE. I think the 2nd season is great, but didn’t care for the 3rd, 4th, or most of the 5th. However, developments in recent weeks have shaken up the whole foundation of the show and infused it with new life. If you’ve given up on the American OFFICE, give it one last chance:
- Roger Michell
Albert Brooks
“If you’re the hospital tomorrow and the doctor says you have a year to live, please don’t say, ‘I’ll make a movie!’”
NEW YORK Magazine Goes Too Far Ripping on HIMYM’s Ted

In the current New York magazine’s “Approval Matrix” they put How I Met Your Mother’s “dopey, charmless” Ted in the Lowbrow/Despicable category.
Given the choice between Ted and any comparable sitcom nice guy (Chandler Bing…people like Chandler Bing), Ted is a step up: extremely relatable and a great guide through the show.
Surely you can find more deserving TV shows to pick on, New York magazine.
Where The Wild Things Are Teaser…from 2000?

Does anyone remember this? Apparently a teaser trailer for the movie (the same one Spike Jonze directed, coming out this October) was attached to THE GRINCH back in November or 2000. Any ideas?
http://www.totalfilm.com/features/the-story-behind-where-the-wild-things-are/page:3

Comedy Video Dude (http://www.youtube.com/domesticvideos), Twitter guy @ryansartor, Teacher of Literary Humor Workshop at Fairfield Public Library, MFA in Creative Writing student at Goddard College