Tuesday, October 05, 2010
So, you think your job sucks?
A male model has been fired for eating a croissant on an Abercrombie & Fitch photo shoot.
A Random Pixels random thought
It's amazing how much cooler it seems when the temp is only 80 degrees as compared to 90!
It's cool enough to sit on the porch again.
It's cool enough to sit on the porch again.
Rick Sanchez apologizes to Jon Stewart
“rick apologized to jon stewart today.they had a good talk. jon was gracious and called rick, ‘thin-skinned.’ he’s right. rick feels horrible that in an effort to make a broader point about the media, his exhaustion from working 14 hr days for 2 mo. straight, caused him to mangle his thought process inartfully. he got caught up in the banter and deeply apologizes to anyone who was offended by his unintended comments.”
My work here is done!
Apparently someone has spiked the brownies at the Miami Herald.
Today, Random Pixels - yes, Random Pixels! - was one of the blogs featured in the Miami Herald's "Best of the Blogs" column that ran on page 2B of Monday's paper.
For those of you who don't know, "Best of the Blogs" is a quaint Miami Herald feature that involves printing short synopses of three or four blog posts from South Florida blogs on newsprint. Readers of the feature, their curiosity aroused, presumably log on to the Internet to read the rest of the post.
The Herald chose my post about Rakontur's Billy Corben which was one of Random Pixels' most widely read posts last week.
Thanks to all involved at the Miami Herald. We're honored to be included.
Today, Random Pixels - yes, Random Pixels! - was one of the blogs featured in the Miami Herald's "Best of the Blogs" column that ran on page 2B of Monday's paper.
For those of you who don't know, "Best of the Blogs" is a quaint Miami Herald feature that involves printing short synopses of three or four blog posts from South Florida blogs on newsprint. Readers of the feature, their curiosity aroused, presumably log on to the Internet to read the rest of the post.
The Herald chose my post about Rakontur's Billy Corben which was one of Random Pixels' most widely read posts last week.
Thanks to all involved at the Miami Herald. We're honored to be included.
Monday, October 04, 2010
Will you be watching?
Are you making plans to watch the television event of the year?
I'm speaking, of course, of Jon Stewart's Daily Show on Comedy Central tonight. It will be his first show since CNN anchor - who's now unemployed - Rick Sanchez, called Stewart a bigot on a radio show last week. Sanchez also implied on the same show that the media is controlled by Jews.
CNN fired Sanchez late Friday.
Over the weekend, Stewart responded to the Sanchez's remarks and said that if Sanchez really thinks that Jews control the media then "all he has to do is apologize to us, and we'll hire him back."
Stewart is expected to address Sanchez's meltdown on his show tonight at 11pm.
And I'll be right there on my easy chair, taking it all in.
Yesterday Random Pixels polled some media heavyweights to see if they planned to watch.
Here are their answers.
Jim Mullin, editor, Biscayne Times: "Of course I'll watch."
Mullin was the editor of Miami New Times for almost 20 years. In the early 90's the paper ran several hard-hitting pieces on Sanchez and Channels 7's lurid style of news gathering.
Mullin told me yesterday that when he learned of Sanchez's firing he was "taken back to a memory" of an incident involving Sanchez when Mullin was a guest on a talk show on WIOD radio in the early 90's.
Mullin was in the studio at WIOD - which is next door to WSVN's studio - talking about a New Times article that dissected the controversy surrounding Sanchez's involvment in a hit and run accident that left a man in a coma.
Mullin says as he talked on live radio with the host of the show, the studio door swung open and in walked Sanchez "uninvited and unannounced." Sanchez started to heatedly question Mullin about the New Times story the sources for the story. According to Mullin, the host of the show "did not appreciate the interruption."
"Finally," says Mullin, "someone came in and hustled Sanchez out of the studio."
Billy Corben, co-founder, Rakontur Films: Corben teaches a course in independent filmmaking at the Miami International University of Art and Design until 10pm. But Corben says if he gets home in time, he'll watch.
Corben tells friends that Sanchez made the comments about Stewart because "he's pissed that Stewart is the more popular fake news anchor."
Corben, who is Jewish - "but not an observant Jew," - says he wasn't offended by Sanchez's comments. He believes that Sanchez was "mostly joking." Corben calls Sanchez's firing "karmic." The filmmaker says that the gravity of Sanchez's comments pale in comparison to "him [Sanchez] putting a guy in a coma."
Chuck Strouse, editor, Miami New Times: "Sure, I'll watch... I love Stewart."
Tim Elfrink, staff writer, Miami New Times: Elfrink says he'll watch but says he's not sure if Stewart will add insult to injury by kicking Sanchez when he's down. "When you expect Stewart to 'zig,' he 'zags,' " says Elfrink.
"Rick," publisher of Miami's Best blog, the South Florida Daily Blog: "Well, I really haven't been following the controversy, to tell you the truth. It's like, Rick Sanchez said something stupid? I'm shocked. I just wish the louts at Clear Channel [Limbaugh, Beck] and Fox News were as principled as CNN execs seem to be."
And finally, St. Petersburg Times televison and media critic Eric Deggans: Deggans - a guy who gets paid to watch TV says, "Definitely plan on watching....though I bet AP will have a story on what he says hours before the show is broadcast... "
I'm speaking, of course, of Jon Stewart's Daily Show on Comedy Central tonight. It will be his first show since CNN anchor - who's now unemployed - Rick Sanchez, called Stewart a bigot on a radio show last week. Sanchez also implied on the same show that the media is controlled by Jews.
CNN fired Sanchez late Friday.
Over the weekend, Stewart responded to the Sanchez's remarks and said that if Sanchez really thinks that Jews control the media then "all he has to do is apologize to us, and we'll hire him back."
Stewart is expected to address Sanchez's meltdown on his show tonight at 11pm.
And I'll be right there on my easy chair, taking it all in.
Yesterday Random Pixels polled some media heavyweights to see if they planned to watch.
Here are their answers.
Jim Mullin, editor, Biscayne Times: "Of course I'll watch."
Mullin was the editor of Miami New Times for almost 20 years. In the early 90's the paper ran several hard-hitting pieces on Sanchez and Channels 7's lurid style of news gathering.
Mullin told me yesterday that when he learned of Sanchez's firing he was "taken back to a memory" of an incident involving Sanchez when Mullin was a guest on a talk show on WIOD radio in the early 90's.
Mullin was in the studio at WIOD - which is next door to WSVN's studio - talking about a New Times article that dissected the controversy surrounding Sanchez's involvment in a hit and run accident that left a man in a coma.
Mullin says as he talked on live radio with the host of the show, the studio door swung open and in walked Sanchez "uninvited and unannounced." Sanchez started to heatedly question Mullin about the New Times story the sources for the story. According to Mullin, the host of the show "did not appreciate the interruption."
"Finally," says Mullin, "someone came in and hustled Sanchez out of the studio."
Billy Corben, co-founder, Rakontur Films: Corben teaches a course in independent filmmaking at the Miami International University of Art and Design until 10pm. But Corben says if he gets home in time, he'll watch.
Corben tells friends that Sanchez made the comments about Stewart because "he's pissed that Stewart is the more popular fake news anchor."
Corben, who is Jewish - "but not an observant Jew," - says he wasn't offended by Sanchez's comments. He believes that Sanchez was "mostly joking." Corben calls Sanchez's firing "karmic." The filmmaker says that the gravity of Sanchez's comments pale in comparison to "him [Sanchez] putting a guy in a coma."
Chuck Strouse, editor, Miami New Times: "Sure, I'll watch... I love Stewart."
Tim Elfrink, staff writer, Miami New Times: Elfrink says he'll watch but says he's not sure if Stewart will add insult to injury by kicking Sanchez when he's down. "When you expect Stewart to 'zig,' he 'zags,' " says Elfrink.
"Rick," publisher of Miami's Best blog, the South Florida Daily Blog: "Well, I really haven't been following the controversy, to tell you the truth. It's like, Rick Sanchez said something stupid? I'm shocked. I just wish the louts at Clear Channel [Limbaugh, Beck] and Fox News were as principled as CNN execs seem to be."
And finally, St. Petersburg Times televison and media critic Eric Deggans: Deggans - a guy who gets paid to watch TV says, "Definitely plan on watching....though I bet AP will have a story on what he says hours before the show is broadcast... "
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
| Moment of Zen - Sanchez Taser | ||||
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Saturday, October 02, 2010
The Lost Rick Sanchez Tapes
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
| Sanchez Overboard | ||||
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Here at Random Pixels, we know when it's time to move on.
But South Florida and the nation are clearly hungry for more
But first this.
A check of Google keyword activity shows that people are landing on my blog using the following search terms: "rick sanchez dui", "rick sanchez sally fitz", "rick sanchez sleeves rolled up", "rick sanchez metric system",and finally, "rick sanchez squatting over map of iraq."
Yes, America, 20 years ago during the first Gulf War, Rick Sanchez did a nightly war summary on WSVN in Miami while squatting over a map of Iraq. As former Miami Herald TV critic Hal Boedeker says, "Sanchez squatting over a map of Iraq. It’s just one of those images you can’t forget." More on that later.
When Sanchez finally does his first interview on this whole, sorry affair, I'm guessing he'll use the insanity defense. "Jon Stewart drove me over the edge," or something like that. He might even accuse Stewart of being a TV bully!
This morning's New York Times bears that out. A story about Sanchez's firing contained this line: "[Jon] Stewart has made jokes about Mr. Sanchez more than 20 times in the last five years, according to a search of the show’s Web site. Or as Mr. Sanchez put it, “You watch yourself on his show every day and all they ever do is call you stupid.”
But Stewart wasn't the first to lampoon Sanchez.
More than 20 years ago, in the 80's and 90's, Sanchez was mercilessly and unrelentingly skewered on a regular basis by Miami radio talk show host Neil Rogers. Rogers' humor was more vicious than anything Stewart ever did. And Rogers didn't just do a bit one time and retire it. Once he was onto something, he used it constantly.
When Sanchez married in the late 80's, someone sent Rogers a bootleg tape of him serenading his new bride. Neil's staff put together this spoof "Rick Sanchez Sings" infomercial.
But perhaps Rogers' most popular Sanchez bit was a spoof of him doing one of his nightly war segments while squatting over the map.
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