Eric Bolling, the second Fox News host who said that no terrorist attacks occurred during George W. Bush’s time in office, is hoppin’ mad that the gotcha media pointed out that 9/11 happened during George W. Bush’s time in office: Another error in Bolling’s statement: What about the anthrax letters? They started the week after […]
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Blumenauer: FBI Probe of News Corp. Doesn’t Go Far Enough
Portland’s own Earl Blumenauer is adding his voice to the growing congressional furor over the phone-hacking shenanigans of News Corp., parent company of Fox News and the Wall Street Journal. Hours after various news outlets reported the FBI is looking into only a subset of those allegations—that so-called journalists from Britain’s News of the World, […]
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News Corpse
TPM: The AP is reporting that the Justice Department is looking into the allegations that News Corp. hacked into the cellphones of 9/11 victims. We’re told to expect a statement from DOJ shortly.
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HuffPost’s New Internet Toys: Celebrity and Culture
Today The Huffington Post launched one of two new sites that are rolling out this week. You can check out HuffPost Celebrity now for quick hits of things like the “Kardashian Bikini Show & Tell,” photos of Taylor Momsen lap dancing an audience member, blog posts from Tracey Ullman and Jon Favreau, and a slideshow […]
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Here Comes the Sun
It’s cloudy outside, but we want to make sure you get your daily dose of summer sun. This unfortunate (or very fortunate, depending on how you look at it) USA Today infographic arrives in your eye sockets via Charles Apple:
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End of the News of the World
Rupert Murdoch’s scandal-plagued scandal sheet just released a surprise announcement that they’re shutting down on Sunday: The Murdoch media empire unexpectedly killed off the muckraking News of the World tabloid Thursday after a public backlash over the illegal guerrilla tactics it used to expose the rich, the famous and the royal and become Britain’s best-selling […]
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Bitch Celebrates 15 Years
Locally published Bitch magazine celebrates their 15th birthday this month (their first issue was technically in winter of 1996, but we’ll let it slide), with an art show of covers from their decade and a half history. (Herstory? Ha, just kidding, no.) You can browse through all of their past covers here, and there are […]
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Glenn Beck’s Last Show in a Minute and a Half
Hey, Glenn! Don’t let the crazy hit you in the crazy on the way out, you big crazy: (Via Wonkette.) Beck’s actual final minute-and-a-half is after the jump. He went out with a whimper, almost literally.
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Page One: Inside The New York Times Opens Tonight
Anyone who works in, or otherwise has a fascination with the rapidly evolving world of the media will take an acute interest in Page One, the new buzzed-about (that’s what media people do, we buzz) documentary in which Andrew Rossi goes behind the scenes at America’s media mothership, the New York Times. It’s less interested […]
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Should’ve Seen This Coming: Mercury‘s Denis Theriault in the New York Post
Congratulations, news editor Denis Theriault (and by “congratulations,” I mean “fuck you”), for being the first Mercury employee to make it into the New York Post—a personal dream of mine for years that has now been shattered. BUT HEY! It couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy (and by “nicer,” I mean “fuck you”). On […]
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Americans for Fairness in Awarding Journalism Prizes
The Onion is kicking up a huge stink about the fact that they really, really, really want to be awarded a Pulitzer Prize (for anything), organizing a campaign called Americans for Fairness in Awarding Journalism Prizes. They’re encouraging people to upload video testimonials stumping against the Pulitzer board’s “bigotry,” there’s an online petition, and a […]