Burger King twit-hacked; Wendy’s: ‘We have an alibi’
By Charlie MeyersonBurger King twit-hacked; Wendy’s: ‘We have an alibi’
By Charlie Meyerson‘I’VE HEARD ALL KINDS OF CRITICS SAYING THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS CORPS IS WHINING ABOUT A GOLF GAME AND VIOLATING THE PRESIDENT’S PRIVACY.’ But the president of the White House Correspondents Association says “nothing could be further from the truth” in the complaints over reporters’ lack of access to the president during his golf outing with Tiger Woods.
* Indication the president just doesn’t care so much about his image in this second term?
* Big tobacco and anti-cancer activists agree: One part of Obama’s Affordable Health Care Act is not a good idea.
SURE, NOW. NASA and other organizations are scrambling for better ways to detect incoming space-borne objects like the meteorite that hit Russia last week — reportedly the biggest to enter Earth’s atmosphere in more than 100 years.
* Wall Street Journal: Fireball unleashed more than 30 times Hiroshima atomic bomb’s energy.
IF YOU LOVED ‘BUFFY,’ ‘AVENGERS,’ ‘FIREFLY’ … Then be excited. Be very excited. Joss Whedon is bringing Marvel Comics’ super-spy agency S.H.I.E.L.D. to television.
* Whedon previously explored high-tech government agency milieu with “Cabin in the Woods.”
ON THE BRINK OF HISTORY. The Blackhawks could make the NHL record books tonight.
* NFL player arrested on charges of carrying a handgun in luggage at NYC airport.
HOW ARE YOU WIRED?
* To hate exercise?
* To engage in sex with psychopaths?
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