Today’s Observer is ridonkulous. Ri-freaking-donkulous.
For starters, in this newsclip about a teen pleading guilty to the beating of UNCC professor Narayan Dhakal, the reader is informed that the professor “was found beaten at the intersection of 8th and North Trying streets.” You know, I kind of like this rename. As in Trying to be like [...]
Trade and Trying
The Observer: a week in review
So I haven’t been blogging because I’ve been busy. And sick. And kicking ass and taking names. Okay, just sick really. But it’s hard for me to admit weakness. And right now I’m so low that I’m eating oatmeal and writing this post on a Mac. Yea.
But enough about me. Let’s talk Observer. Uptown’s paper [...]
Upscale rubbish receptacle
One February Sunday during our weekly phone conversations, my mother explained to me one of the most ridiculous Pittsburgh news stories I have ever heard. And it’s Pittsburgh, so yea, it’s pretty ridiculous. I laughed to myself as she detailed how Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl purchased $1000 trash cans, featuring his name and campaign slogan, [...]
OMG, they like, totally arrested people!
In case you haven’t heard here, here, or here, about 40 people were arrested at the Duke Energy protest last week. And omg, you aren’t going to believe this, the CMPD cops, who btdub, are nothing more than the henchmen of Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers, totally arrested a grandmother. Bastards.
seperated at birth. obviously.
And great [...]
Shaw bitch slaps the Observer
A fantastic rebuttal by UNC Charlotte Board of Trustees Chair, Ruth Shaw, to an accusatory and ill-informed piece published by the Observer concerning 49er football and the recession. Take a look.
The Observer is an Asshole
Yesterday was April Fool’s day (and also, seriously, my parents’ wedding anniversary). That meant that everyone in the media was making a typical and (hopefully) obvious gag. Including, of course, our friends at the Observer who didn’t come up with just one lame gag, they had to out do us all and provide [...]
Zap 2 It
New observer low. I don’t even have the patience to document all these. Check out the byline on this pointless and poorly written story. Why pay someone outside your organization for this garbage?
Annoying. Stupid. Fail.
The Observer gives Lewis the kiss of death
It isn’t looking good for BoA. Charlotte.com is being flooded with a mass of slightly rewritten aricles about the bank. I’m not saying its the Observer’s fault, or even that BoA is any worse than any other bank, but constant Observer attention was on Wachy in the months leading up to October and [...]
How low can you go?
I was going to write something snarky here, but I’m running out of witty words that adequately describe how much the observer irritates me.
new york observer?
What you are seeing is an article about Bank of America’s reported billion dollar loss. Next to it is a picture of a Bank of America branch… [...]
Turn the comments on
I hate it when the observer turns off comments on news stories. That’s probably because it only happens on the stories that crown townies reallllllllllllllly want to comment about. Like this little ditty about Skipper Beck being charged with soliciting prostitution.
But the ever tactful, determined, and well mannered Observer commenters will not be [...]
