Thursday, April 2nd, 2009
by Jeff
I’m blown away by this level of stupidity. Just listen to this 911 call.
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What makes this even more funny, is we have occasionally run an OnStar parody commercial on the Q Morning Show for the past five years called Blondestar that has someone doing the same thing.
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Just when I thought no one would ever be stupid enough to do what the woman in the Blondestar commercial did. Humans never cease to amaze me.
Friday, September 12th, 2008
by Jeff
Like it or not, we live in a changing world. In fact it’s changing so fast that some people can’t keep up, while others embrace the change easily and allow it to benefit them.
In the span of just one month, I have witnessed two major political players make national news from the relatively small city of Portland Maine. Both of them did so via the internet. Would this have happened ten years ago? Probably not.
On August 13th, I posted video of The Q Morning Show’s interview with Senator Susan Collins, where one of my partners, Lori, asked the senator what she thought about John Edwards affair. She was quite candid, going so far as to say “Don’t you think he is the father of the child?”
Within 24 hours the clip had made its way around the internet on various political blogs, including abc.com. The video was also shown on local television news stations, printed in the local paper above the fold two days in a row, and even made it onto Hannity and Colmes on Fox News. All this attention coming our way that wouldn’t have ten years ago when we didn’t have a video camera in the studio with the ability to record and post video to the web.
Almost a month later to the day, it happened again. WCSH’s Rob Caldwell had the opportunity to interview Senator John McCain. One thing you learn very quickly by watching Rob is he is not afraid to ask the questions that the American public wants to know, no matter who he’s asking.
Rob asked the Senator the tough questions, and he pretty much crumbled. When asked what experience Governor Palin have in the field of national security, McCain replied, “Energy. She knows more about energy than probably anyone else in the United States of America….”And, uh, she also happens to represent, be governor of a state that’s right next to Russia. She understands Russia.”
Huh? Based on that logic, I understand Canada very well because Maine is right next to it, however I digress.
What I’m really trying to point out here is how mainstream media used to make news for the internet, but today the internet makes news for mainstream media. Our video of Susan Collins on a radio station made local and national television news from a post on a blog on the internet. The same happened for WCSH’s interview with McCain.
The irony of it is that both of these interviews were done originally using traditional media outlets, but didn’t gain national attention until they were posted to the internet. In fact, I didn’t even know about the McCain interview until I saw a post on Facebook about it.
If we didn’t do a web video broadcast of The Q Morning Show each day, Susan Collins comments would go largely unnoticed. If WCSH didn’t post their video to their website and allow other websites to embed the video into their own sites, Rob Caldwell might not be seeing his interview as part of Meet The Press on Sunday.
See what embracing a changing world can get you?
Rob Caldwell’s Interview with Senator McCain
The Q Morning Show’s Interview with Senator Susan Collins
Thursday, September 4th, 2008
by Jeff
Oh well. She’s still hotter than Cheney.
Saturday, August 16th, 2008
by Jeff
Will Senator Susan Collins comments on John Edwards have any effect on her campaign? That’s what the Portland Press Herald asked retired political science professor Oliver Woshinsky today:
In connection with this election, I think it will have exactly zero effect. There are so many things that are going to happen between now and the election. The economy and oil prices are going to take absolute precedence, and the war is still on people’s minds.
No offense to Mr. Woshinsky, but that’s a big duh.
So while I still have your attention, and since I won’t have it for much longer as this whole thing starts to die down, let me address something about our interview with Senator Collins. One question I see asked over and over on the comments in blogs and on the Press Herald’s site is why we didn’t ask Senator Collins about John McCain’s past indiscretions. Answer: It’s old news, and not the current water cooler talk among our target audience.
We asked the senator a year ago about Larry Craig when he was the talk of the nation, and she was also very candid with her opinion on that matter. We’ve even brought up silliness from John McCain previously which you can hear in our interview with Senator Collins here:
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The thing I wonder most about this newsmaker we seemed to create, is would it have even been news if we didn’t have the video? Would anyone have gotten the audio from our daily podcast?
Ain’t the internet a crazy thing?
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