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	<title>Cowboy Confessional &#187; Media</title>
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	<description>Guy Smith - writer, songwriter, political provocateur</description>
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		<title>Gingrich Gasp</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:39:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Newt Gingrich, during last nights GOP debate, expressed surprise that &#8220;CNN would take trash like that and use it to open a presidential debate.&#8221; In other words, the Carrollton Chameleon is shocked that the mainstream media hinges their ratings on salacious salvos and tawdry tripe.
Newt is the only person who is surprised. Everyone else expects [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Andy’s Absurdity</title>
		<link>http://www.guysmith.org/blog/2012/01/12/andy%e2%80%99s-absurdity/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:51:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Andrew Rosenthal has dragged the New York Times’ reputation to a new low.
I didn’t think it was possible.
Andy pens an inappropriately titled column called The Loyal Opposition. Anyone familiar with the now irrelevant Forth Estate sees the irony of naming a newspaper column The Loyal Opposition, and the side-splitting frivolity for it being under the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paper Peril</title>
		<link>http://www.guysmith.org/blog/2011/08/14/paper-peril/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Aug 2011 14:52:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Authors find it difficult to autograph Kindles.
With e-book sales hovering around 20% of all books retailed, and with the price of Kindles, Nooks and other slabs rapidly falling, the days of printed books are numbered. On a recent coast to coast flight, while hiking from the stern head back to my seat, I scanned who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Honest Exhortations</title>
		<link>http://www.guysmith.org/blog/2011/05/26/honest-exhortations/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 03:07:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Will Rogers once accurately quipped “All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that&#8217;s an alibi for my ignorance.”
Will was nearly on target about a major failing of our modern political melee, one where world views were once provided by three network news offices and whatever substituted for your local paper.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unsupervised Thinking</title>
		<link>http://www.guysmith.org/blog/2011/05/15/unsupervised-thinking/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 02:37:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Buncombe]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A number of inconvenient truths, along with leaked emails and computer source code, rendered Al Gore’s fatalistic forecasts fragile.  Barack Obama’s continuing adoration of Keynesian economic theory has earned him the distrust of everyone waiting in an unemployment line.  We all flinched at the thought of Larry Craig’s public bathroom tap dancing and nobody believed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Media Modus</title>
		<link>http://www.guysmith.org/blog/2011/05/02/media-modus/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 03:33:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Osama bin Laden is dead, praise Allah.  Now if the same would happen to the media.
Bin Laden’s sudden lead poisoning provides an interesting contrast in how alleged journalists treat a news story.  We accept as self evident that politicians lie and reporters spin.  Yes, this rule isn’t universal, but the percentage of honest politicians and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Florida Yesterday</title>
		<link>http://www.guysmith.org/blog/2011/03/21/florida-yesterday/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 00:10:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gun control]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[While corning through Florida to visit family, I was subjected to the Space  Coast daily journal which has, since inception, masqueraded as a newspaper.
I’m not overly nicking Florida Today (the bastard child of USA Today, sired by the same nefarious father, Al Neuharth).  It is what it is, and with the exception of when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cinematograph Con Coming</title>
		<link>http://www.guysmith.org/blog/2011/03/01/chris-dodd-mpaa-chairman/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 20:39:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This can’t be good.
The Motion Picture Association of America, the folks responsible for much of your movie watching material, have recruited former Senator and pestilent populist Chris “Doddering” Dodd to be their next chairman.  Chris had a long and inglorious political career, being called “Disingenuous Dodd” by many and “a lying weasel” by his hometown [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parody Pays</title>
		<link>http://www.guysmith.org/blog/2010/09/27/news-items-parody-reality/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2010 03:32:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Stupidity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It is rumored that Tom Lehrer abandoned his songwriting and performing career because society had gotten so strange he could no longer parody it.
Tom is still alive and is likely praising his own decision given how outright weird the recent news cycle has been.
Last week saw the unsightly scene of a rapidly graying Obama proclaiming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Frisco Fracas</title>
		<link>http://www.guysmith.org/blog/2009/06/07/san-francisco-newspaper-history-de-young-kalloch/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 00:09:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our local scandal rag, the San Francisco Chronicle (also called the San Francisco Chronic by people who enjoy drug humor too much), is busy celebrating itself as members of the media are prone to do.
Seriously guys, check the ego at the door.
The Chronic has been printing highly readable bird cage liner for 144 year.  [...]]]></description>
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