Word: mainstreamers
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Bloggers are proud to be the mainstream media's fact-checking gadflies, but last week they were the ones being checked. The New York Times reported that recent posts lambasting legislation against Wal-Mart came verbatim from the retailer's p.r. firm. The right-wing IOWA VOICE pleaded guilty but said he was sent "links to news articles [that] we would have found anyway." Lefty media monitor SNARKAHOLIC retorted that the bloggers were "too stupidly egotistical to know the difference between a press release and [an] exclusive source," while politiblog FIREDOGLAKE decried Wal-Mart's "corporate propaganda...
...book that said that basically there was a fifth column of people trying to take back portions of Mexico that were lost. But the reality is different. There is assimilation. The 2000 Census showed that 71% of third-generation Mexican-American immigrants speak only English. And yet even mainstream media tend to make the mistake of equating Latino with Spanish speaking. One of our columnists, Gregory Rodriguez, likes to make the point that nobody would ever think of scolding Rudy Giuliani for not speaking fluent Italian, but everyone seems surprised that the Latino mayor of Los Angeles speaks broken Spanish...
...Gates: Videoconferencing is another good example. There?s more of it going on today than in the past. But it?s still not really mainstream. Even with cameras being very cheap, one thing that researchers noticed was that you look really bad in a videoconference image, because the lighting is bad and you get shadows and things. So they?re showing this software that makes you look good, that understands about shadows and bags under your eyes and highlighting the twinkle in your eye and it?s very realistic. It?s what a great makeup artist would...
...this new generation of TV using our software to do it. So it has finally happened. The people who've been working on it for 10 years feel great that it came true. With Tablet PC we have a lot of people who love it, but it's not mainstream yet, so we still have years of work to do to make it that much better, cheaper, thinner, more accurate. We all have this conviction that it will be mainstream...
...wants (and has) the money it knows it should push away. Evidence still raps about wack MCs on the radio (“The game’s fucked a thousand sound-alikes it’s sad”), and he still raps about how he shuns a mainstream sound (“I don’t fuck with that industry flow”), but his resistance to the trappings of mass appeal has waned. Turns out that he does indeed “fuck with that industry dough.” Political consciousness, previously a lyrical mainstay...