1. Red State blogger Erick Erickson has caused a shitstorm on conservative blogs with this morning’s editorial about how the conservative media has gone crazy: I think conservative media is failing to advance ideas and stories. Certainly part of that is because the general media has an ideological bias against conservatives, which makes it harder […]
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“Seth MacFarlane and the Oscars’ Hostile, Ugly, Sexist Night”
The New Yorker‘s Amy Davidson tells it like it is. One choice nugget: The Academy is supposedly a trade group, and yet it devoted its opening number to degrading a good part of its membership. And who knows what the Los Angeles Gay Men’s Chorus thought that it was doing by serving as MacFarlane’s backup […]
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Chris Brown Is Not a Rapper…
..a fact which doesn’t bode well for the latest provocation by Camille Paglia, the world’s preeminent chronicler of the importance of Madonna’s 1984-1991 output. Paglia begins her 2,000-word Sunday Times think piece “Why Rihanna Is the New Diana” with the above mischaracterization of one of her main characters, and hopes sentences like “Diana and Rihanna […]
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Don’t Let the Door Hit Your Ass On the Way Out, Time
First Newsweek was all but shuttered, and now Time… well, Time‘s basically being dumped onto a rickety raft and shoved out to sea. David Carr’s story for the New York Times about the continuing dismantling of print is interesting for a few reasons, not the least of which is this bit, which is a pretty […]
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“eHarmony Really Ought to Put Up $10 Million, and Ask Other Companies to Put Up Money, and Do a Really First-Class Job of Figuring Out Homosexuality. At the Very Best, It’s Been a Painful Way for a Lot of People to Have to Live.”
So says eHarmony CEO Neil Clark Warren in this CNBC video, in which he also laments the armed guards he was required to hire to protect himself from fellow Christians made furious by eHarmony’s attorney general-ordered site for same-sex couples. Thank you for the heads up, Towleroad.
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8 Tips For Twitter N00bs Like You
It’s taken a couple years for me to figure out Twitter but I think I’ve finally gotten it. It’s about porn, right? Nevermind, that’s just the Twitter video app. And the rest of the Internet. Here are 8 tips for getting the most out of Twitter from an official New Media Genius (read: person under […]
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The Washington Post Has Developed a Real-Time Lie Detector for Speeches
People were begging for this kind of thing during the 2012 presidential campaign, but it looks like technology was about a year too late. Still, this is really cool: Truth Teller is a news application built by the Washington Post with funding from a Knight News Prototype grant. The goal of Truth Teller is to […]
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Publishing a Newspaper Is Now Freakish Enough to Merit Its Own Reality TV Show
One day, some future generation will look back on this event, scratch their cranial shafts with their anterior data-collecting tendrils, and wonder aloud, “What’s a ‘newspaper?’” Who knew that ink-stained newsmen and newswomen would be so eager to break into show business? In the 10 days after NBC put out a casting call for small-town […]
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Newscasters Say the “F” Word, Too!
Ahhhhhhhhhh, TV newscasters. So much like actual people! And to prove it, here’s an absolutely delightful supercut of TV newsies saying the “f” word… and by “f” word, I mean that dirty word that starts with the letter “f”! (OH! Do I need to mention that the audio is NSFW? Headphones up!)
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Pauline “Dear Abby” Phillips
Dead. Pauline Phillips, a California housewife who nearly 60 years ago, seeking something more meaningful than mah-jongg, transformed herself into the syndicated columnist Dear Abby—and in so doing became a trusted, tart-tongued adviser to tens of millions—died on Wednesday in Minneapolis. She was 94. Phillips, who had Alzheimers disease, passed her column to her daughter […]
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Hales Calls for Tougher Gun Laws, Spars With Lars Larson
Photographs by Denis C. Theriault Mayor Charlie Hales says we can improve gun control “even with the Second Amendment.” Just like he’s been hinting since taking office in the wake of two nation-shaking mass shootouts, Mayor Charlie Hales this morning said “common sense gun regulation” will join his list of priorities—making him the second Portland […]
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“Is This Thing—and by ‘Thing,’ I Mean ‘Me’—On?”
Let’s cut Irish news anchor Aengus Mac Grianna a little slack for this completely unaware on-air blooper, because a) his name is the most Irish name since Darby O’Gill, and b) he was just trying to look better for YOU.