Thanks a lot, ThisJustIn. The HBO/AOL news-comedy site, which quietly launched in beta last week, has completely ruined regular cable news for me with its hilarious take on the recent notorious Dick Cheney-Wolf Blitzer confrontation.
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(Surf to thisjustin.com and search on "Cheney," or just go to
tinyurl.com/2topdb.) The 1.5-minute segment purports to show
"unedited video ... altered by the network for obvious reasons" of
Blitzer questioning Cheney about his lesbian daughter.
Actually, it's a computer animation using spot-on video-game-style
likenesses of Cheney and Blitzer, and it's so much better than the
real thing that now any time I watch CNN or Fox News or CNBC I
close my eyes and wish ThisJustIn could just animate and rescript
the entire 24/7 news cycle.
Full disclosure: I randomly know a couple of people working on the
site; they surprised me by putting "The Media Guy" on their list of
"Friends of TJI" -- a dubious honor, given some of the other
scoundrels (Drudge, Perez Hilton) TJI lists as friends.
