Apparently it doesn’t take that much to impress me: a good song, some synchronized tech demonstration, and that’s about it. The iPhone app commercials bring tears to my eyes, I will pause and rewind the Sprint Now Network commercials again and again, and don’t even get me started on the new Honda Insight commercials (I’m getting emotional just thinking about them).

Add this commercial to the mix (embedded below), one of Google’s new ads for its Chrome browser. It’s got a great song (The Lucky Ones, by Tim Myers), bright colors, and synchronized objects moving around the screen. The prefect recipe in my book.

As far as the rest of the Google commercials go, they kind of suck. In typical Google fashion, they don’t really highlight the features–at all. I guess Google just thinks that because they look cool, you’ll download it. Well, I guess they’re right…

When this commercial comes on, I get this tingly sensation.

Even though most Californians probably don’t do half the stuff pictured in this commercial, it’s still nice that everyone else in the country thinks we do.

Here’s a link to the extended version with the outtakes.

A response to this Huffington Post article.

Taking a middle of the road approach to the news doesn’t mean that you present a topic and have two unqualified people from each side scream at each other for five minutes with limited interruption by the anchor. That approach is something closer to having someone else do your job for you.

Just because CNN divulged itself from taking a political side doesn’t mean it should have divulged itself from journalism, which seems to be their approach. There will always be two sides (or three or four) to every news story, but just because there are doesn’t mean that each side merits the same amount of air time.

It is the journalists’ responsibility to investigate and present the facts behind a story. At that point, if the story merits a partisan response, only then should outside input be included. And the partisan responses should be included in a moderated fashion; no one gains anything when commentators are given a soap box to spew talking points, unchecked by the facts. If a journalists wishes to include outside remarks, they should be responsible enough to hold these commentators to the truth. It’s one thing to have someone else do your work for you; it’s another thing to ask an unqualified partisan to do your work for you.

I stopped watching CNN not because it became too middle-of-the-road but because they were so concentrated and obsessed with that middle that they failed to present the story effectively and truthfully.
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