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Author Of The Best Headline Ever Retires

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The guy who came up with a legendary New York Post headline has retired: The genius who dreamed up the iconic New York Post headline “Headless Body in Topless Bar,” Vincent A. Musetto, was given an affectionate send-off by his colleagues last night after 40 years at the paper. Retiring film critic Musetto, who once [...]

Oslo Shooter Anti-Muslim Christian Extremist

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The death toll in Norway’s deadliest day of terrorism is up to 91. The man behind it, 32-year-old Anders Behring Breivik, is a frequent poster of anti-Muslim screeds on Christian fundamentalist websites.

Former Aides Contradict James Murdoch’s Testimony Before Parliament

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Rupert Murdoch’s son, who runs News International’s British newspapers, has been accused by two former aides of misleading Parliament about the extent of his knowledge of the phone hacking scandal at News Of The World: British lawmaker says James Murdoch could be asked to clarify his testimony to a parliamentary committee investigating phone hacking after [...]

Rupert Murdoch Assaulted in Parliamentary Hearing

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Rupert Murdoch was attacked by a man with shaving cream 2 hours into Parliamentary testimony.

New York Times Time-Lapse Video

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A video of the New York Times website from September 2010 to July 2011.

Another Major Scotland Yard Resignation in Hacking Scandal

Via WaPo:  Cameron cuts short Africa trip; police second-in-command resigns Assistant Commissioner John Yates, who years ago made the decision to drop the police probe of the hacking scandal, announced his resignation Monday, one day after his boss did the same. Yates–once considered a candidate to run Scotland Yard–had defiantly sought to hold on to [...]

NewsCorp Strikes Back

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WSJ has a blistering editorial seeking to put the NewsCorp hacking scandal in perspective.

An Attempt at Unpacking the News Corp Scandal

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I must confess to having only paid peripheral attention at first, but it is clear that there is a major story here that requires attention.

Not Surprisingly, Fox News Is Basically Ignoring The News Corp. Hacking Scandal

Or, if they do talk about it’s to assure that it’s really no big deal: Doocey, your lack of credibility is showing. H/T: Alex Massie

Former Head Of News International Arrested In Hacking Probe

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Rebekah Brooks, who ran Rupert Murdoch’s media operations in Britain until just a few days ago, is now the biggest name arrested in the still unfolding hacking scandal: The British police on Sunday arrested Rebekah Brooks, the former head of Rupert Murdoch’s media operations in Britain, according to a former associate at News International, the [...]

News as a Public Good

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Real news reporting has never paid for itself. But the days of it being subsidized by the local car deal are rapidly ending.

Former Editor Of News Of The World Arrested In Hacking Case

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The legal shoes are starting to drop in the News Of  The World phone hacking scandal Former News of the World editor Andy Coulson has been arrested by police investigating phone hacking and corruption allegations. Ex-NoW royal editor Clive Goodman, jailed in 2007 for phone hacking, has been arrested over corruption claims. It came as [...]

U.K. Tabloid ‘News Of The World’ To Shut Down Amid Phone Hacking Scandal

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For four years now, Rupert Murdoch’s News Of The World, a British tabloid known for salacious headlines, has been caught up in a scandal surrounding revelations that reporters for the paper had been hacking into the voice mail of celebrities, crime victims, and even the British Royal Family for years. Today, the paper announced it [...]

Casey Anthony and Other Things I Don’t Care About

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I have been only peripherally aware of the trial–and then only in the way that I’m aware of Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, and reality TV.

Ann Coulter Calls Princess Diana ‘Anorexic, Bulimic Narcissist’

Ann Coulter explains why she’s not a fan of the late Princess Di: “”I find it a little baffling when Americans get so gaga-eyed over a princess. In particular Lady Di, who was just this anorexic, bulimic narcissist.”

The American Civil War on Cable News

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What if in 1861 a cable news network existed to broadcast the events of the day?

Gene Weingarten: Branding is Ruining Journalism

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Gene Weingarten is not a fan of journalists building a brand.

Are Fox News Viewers Least Informed?

Jon Stewart told Chris Wallace that Fox News viewers are consistently the least informed. It’s actually not true. PolitFact looks at a number of surveys on the subject and finds that Fox viewers do relatively well–indeed, Fox outperforms CNN and MSNBC–although not nearly as well as viewers of the Daily Show or listeners to Rush [...]

Jon Stewart vs. Fox News

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Daily Show host Jon Stewart spent 15 minutes on yesterday’s Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace trying to explain why he thinks Fox is a propaganda machine.

NBC Removes “Under God” From The Pledge. Who Cares?

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NBC stoked a minor furor among the perpetually victimized by using the original version of the Pledge of Allegiance.

Join Me For Some Saturday Morning Radio

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Tomorrow morning between 10:00am and Noon Eastern, I’ll be a guest on Da Tech Guy show on WCRN 830am in Worcester, Massachusetts, hosted by DaTechGuy himself Peter Ingemi. The first hour we’ll be talking about the New Hampshire Presidential Debate, the war powers dispute between Congress and the President over Libya, and the recent decision [...]

Talk Radio and Sponsorship by Advocacy Groups

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Does Limbaugh love the Heritage Foundation because of their ideas or their check book?

Steve Clemons Goes Atlantic

Steve Clemons is taking his talents to The Atlantic

Would You Pay for Glenn Beck TV?

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Beck heads to the internet.

Should We Care About Anthony Weiner’s Wiener?

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So, Anthony Weiner is a lying dick. Does it matter?

Newsweek Mitt Romney Mormons Cover

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Another sad chapter in the slow death of a once proud magazine.

Why New Media Beats Old Media

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Sure, there’s a lot of crap out there. But it’s easier to find good information and engage with experts than ever.

Is This Beck’s Last Month on Fox?

So reports Mediaite:  Exclusive: Glenn Beck’s Last Day On Fox News Will Be June 30th

Writing for Free Doesn’t Pay Well

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It’s hard to get paid for work others will do for nothing.

Fox News Frankenstein

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Fox News chairman Roger Ailes has come to regret the direction he took the network after the 2008 election.

A Quick Thought on Media Coverage of Mitch Daniels Leaving the Race

I’ve been reading quite a bit of commentary about Mitch Daniels deciding not to run for the Presidency and I admit to some surprise at something. There is an awful lot of weeping, moaning and gnashing of teeth at his departure, which makes no sense to me because he had zero chance of winning the [...]

The Power of Drudge

The NYT has an interesting piece of the Drudge Report: How Drudge Has Stayed on Top. It is amazing the degree to which the internet has changed since Drudge’s debut and yet the to degree to which Drudge hasn’t while still retaining such a substantial level of influence. For me, I used to check the [...]

Bin Laden Porn Stash Inspires The New York Post

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I must say that the “OSAMA BIN WANKIN’” headline is right up there this classic from the 1970s. Via various sources on Twitter and The Newseum

Bill Clinton: International Agency Should Police Internet Rumors

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Bill Clinton thinks some sort of government agency should do somethingorother about rumors on the Internet.

Nerdiest Correction Ever

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An item in the Extra Bases baseball notebook last Sunday misidentified, in some editions, the origin of the name Orcrist the Goblin Cleaver, which Mets pitcher R. A. Dickey gave one of his bats. Orcrist was not, as Dickey had said, the name of the sword used by Bilbo Baggins in the Misty Mountains in “The Hobbit”; Orcrist was the sword used by the dwarf Thorin Oakenshield in the book. (Bilbo Baggins’s sword was called Sting.)

George Will at 70

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George Will reflects on turning 70.

Lede of the Day

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Floridians are going to have to start pulling up their pants and stop having sex with animals soon.

Best Front Page Ever

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The Atlantic’s Jim Fallows dubs this the Greatest Front Page Ever: A day filled with romance, pageantry, and playfulness is sealsed with a kiss: Osama bin Laden is dead”

Obama Osama Speech Photos Faked (As Usual)

Still image taken from video shows U.S. President Barack Obama announcing the death of Osama bin Laden from the White House in Washington

The photographs of President Obama that appeared in the papers after the Osama announcement were staged.

Trailer for Atlas Shrugged: Part Two

It appears there may be some budget cuts.

Ranking The Pundits

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A study shows that most national columnists and talking heads are about as accurate as a coin flip.

Great Moments In Journalism: President Obama Is Dead

There were several examples last night of people in haste typing, or saying, “Obama” instead of “Osama.” Here are two of the most notable First from the local Fox affiliate here in Washington, D.C.: President Obama dead? He looked pretty healthy walking away from the podium just then. Then, there was Geraldo Rivera who, unfortunately [...]

Osama bin Laden’s Death News Broken on Twitter

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Keith Urbahn, chief of staff of former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld, broke the news.

Lara Logan: “They Really Enjoyed My Pain And Suffering”

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CBS reporter Lara Logan spoke for the first time about her assault in Tahrir Square on the night Hosni Mubarak stepped down as Egypt’s President in a 60 Minutes interview that will air this coming Sunday: Lara Logan thought she was going to die in Tahrir Square when she was sexually assaulted by a mob [...]

Inventor Of Teleprompter Dies At 91

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A moment of silence across all of Washington Hubert Schlafly created the teleprompter, the device that helps actors and politicians read scripts on television without looking down. Then he helped develop the satellite and cable networks that sent their words around the globe. Mr. Schlafly, an engineer who died April 20 at age 91, created [...]

Fun with URLs

The Independent allows creative versions of the URLs on their stories.

National Review Offers Free Porn

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A special surprise was waiting this morning for those who subscribe to Jim Geraghty’s Jolt newsletter.

TV Ratings Myths

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Demographic information about TV viewers is worthless to advertisers.

Social Conservatives Freak Out Over J. Crew Ad

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Your silly media controversy of the day involves the public response to a J. Crew ad featuring a toddler boy with pink toenail polish: A mother paints her son’s toenails hot pink because it’s his favorite color. Does that mean he’ll become gay or transgender? That is the controversy surrounding a J. Crew ad that [...]

Huffington Post Freelancer Files Class Action Suit Against HuffPo

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A Huffington Post contributor who had no expectation of being paid for his contributions is suing HuffPo for $105 million.

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