[VIDEO] Marvel Studios Looks Back on Its First Ten Films
Posted: August 4, 2014 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment | Tags: Avengers, Film, Guardians of Galaxy, Guardians of the Galaxy, Iron Man, John Sexton, Lucy, Marvel, Marvel Comics, Marvel Studios 2 CommentsJohn Sexton writes: After seeing the disappointing Lucy last week and wondering why anyone would think it was a good idea to take a silly premise and turn it into a profound statement, I did not want to see another summer movie with delusions of grandeur. So Friday, my family and some friends went to see Guardians of the Galaxy. Ah, now that’s more like it.
Marvel has of course been promoting Guardians heavily on TV, even highlighting the claim that it’s the “best Marvel movie ever.” Sorry but that’s not true. The Avengers and the first Iron Man are both better films. But it’s a credit to Guardians that after those two high points it at least becomes arguable whether Guardians could be next in line.
[Also see – VIDEO] LUCY Movie Trailer HD – Writer Director Luc Besson, Stars Scarlett Johansson]
As if inviting the comparison..(more)
[AUDIO] Frosting on the Schadenfreude Cake: Obamacare Architect Says AGAIN That Subsidies Only Go To State Exchanges
Posted: July 25, 2014 Filed under: Breaking News, Health and Social Issues, Law & Justice | Tags: Daily Caller, Gruber, John Sexton, Jonathan Gruber, Obamacare, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act 1 Comment“That is really the ultimate threat — will people understand that gee, if your governor doesn’t set up an exchange, you’re losing hundreds of millions of dollars in tax credits to be delivered to your citizens.”
For The Daily Caller, Sarah Hurtubise frosts the cake with more embarrassing evidence: While Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber has brushed aside a video of himself arguing that Obamacare subsidies are only allowable in state-run exchanges as a “speak-o” — or verbal typo — a second audio tape has now emerged of Gruber making the very same 
comments yet again.
“So that’s the other threat, is will states do what they need to do to set it up.”
“That is really the ultimate threat — will people understand that gee, if your governor doesn’t set up an exchange, you’re losing hundreds of millions of dollars in tax credits to be delivered to your citizens,” Gruber says in the audio clip, resurfaced by Morgan Richmond and John Sexton. “So that’s the other threat, is will states do what they need to do to set it up.”
UPDATE: More to come?
@charlescwcooke Apparently more than twice. @VerumSerum is on the case. Found more examples.
— RB (@RBPundit) July 25, 2014
Shocker: MSNBC’s Chris Matthews the Least Likable News Anchor
Posted: March 29, 2014 Filed under: Breaking News, Entertainment, Mediasphere, U.S. News | Tags: Alex Wagner, Anderson Cooper, CBS, Chris Matthews, CNN, John Sexton, MSNBC, Scott Pelley 3 Comments
Breitbart.com’s John Sexton reports: A ranking of 24 news personalities found CBS’ Scott Pelley the most likable anchor while MSNBC‘s Chris Matthews ran dead last just behind fellow MSNBC host Alex Wagner.
The ranking is based on Q scores, a numerical value based on the familiarity and appeal of brands or, in this case, news personalities. The Wrap, which published the ranking Friday, writes “executive vice president Henry Schafer and his team provides a personality’s name and a brief description to more than 1,800 viewers. The viewers are asked if they recognize the person, and how they feel about him or her.” Read the rest of this entry »
Cleansing Dissent: Sharyl Attkisson’s Time on CBS Evening News Fell by Two Thirds After 2009
Posted: March 11, 2014 Filed under: Mediasphere, U.S. News, White House | Tags: CBS, CBS Evening News, CBS News, James Rosen, John Sexton, media, Obama administration, Sharyl Attkisson, Washington Post Leave a comment
Breitbart.com‘s John Sexton reports: Earlier today Sharyl Attkisson announced on Twitter that she was leaving CBS News. Early reports suggest the split was “amicable” though Attkisson is said to have wanted to leave because she had grown frustrated with the network’s “liberal bias.” Specifically, she felt it was a struggle to get her work on the CBS Evening News, the network’s flagship news program.
[Talk about media bias, Politico‘s idea of a headline, no joke: The right loses its hero at CBS. Hero? What Attkisson did is uncontroversial: apply equally tough standards to the Obama Administration and the Bush Administration. This is news? Isn’t that what all reporters are supposed to do?]
The brother of a top Obama administration official is the president of CBS News
Sharyl Attkisson is currently at work on a book — tentatively titled “Stonewalled: One Reporter’s Fight for Truth in Obama’s Washington” — that addresses the challenges of reporting critically on the administration.
Erik Wemple of the Washington Post reached out to Andrew Tyndall who was able to put some numbers to the frustration that apparently drove Attkisson out the door:
Attkisson was the 18th most used reporter in major network nightly news, with 160 minutes of exposure. In 2008, she held steady at 18th, with 145 minutes, and in 2009, she was 19th, with 152 minutes.
She hasn’t landed in the top 20 since.
In a quick chat with the Erik Wemple Blog, Tyndall said that Attkisson tallied a mere 54 minutes on “The CBS Evening News” in 2013, a third of her previous totals. That was good for a ranking of 78th among network news reporters. “She was obviously being sidelined,” says Tyndall.
So Attkisson did not imagine that her status at CBS had changed, it really did. And given that it changed after 2009 when she started to focus on the Obama administration it stretches credulity to suggest that this was not a primary reason for the sudden change.
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