Last year, more people got their news from online sources than from print for the first time ever. And about half of those online news consumers got their news from mobile online sites. The bad news? The majority still get their news from television*. * Television news is Satan. Last night, while out at the […]
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Apple Rumored to Make Magazine Publishing So Easy Even an Idiot Could Do It
There have been rumors for months now that Apple is very dissatisfied with what magazine publishers have done with their iPad apps so far; interfaces are clunky, unintuitive and, worst of all, ugly as sin. Some publishers are just dumping PDFs of their print editions into their apps and calling it a day. So that’s […]
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Internet Anonymity: Point/Counterpoint
A few days ago, Blogtown got into it over the question of removing anonymity from blog comments. Then yesterday, Slate ran an article called “Anonymous Comment: Why We Need to Get Rid of Them Once and For All.” Anonymity has long been hailed as one of the founding philosophies of the Internet, a critical bulwark […]
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Twenty Years Ago Today, a Man in L.A. Grabbed His Camera…
And this is what George Holliday captured. In an age of smartphones, this type of raw footage and its power to shock people into action—from war zones overseas to train stations at home—has become disturbingly more familiar. But it wasn’t always that way. The media reflects on the 20th anniversary of Rodney King’s beating by […]
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KGW Admits it Screwed Up in Anti-Tax Reporting
Yesterday I blogged about KGW’s glaringly one-sided and assumption-making story about Oregonians making an “exodus” to Washington to avoid paying taxes after Measure 66 and 67 passed. At the time, I didn’t get any response from KGW about the criticisms of the story, but KGW News Director Rob Gramer posted a long response on KGW’s […]
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Our Oregon Slams KGW For “Bogus” Anti-Tax Story
Are Oregonians staging an “exodus” to Clark County to avoid paying the new taxes levied under last year’s Measure 66 and 67? That’s what KGW says, in a report apparently based entirely on a blog post by an Oregon anti-tax group. The sponsors of last year’s measures, Our Oregon, ripped into KGW’s reporting, calling the […]
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Frank Rich Leaving NYT
WOW: Frank Rich is joining New York Magazine, beginning in June. Rich will be an essayist for the magazine, writing monthly on politics and culture, and will serve as an editor-at-large, editing a special monthly section anchored by his essay. He will also be a commentator on nymag.com, engaging in regular dialogues on the news […]
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Sullivan Jumps to the Daily Beast
The man of more than a million monthly uniques (at least one or two of them coming from all the linkage he gets on this here blog) is leaving the Atlantic and going to Tina Brown‘s Daily Beast. It’s another reminder, says Ben Smith, that Andrew Sullivan helped to create not just the political blog […]
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WTF’s the Deal With WikiLeaks? A Q&A Before Tonight’s Think & Drink
By now, just about everybody sentient has heard of WikiLeaks. The humble website—devoted to the publication of anonymous submissions and all manner of leaks pertaining to sensitive governmental/corporate/religious material, etc.—has sent world leaders from Washington to London to Moscow to Tripoli into damage-control tizzies, first publishing the inside accounts of the wars in Iraq and […]
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No More Mr. Professional Athlete
…or Ms. Professional Athlete, either, at the Wall Street Journal: Starting this week in The Journal, you will no longer see athletes called “Mr.” or “Ms.” The paper is reversing its stately, conspicuous tradition of using “honorific” courtesy titles in its sports coverage, entering a dizzy modern age of forward passes, shot clocks, Colin Cowherd […]
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WSJ: All Single Men Are Spoiled Manbabies
Have you heard? The internet’s all abuzz about it! Single men in their 20’s are absolutely the worst! And they’re only getting worser! Fresh off the media feeding frenzy/spooge-festival around Amy Chua’s “Chinese Mothers > American Mothers” op-ed last month, The Wall Street Journal is trying to rouse some rabble again with Kay Hymowitz’s piece, […]
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Beck’s War on Google
Turns out, Google is in bed with liberals! And they’re “creepy.” Oh, Glenn. This is not a fight you can win: I enjoy his “I’m-not-calling-for-a-boycott” style of calling for a boycott, and I love that he ties Google in with George Soros, Van Jones, and basically all of his enemies.