Zelden zullen de kijkcijfers van een omroep zo snel in elkaar zijn gezakt als die van Powned. De eerste uitzending trok 431.000 kijkers, de tweede 234.000. Minder kijkers dan bijvoorbeeld: Wereld Draait Door, Spuiten en Likken op Reis en de Madiwodovrijdagshow. Opmerkelijk is dat ook de grote concurrent Puberruil.XL meer kijkers trok (253.000). Hoe reageren de GeenStijl-bezoekers zelf op de tweede uitzending van GeenStijl-omroep Powned?
Een kleine selectie van de reacties.
*Na de eerste 3 minuten hield ik het voor bekeken. Ik was vast niet de enige. Als je het charisma van een zak wortelen hebt, tracht dan niet te presenteren. Iets met een schoenmaker en een leest. (Nonkel Frituur)
*Ja dat was prutswerk, echt prutswerk. (Stroopdoos)
*Mijn zapduim trilde nerveus maar ik heb het toch uitgezeten. En wat klaagt iedereen toch over Weesie ? Ik zou ‘em doen. (eerst.rokendanneuken)
*De proefuitzendingen waren al bagger en die lijn is heel consequent voortgezet. Fleischbaum’s verschijning doet het daarnaast gewoon niet goed op teevee en die zelfgenoegzame, snel pafferig wordende kop van Rutger lijkt ook niet helemaal te werken op een groot scherm. (jabier)
*Probeer bij een provinciale omroep een leuk omroepstertje weg te kapen (kneuterzak)
*Ik moest even pissen, toen ik terugkwam was ‘t al afgelopen. Sorry Dominique. (Superior Bastard)
*Kennis, kennis, kennis, kennis, kennis, kennis, kennis Rutger. Alleen dat gaat je redden. (Denkt Na)
*Jamaar, dat hele powned was toch ook alleen maar bedoelt om vette soepsidies te scoren tegen zo min mogelijk inzet? (Seraphin)
*Zelfs de rijdende rechter is zo nog beter te pruimen (beenthere)
*er is ook echt geen kloot aan.. beetje schelden om het schelden, niks spontaans. Blegh. Donder maar weer gauw op uit medialand. (wtfgebeurdhierdan)
Vanaf morgen is drasties helaas gedwongen om te stoppen met het verschaffen van de mogelijkheid om op ikjes te reageren. We kregen maandag een schrijven van de nieuwe hoofdredacteur van het NRC Handelsblad, Peter Vandemeersch, dat hij ‘het een tijdje heeft aangekeken’ maar het bij nadere beschouwing niet juist vindt dat er in een ander (concurrerend) medium ‘goede sier wordt gemaakt’ met dit ‘NRC-instituut’.
Er wordt overigens niet gedreigd met juridische procedures of zo, maar drasties ziet zich toch genoodzaakt om vanaf morgen te stoppen met het verschaffen van de gelegenheid om op ikjes te reageren. Toikjes blijven uiteraard van harte welkom.
Goed nieuws voor Peter R. de Vries. Hij kan zonder problemen Australië in. En nog mooier. Hij kan daar gewoontegetrouw mensen zonder enig probleem in hun huis lastig vallen. In dit geval Daniel Ian Ross uit Perth die er door Peter R. van wordt beschuldigd betrokken te zijn geweest bij de moord op de Nederlandse Mariska Mast in Honduras. Hij wordt gezocht door Interpol. Neehee, niet Peter R. - ondanks zijn naam - maar Daniel Ian Ross.
No restraining order in Australia for Dutch crime reporter Peter R. de Vries
A Perth man has failed to have a restraining order slapped on high-profile Dutch crime reporter Peter R. de Vries and his TV crew. Daniel Ian Ross appeared in Perth Magistrates Court yesterday to apply for a violence restraining order on Dutch TV crime reporter Peter R. de Vries and two of his colleagues. He failed.
The Sydney Morning Herald - Mr Ross claimed he had been harassed by the Dutch crew when they tried to talk to him at his home in the inner-city suburb of Subiaco last month.
Mr de Vries, 53, and Chantal van Schuylenburgh, 43, were arrested for disobeying a police move-on order, after trying to question Mr Ross about the violent death of a Dutch woman in Honduras in 2008. [read on](more…)
This weekend Glenn Beck had Rabbi Daniel Lapin on his show on Fox News. Maybe someone should point out to Glenn Beck’s guest that, even though it may feel good to condemn all atheists as “parasites” in a “moral society,” it is profoundly irresponsible to do s0. Particularly for a man of God. After all, there is an important historical precedent for what happens when you single out an entire sector of the populace as a “parasitical element.” [read on] (more…)
The withdrawal of 100,000 troops from Iraq since Obama’s inauguration is significant, and it’s a good thing that the President adhered to the withdrawal schedule. But 50,000 troops remaining is a huge number. It’s what Donald Rumsfeld originally envisioned as the occupying force to be used three months after the invasion — and it’s inevitable that in the future Americans will still fight and die in Iraq.Glenn Greenwald:
On August 18, NBC News anchor Brian Williams began his broadcast by excitedly declaring: ”It’s gone on longer than the Civil War, longer than World War II. And tonight, U.S. combat troops have pulled out of Iraq.” He immediately called in Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel, who was exclusively embedded with the 4th Stryker Brigade. Engel excitedly announced that “the last American combat troops rolled” into Kuwait just moments ago. [read on](more…)
De uitkomst is voorspelbaar. De toespraak die Fox News-coryfee Glenn Beck hield voor 78.000 volgelingen tijdens zijn ‘Restoring Honor’ rally in Washingtoon zal worden gecontroleerd op zijn accuraatheid. Maar ze zijn nog bezig. Wel is de juisheid bijgehouden van stellingen van Beck heeft verkondigd in zijn Fox News show. De uitslag best mee. Van de 17 uitspraken bleek er 1 juist, 1 ietwat juist, de rest nonsens.
Vandaar wellicht dat Beck zo tegen scholen en universiteiten tekeer gaat.
Last night, Fox News televangelist Glenn Beck railed on universities, declaring that “we have been setting up re-education camps. We call them universities.” Beck also explained that “our children are being submerged in the filth of communism” at schools around the country.
“Let me ask you, there was a time not long ago in this country we walked you through walls of fire to make sure we weren’t funding Hamas or Hezbollah. I have news for you. There are a lot of universities that are as dangerous with the indoctrination of the children as terrorists are in Iran or North Korea.”
We’ll be fact-checking Glenn Beck and others who speak at his “Restoring Honor” rally at the Lincoln Memorial on Saturday. We hope to publish those items in the next few days.
In the meantime, we thought it would be timely to look at Beck’s record on the Truth-O-Meter. As you can see from the running tally in his PolitiFact file, we’ve rated 17 statements by the Fox News talk show host. It’s fair to say that record skews toward the False end of the Truth-O-Meter.
His record (as of Aug. 27, 2010):
True 1
Mostly True 1
Half True 3
Barely True 4
False 5
Pants on Fire 3
Crowd counting isn’t an exact science. Still, we like to know how many honorable American patriots came to the ‘Restoring Honor’ rally organised by Fox News host Glenn Beck. Experts from CBS said the rally this weekend in Washington drew about 87,000 people.
The great man himself Glenn Beck said there were somewhere between 300,000 and 600,000 white folks and 17 blacks.
The Republican politician Michele Bachmann claimed there were more than a million people.
So who is right? Again, it’s not an exact science, but a very good guess can be made based on the available evidence. Let’s start with a look at the three images of the rally: [read on](more…)
Een van de grote problemen van de Verenigde Staten van Amerika is dat er nog zo weinig echte onafhankelijke journalistiek wordt bedreven. Dat geldt niet alleen voor tv-zenders als Fox News maar ook voor veel kranten en zelfs een voorheen excellente krant als de Washington Post. Hoe ver die krant is afgegleden. Om over het flutblaadje Time maar te zwijgen. Glenn Greenwald schrijft over de belangenverstrengeling:
The Washington Post’s media critic Howard Kurtz today uses his Post column to send a gushing love letter to Time Magazine and its executives. Entitled “Thinner Time magazine still manages to stand out,” it reads like a Time Warner Press Release heaping praise on its magazine for great success. The first sentence crowns Time Editor-in-Chief Rick Stengel as “the last man standing,” trumpets Time’s success in comparison to the struggles of Newsweek and U.S. News, and claims — most hilariously of all — that “Time has done it mainly with serious journalism.” [read on](more…)
Ik vind Fox News een verachtelijke haatmachine die er op gericht is om domme mensen dom te houden. Het is puur gif dat deze propaganda machine dagelijks de ether in stuurt. Maar dit verhaal gaat zelfs voor JdeW wat ver. Fox News wordt hier vergeleken met Radio Rwanda dat met zijn uitzendingen de Hutu’s net zo lang ophitste tot ze bereid waren om een miljoen Tutsi’s, mannen, vrouwen en kinderen, - kakkerlakken - te vermoorden.
Anderzijds kan geen zinnig mens tegen een totale wereldwijde boycot van deze leugenachtige hetserige producent van shit zijn.
In fact if you follow Fox News and the Limbaugh/Hannity afternoon radio crew, this summer’s blowout has almost seemed like an intentional echo of the notorious Radio Rwanda broadcasts “warning” Hutus that they were about to be attacked and killed by conspiring Tutsis, broadcasts that led to massacres of Tutsis by Hutus acting in “self-defense.” A sample of some of the stuff we’ve seen and heard on the air this year.
Frank Rich, NYT - There’s just one element missing from America’s ostensibly spontaneous and leaderless populist uprising: the sugar daddies who are bankrolling it, and have been doing so since well before the “death panel” warm-up acts of last summer. Three heavy hitters rule. You’ve heard of one of them, Rupert Murdoch. The other two, the brothers David and Charles Koch, are even richer, with a combined wealth exceeded only by that of Bill Gates and Warren Buffett among Americans. But even those carrying the Kochs’ banner may not know who these brothers are.
Glenn Beck, deze afschuwelijke man die bezig is rijk te worden door Amerikanen elkaar te laten haten, hield een toespraak op de verjaardag en de plaats van de beroemdste toespraak van Martin Luther King. En de irritante nitwit - hij vergeleek het Amerika van Obama met ‘The planet of the Apes’ - noemde het ‘Restoring Honor’.
Wilt u het uitschot van de Verenigde Staten van Amerika zien? Ze staan op deze video.
Crooks and Liars - Fox News host Glenn Beck promised there wouldn’t “be a dry eye in the house” after his big speech today at the Lincoln Memorial.
Riiiiight. Well, Glenn Beck’s eyes certainly weren’t dry. He started weeping while telling the crowd that somewhere out there was “the next George Washington”.
Dunno about you, but when I saw pan shots of the crowd — which was one of the whitest crowds in D.C. in recent memory — I mostly thought I saw “the next Timothy McVeigh.” But your mileage may vary. [read on](more…)
I have a scheme. Jon Stewart dismantles the fear, the loathing, and the crass commercialism of Fox News host, Glenn Beck. Beck says that “whites don’t own Abraham Lincoln” and that “blacks don’t own Martin Luther King.”
To which Jon Stewart ads: America doesn’t own Glenn Beck. Goldline does.
Bob Herbert - America is better than Glenn Beck. For all of his celebrity, Mr. Beck is an ignorant, divisive, pathetic figure. On the anniversary of the great 1963 March on Washington he will stand in the shadows of giants — Abraham Lincoln and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Who do you think is more representative of this nation? Charles Blow - The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was already dead when I was born, and yet I idolized him the way most children idolized athletes and pop stars. I had the poster and the T-shirt, I knew the speeches and the places he’d marched.
He was smart and brave, steadfast and unmovable. He was a man consumed by conviction and possessed by the magnificent radiance of the earnestly humble. He was an eloquent speaker and a beautiful writer. He cared more about justice and equality than fame or fortune. He was a beacon of light in a world beset by darkness.
That’s why the nightmarish idea of Glenn Beck (who has called President Obama a racist and compared Obama’s America to “The Planet of the Apes”) holding a “Restoring Honor” rally on the 47th anniversary of — and on the same site as — King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, so incensed me.
U denkt misschien waar is Mario de Kort uit Goirle? De laatste dagen heeft hij zich niet vertoond op drasties. Solidair met DSR zeker?
Niets daarvan mensen. Mario heeft het druk met andere zaken. Zoals het aanleggen van zijn voorraad hout voor de winter. Ik weet dat want, dat mag ik u wel verklappen, ik krijg al jaren brandhout van Mario.
Is it starting? The slide downwards for South Africa many people expect to happen under the new president Jacob Zuma? Towards were almost all other countries in Africa are? A corrupt government that tries to protect its business deals - with mainly constitutes of stealing from it’s people - by stifling the press?
Boston. Globe - South African President Jacob Zuma, just a month removed from soccer’s glitz, is threatening to return to grimmer days by clamping down on news organizations that criticize his government. This misguided effort threatens the foundations of the new South Africa, which up to now has set an inspiring example for all young democracies. Embarrassed by media coverage of scandals in Zuma’s family and of profiteering by public officials even as millions struggle in poverty, the government has proposed a “Protection of Information Bill.’’ His party, the African National Congress, is calling for tribunals to regulate the media. Earlier this month, a journalist was arrested after reporting that the national police commissioner may have may questionable business dealings.
Under the bill, the government could define so-called “sensitive information’’ as anything deemed in “the national interest.’’ It has aroused vigorous opposition, and not only from media organizations. Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu last week spoke out against the measures as “something that virtually everybody rejects.’’
23-8-2010 - Ik ben al weer twee dagen onderweg en geniet van de rust en ruimte om mij heen.Momenteel een goede wind na een dag weinig wind,dus motor erbij.Door het rollen van Guppy een beetje last van zeeziekte gehad.Maar dat gaat nu gelukkig weer beter. Ik ben al over de helft van mijn eerste etappe. Het gaat lekker…
American Sen. Al Franken says there is a growing free speech problem in the US:
Sen. Al Franken (D.-Minn.) warned a packed house Thursday night in Minneapolis that the corporate takeover of our media, and the government’s failure to stop it, is one of the most important issues of our time.
Franken said our media system is at risk everywhere we turn — from our free speech online to the growing power of companies who own a massive number of media outlets.
Wat er in de Verenigde Staten van Amerika gebeurt is van belang voor de hele wereld. Niet alleen omdat de VS het belangrijkste land ter wereld is en de Amerikaanse president ook een beetje de president is van de Westerse wereld, maar ook omdat de VS vaak een voorloper is op ideologisch gebied. De uit Amerika afkomstige neoconservatieve denkwereld mag dan gefaald hebben op alle fronten, nu lijkt er iets voor in de plaats te komen dat nog erger is. Teabaggers, proto-fascisten, hebben het hoogste woord in de VS en dringen naar voren in de Republikeinse Partij. Het is meer dan een strijd tussen conservatief en progressief, tussen religieus en verlicht. Het gaat tussen rede en angst, tusen chaos en anarchie. Tussen de leugens van de Rush Limbaugh’s (de BP ramp is het gevolg van ‘eco-terrorists’) en de Glenn Beck’s (’Obama has a deep seated hatred for white people’) van Fox News en de werkelijkheid van de redelijkerest. Zie dit verhaal op Daily Kos. Hannibal staat voor de poort!
Hannibal ad portas ‘ The ideas put forward by men like Glenn Beck are not “just like fascism,” they simply are fascism’
DailyKos - There is a clash of civilizations going on, and it has nothing to do with the Burlington Coat Factory Community Center. It’s more fundamental than Christian vs. Muslim. It’s reason vs. fear. Civilization vs. anarchy.
That clash is happening right here in America.
Don’t misunderstand me. I don’t believe that being a conservative equates with being evil. Over the course of our nation’s history, many conservative figures have raised questions deserving of an answer. They framed their issues with ideas that were testable. They contributed to the national conversation in a meaningful, beneficial way. They acted not just out of raw self-interest, but with sincere desire to do what they believed best for our nation and its people. [read on](more…)
Laura Dekker gaat van start. En ze is er helemaal klaar voor. Zie het laatste nieuws van Laura’s blog: “De was gedraait, we hadden 3 wasmachines vol! … Het weer is prachtig hier en ik ben maar even van mijn bontjas afgestapt, die had ik de hele weg naar portugal wel aan want toen was het niet zo warm.”
In a dramatic interview with CNN’s Larry King, radio personality Dr. Laura Schlessinger - drasties: Wanna hear an American radiohost use the word ‘nigger’ 11 times? - announced that she will be ending her radioshow at the end of the year. Schlessinger steps down amidst intensive criticism over her racially-charged rant live on radio last week. She said she will not be renewing her contract in order to “regain” her “First Amendment rights.”
News Corp. (Fox News) donated $1 million to the Republican Governors’ Association in order for this group to mount high-profile attack campaigns on Democratic candidates. Cenk Uygur (Young Turks) took a whack at them while filling in for Ed Schultz on MSNBC this week.
Uygur: Fox News came out of the closet today. Everyone with two bits of sense always knew they were a Republican propaganda machine, but today they made it official. Bloomberg News reported that News Corp, the parent company of Fox News Channel, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Post donated $1 million to the Republicans Governors Association. [read on](more…)
Wat zouden wij er van vinden als, zeg maar wat, De Telegraaf en GeenStijl de campagne van de PVV zouden gaan financieren? Of de EO een miljoen euro zou geven aan de ChristenUnie?
It isn’t a complete surprise that Fox News is playing politics. But still it is surprising that News Corp. donated $1 million to the Republican Governors’ Association, so it can mount a high-profile attack campaigns against Democratic candidates. I think it’s safe for everyone to eliminate the terms “fair” and “balanced” from any discussion of Fox News. [read on](more…)
We kijken wat verder op de Ghanese site van hierboven Peace FM Online en komen dit schokkende verhaal tegen. Echt gebeurd want het staat op het internet:
‘Hairdresser goes blind in salon…after combing unknown woman’s hair’
Hekserij? Paranormaal begaafd?
Van een dokter wordt niet gerept. Gelukkig was er een priester vlakbij.
Commentaar 1, ‘look to Science for unaswered guestions’: ‘We zijn een land van intelligente mensen. Waarom denken we bij een probleem altijd aan hekserij?’ Commentaar 2, ‘maka’: ‘Het feit dat de vrouw is verdwenen kan komen door vrees dat ze voor heks zou worden uitgemaakt of misschien omdat ze een heks is. Punt!
Ook leuk Ghana radio live.
Tenslotte, wat betreft die vrouw. We noemen geen namen maar zou Isabel Blanco eindelijk aan haar welverdiende vakantie begonnen zijn?
Peace FM Online - A middle aged woman came to a popular hairdressing salon located in Kumasi to fix a weave-on. Barely 20 minutes after an apprentice had started on the hair, an excruciating shout was heard from the young girl. She told her colleagues that a thick smoke had entered her eyes from the woman’s hair and that she could not see clearly.
Adjacent to the shop is a prayer camp so the pastor was implored to come over to pray for the girl. After several minutes of fervent prayers the sight was partially restored. Shockingly, the middle aged woman never ever uttered a word when the girl was going through her ordeal. Before anybody could say jack, she was nowhere to be found.
Conclusie: In Ghana maakt een of andere beginnende kapster een puinhoop van je haar en je moet maken dat je wegkomt of anders is de kans groot dat je vanwege hekserij op de brandstapel wordt gezet.
Een Nederlandse Olympische slingeraar is door het Ouwehands Dierenpark in Rhenen aangetrokken om de orang oetans opnieuw te leren slingeren. De beste slingeraar van Nederland is zonder twijfel Yuri van Gelder. We roepen de dierentuin dan ook op om te zorgen voor een strakke medische en psychologische begeleiding van de orang oetans om vergelijkbare problemen als met de ringturner te voorkomen.
TVNZ - In an evolutionary twist, a Dutch zoo is calling on the services of an Olympic gymnast to teach orangutans how to swing through the trees.
The zoo Ouwehands Dierenpark Rhenen, located in the centre of the country, said it had renovated its orangutan enclosure to allow the long-limbed, hairy, auburn-coloured primates to swing from tree to tree in an outdoor setting above the viewing public - but the animals appear to have lost the knack of it. [read on](more…)
Americans continue to express near-record-low confidence in newspapers and television news — with no more than 25% of Americans saying they have a “great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in either. These views have hardly budged since falling more than 10 percentage points from 2003-2007. [read on](more…)
the word nigger is edited out, media matters has the unedited audio
That sucking sound you hear is radiohost Dr. Laura’s Schlessinger career being flushed down the toilet. She probably will stay on the radio, but won’t have any credibility left except with the racist masses.
Earlier this week Laura responded to an African-American caller who was offended that her white husband allowed racist conversation to pass without calling it out. Laura responded by telling the black woman that her examples of racist conversation were not racist, that she was too sensitive, and then proceeded to use the word nigger over and over again in a string.
Not content to stop there, she berated the caller until said caller hung up on her, then went off for another three minutes or so about how sensitive people are about race, and how “black speak” allows for use of the n-word with no problem.
CNN was the first cable news to pick up on a story of well known US radiohost Laura Schlessinger who used the word NIGGER eleven times on the air while responding to the call of a black woman. Since than the network has run four segments on it since. MSNBC reported on Schlessinger’s remarks twice already today. But how many segments has Fox News run? According to a ThinkProgress review of the network’s coverage, zero.
Why would Fox News ignored this story? Would it be because Schlessinger is a regular guest on the network. Just last year, Sean Hannity hosted the right wing radio host to promote her new book. [read on](more…)
“Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never vote for President. One hopes it is the same half.” - Gore Vidal
US cable network Fox News has the oldest audience of all networks. The average viewer last season of Fox News was 65 years old, according to Nielsen. Heck, it’s viewers are even older than viewers of Hallmark Channel, Military Channel and Golf Channel.
Perhaps the reason why viewers tend to leave Fox News on all day racking up hours of big viewing numbers is because they can’t actually change the channel?
In an article on the possibility of an Israeli military strike on Iran, Jeffrey Goldberg writes that, even President George Bush “balked at attacking Iran’s nuclear facilities, and discouraged the Israelis from carrying out the attack on their own.”
And this is what Bush called Charles Krauthammer and William Kristol, commentators on Fox News, who can’t wait for the U.S. to start another war in the Middle East:
Bush would sometimes mock those aides and commentators who advocated an attack on Iran, even referring to the conservative columnists Charles Krauthammer and William Kristol as “the bomber boys,” according to two people I spoke with who overheard this.
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