Saturday, June 29, 2013

Turning the morning news into soap opera

Ann Curry, the second fiddle on NBC’s Today show, is apparently being shown the door. That news was broken yesterday afternoon by Brian Stelter, the prolific media reporter of the New York Times on the newspaper’s website, and that 1,100-word story earned prominent placement on Page One of the business section of this morning’s paper.

I’ll forgive you in advance if you don’t care whether Curry continues on Today or if you don’t care whether she finds a slot elsewhere in the NBC empire, just as long as you forgive me for not giving a fig either. It’s not that I dislike Ann Curry or Today‘s first fiddle, Matt Lauer, or even Today‘s morning-show competition. It’s just that I dislike the shows for being dulled-down messes of news, entertainment and talk. If I watch any of them, it’s by accident.

My lack of interest in the morning-show mix puts me in the majority. Today, which is usually the number-one-rated program, and ABC’s Good Morning America, which took that position a couple of times this spring, draw an average of fewer than 5 million viewers. The third-ranked show, CBS’s This Morning, pulls in a little more than 2 million viewers. In a country of 311 million, that’s minimal interest.

The length and placement of Stelter’s piece, on the other hand, conveys a level of importance to Curry’s rumored departure that’s hard to justify. Stripped to its essence, the Curry saga might justify a 300-word short about Today‘s recent ratings volatility, Lauer’s alleged estrangement from Curry, and NBC’s judgment that she wasn’t as good a co-host as predecessor Meredith Vieira, all leading to her impending exit.

Instead, Stelter serves an extended story packed with anonymous sources – ”some at NBC,” “some staff members,” “people with knowledge of the negotiations, who insisted on anonymity because the matter was confidential,” “several people who know Ms. Curry,” “one of the people” who know Curry, “friends” of Meredith Vieira, and “one of the people with knowledge of the negotiations” between Curry and NBC – that makes the departure of a TV co-host sound like the final days of Richard Nixon. How much of the anonymous dancing is Curry’s people spinning her story and how much of it is NBC framing the ouster as necessary strategy to save the show is anybody’s guess.

Overdramatizing the comings and goings of on-air talent and the hirings and firings of network executives is a traditional part of the TV beat. The People Who Cover Television never have to worry about material: The TV industry defines itself by ratings, ratings produce winners and losers, and from winners and losers flow an endless river of copy to bottle and sell. The People Who Cover Sports have been doing a similar thing for more than a century. The toughest choice in covering the TV industry (or sports) is to decide whether to make the loser or the winner the day’s story. It’s not that difficult a choice. If you cover the loser today, just remember to put the winner in your calendar for coverage in the future.

A case can be made that the fate of Ann Curry constitutes big news because Today is a $300 million profit machine dependent on ratings for its ad revenues. If ratings drop and she’s to blame, the network’s stockholders must know! But Stelter spends little time there. In the worst tradition of TV coverage, he’s writing a soap opera about a TV show.

I pick on Stelter, but he’s only one of the several dramatizers working the TV beat. His Times colleague Bill Carter has been known to indulge this tendency, and a couple of years ago, critic Bill Wyman took pleasure in hosing Howard Kurtz (Washington Post and the Daily Beast) for his inappropriately thorough pieces on the fading of Katie Couric’s nightly news lights. The extreme coverage of Curry echoes Politico’s coverage of the Washington beat: While the outlet routinely breaks legitimate news, it also tends to inflate whatever political lint it collects into giant mainsails.

At least one newspaper reporter on the TV beat keeps a sense of perspective about her work: Lisa de Moraes of the Washington Post. (Here’s my 2003 appreciation of her work.) With her oeuvre more resembling that of a sports columnist than a sports reporter, de Moraes still delivers as much news about the industry as the writers at the Times – only she doesn’t weigh the beat down with high word counts and Timesian puff. And she’s funny. When CNN’s Lou Dobbs Moneyline was renamed Lou Dobbs Tonight, de Moraes explained that it was “because CNN would not let him rename it “I’m Lou Dobbs, Not Some Darn Islamist.”

With no disrespect to Curry, who is an accomplished reporter, if her impending exit from Today is big news, so is every segment on Entertainment Tonight.

Beat sweetener The Benjamin J. Rhodes edition

If you’ve ever wanted to see a White House staffer dressed in frosting and candy sprinkles like a gourmet cupcake, pull your Saturday, March 16, New York Times out of the recycling pile and read Mark Landler’s adulating “beat sweetener” about Deputy National Security Adviser Benjamin J. Rhodes, “Worldly at 35, and Shaping Obama’s Voice.”

A beat sweetener, as press-watchers know, is an over-the-top slab of journalistic flattery of a potential source calculated to earn a reporter access or continued access. They’re most frequently composed on the White House beat when a new administration arrives in Washington and every Executive Office job turns over, but they can appear any time a reporter is prepared to demean himself by toadying up to a source in exchange for material.

As a beat sweetener, the Rhodes piece excels on so many levels that I’ll bet the subject’s parents have framed and hung the clipping over the family mantel. Landler portrays Rhodes as a young fella with “old man” wisdom; as possessing a “soft voice” that delivers “strong opinions”; as one whose “influence extends beyond what either his title or speechwriting duties suggest”; and as someone who “cares” to the point of “anguish” but is “very realistic.”

The information content of these testimonials, made by both Landler and his sources, is just about zero. We learn that he “channels Mr. Obama on foreign policy,” as if a 35-year-old deputy who writes speeches for the president would have his boss on a leash. His unnamed friends and colleagues attest that he’s “deeply frustrated by a policy [in Syria] that is not working,” as if anyone could be anything but frustrated by a policy that isn’t working. Indeed, in the article’s next sentence, we learn from anonymous “administration officials” that Rhodes “is not alone in his frustration over Syria.”

Drawing liberally from the reporter’s big book of clichés, we learn that Rhodes wrote Obama’s “landmark address” given in Cairo in 2009 and that the upcoming Israel speech he has composed for Obama will assert America’s “unshakable support” for that nation. The salient fact about Rhodes’s landmark address — unmentioned by Landler here — was that it flopped, at least among the locals. According to a Pew survey, confidence in Obama in Muslim countries dropped from 33 percent in 2009 to 24 percent in 2012.

According to Landler, in “many ways” Rhodes was “an improbable choice for his current job at the heart of the national security apparatus.” Improbable? How so? After a couple of paragraphs of biography, in which we learn that Rhodes has an unfinished novel in his drawer (show me a speechwriter who doesn’t have at least one), that he grew up in Manhattan and that he worked briefly on Rudy Giuliani’s 1997 re-election campaign, we’re told that Rhodes toiled for former Representative Lee Hamilton, a “Democratic foreign-policy elder,” and helped him draft the 9/11 Commission report and the Iraq Study Group report. The latter document was “a template for the anti-Iraq war positions taken” by Obama when he was a senator.

Hiring Rhodes — or somebody with his resume — wasn’t an improbable choice. It was entirely predestined. Unnoted in the Times profile are the facts that Rhodes also wrote policy speeches for former Virginia Governor Mark Warner, that other Hamilton aides joined the Obama campaign, and that Rhodes’s wife, Ann Norris, works for Senator Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) on foreign policy and defense issues. For more Rhodes details, see this PR sketch published by his alma mater, Rice University: He studied there with novelist Max Apple, double-majoring in English and political science, and later got an MFA in fiction at New York University, where he also taught writing.

Why pretend Rhodes was an outside shot for the job? Did the Times decide the piece lacked sufficient tension to hold reader interest, and inflated the story with the bogus notion that he’s an accidental West Winger? Your guess is as good as mine.

Sucking up to Rhodes won’t necessarily earn Landler or other journalists covering the White House an automatic scoop. But beat sweeteners aren’t written with anything so crass in mind as scoops. They’re designed to keep the information conveyor lubricated (“source greaser” is another term for the practice) with journalistic goodwill. As someone who is inside the White House decision loop, Rhodes is a much better friend than an enemy.

That said, there was no reason for the Times to serve its readers a giant vanilla cupcake with vanilla frosting and vanilla jimmies. As your mom used to tell you, too much of anything will give you a stomach ache.

Wednesday, June 26, 2013

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The long, slow decline of alt-weeklies

Alternative weekly colossus Boston Phoenix cracked and fell yesterday, ceasing publication after 47 years. According to a Phoenix executive quoted in the obituary in today’s Boston Globe, the alternative weekly was losing more than $1 million a year, and a format switch last fall from newsprint to glossy had failed to attract the sort of national advertising it desired.

Once one of the leading alt-weeklies in the nation, the dead paper leaves behind $1.2 million in debt and roughly $500,000 in assets. The fact that its owner didn’t — or couldn’t — sell the publication to cover some of its debt signals the illness of the greater alternative weekly market.

Like its daily newspaper counterpart, the alt-weekly has enjoyed a terrible half-decade of plummeting revenues, circulation and page counts in the 100-plus markets currently served. One large chain that owned papers in Chicago, Washington, Atlanta, Charlotte and elsewhere filed for bankruptcy in 2008 and was eventually spun apart, but that financial disaster was as much about clueless proprietors overleveraging themselves as it was the decay of the alt-weekly business model.

The formula, pioneered by the Village Voice in the 1950s, finessed by the Phoenix in the 1960s and perfected by the Chicago Reader, the Phoenix New Times and others in the 1970s, became such a cinch that know-nothing bar owners and recent college graduates (or dropouts!) eventually made millions off it. Some papers, like the Phoenix New Times, built immense chains from the links they forged and acquired. The formula connected underserved readers with overcharged advertisers in both compact, urban settings like New York and Washington and sunbelt expanses like Phoenix and Dallas. In 2005, the two largest alt-weekly chains, anchored respectively by the Phoenix New Times and the Voice, combined to create a company valued by the participants at $400 million, with annual revenues of $180 million. Newspapers started in bar booths had become big business, but like many of the daily newspaper merger and acquisition deals going down during same period, this deal also proved too rich.

Many former alt-weekly editors would like to persuade you that their cutting take on city politics and the arts combined with their dedication to the feature form won readers. Actually, it was the whole gestalt that made the publications work. Comprehensive listings paired with club and concert ads to both entertain and help readers plan their week. Classified ads, especially the personals, often provided better reading than the journalistic fare in the front of the book. No better venue for apartment rentals existed; even people who had long-term leases used the housing ads to fantasize. Even the display ads, purchased mostly by local retailers and service providers, were useful to readers.

Monday, June 24, 2013

Fashion Trend – Neon

Ever since color blocking came over last summer, neon colors are all over the place. But it didn’t do too well after the take off as it can come off as tacky when not put together well. However this season there are plenty of more sophisticated neon fashion items to choose from. Whether you have a bag fetish or you are a jewelry aficionado neons are the go to colors for this season.

For the uninitiated neon are bright fluorescent colors (the ones you see on highlighters like fluorescent yellow, orange, green, pink and blue). These colours are very luminescent in nature and hence can be worn solid as a base or as an accent depending on your style, personality, the occasion and your body type. Neon is not easy to wear and you need to take effort to put them together. Here are some ideas on how you could incorporate neons into your ward robe.

Neon dresses: Neon T shirts are so passe, neon dresses (knee length or shorter) are the latest trend. The shorter ones can be paired with jeggings or fitted jeans and the longer ones can just be worn as a dress, as is or with a blazer if required. Accessorize with some long chains for a smart look.

Neon Pants: If you have the body type and the attitude to carry it off, then there’s nothing like pairing fitted fluorescent denim with a black/white tank/ Tshirt and a blazer. Accessorize with gladiator styled heels in black/white and you are good to go.

Muted neons: Think neons are too bright for you? Mute them by layering them with a sheer fabric like tulle or lace. Or you could take a cue from Louis Vuitton ads and sport dress with cut work or cut outs in them with neon lining.

Neon accessories: Try your hand at some spring colour blocking by teaming neon shoes with faded pastel clothing. Colourful, oversized clutches are an on-trend choice of accessory. Big totes in neon (esp. green) also do work really well. It is not necessary that all neon bags will be in plastic or coated materials. These days you get neon bags/ clutches made of leather and jute too. But if you like the frosted finish of the water proof bags, then you are in luck, for that is in trend too.

Neon Jewelry: Most big brands in costume jewelry are into neon these days. Big chunky stones in fluorescent green, orange and pink, when put together create quite an impact. Obviously, they are expensive. So the easiest way is to buy white rhinestone jewelry, according to your taste and budget (most local markets and malls stock them) and color them with a few coats of funky nail polish colours. You can even add pieces of neon rope or ribbon to make them look unique. Team such pieces with something simple like a black dress and heels for a truly stunning look.

Don’t like too much of neon, then use it as an accent in your clothes and accessories. A piping here, a patch there is enough to make your clothes look trendy this season. So go on pick up some neon colors and highlight your wardrobe with them.

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Saturday, June 8, 2013

How to Crochet Your Own Hair Snoods?

Hear the word "snood" and you might think of an addicting computer game with furry little monster faces. But it's actually an old-school hair accessory that resembles a lacy net or bag. In olden times, ladies sometimes wore a snood attached to a headband or a hat. If you want to re-create the Renaissance in your life, learn how to crochet your own hair snoods. Once you get the hang of the basic pattern, embellish it with beads, pearls or new and different yarns to bring this piece of hair history into the modern age.

1. Start with a few chain stitches; make four of them and join them together with a slip stitch to form a circle. This will be the base of your snood. When you crochet it like this, you will be able to try it on as you go, which will come in handy later.

2. Chain three, which counts as a double crochet stitch. Make 11 double crochet stitches into the center of the circle you made in Step 1, then join to the top of your initial chain-three stitch. This will make the base of your snood.

3. For round two, increase the circumference of your snood. To do this, chain three again to act as your first double crochet. Chain one more and then double crochet into the next stitch; chain one, double crochet into the following stitch. Repeat this pattern around so you have a total of 12 double crochets and 12 chain-one stitches.

4. Work the next round evenly; to do this, chain four, which counts as your first double crochet and chain one. Skip the next stitch, which is a chain stitch, and make a double crochet into the following stitch, which is a double crochet. Chain one and make a double crochet in the next double crochet stitch, again skipping the chain one. Repeat this pattern around.

5. Increase the width again on the next round. To do this, chain four, then double crochet into the next stitch from the previous round. Chain one and double crochet into the next stitch in the previous round. Chain one again and double crochet into the next stitch from the previous round. Continue this pattern around; you are basically repeating the process of Step 4, but you aren't skipping any stitches this time. This will double the total number of stitches in your snood.

6. Crochet evenly around for all remaining rounds. To do this, repeat the process you used in Step 4. This will give your snood height. Try it on as you go by placing your hair into the bag shape the snood is forming. When the snood is long enough to hold all of your hair at shoulder length or just above it and the open top of the snood reaches your forehead, crochet one more even round of double crochets and chain stitches.

7. Finish the snood by making one final round. This time, chain one and make one single crochet stitch into every double crochet and chain stitch from the previous round. Join with a slip stitch and fasten off, then use a large-eye blunt needle to weave in your loose ends. Thread a length of 1/2-inch wide ribbon through the last double crochet round of the snood, weaving the ribbon over and under each subsequent double crochet stitch. Tie the ribbon in a bow. You can use this to hold the snood onto your head when you wear it, so leave plenty of extra ribbon length for it to stretch around your head like a headband.

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Thursday, June 6, 2013

The Truth About Eyelash Enhancing Serums

I have to admit, I didn’t want to take this assignment at first.

Before a few months ago I had never used an eyelash enhancer and when I was asked to review them, I told my editors "I don't feel comfortable reviewing something I've never personally used".

But then something happened... My friend Nancy Leggars was visiting me from San Diego and there was something different about Nancy.. Here eyelashes were huge!

I mean they were so long she could barely wear her glasses.. I totally thought she was wearing falsies.. But no, Nancy told me she had been using an eyelash enhancer!

After that, I was convincd I need to try these for myself and take the assignment. Here's what I found..

As you've probably seen, women are reporting amazing things about eyelash enhancers. Not only are women using them to repair damaged lashes back to their full potential, but also to support new lash growth, making their existing lashes longer, darker and much fuller... and let me tell you.. these things are noticeable.

But the real questions is.. which ones REALLY work? Companies looking to cash in on this cosmetics craze are releasing all sorts of eyelash treatments and many are not what they seem.

Naturally, these incredible claims have caused some women to be skeptical of the products and their promises, and a quick glance at the research shows why:


 *  They might not work- this is probably the biggest reason why some women are reluctant to try an enhancer, and with good reason: many of the products on the market don’t contain the proper ingredients in the proper concentration to produce results.

 *  They can be expensive- some enhancers can cost $125+ for a four week treatment!

 *  Some products can cause discoloration or irritation- thicker lashes aren’t much help if they’re attached to red, puffy eyes.

But how can you know which products are the good ones? How can you tell an eyelash enhancer that works from those that are simply a waste of money?

We know it's not easy to find an eyelash enhancer that works, and we felt like women shouldn’t have to hire a research assistant just to get one that produces results. That’s why we reviewed the products ourselves.

How We Researched

For an eyelash enhancer to work, it has to use the right amount of active ingredients that are responsible for growth.

Now, these ingredients are not cheap and many brands cut cost by only using meniscal amounts.

How do you tell which brands use the right amount of active ingredient?

It's easy. The higher up on the ingredient list the active ingredient is, the more of it is in the formula.

We looked at 47 different brands in all to find out which ones really use the right amount of active ingredient and have also been proven to grow your lashes.

Here's What We Found:

As we thought, the majority of eye lash enhancers do not use nearly enough of the expensive active ingredients required to support eyelash growth.

They claim to get results, but many only use basic mineral oils that that can be bought at any drug store for pennies on the dollar compared to the excessive prices these eyelash enhancers cost.

However, we did manage to find a few brands that do use the right amount of the high quality ingredients proven to be effective.

And boy do these brands work! Upon reading user stories of these products, we heard nothing but amazing results! Women report these products to do exactly what they claim. Many women with damaged eyelashes say these products have caused incredible results and that they would gladly spend the high price to buy them again. Other women say they've used other eyelashes with no result, but these products worked where those did not. Some women even report that these products work so well, they were able to stop wearing mascara to show off their eyelashes.

If you're looking for an eyelash enhancer, these are the products to use.

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Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Selecting The Right Type Of Earrings For Yourself

From Time immemorial earrings have been in trend. Being such a wonderful and versatile accessory, through centuries men and women have used them to adorn themselves, selecting particular designs for particular occasions and face types. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to know how to select the best pair of earrings for you? Here are some tips from my side.

Earrings by closure - Earrings come in many different types - studs, hoops, danglers, chandelier and clip-on. Studs and hoops typically have a backing made of metal or plastic to hold the earring in place, while danglers will hook into the hole and hang without a backing. Sling backs or fold backs are danglers which will have clasps that snap into place. Chandeliers and discs can be studs or danglers. Choose stud backing for earrings that are heavy and loop dangles for ones that are light. Heavier ones will need additional backing or a chain that goes over the ears.

Earrings by Face Type - If you have a round, short face, long earrings like chandeliers and chain earrings may look awkward and so will tiny studs. The best type of earrings for you is a stud with a small dangler that will balance out your face. Long faces may dwarf a pair of stud earrings.  If you have a long neck chain earrings or tassels that gently graze your neckline will look beautiful on you. Long earrings also help slenderize chubby cheeks and faces. If your face is more on the (inverted) triangular side then flat disc earrings and hoops will look good.

Earrings by hairstyle - Consider some dangles and medium sized studs when wearing your hair up and away from your face. Large earrings might look too clunky with your updos unless you are in very casual, bohemian surroundings. While wearing your hair down, if your hair is long enough (till the shoulders or below) choose a larger earring design.  Earrings that are too small will simply get lost inside your hair and not be seen at all.  Chandelier earrings are an excellent option when wearing your hair down. Hoops and discs look good with plaits and ponytails.

Earrings by wardrobe - If you have a conservative wardrobe for the office, then you might want to stick with simple studs and small hoops to go with your trousers, skirts and sarees. Here a simple diamond or gold stud is your best bet. On the other hand, dangling and chandelier earrings are fabulous to wear with tunics, dresses or jeans for outings. Jhumkas and earrings that cover the ear are great with Indian outfits like salwars and sarees. Novelty earrings, mismatched earrings (different yet coordinated earrings on different ears) or coupled earrings (a cat and mouse) are best suited for pairing with casual outfits.

Choosing the right earrings will make a great impact on those who see you for they can help draw attention away from blemishes, complement your hairstyle, and help lengthen or slenderize your face.

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Monday, June 3, 2013

How to accessorize according to body shape

These days, everyone is talking about body types. Pear, apple, diamond, hourglass; people are figuring out the best way to dress as per their body types. It is really good in a way, as once you are aware of your body type and thereby what suits you/ does not suit you, its easy to build a wardrobe and dressing up will not be so stressful. In one of my earlier articles – dressing for your body type, I had described the various female body types in detail and what sort of clothes would suit them. Now I will talk about how to accessorize according to your body types. So gear up for some interesting accessorizing tips!

Jewelry: When trying to accessorize body shape you must focus on all those advantages you want to point out and invest all of your strength into choosing pieces that will make all of your wonderful features pop. Proud of your slim hands? Wear a flattering bracelet and a statement ring! Love your long neck – wear long earrings or a collar necklace to show it off.

Belts: Narrow belts are super hot this season, but wide obi belts are rocking as well. So which ones should you opt for? The choice of a belt should depend on the length of your torso and overall height which means that shorter ladies or ladies with shorter torsos or apple and pear body types look best with a narrow belt and taller ladies or ladies with longer torsos could benefit from wider belts. The in between ones can carry off both. If you have an apple body shape your tunic will look best if you belt it at high waist. Rectangular shaped ladies such need to wear their belts on their natural waistline because this makes the body look curvier while the ladies with natural curves need to find the narrowest part of their waist to point out.

Bags: Bags can make or break your look for there are the determiners of balance and proportion in your look. Petite women should choose small to medium sized bags rather than their oversized alternatives while curvier gals need to stay away from anything tiny and opt for larger pieces. Also choose the handle length depending on your body types. If you are heavy on the hips, you don’t want a heavy bag at the stomach or hip level but a sleek rectangular one. The same holds good in the case of chunky bags lined up at bust level. If you have small busts, then this will balance your look but if you are really busty then it will make look like an inverted triangle.

Shoes: Just when you thought shoes don’t depend on body types, I am going to upset you for a bit and tell you the truth. They Do!! Wide ankle straps make your legs seem shorter and bulkier so avoid them if you are heavy on the bottom. Classic pumps, simple ballet flats and smooth leather boots without any details will slim you down and make you look taller. In case you’re petite avoid chunky boots, and bulky platforms. Strappy sandals and ballerinas will look prettier on you.

The Beautiful Girl Hair Accessories

No matter how old your little girl is, the hair accessories are a key element in keeping hair tidy as well as expressing personal style. But for the really little ones–who often times don’t have a lot hair to work with–this can be a challenge. Soft headbands are great–especially those with fun, girlie embellishments like flowers, pompoms or crystals. But clips are it!

Most of the women want their hair long and silky while others find it hard to support and opted a short hair for convenience. Noticed that you cannot go out without even stopping by in front of the mirror and see if everything are in place, that is because women are so conscious in the way they look. There are many ways girl hair accessories comes to an aide especially for women with unruly hair, the best way to get away with such dilemma is either you clip it to the side or wear a cloth band for that matter. Even in sport event hair gets in your way. That is why most athletes who wants to keep their long hair uses head band. Hence it is imperative that you keep a variety of hair accessories in your drawer, you will never when you will need it badly.

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