on cnn via twitter..! September 7, 2008
Posted by irish.lemon in Uncategorized.Tags: cnn, communications, giuliani, live feed, public relations, rick sanchez, RNC, twitter
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yep! i got my 15 seconds of social networking fame thanks to rick sanchez’s real-time twitter feeds on cnn newsroom earlier this afternoon. i was working on my presentation and checking on twitter. aimlessly multitasking, and submitted an answer, not thinking much of it. i had the tv on in the background, then i heard “reading your responses on twitter, ‘rudy made a miscalculation…’”.
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i turned around and saw my post on the screen! he read three responses – mine was first after the commercial break – just before closing the show. i scrambled for my camera, but by the time i’d hit record, his segment was over. i wanted the verifiable proof that i was indeed, indirectly on cnn. i’ll just wait until the transcripts are posted on cnn.com and paste them here.
still, very cool occurance for someone studying communications and social networking…i’ll try again for tomorrow after work.
**update, 09-19-08**
SANCHEZ: All right, thanks a lot, Jacqui. Your comments to us. Here we go. “Rudy made a miscalculation. The RNC itself would be an act of community organization, rallying around its leader.”
“Rudy intended to make those remarks about Obama. The repetition was over the top in his speech.”
“Rudy is a Rove robot. His puppet strings are easily pulled.”
And there we go on and on. “Oh, make no mistake about it, he meant it,” says one of our Twitter commenters as well.
There you go, they continue to come in. We’ll continue to ask and you continue to respond. Thanks so much for being with us. We’ll be looking for you again tonight. Special coverage on some of the political issues and of course the very latest on the polls at 10:00 p.m. Eastern. I’m Rick Sanchez. See you in a bit.
brown vs. bounds… September 2, 2008
Posted by irish.lemon in Uncategorized.Tags: campbell brown, cnn, communications, democratic party, election, interview, john mccain, public relations, republican national convention, republican party, RNC, sarah palin, tucker bounds
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there’s truly little i can say about this interview, other than now americans get to see the true hypocrisy of bipartisan politics and how neither party is the “better” party. this evening, larry king was scheduled to interview john mccain during the republican national convention, but the mccain camp has pulled the interview as a result of this interview of mccain spokesman tucker bounds by cnn’s campbell brown. the contradicitons are just flying in this…it’s a doozy. i applaud cnn for attempting to – seemingly – get both sides of party politics…
avoiding weekends… July 28, 2008
Posted by irish.lemon in Uncategorized.Tags: billy elliot, black in america, boredom, china's stolen children, cnn, documentaries, documentary, hbo, stepbrothers, weekend
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i generally tend to avoid writing posts on weekends for the sake that i get so bored i have nothing poignant to say. there’s never anything good on cnn let alone the rest of my 3000+ channels, and the internet is only so entertaining for so long. so here’s a laundry list of mundane things that either happened or i thought about since friday:
- friday nite, i went to see “stepbrothers” with three of my friends. it was funny ’til the movie got slow and i began to fully process the premise…then it just got disturbing. i adore both will ferrell and john c. reilley, but i couldn’t help thinking their characters needed to be institutionalized.
- saturday i slept most of the day. i had the day off which never happens, so the most thrilling point of the day was when i folded my laundry and put it all away…i went to bed at 9:30pm.
- today (sunday) i worked most of the day and came home in hopes of napping. that was to no avail, so i watched “billy elliot” – one of my favorites – and the HBO documentary “china’s stolen children“. shed an interesting light on their government and “booming” economy. much like the US, you wouldn’t know the economy’s “booming” judged by the nation’s poor; they’re the ones who always suffer. cnn’s “black in america” series has been fantastic as well. i wasn’t all too excited for it’s premiere, but i watched it last nite and was very impressed. made me rethink even my own points of view on the issue. i consider myself very accepting of other races, but unfortunately with a “white” upbringing, i still get fooled every now and then by the most ridiculous stereotypes…i advise that everyone check themselves every now and then, i know i do.
aside from all the excitement this weekend brought, i’m dreading tomorrow. it’s my last day with my PR professor and i truthfully don’t even want to bother going to class for the sake that i’m going to be miserable for every second of it. too bittersweet for my taste…
delayed reaction to the new yorker… July 22, 2008
Posted by irish.lemon in Uncategorized.Tags: barack obama, barry blitt, campaign 2008, cnn, communications, democratic, democratic party, democrats, fox news, michelle obama, new york times, new yorker, new yorker magazine, political cartoon, political satire, the new yorker
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when this story broke a week or two ago, i was in the midst of a heavy workload for both my internship at HSP as well as a hectic school schedule. in all the hysteria, i completely forgot to put in my two cents about the “satirical” cartoon by barry blitt that graced the cover of the july 21, 2008 edition of the new yorker. initially, i was completely enraged as a democrat. however, as someone who supports unfettered first amendment rights, i tried to dig a little deeper so as to get my head further around it. apparently, blitt intended for the cartoon to be just another satirical political cartoon that illustrated – literally – the fears that conservative and the vastly ignorant general public have about obama and his overall image. the media hasn’t helped…
as an avid reader of the new york times and viewer of cnn, i only hear the afterthought of such issues as the picture of obama in “traditional garb” during a visit to kenya. ironically, i first saw that image while flipping through the channels on fox news…i know, blasphemous of me to watch right-wing tv. given that i like to get all angles of an issue, i continued to watch the “report” that the image was allegedly leaked by the clinton camp, something i personally did not buy into. i suppose it was then that i asked myself and the rest of the american public the ultimate rhetorical question: who the fuck cares if obama is/was a muslim? i don’t care if obama ever practiced strange voodoo blood rituals while eating live-beating chicken hearts. as an american, he has the right to practice whatever religion he so chooses; i think they’re all bunk.
getting back to the new yorker cover, i understand where blitt is coming from. however, even i had initial misconceptions of the cartoon. my first impression was that of, “great…more conservative smear on the democratic wall”. who could argue? obama is dressed similarly to osama bin laden – who hangs on the wall above a fireplace incinerating an american flag – while fist-bumping wife michelle dressed to resemble a militant member of the black panthers, complete with afro and loaded ak-47. the issue remains that americans, no matter how “advanced” we claim to be, are so far behind the rest of other “developed” nations than we’d care to admit. and that moral high-ground conservatives stand on, well they lost that long ago when they leased that prime real estate to the multi-national corporations that now pull all the political strings.
leave obama to run his campaign without the smear. fox news claims to be so “fair and balanced” it’s sick. personally, all i smell is a bunch of dead and dying elephants scrambling to do whatever they can to reach the finish line before the cool black guy. i’ll take the cool black guy and the change he’ll bring…and i don’t necessarily mean change via his political “promises”, i simply mean so that americans will wake up and realize that we alienate our rights through our own volition.
by the way, i voted for clinton during the illinois primary…obama was never high on my list of democrats, but it’s inevitable that he changes america’s dynamic…inevitable. we’ve already seen it.
wtf canada..? June 18, 2008
Posted by irish.lemon in Uncategorized.Tags: canada, cnn, crime, csi, feet, media, mounties, mystery, severed feet
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so is anyone else a little creeped out by all the severed-foot findings our neighbors to the north keep encountering? i heard this story this morning during that half-asleep half-awake state of mind on cnn…which, needless to say, made believing the story more difficult.
i think i’m more disturbed that these feet are still inside their corresponding shoes. also, something like four right feet were found and they found their first left foot today, hoping they would “find the match”…ew. i like canadians, but wtf canada? trying for an episode of csi to be written about you?
in all seriousness, this whole thing is one of the strangest things i’ve heard in a while and i’m curious to see what comes of it the closer the mounties get to solving the mystery. where’s dudley do-right when you need him?!
