Did you hear the one about the major cable TV and Internet news outlet that got punked by those crazy carnies on Coney Island? CNN, the Darth Vader network, picked up a News 12 Brooklyn video about the unearthing of a 140-year-old hot dog at the demolition site of Feltman’s Kitchen. Too bad the story was so ridiculously ridiculous that an autistic five-year-old could have called bullshit on it.
I really can’t describe the depths of my antipathy towards CNN – the English language simply lacks the words for that kind of bile. I quit them cold turkey after Balloon Boy – another fine example of their abandonment of all principles relating to the topic of “journalism.” They’re a major player in media coverage of the American political process – an industry filled with men and women hired for their ability to lie on camera – but they get taken for a ride just by walking past the Seashore Sideshow. (NY Post via Gothamist. Video on YouTube, until CNN gets it yanked.)
- A Brighton Beach-based variant of the Jersey Shore theme puts out a casting call. Any cable TV deal will be contingent on the casting, so folks – WE NEED TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN. Lean on the Russian-American stereotype in your own life to audition for a part! (Sheepshead Bites)
- After the Brooklyn DA was rumored to be considering gang-assault charges against firefighters involved in a bar brawl at the Salty Dog in Bay Ridge, police have arrested three people… and only two of them were charged and arraigned. (Bay Ridge Journal)
- CB15 throws its weight behind a Plumb Beach memorial for LGBT hate-crime victim Michael Sandy. (Sheepshead Bites)
- I’m not sure if this WABC investigative piece really shows State Senator Carl Kruger skirting campaign finance laws, or if it shows such laws don’t exist. (Sheepshead Bites)
- Russian eatery Chinar Restaurant is moving from Avenue U/Gerritsen Avenue to Coney Island Avenue (Sheepshead Bites, GerritsenBeach.net)
- Sunset Park resident realizes she moved to Dowisetrepla. (Sunset Parkour)
