Category Archives: media

Mouth of LA

March 1, 2012 – 1:00 pm

From the Drudge Report DEAR READER: In the first decade of the DRUDGEREPORT Andrew Breitbart was a constant source of energy, passion and commitment. We shared a love of headlines, a love of the news, an excitement about what’s happening. I don’t think there was a single day during that time when we did not [...]

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Banksy On Advertising

March 1, 2012 – 9:58 am

Banksy the radical graffiti artist wrote this short treatise about the ceaseless assault of advertising on our senses. I have ripped off the labels of my toiletries and wash products to prevent the further contamination of my mind. This morning I washed my hair with bath soap. It did the job. There is no truth [...]

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Do Not Pass Go

February 29, 2012 – 8:13 pm

The scion of the Murdoch Media Empire announced his departure as News International chairman. Both the corporation and James Murdoch have been plagued by accusations of criminal hacking by reporters and the payment of bribes to British policemen for assistance in squashing any investigations into wrongdoings. His 81 year-old father has resumed total control of [...]

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Rock Stands Tall

February 29, 2012 – 5:04 pm

The fucking London press are the worst parasites in the world. Back in 1985 I was interview Rock Hudson at the Deauville film festival. We were sitting at a table in the elegant dining room of the Hotel Deauville. Another reporter was piggy-backing on my hour with the star of TOBRUK. Rock was in his [...]

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Regrets. No Apologies

February 29, 2012 – 4:48 pm

While on a world tour in 1974 Sinatra was enraged by the treatment of members of the Australian press. The greeting scrum of reporters formed a barricade to prevent his leaving the airport and Old Blue Eyes retaliated with an on-stage tirade during which he called the press “bums and parasites,” and accused the country’s [...]

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