how the news gets made

don’t look away

When you look at the picture of the couple, they’re smiling and happy.  Once you look away he’s beating her. A very clever campign discussing the nature of domestic violence.

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It takes one to know one…

A colorful, acerbic and entertaining discussion of the business practices of Rupert Murdoch from one time combatant, Conrad Black
(from The Daily Beast)

The developing dispute between Italian prime minister and media owner Silvio Berlusconi and News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch is a brave new frontier for the insatiably expansionist Murdoch. When General de Gaulle was [...]

more fishwrap

I know, I know, I’m always posting something about the poor fucking newspapers and how they’re swirling round the sinkhole of oblivion and why won’t someone give them a break or at least some fucking money so they’d stop whinging for a moment and write about the news. Yet, I’m interested in this for a [...]

fishwrap

Strong article on the future of newspapers, if you can be bothered reading it
“….The curious thing about the various plans hatched in the ’90s is that they were, at base, all the same plan: “Here’s how we’re going to preserve the old forms of organization in a world of cheap perfect copies!” The details differed, [...]

words mean what I want them to understand

John McCain displays his rhetorical skills here in an extraordinary melange of contemporary poetics
And here is a video of a chimp learning to ride a Segway

and here is John McCain using a controversial adjective

FACE

As a youth, tragicaly addicted to the febrile notion that I could be cool if I wore the right clothes, listened to the right music, took the right drugs and said the right things I was always in search of a guide as to how I could acheive this attractive state of epic nonchalance. [...]

self promoter

 

“We found that people who are narcissistic use Facebook in a self-promoting way that can be identified by others,” said lead author Laura Buffardi, a doctoral student in psychology who co-authored the study with associate professor W. Keith Campbell.
The researchers, whose results appear in the October issue of the journal Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, [...]

g-spot

Whilst I have not succumbed to “i” phone temptations yet, the latest succubus on the horizon may be too much for a mere mortal such as myself.  Google’s “G” phone, will no doubt show us that there are more letters in the alphabet than Apple would like us to think, and, lets face it, the [...]

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