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Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable « Clay Shirky
For the next few decades, journalism will be made up of overlapping special cases. Many of these models will rely on amateurs as researchers and writers. Many of these models will rely on sponsorship or grants or endowments instead of revenues. Many of these models will rely on excitable 14 year olds distributing the results. Many of these models will fail. No one experiment is going to replace what we are now losing with the demise of news on paper, but over time, the collection of new experiments that do work might give us the journalism we need.
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Bill Moyers Journal . Watch & Listen | PBS
With economic, political, and social strife across the globe, prominent religious scholar Karen Armstrong discusses our human commonalities and her work on an international charter for compassion. The renowned author of THE BATTLE FOR GOD and THE BIBLE: A BIOGRAPHY, Armstrong is a 2008 recipient of the coveted TED Prize.
NCLR: get involved > kate's blog
The truth is that I—and the rest of us here at NCLR, including our own brilliant Shannon Minter—are not devastated. We’re not defeated. We are disappointed, to be sure—make no mistake about that. But we are nowhere near being destroyed. We are taking a few days to lick our wounds and dust ourselves off; we got knocked down yesterday.
Petrelis Files
The inability of Smith and the No on 8 leaders to take advantage of [Obama's] letter, and to now blame their inaction on an LGBT Democratic club named after a dead dyke rattles my queer sensibilities.
MPAA Study Links Piracy to Gangs and Terrorists | TorrentFreak
A new study by the RAND corporation has attempted to put the focus on ‘movie piracy’ squarely on the shoulders of terrorist groups and criminal gangs. The report, which claims to have been ‘peer reviewed’, seems to show that no matter which gang, thug, or terrorist – they all pirate movies.
Is Obama embracing the lawless, omnipotent executive? - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
As Marcy Wheeler documents in detail, the Obama DOJ is now spouting the Cheney/Addington view of government in its purest and most radical expression. Citing lengthy excepts from the Obama DOJ's brief filed on Friday following its loss in the appeals court -- a brief that could easily have been written by John Yoo or David Addington in its distinctly un-American and anti-constitutional theories purporting to vest unchallengeable, unreviewable power in the President
In full: Barack Obama's address calling an end to the Iraq war | World news | guardian.co.uk
Good morning Marines. Good morning Camp Lejeune. Good morning Jacksonville. Thank you for that outstanding welcome. I want to thank Lieutenant General Hejlik for hosting me here today.
Slashdot | Obama Helicopter Security Breached By File Sharing
What appears to be a defense contractor in Bethesda, Md., had a file-sharing program on one of their systems that also contained highly sensitive blueprints for Marine One,' says Boback, adding that someone from the company most likely downloaded a file-sharing program, typically used to exchange music, without realizing the potential problems.
Annie Leibovitz is in a jam | AfterEllen.com
Out Vanity Fair photographer Annie Leibovitz recently took out a loan against her prized photographs in order to pay off her outstanding mortgage debt. Miss Leibovitz is not alone in suffering from the global economic crisis, but what struck me about her story was that most of her financial woes stemmed from her inheritance of her long time partner, Susan Sontag’s, estate.
Such, Such Was Eric Blair - The New York Review of Books
And George Orwell? It would surprise, and doubtless irritate, him to discover that since his death in 1950 he has moved implacably toward NT status. He is interpretable, malleable, ambassadorial, and patriotic. He denounced the Empire, which pleases the left; he denounced communism, which pleases the right. He warned us against the corrupting effect on politics and public life of the misuse of language, which pleases almost everyone. He said that "good prose is like a window pane," which pleases those who, despite living in the land of Shakespeare and Dickens, mistrust "fancy" writing. He distrusted anyone who was too "clever." (This is a key English suspicion, most famously voiced in 1961 when Lord Salisbury, a stalwart of the imperialist Tory right, denounced Iain Macleod, secretary of state for the colonies and member of the new reforming Tory left, as "too clever by half.")
TPMMuckraker | Talking Points Memo | Jindal Admits Katrina Story Was False
This is no minor difference. Jindal's presence in Lee's office during the crisis itself was a key element of the story's intended appeal, putting him at the center of the action during the maelstrom. Just as important, Jindal implied that his support for the sheriff helped ensure the rescue went ahead. But it turns out Jindal wasn't there at the key moment, and played no role in making the rescue happen.
Nation's Blacks Creeped Out By All The People Smiling At Them | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
A majority of African-Americans surveyed in a nationwide poll this week reported feeling "deeply disturbed" and "more than a little weirded out" by all the white people now smiling at them.
Aquatic Sex: Pregnant Fish Fossils Found - CBS News
The fossilized remains of two pregnant fish indicate that sex as we know it - fertilization of eggs inside a female - took place as much as 30 million years earlier than previously thought, researchers said Thursday.
The risks of a bust-up in Europe | The bill that could break up Europe | The Economist
Bailing out the same mythical Polish plumbers who just stole everybody’s jobs will be hard for Europe’s leaders to sell on the doorsteps of Berlin, Bradford and Bordeaux, especially with the xenophobic right in full cry. German taxpayers are already worried that others are after their hard-earned cash (see article). The bill will indeed be huge, but in truth western Europe cannot afford not to pay it. The meltdown of any EU country in the region, let alone the break-up of the euro or the single market, would be catastrophic for all of Europe; and on this issue there is little prospect of much help from America, China or elsewhere. It is certainly not too late to rescue the east; but politicians need to start making the case for it now.
Michael J. Totten: Christopher Hitchens and the Battle of Beirut
Last week Christopher Hitchens and I were attacked in Beirut. Less than 24 hours after we landed at the international airport, a half dozen members of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party jumped us on Hamra Street when he defaced one of their signs.
Jindal's Eruption of Hot Gas - The Daily Beast
In a bizarre moment from Bobby Jindal's speech last night, the Louisiana governor dumped on President Obama for funding "something called 'volcanic monitoring.'" Top geologists tell the Daily Beast that the governor needs to do his homework.
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