As everyone knows, Rick and I are powerful and important bloggers who can do anything we want. Which is, I guess, why we’re both sitting at home instead of living it up at some important Thunder party for power brokers or whatever.
But earlier in the day Rick had a chance to check out WDRB/Fox41’s […]

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March 5, 2008 — A new record for Web traffic on The ‘Ville Voice. Thanks.
So for about a year now, my son Josh has been bugging me to get the new digital cable box from Insight. He was tired of my complaints that I couldn’t record two programs at a time. Said all I had […]

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Hear This: If I report television ratings information here, it’s based on unofficial sources here in the market. Those darn Nielsen folks are pretty protective of their numbers, because they don’t want us media types publicizing numbers that they’re charging the stations good money to get. From what I hear they come down hard on […]

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Here’s one that local media, with one exception, whiffed on. The largest building project in the city’s history is under construction. Since last fall, work crews have been preparing the site, right next to the Ali Center, and we’ve all assumed that the building project is moving along smoothly.
Then all the activity stops. The giant […]

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So I guess he won’t be reading this, right?
Fox 41’s Elizabeth Woolsey got an invite to the 40,000 square-foot Anchorage home of pizza tycoon John Schnatter. Her report revealed that the man who owns 6 percent of the city’s real estate, who can afford any toy he desires, doesn’t bother with this silly Internet thing.
“I’ve […]

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You were wondering, perhaps, who’s watching the nightly news?
Apparently some folks on the Metro Council are paying pretty close attention. Last Wednesday the Health and Human Needs Committee hauled representatives from LMPD and EMS to their meeting to ask them about a fictional problem uncovered by Fox41’s Julie Tam. Surely you remember the blue glove […]

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