Why are the pundits keeping Americans from seeing the convention…they need to get out of the way.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/155647

The Washington Post’s Howard Kurtz reports that during a gathering with reporters in Denver yesterday, Daily Show host Jon Stewart ripped Fox News, saying the network’s “‘fair and balanced’ slogan is an insult ‘to people with brains’” In response, a Fox News spokesman attacked Stewart, but he refused to give his name.
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/08/26/fox-news-flack-hides-behind-anonymity-to-attack-jon-stewart/

The sprinkler system above Fox News’ broadcasting equipment was set off at the Democratic National Convention, partially flooding their broadcast booth.
http://www.9news.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=98286&catid=188

The elaborate closing ceremony that ended the Olympic Games on Sunday also ended nearly a decade in which the ruling Communist Party had made the Games an organizing principle in national life. Almost nothing has superseded the Olympics as a political priority in China.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/25/sports/olympics/25china.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin

Dumb reporter walks into protesters, and unsuccessfully tries to get them to talk to him. Too bad he was from FAUX News.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDGhs_LN7Fk&eurl=http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/8/24/14844/7267/455/574152

i think thats a door….
http://i37.tinypic.com/55s554.jpg

Try it yourself!
http://i37.tinypic.com/2qdy6c1.jpg

A new Pew Survey on News Consumption released yesterday reveals that viewers of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report are more knowledgeable about current events than those who watch Bill O’Reilly, Lou Dobbs, Larry King, and the “average consumers of NBC, ABC, Fox News, CNN, C-SPAN and daily newspapers.”
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/08/18/stewart-colbert-oreilly-dobbs/

Fewer Americans are reading newspapers — they are getting their news online instead — but television remains the leading source of news in the country, according to the Pew Research Center’s biannual survey on news-consumption habits.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121902509874048617.html?mod=2_1571_leftbox

Georgia is no longer friends with Russia.
http://www.collegehumor.com/article:1760601