Bad News for Bordeaux Celebrate Wine

One minute I'm reading that Bordeaux may have a great year and may actually be able to come back from its depressed market. The next day I read almost totally the opposite. This article from Times On Line points the finger at too much high-tech gizmos and not enough good old fashion wine making: The Government's solution was to recommend a move towards the methods that have been successful in the New [...] Read More


Jury Selected for Today's Bordeaux 2008 Celebrate Wine

As many of you readers know, there are actually quite a few great reasonably-priced Bordeaux wines. Every year, a few select professionals in the wine industry are chosen to select the top 100 bottles that are priced between $8-$30 dollars. Yesterday, the Bordeaux Wine Bureau announced the jury for 2008: Roger Dagorn: Master Sommelier Roger Dagorn has been in charge of the wine program at New York's famed Chanterelle restaurant since [...] Read More


Bordeaux Gets Heart Ripped Out Celebrate Wine

Bordeaux is still feeling more than just a sting when it comes to competing with wine from all over the world. Families who have been in the business for generations are literally having to rip out their vineyards because prices have sunk to such an all time low in the market. From Tearing at the heart of Bordeaux's vineyards: They call it arrachage, or ripping out, a word that evokes the emotional [...] Read More


Fox News Develops Its Own 'Daily' Show' The Digital TV Weblog

does Jack Bauer do stand up? Joel Surnow, co-creator of "24," is going to take a whack at conservative comedy for Fox News Channel. He is creating a pilot that will air in prime time in January. If successful, the channel's fair-and-balanced mix of news and opinion would produce weekly political satire. As Tom Siebert reports: Surnow originally pitched the idea of a right-leaning "The Daily Show" alternative as a late-night comedy series [...] Read More


Is their news in The Daily Show? The Digital TV Weblog

The Substance of Fake News Last week I wrote about 'authenticity' and how that is a larger topic today than it was in the past. Today, I read an article in AdAge (sorry, subscription required) that demonstrates just how little information exists in network news shows. The study, by julia R. Fox, assistant professor of telecommunications at Indiana University, is titled "No Joke: A Comparison of Substance in The Daily Show with [...] Read More