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journalismism
NYT Blog Tries to Unpublish 'One of the Best Kept Secrets in Brooklyn.' Fails.
Yesterday, the New York Times' blog about the Fort Greene neighborhood published a post on a "secret underground climbing gym" in Brooklyn. Today, they took the post down. For a preposterous reason! Now it's getting way more attention. More »
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double standards
Magazine Newsstands: Hos Before Brünos
We knew that newsstands have been treating GQ's July cover, featuring a nude-but-not-all-hanging-out Sacha Baron Cohen is like porn. But a tipster at a Hudson News in Manhattan has noticed the decision has lead to some interesting juxtapositions. More »
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By John CookComment by ♥Anti-SocialSocialite♥: naked men are funny or grotesque - naked women are... decidedly not. 10 Responses | Other threads
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controversies
Joe Jackson Pancake Painting a Little Too Intense For Corporate America
Speaking of important Michael Jackson news, pancake-painter-to-the-stars Dan Lacey has some! He painted this moving portrait of "Joe Jackson with a Michael Jackson memorial ticket and a pancake upon his head." Ebay is censoring it! More »
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Comment by Mymoustache: Joe Jackson with a pancake and michael jackson memorial concert ticket on his head - brilliant. Young Michael Jackson with shirtless... 5 Responses | Other threads
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bright ideas
Let's Screw Up the Entire Internet to Save Newspapers
The hot new idea among people who think about "journalism," and the sanctity thereof: let's ban linking, on the internet! Let's also ban wheels, in order to save the horse industry. Let's also ban talking about things!
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Comment by contains_hot_liquid: Out of genuine curiosity/ignorance: Why don't the papers just start charging subscriptions for their online content? I'd pay $5 a month,... 67 Responses | Other threads
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public relations
How Censorship Finally Helped Wikipedia's Co-Founder
Jimmy Wales had an image problem. After bending his online encyclopedia's rules for a lover and, allegedly, for a benefactor, the Wikipedia co-founder faced rebuke and embarrassment. Then the New York Times made him a hero. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Charax: I don't think that Times link links to what you think it links to. 1 Responses | Other threads
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censorship
Is the Associated Press Aiding Iranian Censorship?
Trying to report from a country like Iran under state-mandated censorship is hard. The Associated Press is making it harder by caving to the demands of the Iranian regime and refusing to allow its Iranian subscribers to use this photo. More »
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By John CookComment by Jim Cahill: Uh, Iran already has access to the image. The picture is even taken from IRIB TV in Tehran. Those exclusions... 1 Responses | Other threads
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foreign affairs
Good Morning, Iran
All of a sudden, thanks to Twitter and Bill Keller, Iran is like the biggest story of the year! What's the latest? Killings in the street, a president on the run, media in peril, and a Florida 2000 recount replay: More »
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Comment by heywhat: Is it me or is every Iranian in almost all of the pictures kind of hot? And the girls are... 8 Responses | Other threads
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transmission issues
BBC's Satellites Get Iran-Jammed While CNN's Coverage Gets Jumped By Twitter Users
Fitting: while CNN gets a Twitter beatdown for neglecting to adequately cover the Iranian election, the Iranian government's blocking the BBC's (stellar) reporting of the aftermath following yesterday's results. Peter Horrocks, the (very pissed off) BBC chief, writes: More »
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By Foster KamerComment by Xylo: There are a lot of women in the streets in the BBC and CBC film coverage, that's something you do.... 2 Responses | Other threads
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Is The Economist Being Censored In Post-War Sri Lanka?
Maybe. There's a report out there of shipments of the latest issue of The Economist being held back in customs. In the issue is an article about the Sri Lankan government's "unpleasant triumphalism" over the Liberation Tigers. [ICT]
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By Foster KamerComment by Pope John Peeps II: Well, I guess the population of Sri Lanka will now be 20% less smug at dinner parties. 1 Responses | Other threads
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disasters
Yahoo Nukes Man's Photos Over Obama Comments
Flickr user Shepherd Johnson was browsing the official White House photostream one night when he decided to post a politically-charged comment. Then another, then another. Soon, without warning, Yahoo's photo-sharing service deleted his account, complete with 1,200 pictures.
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By Ryan TateComment by kitson.harvey: Oh please. Flickr can do what they want -- it's their site. Plus, as I recall, posting someone else's... 7 Responses | Other threads
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redacted
Why Did the Huffington Post Censor the Jewish Obama Hate Speech Video?
So: remember that terrible, shocking video of the awful frat-tards spewing racial epithets, screaming and trashing President Barack Obama in ways so debase, they're really not even worth quoting here? Well, The Huffington Post actually censored it. Why? More »
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By Foster KamerComment by Trulymadlyme: I am so pissed about people are making excuses for these guys. Here's the thing about what they're saying. Putting... 26 Responses | Other threads
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censorship
The Case for Insane Scientology Cyborgs on Wikipedia
Wikipedia recently banned the Church of Scientology and its associates from contributing to the collaborative reference site. But maybe this is what the Scientologists wanted Wikipedia to do. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by rhys1882: I love law professors. They are so out of touch with reality it is hilarious. They want everything... 1 Responses | Other threads
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reporters in peril
Current's Strategy of Silence
A Current employee has shed (a bit) more light on why Current has steadfastly refused to mention the fact that two of its reporters have been detained in North Korea for months. The legal department's "overzealous." But why? More »
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Comment by saythatscool: I want to throw a hot dog down Laura Ling's hallway. 13 Responses | Other threads
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censorship
China Confirms: Nothing Happened 20 Years Ago Today
Today is the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. China is celebrating by attempting to censor every single piece of information, anywhere, pertaining to the incident. Let's review China's tactics for keeping this anniversary a big secret: More »
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Comment by I Love New Jersey: No doubt the Chicago mob in DC is taking notes. 10 Responses | Other threads
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media
Current Stays Silent as Its Reporters Stand Trial in North Korea
Current TV journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee, who were arrested in North Korea in March, are finally going on trial in the psycho dictatorship today. The one media outlet not covering their case: Current TV. More »
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Comment by TuxedoUWS: Most likely they have been advised to stay silent by the state department. If they report on the matter it... 5 Responses | Other threads
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health
Facebook Breast Ban Ended by Cancer Case
An outcry from breastfeeding mothers wasn't enough to get Facebook to lift its ban on "exposed breast" earlier this year. But a breast cancer awareness campaign has finally ended the absurdly broad restriction. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Mediahohoho: One of these days, America will join the rest of the world and realize that seeing breasts in different contexts--on... 8 Responses | Other threads
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journalismism
NPR: Please Keep Talking About How We Won't Talk About How Charlie Crist Is Gay
Remember how NPR censored the review of the film Outrage because Larry Craig's sexuality is not as newsworthy as Queen Latifah's? They demand a correction of this story of their asinine behavior! More »
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By PareeneComment by BadUncle: Well there goes my donation to NPR. I wonder if SomaFM gives out tote bags... 2 Responses | Other threads
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photography
The Salvage of US Airways Flight 1549
Photographer Stephen Mallon had exclusive access to the salvage operation that pulled Sully-piloted US Airways Flight 1549 out of the Hudson River. Now that he's erased all "US Airways" logos, he can show his pictures! More »
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Comment by Aaron Altman: "We buy Exxon gasoline because it's the cheapest!" says US Airways, Official Airline Of Emergency Landings In The Hudson River. 5 Responses | Other threads
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So Gay
Digg's Fratty News Site Has a No-Homo Policy
If you wanted to imagine a topsy-turvy world where straight 19-year-old jock-nerds ran the media, just visit Digg. The site is so laden with antigay epithets that it automatically censors the word "homo" from headlines. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by coyote1284: P.E.T.U.: OMG, Owen Thomas, are you reaching for outrage or what? Digg has an automatic filter that censors the common obscenities... 1 Responses | Other threads
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Media Crack
Ben Affleck's Proprietary Media Revenue Models Were Mistaken, And He Is Shocked
In your overflowing Wednesday media column: Sam Zell wakes up, alt-weekly censorship, Dan Abrams commiserates, Ben Affleck says words for some reason, Ann Moore doesn't expect to live long, and PRWeek goes monthly: More »
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censorship
Why It Makes Sense That a Hacker's Behind Amazon's Big Gay Outrage
Twitter had a big tizzy yesterday over Amazon.com's supposed censorship of gay and lesbian titles, did you hear? Just one problem: A well-known hacker has come forward and claimed the whole thing was his prank. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by DrEngine: First, I untied and tied my laces an even amount of times, before flipple-bashing the revert to the Gung-ho.Then I... 9 Responses | Other threads
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jake tapper
ABC Tweet Stud in Massive Twitter Scandal
Jake Tapper, the blog-happy ABC newshunk, has been accused of blocking his detractors on Twitter, a service which allows Internet commenters to pester you 140 characters at a time. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Bentpost: If you stare at the posted picture long enough, Tapper's ridiculously serious pose starts to look like one of those... 5 Responses | Other threads
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snits
Update: Writer Used a Researcher to Invent an Obama Wikipedia Scandal
Aaron Klein, the WorldNetDaily writer who invented a scandal about Wikipedia censoring an article about Barack Obama, demanded we retract that claim because, in fact, he had someone else do the work for him. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Uncle_Billy_Slumming: This is intriguing. Anyone know of some authoritative articles or websites regarding the whole birth controversy? ""if there is not... 34 Responses | Other threads
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wikipedia
Right-Wing Writer Invents His Own Obama Wikipedia Scandal
Even Matt Drudge gave up on the faux Barack Obama birth-certificate story last fall. But out-there conservative website WorldNetDaily is keeping the fable alive — with a Wikipedia fiction of its own. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Mediahohoho: The title "Jerusalem bureau chief for WorldNetDaily" strikes me as more of clinical diagnosis than anything else. 6 Responses | Other threads
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tumblr
New Tumblr Stumble Renews Censorship Scandal
There's an old saying: Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity. The latest exemplar: Tumblr CEO David Karp, who keeps getting charged with squelching his users' freedom of speech. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by BrianVan: So, if one person writes in and says that David Karp did something to him, you'll publish it and make... 6 Responses | Other threads
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art
Three Illustrations Too Sexy for the New York Times
Jerelle Kraus, former art editor of the NYT's Op-Ed page, has a new book out, and she's telling all of the paper's sexy art secrets! Here, three images the Times killed for being too erotic: More »
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Comment by LatestBy: I can't even tell you how many times I've complained to them about drawings of Florida looking too phallic. 6 Responses | Other threads
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smart moves
Jamaica Bans Jamaican Music
Finally, the Jamaican airwaves are safe for Coldplay tunes: the government there is banning music about sex, or violence, or arson, or... basically all music. More »
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Comment by BadUncle: Finally, the Jamaican airwaves can be replenished with wholesome 50s Calypso songs about topics like "The Big Bamboo:" Asked my lady... 5 Responses | Other threads
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the internet
Julia Allison: I'm 'Thrilled' Tumblr Muzzled My Hecklers
At least one blogger has condemned Tumblr for deleting her "reblogger" critics, writing "don't those cunts have the same freedom of blog rights that the rest of us?" But Julia Allison is "proud." More »
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By Ryan TateComment by guestofaguest: Isn't her use of the word Hobbesian a bit off? "English philosopher and political theorist best known for his book Leviathan... 12 Responses | Other threads
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censorship
Deblogging Julia
An anonymous critic of microcelebrity egoblogger Julia Allison has been silenced, all in the name of "freedom of expression." Welcome to the wacky world of Tumblr, New York's pinchy-cheeked hypercute blogging startup. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Annoying: There are some factual errors in this post: not all of the blogs deleted were devoted to NonSociety. Baugher was... 12 Responses | Other threads
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censorship
Why Facebook Won't Bring Peace to the Middle East
Facebook, which claims its goal is to let users share their lives. has been accused of censoring posts about the fighting in Gaza. So much for Mark Zuckerberg's dreams of breaking down global barriers.
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By Owen ThomasComment by Almostbanned: I don't see how this is an issue. Facebook is a private company, and can 'censor', delete, or ban whatever... 6 Responses | Other threads
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censorship
Times City Room Will Not Mention Caroline Kennedy's Special Friendship With Pinch Sulzberger
Don't even bother to leave a comment at the Times local news blog suggesting a sexy patrician affair between the Senator-to-be and the publisher of the Times. More »
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By PareeneComment by freiburg: C. Kennedy is fuckable for someone her age, but not senate worthy. 19 Responses | Other threads
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censorship
China Blocks 'Times', Billions Now Unsure How Recession Affecting Alex Kuczynski
China has apparently blocked access to nytimes.com, now that the Olympics are over and the government doesn't even have to pretend to be mildly less restrictive anymore. More »
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By PareeneComment by harvey_wallpaper: is it a good idea to hang my hopes on china for it to house the next great artistic movement,... 2 Responses | Other threads
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michael ian black
"I Love the '80s" star banned from Facebook
What did comedian Michael Ian Black do to get banned from Facebook? I'd like to think it was karmic payback for providing the voice of the Pets.com sock puppet, an enduring icon of dotcom disaster.
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By Owen ThomasComment by SFJoe: Comedian? Don't you have to be funny to be a comedian? 2 Responses | Other threads
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censorship
A question you can't ask on Mahalo Answers
Jason Calacanis, the voluble CEO of Web directory Mahalo, is a fan of free speech. As long as the words are his own.
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By Owen ThomasComment by JasonCalacanis: Mahalo Answers is designed to be a place where intelligent people can exchange knowledge, not as a place to trash... 2 Responses | Other threads
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obituaries
Pinup Queen Bettie Page, 85, Dies
Bettie Page, whose saucy photo spreads helped get men through, and then end, the sexual repression of the 1950s, died of a heart attack in Los Angeles. She was 85. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Beausoleil: My condolences to fat rockabilly girls everywhere. 7 Responses | Other threads
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barack obama
Obama Site Censors Blago Talk
The same Obamatards who voted up total blowjob questions on the Digg-like question section of Change.gov have, all too predictably, almost completely obliterated any question mentioning ROD BLAGOJEVICH.
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By Ryan TateComment by The Doctor: Now I understand why my request to bla that goye vich's rod didn't make the cut. 3 Responses | Other threads
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bloggers in peril
Blogs Beat Print in Free Speech Crackdowns!
Back in the day, bloggers who didn't do any reporting like Mickey Kaus and Jeff Jarvis and probably Glenn Reynolds used to spend a great deal of time talking about how the blogs (specifically their blogs) would soon supplant the "Main Stream Media" forever. Well, some years have passed, and the MSM is in dire straits, but blogs have not really made much of a dent in CNN and the New York Times' market share, eyeballs-wise, and the boundary-blurring has manifested itself mainly as old school publications getting a little more "webby" in tone and content. There is one metric, though, that has bloggers pulling ahead of their MSM counterparts: jail time! The Committee to Protect Journalists just released its 2008 prison census, and as you can see in the attached pie chart, internet people finally make up a greater share of the journo prison population than snooty newspaper jerks. Way to go, internet, and Burma! [CPJ]
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By PareeneComment by American Dreamer: this chart is totally useless because it doesn't indicate the total number of people covered by the pie chart (if... 4 Responses | Other threads
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censorship
Google's censors really sorry about violating freedom of speech
If a YouTube video gets yanked, if a Blogger blog gets deleted, if a website disappears from Google's search results, chances are Google lawyer Nicole Wong had something to do with it. Wong has kept a low profile, aside from the occasional post on Google's official blog, but after a profile in Sunday's New York Times Magazine, it's likely she'll be hearing more pleas than ever from frustrated users whose works have vanished from Google's sprawling Web empire.
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By Owen ThomasComment by shiwsup: Please do some background reading on what freedom of speech means. Google's censorship is unrelated. 1 Responses | Other threads
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the internet
Pro-Iranian Blogger Arrested By Iran For Blogging
This would be ironically funny as an Onion article, but in real life it's just awful: Hossein Derakhshan, pictured, is a Toronto-based Iranian blogger who has grown more pro-Iran over the past two years, supporting the country's nuclear program and its three-decade-old Islamic revolution in the press. The dual Iranian-Canadian citizen blogs in both English and Farsi and generally tries to help people understand his home country. PR win for Iran and its blogger-in-chief Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, right? Actually no, because Derakhshan visited Israel last year for a blogging conference, and bogged there to "show the Iranians a more realistic image of this country," so he's been thrown in jail during a visit home, as a spy, reports The Media Line: More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Triborough: I hate to say it, but if you are writing about an oppressive regime and you have citizenship that country,... 11 Responses | Other threads
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patents
Microsoft can now @&!* censor your $#!@ in real time
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted Microsoft a patent, first applied for in 2004, on technology to censor profanity — or any keywords off a list — from an audio stream in real time. This technology could be applied not just to online video like YouTube but also for cell-phone audio and internet chat. Think China will be the first buyer? @#$% yeah. [Ars Technica]
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