Lindsay Abrams writes for Salon: Good news for viewers of BBC News: You’ll no longer be subjected to the unhinged ravings of climate deniers and other members of the anti-science fringe. In a report published Thursday by the BBC Trust, the network’s journalists were criticized for devoting too much airtime (as in, any airtime) to […]
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Are Newsletters the New Blogs?
Everyone knows that blogs are dead. (Uh, except for this blog, obviously.) And I’ve been noticing a lot of newsletters popping up lately. I’ve subscribed to a couple newsletters in the last few months—I enjoy Warren Ellis’s newsletter, Orbital Operations, which includes a little bit of self-promotion but also contains a lot of interesting thinking […]
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God Bless Clickhole
clickhole.com If you’re anything like me, you spent an embarrassingly large chunk of yesterday on Clickhole, the new site from the Onion that—headline by headline and stock photo by stock photo—brutally, beautifully takes apart BuzzFeed, Upworthy, PolicyMic, and their ilk. Which means you’ve also realized the insidious brilliance of Clickhole: For a site parodying the […]
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Urging a Site to Take Down Video of a Horrific Car Crash Isn’t “Censorship,” Gawker
Yesterday morning Jordan Sargent at Gawker posted TMZ’s video of the aftermath of the car crash that killed one man and injured four others including comedian Tracy Morgan. Sargent supposedly posted the video because Louis CK is asking people to not watch the video. The daughter of the man who died in the crash is […]
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So You Can Follow the CIA on Twitter Now
Yep, the Central Intelligence Agency officially joined Twitter and FB a few hours ago (unofficially they’ve been there the whole time). Their debut tweet: Twitter Hey, that’s pretty cute! Follow ’em here for “the best museum most people never get to see”?!
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Tonight: XRAY.fm and 24 Hour Party People
Appropriately enough for a community radio station that broadcasts ’round the clock, XRAY.fm is the beneficiary of a screening of 24 Hour Party People happening tonight at the Academy Theater: Haha, 2002’s coolest British movie, indeed! Good times. Anyway, as an added bonus feature, XRAY is hosting an after-party following the film’s screening, with DJs […]
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FOX News Affiliate: “Maya Angelou Dies; Decides Not to Visit Houston After All”
Fox News just get worst. pic.twitter.com/Z8vskkAmbo — Slow News Day (@SlowSlownews) May 28, 2014 Hey Houston! I’m sure Ms. Angelou did not mean for you to take it personally.
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Required Reading: Amy Nicholson on Tom Cruise
Over at the LA Weekly, Amy Nicholson has a pretty amazing piece up about Tom Cruise—that also happens to be about a whole bunch of other stuff. “How YouTube and Internet Journalism Destroyed Tom Cruise, Our Last Real Movie Star” is about Cruise, true, but it’s also about technology, Hollywood, Oprah, news, and gossip (in […]
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Did a Lie Cause the Firing of New York Times Executive Editor Jill Abramson?
The latest from Ken Auletta at The New Yorker, who, citing “extremely well-informed sources at the paper,” reports: Abramson was, essentially, fired for cause, for lying to Sulzberger. In the New York Times, David Carr recounts a similar-ish series of events, though he focuses on an alleged (and related) misleading of someone other than Sulzberger, […]
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Now That They’ve Successfully Repealed and Replaced Obamacare, Triumphant House Republicans Are Finally Going to Figure Out Benghazi
It’s been a long, hard journey, but now that House Republicans have finally saved America from the Marxist scourge of affordable health care, they’re moving on to the second item on their docket. Fox News says: House Republicans moved on two fronts Friday to dig for answers on Benghazi, with Speaker John Boehner announcing a […]
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Shirtless Romantic Flusters KTLA Reporter
KTLA reporter Courtney Friel is JUST DOING HER JOB, reporting live from the wildfires in Rancho Cucamonga near Los Angeles, when a shirtless dreamboat (carrying a tiny dog, of course) walks up and asks her out on a date. Of course she gets flustered and botches the rest of the report… because wouldn’t you? DON’T […]