Opinion: The “Obama’s brilliant strategy” theory
Marty Kaplan
July 11, 2011
If you voted for Obama, here’s what you’re not supposed to be thinking:
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Marty Kaplan: Pessimism is the last taboo
Marty Kaplan
June 27, 2011
If you pay attention to the news, the prospects for the future look grim.
Opinion: If Bachmann and Palin Weren’t Pretty
Marty Kaplan
May 27, 2011
I wonder how much airtime Michele Bachmann (R.-Minn.) would get if she didn’t look the way she does. I wonder how much of Sara Palin’s political appeal arises from her physical appeal.
Our friend Pakistan and other mental pretzels
Marty Kaplan
May 2, 2011
On the same day that Americans are test-driving the idea that Osama bin Laden lived on the outskirts of Pakistan’s West Point, undetected, for six years, Orly Taitz goes to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to prove that President Obama’s long-form birth certificate is a forgery. As they say in conspiracy-land, there are no coincidences.
Marty Kaplan: The Naked Nielsens
Marty Kaplan
April 14, 2011
The TV business is built on advertising. Except for premium cable, the money that networks get for selling audiences’ eyeballs to advertisers is the mother’s milk of the industry. Networks set the price of ads on their shows using demographic information about the age and sex of those shows’ viewers. And the company that pretty much has a monopoly on furnishing those metrics is Nielsen.
Moses, media piracy and the MPAA
Marty Kaplan
April 4, 2011
If only people understood why they shouldn\’t do it, then they wouldn\’t do it.
Marty Kaplan: The more you watch, the worse you feel
Marty Kaplan
March 21, 2011
As if the triple whammy of the Japanese earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster weren’t enough to enthrall and terrify us, the war in Libya is now providing cable news viewers a fresh hell to follow 24/7.
Letters to the Editor: Gibson Scale, Glenn Beck, Aaron Liberman and Latino-Jewish Coalition
Jewish Journal
March 15, 2011
The best reasons that I read The Jewish Journal are because of great Americans like Dennis Prager and David Suissa. It is nauseating to see columns by leftist slimebags like Marty Kaplan and Rachel Roberts (the doctoral student — OMG) (“Muslim Criminals, Jewish Activists,” Feb. 18). Maybe the two of them can get together and hate Israel and America together!
Al Jazeera English vs. The Charlie Sheen Channel
Marty Kaplan
March 9, 2011
“This is strictly a business decision,” a Comcast source told Rupert Murdoch’s Web site MarketWatch about whether Comcast, the biggest cable operator in the U.S., will offer Al Jazeera English to its 24 million subscribers. Not a decision about whether Al Jazeera English is anti-American, anti-Israeli, a tool of Al Qaeda, a propagandist for Palestinians. Or none of the above. Nope – it’s strictly dollars and cents.
Marty Kaplan: The Monsters Are Due on Maple Streets
Marty Kaplan
February 21, 2011
The power has gone out in a typical American town. Wait — it’s not just the electricity. The phones don’t work, either. Portable radios are dead. Cars won’t start.
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