Local Investigative Blogger Shows How It’s Done

“Business-friendly Republicans in West Michigan may be underwhelmed by the impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump,” the Michigan Advance reports.
“But based on random interviews around Grand Rapids this weekend, following a national news segment many found unrepresentative of the area, many locals find impeachment critical for holding the president accountable.
“Meet the Press, the stalwart Sunday morning political gabfest on NBC, has made Kent County in West Michigan a major point of focus for its 2020 election coverage.
“On Sunday that included a segment with six Grand Rapids-area Republicans sharing their lack of enthusiasm with the impeachment effort during a roundtable discussion filmed at Brewery Vivant, a Grand Rapids brewery in the trendy East Hills neighborhood.”
Let’s let Emptywheel, aka Marcy Wheeler, pick it up from here.

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Posted on December 17, 2019

By CraigS1996’s Commercial Vault via YouTube

From Cover Girl makeup with Salt-n-Pepa to Hamburger Helper, these are the commercials that ran during WGN-TV’s 1997 airing of Miracle On 34th Street.

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Posted on December 12, 2019

By Research and Markets

The global internet TV market will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 11% in the next five years, according to our new report Internet TV Market By Type of Content (Content-on-Demand and Live Streaming), By Revenue Source, and By Region – Global Forecast up to 2025.
The goal of the new report is to define, analyze, and forecast the global internet TV market based on segments, which include revenue source, type of contents, and region.
In addition, the global internet TV market report helps venture capitalists to better understand the companies involved in order to make well-informed decisions; the report is primarily designed to provide company executives with strategically substantial competitor information, data analysis, and insights about the market, development, and implementation of an effective marketing plan.

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Posted on December 11, 2019

By Linda Geddes/Mosaic

Pepi Nana stirs, and sits up in bed.
“Tiddle toddle, tiddle toddle,” she says, flapping her arms, and blinking a pair of enormous round eyes. She walks over to the desk, sits down, and, using the oversized pencil in her front pocket, scribbles a letter to the Moon.
“Tiddle toddle, please come to tea, and we can have a story. Yours lovingly, out of the window, Pepi Nana.
She steps onto the balcony of her toy house, kisses the letter and watches it flutter up into the night sky.
What Pepi Nana doesn’t know is that on the Moon lives a waxy-looking creature with coal-black eyes called Moon Baby. He has a fixed smile and a blue Mohican. He reads her letter, pulls up the hood of his dressing-gown, and flies out of his crater towards Earth.
Arriving at Pepi Nana’s house, Moon Baby rings the doorbell, hugs Pepi Nana, and wakes up all the other toys with his African thumb piano . . .
Most people have a favorite TV show from childhood. If you’re a parent, there’s also probably a show that your children adored but you found strange, or even a bit creepy. Right now, for many parents, that show is Moon and Me. It follows the night-time exploits of a mismatched set of dolls – including Pepi Nana, a soft pink onion called Mr Onion, and the milky, clown-like Colly Wobble – who come to life whenever the Moon shines.

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Posted on December 9, 2019