by Denis Campbell
It was a dream match-up prime-time television listing for this past Tuesday night. Whilst it competed with an NCIS (Naval Criminal Investigative Service) rerun and gripping baseball, NBA and NHL playoff games, even the WWE’s (World Wrestling Entertainment) CEO Vince McMahon was filled with respect. “I tried for weeks to make this bout [...]
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Man v Cow Cage Match
Posted on 28 May 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: ABC fight and Monday Night Football announcer, CEO Vince McMahon, Down Goes Frazier!, Hannity, Howard Cosell, Hulk Hogan, Keith Olbermann, Limbaugh, Maddow, Man v Cow Cage Match, Matthew Erich "Mancow" Muller, Matthews, MSNBC, NBC, NCIS rerun, Nielsen, Olbermann, O’Reilly, prime-time television, puppy dog sleeping with kitty cat moment, Rumble in The Jungle, smashing Andre the Giant or Shawn Michaels Burying The Undertaker, Thrilla in Manila, World Wrestling Entertainment, WWE
Motor City Madness: NCAA Tourney & $18,000 Homes
Posted on 30 March 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: $18000 Homes, $2000 less than my parents paid for a 3-bedroom home in, auto bailout, average home price of just $18000, campaign war-chests of the Congressional leaders, Chairman Rick Wagoner, Chrysler merge with Italian automaker Fiat, Connecticut, Detroit, Final Four, GM, House Financial Services Committee, Michigan State, Motor City Madness, NBC, NCAA Tourney, Political Action Committee funds of senior managers, Pontiac, Pontiac Silver Dome, President Obama bracket favourite North Carolina, regulating it and dealing out TARP funds, TARP, tone-deaf, Troubled Asset Relief Program, US Treasury Department, Villanova
DETROIT March Madness. Win or go home. It’s that simple. 65 teams started two weeks ago. 4 remain and the financially battered city of Detroit will host one of its own (Michigan State) plus Connecticut, Villanova and perennial (and President Obama bracket) favourite North Carolina to play next weekend and determine the national champion of [...]
0 to 50,000+ in Under 24 Hours
Posted on 12 March 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 300000 followers, @JamieandLouise, @TheEllenShow, all the cool celebrity kids are using it, BBC, CNBC Europe, Dalai Lama’s Twitter account, Ellen DeGeneris, Jamie Owen, Jay Leno, later revealed to be a fake, Louise Elliot, Media Tweets, Meet the Press host David Gregory, NBC, NBC’s oldest and most famous news program, newsfotainment, President Barack and Michelle Obama, serious business, Stephen Fry, The Jamie and Louise Show, The Rocky Mountain News, Twitter, Wales, Welsh versions of US news anchor Brian Williams and Tod, Wolf Blitzer of CNN
Media Tweets are Serious Business
What sounds like an expensive turbo-charged sports car is actually the social media platform Twitter and all the cool celebrity kids are using it to build an audience. In this recession, with the shuttering of The Rocky Mountain News, huge newspapers on financial life support and advertisers pulling back on network [...]
Obama’s Best Practices
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Lessons Learned from an Historic Campaign (Part One)
By Denis Campbell
In the early stages, Barack Obama’s Presidential quest was called quixotic at best and at worst political suicide. Here was a man barely in the US Senate who had just two years prior suffered a bruising defeat for an open Congressional seat and here he was [...]
The Morning After The Night Before’s Debate
Posted on 28 September 2008 by Charley James | Comments (0) | Tags: a clear Obama win, Behind The Lines, Bobby Kennedy, Boris Yeltsen, CBS, Charley James, CNN, doesn’t make me an authority on anything other than the, Fleece-o-nomic policies, getting the name of Pakistan’s president wrong, Grumpy Old Man, Hubert Humphrey, JFK, Lech Walesca, McCain, media outlets, mispronouncing Iran’s president, NBC, Nelson Mandela, NY Daily News, obama, Spin City, The Morning After The Night Before’s Debate, Wall Street Journal, World’s Greater Foreign Policy Authority Ever, Zhu Rongji
by Charley James
Living in the Eastern Time zone, it was well after midnight before I got to bed after watching the debate and flipping the dial to see what the Commentariat would pronounce as post-debate truth, wisdom, justice and The American Way.
As usual, all of the pundits got it all wrong: Most called it a [...]
Maddow Head-to-Head with The King, Winning Hearts and Minds
Posted on 21 September 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: Bill O’Reilly, Chris Matthews, CNN, Harball, Keith Olbermann, labelled sexist, Larry King, Maddow's a big fish in the pond, MSNBC, NBC, NBC News, Palin, Palin interview, Rachel Maddow, Rachel’s got cool and game, Republican SPIN machine, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, solid 1-2 punch, too controversial for the MSM, winning hearts and minds
Rachel Maddow in her second week is winning hearts and minds away from the King and even beat her buddy Keith Olbermann in the ratings giving MSNBC a solid 1-2 punch. MSNBC continues to grow viewers and present NBC with headaches because the right wing attack dogs succeeded in banning their hosts Olbermann and Harball’s [...]
The Money Medal Tally
Posted on 25 August 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: $5 million dollars a year before the Games, 29th Summer Olympiad, 80-official police requests, abuses of Chinese workers, American protesters held in Chinese jails, athletic and financial success, BBC, business as usual in Beijing, corporate partners, corporate sponsors, deaf ears, deported, disciplined, fanfare, human rights, lack of pure unbridled celebration, made millions on the Games, Michael Phelps, military precision, Money Medal Tally, NBC, not allowed to raise their head, not rock the boat, Olympics, only seven medals, Paralympics, pasted on smiles, released at request of the US Ambassador, ritualistic, September, Slate Magazine, sneak out of town, spectacle, stultifyingly precise, surgeon’s precision, the American broadcaster, three official protest parks were empty, two key dissidents were taken away in a car
The bar has been raised to an impossible height. While innovative the human price had to be high with 25,000 people working night and day for more than a year The 29th Summer Olympiad ended with the same ritualistic, disciplined, spectacle and fanfare as they began. It was stultifyingly precise at every turn. Not one [...]
16-Days of Oranje Celebration
Posted on 23 August 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 000 Oranje clad spectators, 10th in the medal pool, 16-Days, 2, 2000, 6 mile+, all was forgiven, Americans looked at silver as if someone had spit in th, Athens, Australians were gleeful, BBC, BBC Radio Five, Beijing, beside themselves with joy, China, come-from-behind effort, Coronado California, Dutch know how to throw a party, Dutch passport, Dutch sports reporter Jack van Gelder, Dutch women’s water polo team, epic battle, etire community backed two young US women, Eurosport (German), extraordinary, Germany, grace in defeat, hanging display of lamps, Holland House, hottest Olympic ticket, Kayak racing, lack of class and celebration, Lance Armstrong, less ridiculous nation baiting in winning, leukaemia survivor, Maarten van der Weijden, McCain and George Bush, men's 10k Open Water event, Michael Phelps, nation’s joy was uncontainable, NBC, near mourning, NOS (Dutch), NOS Studio Sport Olympic set, number 2 is forgotten, Number one ranked Team USA, Opening or Closing Ceremonies, Oranje, paper Chinese ornament, parties so festive and long, Peter van den Hoogenband, second best team in the world, signed by each medallist, Sydney, Sydney Harbour, team Oranje danced and sang, The Netherlands, two hour long race, upset, Wale's David Davies, winning his own set of gold medals
The Dutch know how to throw a party. In 2000 in Sydney, the hottest Olympic ticket was not to the Opening or Closing Ceremonies. It was to Holland House beside Sydney Harbour where the parties were so festive and long that athletes from other countries clamoured to join in and one eventually had to produce [...]
The Cone of Silence
Posted on 19 August 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 85 factual errors on the first 36-pages, Afghanistan, against McCain, aggressive, Andrea Mitchell, answers were focused, anything goes, appearance of taint, behave like children in a sandbox, bin Laden, bulk sales only, California, Camp McCain, candidate plans for energy, celebrity obsessed, clinton, country denied a real debate, Democratic pretenders, do what they do best in a sand box, fair play was a guiding principle, faux adverts, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, great noise and smoke billows outward, her attacks never stuck, huff and puff behind the curtain, hug, I am rubber you are glue, in a green room near the stage, in a motorcade, inside jokes, integrity, later corroborated, McCain, message of the day, most traction, NBC, needs to stop, number one on the best-seller list, obama, Obama as Moses, Orange County, OZ, painted her and NBC, Pakistan, Pastor Warren, pointed, President Bush, questions in advance, rules were followed, sandbox fight, seriousness and gravitas, showing depth, smear books, so-called authors, something to smirk at, spin, spinning out of control, spouting fear and bile, Swift Boat 527 groups, the 1st half hour, The Cone of Silence, the economy, the In-box is filled with hate e-mails, throw-away lines, trivial has become real, two factually correct statements, tyre gauges, un-American bogeyman is the flavour du jour, voluntarily placed themselves above any temptation or r, whined, ‘biased liberal media’, ‘straight down the middle’ reporting
It would be nice: if rules were followed… if fair play was a guiding principle rather than something to smirk at… if those seeking high office did so with seriousness and gravitas instead of throw away lines and inside jokes they think they can get away with… if a situation arose where the appearance of [...]
Let the Games Begin
Posted on 09 August 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 000 in the cast, 15, 2012, 204-nations, 24-hour newscycle, 29th Summer Olympiad, a year to rehearse, armed struggle between Russia and Georgia, audience of 4 billion, China, China’s global coming out party, Chinese officials, covered the Bird’s Nest, dancing, deported, drumming, festival of colours and digital effects, flowing words, held in a country known for brutality and suppression o, internet, less than ideal conditions, modern Olympiad, NBC, NBC Today show, Olympiad, opening ceremony, prisons, relative anonymity, shined, show a surreal city in a surreal time, smiles, spit polished, Synchronised fireworks, the world will now focus on Beijing, these Olympic Games will be the best ever, whitewash
The most spectacular opening ceremony of a modern Olympiad is in the bag. 15,000 in the cast. Synchronised fireworks, drumming and dancing wowed an audience of 4 billion globally on the telly. A remarkable festival of colours and digital effects combined with movements that took a year to rehearse under what had to have been [...]
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