It’s that time of year again. Every year, late in the summer, major media outlets rank the best and worst jobs in America. PRrag has decided to delve into jobs that have a certain image about them; an image that is either wholly spun and inaccurate or simply misunderstood by the public.
Fishermen, lumberjacks and airplane [...]
The tabloid legacy of the criminal justice system in the 1990s can be summed up in two words: Simpson and JonBenet.
Now it appears that one of the two cases may be definitively solved. CNN is reporting that authorities have arrested a suspect in the 1996 murder of JonBenet Ramsey, a childhood beauty queen who was [...]
We’re half way through the week. This is your Mid-Week Market Rag from PRrag.com.
Microsoft unveiled plans to allow the world to create their own Xbox 360 games. XNA Game Studio Express will launch a beta on August 30 and become widely available in the fall. The premise is to allow basically anyone to create their [...]
This may cause a little confusion.
According to a News Corp. press release, Twentieth Century Fox will start selling movies and television shows through web sites owned by its parent company, News Corp, which also owns IGN Entertainment.
IGN Entertainment owns Direct2Drive, a successful PC game downloading entity in its own right.
News Corp. owns MySpace and will [...]
Good morning on this bright Monday.
The personal computer celebrated its 25th birthday Saturday. CNN reported the short but passionate relationship between start-up company Microsoft and mainstay company IBM helped give rise to a community of computer users which gave rise to a new standard of living for countless millions of people.
The dual-floppy, command line-based system [...]
Entertainment Weekly’s readers will see a cover story this week featuring new James Bond, Daniel Craig promoting his upcoming debut in “Casino Royale.” If you read the full enterprise piece, you will see Mr. Craig come off doubtful of his public perception:
”If I went onto the Internet and started looking at what some people were [...]
The Department of Homeland Security raised the terror levels for domestic air travel and all flights bound for the United States from the United Kingdom to high (orange) and severe (red) respectively. This move comes with the news that a major terrorist plot was foiled in Britain.
The plot, reportedly involving terrorists boarding several America-bound commercial [...]
If you want to read a truly good article on Joseph Lieberman’s downfall in the Connecticut Democratic primary, read Joshua Micah Marshall’s article appearing on Time.com
Marshall is the founder of Talking Points Memo, one of the better blogs on the Internet.
I hope you are all enjoying your week and the variety of news that has gone along with it so far. This is the Mid-Week Market Rag for Wednesday March 9:
The success of its movies and theme parks helped Disney post a 71 percent increase in its net income, the Wall Street Journal reported today.
It [...]
In a close race, reportedly 52 percent to 48 percent, businessman and political rookie Ned Lamont ousted incumbent Joseph Lieberman from the Democratic ticket yesterday.
In a tight race with hot issues and national coverage, anti-war candidate Lamont edged his way to victory. Lieberman has vowed to run now as an independent, in an attempt [...]
