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miss_msry
12/07/09

In reply to The New York Times Buyout List (Updated)
Please tell me we will still have Bill Cunningham to love and hug. Everyone else, meh.
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GlasgowRose
12/07/09

@miss_msry: You kidding? Cunningham will be delivering papers on his bike as he snaps pix of Manhattan's copycat chi-chi-rati.
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DoctorNine
12/07/09

In reply to Anne Applebaum's Freaking Car Explodes
If the explosion was preceded by an auditory cue of sufficient duration that she was able to stop it and get out to investigate, then it is unlikely that there was any sabotage. Or alternatively, if there was, that the sabotage was designed merely to get her attention, and not actually hurt her.

People forget that being a journalist is an innately insecure vocation. Sometimes it's easy to see the action/reaction once a piece goes public, sometimes the results are more opaque. So it goes.

I've also lately become convinced that we all choose how we are going to die, more or less. Presumably, she has the wherewithal to understand that poking a grumpy bear with a stick has some implications. I personally might spend some time deciding how to reconcile my profession and my mortality, if I were in her shoes.
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TheSometimesWhy
12/07/09

In reply to The New York Times Buyout List (Updated)
Last one out turn off the Mr Coffee...
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i'm a bottle
12/07/09

In reply to The Twitter Song Is Media Thing of The Year
"The meta-philosophy of free — we should get rid of this philosophy," said Christoph Keese, Springer’s head of public affairs and an architect of its online strategy. "A highly industrialized world cannot survive on rumors. It needs quality journalism, and that costs money."

This is a quote from a Bild spokesman, a newspaper that has famously low editorial standards. I don't get his appeal to the public interest here. These people have made a business of publishing irresponsible rumors that appeal to populist sentiment.

There are German newspapers that are actually doing poorly. These are mainly the broadsheets with high standards. Bild is not having any major financial issues like the broadsheets are having. It's true that its circulation is decreasing, sure, but for a newspaper that has consistently chosen the profit motive as a guiding principle over quality journalism in the public's interest, it's obviously disingenuous of them to justify their price increase as a way to provide better journalism.

The motivation is so clear here: squeeze as much money out of their readers before the great unwashed migrate away from Bild to equally poor-quality blogs.
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freakshowtime
12/07/09

@i'm a bottle: I worked for a short period at Axel Springer. From what I saw, that company has a way of putting douchebags in charge and repressing people who actually have good ideas — even at the online division! But isn't this what the print media business does nowadays, anyway?
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i'm a bottle
12/07/09

@freakshowtime: The douchebaggery doesn't surprise me at all.

Also, those douches aren't doing their job. Most of the Bild properties haven't changed their format in years and their online presence is especially a mess.

They can't expect to just keep doing what they've been doing since the eighties yet hope to preserve or increase their circulation numbers. The major problem I see is that the Bild concept is graphics heavy but commentary light -- a format that's easily supplanted by anybody with an Internet connection and a Wordpress account.
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FTGDWolverineEdition'09
12/07/09

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manchops
12/07/09

In reply to Adam Moss: Neither a Recluse Nor the Inventor of Sex Stories
I've always found adam moss to be a total hottie. Just wanted to toss that in.
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shostakobitch
12/07/09

In reply to Anne Applebaum's Freaking Car Explodes
This morning, when I blew a fuse making toast and plugging in an electric space heater, my first thought was that Russian gangsters had gotten wind of my critical stance on Putin.
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BicycleShed
12/07/09

In reply to Anne Applebaum's Freaking Car Explodes
Maybe this is just car karma for her agitating for Polanski's release while not disclosing her relationship with her husband (who has also been critical of the Polanski prosecution). Regardless of where you stand on Polanski, Applebaum should have provided full disclosure when she wrote her WaPo column on the subject.
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Penscribe
12/07/09

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I missed this item. Thanks for the link back in today's item.
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Perhaps Not
12/07/09

In reply to Anne Applebaum's Freaking Car Explodes
Jesus P. God. Whenever anyone talks about the death of journalism these days, I picture Anne Applebaum smoking over an Underwood, beating out some incredibly damning thing about Vladimir Putin, and I have hope.

Smoking a cigarette, I mean.

Get 'em, Anne!
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Spirit Fingers
12/07/09

@Perhaps Not: Just wondering what the P. stands for? Percy?
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Conchie Birdie
12/07/09

@Spirit Fingers: Patrick, everyone knows Jesus is Irish.
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MrInBetween
12/07/09

In reply to Anne Applebaum's Freaking Car Explodes
Russian cars are just like Russian men. If you don't regularly ply 'em with vodka, they ALL make strange noises before exploding.
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MrInBetween
12/07/09

In reply to Adam Moss: Neither a Recluse Nor the Inventor of Sex Stories
When he said "you won't see him at Michael's shmoozing," Heileman was speaking literally, meaning Howie Kurtz won't see Moss at Michael's or anywhere else because Kurtz rarely pops his head out of his hobbit-hole in Chevy Chase, Maryland.
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miss_msry
12/07/09

In reply to Anne Applebaum's Freaking Car Explodes
Sometimes an explosion is just an explosion.
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Buttafooco
12/07/09

@miss_msry: Agreed. I wonder if it was an Audi S4? Mine exploded and burned in dramatic fashion while idling with my father sitting in it. And as far as I know, he was never critical of the Russian government. He did complain about a bad deli experience in Brighton Beach once though.
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Sloop_John_B
12/07/09

In reply to Anne Applebaum's Freaking Car Explodes
It's either the worst Russian gangster job on the planet or she's driving a Tatra, Lada, Trabant, or older Skoda. When it makes noises and then "Blows up" it sounds like the latter rather than the former. Only because what half-assed mobster modifies an engine to blow up? Why not just blow the car in general without making "noises" in the first place?
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Elhigh
12/07/09

In reply to Anne Applebaum's Freaking Car Explodes
I'd want to know more about exactly what make and model of car before taking it as ominous news. I don't expect Ms. Applebaum is driving a 1965 Tatra, but you never know. And if she has been piloting one of those more volatile models, even then the phrase "blew up" doesn't really tell us much. The engine "blowing up" is a lot different from the car blowing up.
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