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Torn - Another O’Reilly Cover-Up?

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Posted in American Madness, CNN, Journalism, Media, NPR, NY Post, NY Times, New York, Radio by Matt Cipriano
October 1, 2007

I am not a big Bill O’Reilly fan… Well, technically I guess that is not true. Every now and then when nothing else is on TV I like to flip to his show to get a good laugh about some ridiculous belief he has about how people in this country actually are or his take on the evil left.

Anyway, last week when O’Reilly made some comments while dining at Sylvia’s in Harlem (”It was like going into an Italian restaurant in an all-white suburb in the sense of people were sitting there, and they were ordering and having fun,”) I was ready to jump all over it, then I decided to wait a bit, analyze the fallout from what he said, see if a media storm started brewing the likes of which we haven’t seen since Don Imus (I guess that was only like March, wasn’t it?). So I waited…

I heard occasion tidbits about it on the news, newspapers touched on it and then we had a weekend and it has pretty much disappeared. WTF?!?!

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On the Water Front

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Posted in Coke, Economy, Environment, Food & Drink, Green, NPR, Shopping, Water by Matt Cipriano
June 8, 2007

Well, it looks like it is a good thing that Coke decided to buy Glaceau, makers of Smart Water. It takes, between 50 and 60 gallons of water to produce a 1 liter bottle of coke. Considering that Coke is one of the most popular beverages around the world, that is a whole lot of water.

According to NPR, Coke is making an attempt to become a greener company and, due to a concern that a world water shortage is an actual possibility, Coke is looking to return all the water they actual use, approximately 76 billion gallons, back to nature.

Their plan is to put $20 million towards conserving seven watersheds around the world and are working towards changing their practices to use less water and recycle the water that they do use.

Also, if you are a big fan of bottled waters, you should check out Fine Waters. This is a site for people who believe that each bottled water has a unique taste and has gone to the effort of cataloging all of the information they can gather on bottled waters. Personally I am a huge fan of Fiji and Smart Water (though Smart Water didn’t make the cut for the site).

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