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    Image of onebadclam onebadclam
    02:58 PM

    In reply to Give Reporters the Most Luxurious Airline Seats or Give Them Death
    Business Class to Switzerland? Oh, the humanity! As someone who spent years flying coach in and out of Cincinatti and Indianapolis may I hear them cry me a river? And not the "good" coach, either. The seats in the back, next to bathroom and galley, that don't recline. #media
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    Image of Pesti-Esti Pesti-Esti
    03:35 PM

    @onebadclam: The problem was they were on the plane to write about the first-class seats. It was the reason for the flight. #media
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    Image of onebadclam onebadclam
    04:23 PM

    @Pesti-Esti: Still, give me that assignment with Business Class seats and I'll give you 2K words by end of day Tuesday. #media
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    Image of Richard Petty Bourgeoisie Richard Petty Bourgeoisie
    02:02 PM

    In reply to Give Reporters the Most Luxurious Airline Seats or Give Them Death
    I'm traveling to China soon. I can't wait to read Car & Driver & Bicyclist Pinned Under Fender. #media
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    Image of TableNein TableNein
    02:28 PM

    @Richard Petty Bourgeoisie: And I look forward to reading Dissident Bride's Top 10 ways to make conjugal visits a honeymoon to remember. #media
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    Image of RollsRoyceRevenge RollsRoyceRevenge
    12:04 PM

    In reply to Jayson Blair Is Back, Blames Himself for the Current Media Crisis
    I am uncertain about his future as a life coach, but fully approve his back-up plan to be the first African American spokes-doughboy for Pillsbury. #journalismism
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    Image of DTurkin DTurkin
    11:38 AM

    In reply to We Must Save The New York Post
    Obviously now that Murdoch has a new toy (WSJ) he has grown bored of his old stuff.

    Good riddance (although I won't hold my breath just yet). #newyorkpost
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    Image of BettyCrocker BettyCrocker
    11:14 AM

    In reply to We Must Save The New York Post
    Andrea The Boner Slayer #newyorkpost
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    Image of flugennock flugennock
    10:42 AM

    In reply to We Must Save The New York Post
    Hell, you want a real voice of opposition, you need a loud-assed, smart-mouthed left-wing rag -- and I mean a real left-wing rag, not like Mother Jones. (spit) I mean, c'mon; if you really think the New York Times is a Leftie paper, you've been living under a rock, like those goddamn' Tea Party assholes.

    Seriously, all we've got is The Nation. That goddamn' self-serious tome bores the living piss out of me. And they don't even have a friggin' sports page, f'cripesake. I'd love a Leftie version of the New York Post. They're a nasty, rightist screed, for sure, but I love their attitude.

    Didn't you all used to have a nice, loud, smartassed Leftie tabloid up there, long ago -- what was it called, PM, or something? #newyorkpost
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    Image of HurtsSoGood HurtsSoGood
    11:35 AM

    @flugennock: What about the Village Voice? #newyorkpost
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    Image of flugennock flugennock
    10:32 AM

    In reply to The Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted Because Only 0.027% of Iranians Are on Twitter
    The Iranian "revolution"?

    Oh, y'mean that National Endowment For Democracy-backed astroturf campaign? The one where some British company shipped in thousands of little portable digital cameras so that we could see all those "viral" videos of what was happening in the streets?

    What color was that one, anyway? Green, or something? #iran
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    Image of CherriSpryte CherriSpryte
    11:54 AM

    @flugennock: The National Endowment for Democracy had very little, if not nothing at all, to do with the revolution in Iran. #iran
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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    10:29 AM

    In reply to We Must Save The New York Post
    When the post is reduced to a hotel room freebie, Col Allan will be promoted to even higher ranks. This is the Newscorp way. #newyorkpost
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    Image of Magister Magister
    10:11 AM

    In reply to The Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted Because Only 0.027% of Iranians Are on Twitter
    Though the charges have since been dropped, but if an American can be arrested for twittering a "revolution", then our government can't really condemn others for cracking down on those in the field.
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    11:41 AM

    @Magister: .... and from a certain angle, mountains and molehills are the same shape, and therefore can be directly compared... #iran
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    Image of Magister Magister
    11:54 AM

    @Pope John Peeps II: Agreed, but when I first heard of the Madison fellow's arrest, I immediately thought of the shot to our credibility, if we were to condemn other governments for making similar arrests.

    It's sort of like when the Bush-era waterboarding story was confirmed. It wasn't even days until comparisons were made to WWII-era convictions for war crimes.

    Sure, the charges against Mr. Madison have been dropped, but if we want to be able to encourage social networking as a means to organize, then we can't be arresting people for doing the same thing. #iran
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    Image of calwilson37001 calwilson37001
    09:57 AM

    In reply to The Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted Because Only 0.027% of Iranians Are on Twitter
    Interesting. But numbers alone arent the only issue. In terms of organizing, sometimes it is just as important to have the "influencers"-- ie, those people who can round up their friends/family/coworkers etc. -- in touch with each other. If twitter helped these "influencers" gain a sense of momentum and round people up, it served a far-reaching purpose.
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    Image of Motoko Kusanagi Motoko Kusanagi
    09:54 AM

    In reply to The Day the Investigative Reporting Came In
    Well, the editorial agenda here has been crystal clear from the get-go (i.e., "scapegoating").

    I have no idea what's going on with this story because: (a) most news outlets have released information that has turned out to be utterly, painfully wrong, and (b) the rest (like Gawker) are pursuing a pro/anti-discrimination agenda.

    By the time any truth is uncovered, you will all have lost interest...so as usual, the readers remain uninformed. #media
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    Image of kentuckienne kentuckienne
    09:48 AM

    In reply to Jayson Blair Is Back, Blames Himself for the Current Media Crisis
    Is it just me, or does his head look somewhat flattened? #journalismism
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    Image of MrInBetween MrInBetween
    10:06 AM

    @kentuckienne: It was bulldozed by the Truth Truck. #journalismism
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    Image of flugennock flugennock
    09:38 AM

    In reply to Jayson Blair Is Back, Blames Himself for the Current Media Crisis
    Life coach? Life coach?

    Pardon me while I laugh until I piss myself. Talk about your totally pointless "professions". Besides, hasn't the recession pretty much done away with bullshit jobs like "life coach"?

    Why am I reminded of Michael "Heckuva Job, Brownie" Brown, who attempted to open a security consultancy after being bounced from FEMA after his handling of the Hurricane Katrina response? Talk about some world-class cajones.

    Seriously, man... what's the goddamn' deal with these people? They remind me of Gatsby's friends in Fitzgerald's novel -- paraphrasing here -- creating huge messes everywhere they go, then going on their merry way as if nothing happened, expecting someone else to clean up after them. #journalismism
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    Image of RollsRoyceRevenge RollsRoyceRevenge
    11:58 AM

    @flugennock: "They were careless people, Tom and Daisy--they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or whatever it was that kept them together and let other people clean up the messe they had made..."

    The operative condition being "money".

    Plus I always inferred that Tom and Daisy were attractive. This guy, not so much. #journalismism
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    Image of RandomLunatic RandomLunatic
    09:35 AM

    In reply to Jayson Blair Is Back, Blames Himself for the Current Media Crisis
    Ravi, auto-play videos are of the devil.

    Re: Mr. Blair - dude needs to have a med check, because I think the Adderall is showing. I hope he knows that you're not supposed to crush or snort the time-released ones. #journalismism
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    09:24 AM

    In reply to The Day the Investigative Reporting Came In
    Very little -- almost none -- of this effort adds meaning to the world. Or even entertainment.

    Local papers, and papers pretending to be national papers, please develop something of a local consciousness on your public instititions. This stuff can be handled by the tabs. #media
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