May 2012
6 posts
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The New, Nasty Obama Campaign - Molly Ball -... →
To those, like Booker, who fret about negativity, this strategist responded: “Quit your whining and help us beat the other guy. If you want to stay home and blog about how disappointed you are, see how you feel when President Romney is sworn in.”
WHEN I EDIT A PARAGRAPH FULL OF STATISTICS
I did this about five minutes ago and may or may not have said that out loud.
editorrealtalk:
“We were actually at dinner the night before and we were supposed to meet members...”
– Mike Masnick: Accidental Activist to Some, “Demagogue” to Others
"The reporter's job is done, and well done. What... →
Samuel Rubenfeld's Tumblr: Maroc: le rappeur Mouad... →
thepoliticalnotebook:
mamfakinch:
RABAT (AP) — Le rappeur Marocain Mouad Belghouat, alias El-Haqed, a été condamné par un tribunal de Casablanca à un an de prison ferme vendredi pour atteinte à l’image de la police.
Le jugement a été prononcé sans les plaidoiries de la défense,…
April 2012
2 posts
Gingrich Effectively Concedes to Romney in... →
“I think you have to at some point be honest with what’s happening in the real world, as opposed to what you’d like to have happened,” Gingrich said.
In Praise of Ignorance: Why It's OK to Tweet, 'Who... →
Sure, but what happens when someone asks a question online and uncritically accepts the most popular answer as fact?
February 2012
4 posts
Tumblr Staff: A New Policy Against Self-Harm Blogs →
My take:
Companies like Tumblr, Facebook, and, at least for now, Pinterest, are moderators of new public squares; as companies, they have the ability to define what are and are not acceptable topics for public discussion on platforms that have become hubs for our cultural and civic life.
staff:
One of the great things about Tumblr is that people use it for just about every conceivable...
“They have not forgotten that we blew it on Iraq. And I think reporters are aware...”
– Bill Keller on New York Times readers, Iraq, Iran, and Bill O’Reilly (via capitalnewyork)
...And Here Are The NYPD's Secret Dossiers On... →
journalofajournalist:
Amazing, amazing files obtained by the Associated Press. Holy h311…
January 2012
10 posts
Ron Paul’s Giant on the Unique Talents He Brings... →
For some reason you looked more gigantic in those photos. Were you standing next to a midget? That guy was pretty short who was standing in front of me. He’s not a midget but he’s pretty short. That’s why this whole thing is very funny to me. I was going to make up some crazy story that I was found in an orphanage and all that, I’m nine feet tall, but no. I’m just...
The New York Times public editor's very public... →
This is the part where I feel like Shirky is talking to me:This is partly because centrist publications enjoy more uniform access to politicians than partisan ones (even if the partisanship is simply an intolerance for hogwash). It’s also because treating readers as political participants rather than spectators would be frowned on by advertisers, for whom the relative neutrality of the...
New York Times Public Editor on Truth - The End of... →
Charles P. Pierce: The pack is bigger and more unruly. Everybody’s on deadline all the time. (Twitter! File for the blog! Generate Content Across Many Platforms!) There are more — and, occasionally, better — watchdogs, especially on the Intertoobz, but even a lot of that is now hyper-amplified heckling. The marketing people are better at their jobs than the journalism people are at theirs....
The Game: How Campaigns' New Obsession With Social... →
Me: The thing about attaching numbers to people’s names is that it usually makes them want to make the number go up. Call it gamification if you want. The truth is that it’s human nature, and as more people pay attention to social media, it is creating a sort of downward behavioral spiral. Candidates wanting more points on the social media scoreboard are urging supporters to tweet and...
Hi I'm Louis C.K. and this is a thing : IAmA →
Louis CK: to steal from someone and not feel bad, you either have to be a sociopath or view the act differently. One way is to remove “Someone” from the equation. You’re not stealing from a person. Big companies do a lot to help people view them as less than human. I heard a speach by Noam Chomsky who said that corporations are like super humans. They cannot be hurt like a human...
Rational Irrationality: In Defense of Political... →
Maybe those tweet-happy, trivia-obsessed McMuffins really are letting down the profession and the country, turning Presidential politics into a game show. And since I’m sitting here waiting to find out how the horse race in New Hampshire turns out, rather than doing some research into the historical demonization of African-American political leaders, or whether Mitt Romney’s get-tough approach to...
Track: New Hampshire Primary Returns - WNYC →
This.
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Is Tumblr Protecting Its Users From the Big, Bad... →
cutlerish:
The browser extension, Missing e… modifies the look and feel of Tumblr to add several new features — something that Tumblr has taken issue with for months…. This puts Tumblr, known for its stance on SOPA as a champion of user rights, in a bit of an awkward position: In this case, it’s the entity seeking to block access to a popular and by all accounts useful piece of software.
The...
At Wall Street Protests, Clash of Reporting and... →
Reporting and policing can be high-adrenaline jobs. . But the decade-long trajectory in New York is toward expanded police power. Officers routinely infiltrate groups engaged in lawful dissent, spy on churches and mosques, and often toss demonstrators and reporters around with impunity. When this is challenged, the police commissioner and the mayor often shrug it off and fight court orders. The...
December 2011
28 posts
First Demonstration of Time Cloaking - Technology... →
In effect, the space between the two lenses is a kind of spatio-temporal cloak that deletes changes that occur in short periods of time. The device has some limitations. The Cornell time cloak lasts only for 110 nanoseconds—that’s not long. And Fridman and co say the best it can achieve will be 120 microseconds. Quoth Keanu: Woah.
El Oso » Archive » Protest Infatuation and the 4th... →
Go read this. David Sasaki asks: Okay, networked activists, what’s next?
Could Revolution Come to Putin's Russia? - Brian... →
Brian Till, on Moscow: The street needs leaders, or cohesive coalitions of leaders, who can tell the movement when to lie low, like Mandela, and when to rise up, and who can demand more in the face of the regime’s tepid offerings. Starting with the Green revolution, in Iran, moving to Wall Street and what we’ve seen in Moscow today, these uprisings have sometimes seen individuals...
Cee Lo Green Strikes Pop Star Gold, Without a Gold... →
The old business model for entertainment, it’s a-changin’. The Times on Cee Lo Green: Cee Lo — a cannonball-shaped man devoted to the Liberace and Elton John school of showmanship — will earn about $20 million this year. Record sales represent the smallest slice of the revenue pie, according to Larry Mestel, the chief executive of Cee Lo’s management company, Primary Wave Music. The...
Lawsuit May Determine Who Owns a Twitter Account -... →
A writer who parted ways with a former employer took — with the employer’s permission, he says — the company Twitter account with him. The New York Times tells the story of Noah Kravitz:And so he began writing as NoahKravitz, keeping all his followers under that new handle. But eight months after Mr. Kravitz left the company, PhoneDog sued, saying the Twitter list was a customer...
“Newsrooms are eerie during the holidays. Sources disappear. They don’t call....”
– Ginger Christ (via partylikeajournalist)
n+1: At the NYSE →
For the next hour, the crowd moved up and down among Beaver, Broad, and William. Around 10 AM, still on Broad and Beaver, I heard a sound to my left like the alarm when someone opens an emergency subway exit. Turning, I saw a line of maybe twenty protesters, not two feet over, drop to the ground like puppets with their strings cut. This was the LRAD—a Long Range Acoustic Device, or sound cannon,...
The Angry Birds Theme Gets An Orchestral Makeover... →
One of the most elaborate but respectful interpretations to date has been that of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Andrew Skeet, included on the ensemble’s new album The Greatest Video Game Music. The arrangement navigates a delicate but sure course between drama and silliness: Its introduction’s ponderous piano and strings are dispensed with a wink, while a harp solo...
Does Airport Security Really Make Us Safer? |... →
Charles C. Mann on America’s most grandiose security theater.
The Media's Deaf, Dumb, and Blind Campaign... →
So tell me again why debate questions are on cap-and-trade, or on what Mitt Romney did or didn’t do with Massachusetts health care in 2006? I propose this instead: “Sir, you have declared America to be a tyranny and your political opponents to be anti-American. Are you proposing an overthrow? And if not, why not?” I might also turn the question around on the press itself, an...
Why Solutions Journalism Matters, Too -... →
The Hole In FON Theory : CJR →
I agree with Dean Starkman that “the story is the thing,” and as he does, also believe that journalistic institutions are necessary only insofar as they produce good public-interest journalism.
But the thing about the necessity of insitutions is that they’re really not necessary anymore in a wide and growing swath of the information industry. I fail to see why journalists...
Josh's tumblelog - Ain’t no party like a Pyongyang... →
Morning Joe's 'romcom-v�rit�,' vindicated -... →
Dylan Byers on Morning Joe: “These latest numbers are proof, if any was needed, that the latest iteration of the morning news model is working.”
Seth's Blog: The new lazy journalism →
We don’t need paid professionals to do retweeting for us. They’re slicing up the attention pie thinner and thinner, giving us retreaded rehashes of warmed over news, all hoping for a bit of attention because the issue is trending. We can leave that to the unpaid, I think. The hard part of professional journalism going forward is writing about what hasn’t been written about,...
N. Korea Says Dictator, Kim Jong-il, Dies -... →
Occupy Wall Street: NYPD Blocks Photographer... →
There are also unconfirmed reports of violence against reporters by police at this past weekend’s Occupy Wall Street events.
Young, Black and Frisked by the N.Y.P.D. -... →
rubenfeld:
The must-read of the weekend:
WHEN I was 14, my mother told me not to panic if a police officer stopped me. And she cautioned me to carry ID and never run away from the police or I could be shot. In the nine years since my mother gave me this advice, I have had numerous occasions to consider her wisdom.
Think Our Wild Horses Are Safe? - Andrew Cohen -... →
Congress can’t agree on how to balance a budget, tax the middle class or restore the economy. Meanwhile, there’s this: “The patent indifference to the plight of the horses is, indeed, a bipartisan affair.”
Now That the Factories Are Closed, It’s Tee Time... →
On the growing tension between brand-name autocracy and bottom-up home rule, two models competing for control of American towns as old leadership is plowed under by hard times.
Seriously, Bro: Mark Cuban Invests Big In Brotips... →
From The Atlantic’s ongoing obsession with declaring an end to manhood to this — there’s a large and growing demand for brands that redefine what it is to be a man.