You know, when I first heard about the shooting on TV in my hotel room at NAB, I turned to Mario and said "why does this always seem to happen this week in April?" Turns out, at least according to this blogger, that the beginning of spring marks "school shooting season". [sic] Do we, the media, have a responsibility to tone down coverage of these horrific events so as not to motivate copycats?

I am not subject to the 'rules' traditional journalists have to follow. Isn't that what new media is all about? Breaking the rules? Setting our own?

I always thought beautiful breasts were there just to behold and hold, but Susan Seligson set me straight. Breasts are there to write about. I don't know how adolescents will take to Stacked, but we Golden Agers are here to take the turns on the trip she offers.

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i mean, what the fuck? Why is she on msnbc last night battling with Pat Buchanan about troop surge? I mean Buchanan is a nut job, but he ran for president, worked in white houses etc, has some qualifications. Sklar has never worked in politics, never written about politics, so wtf? At least when the cable shows have a hot girl on she, at least, is usually a nominal political consultant. I mean she's Arianna's coatholder, Canadian and writes a media blog. And that qualifies her to argue the Democrat's position on the surge? Just because she got nice tits? What else could it be? You don't see the Observer's media critic on the tube babbling about Iraq. I have nice tits too, but I don't presume to have the expertise to babble about the most important issue of our time.