Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
“Now you’ve got a budget of three and a half trillion dollars in this fiscal year. This will take $85 billion out of it. That’s [snip] near a third….You can’t take 30, you can’t take 30 percent of operational money out and expect to have the same product. You can’t do it! It’s impossible!”
h/t EBD
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
h/t BCF
Look Yonder – What Brightening Star Is This?
Why, it’s the asteroid Schadenfreude!
Deep Impact
(h/t Phil)
Plus, Flying Cars!
What would we do without “reports”? 70% of children will be overweight adults by 2040: Ontario report
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
“Walter Cronkite’s on-air report from Vietnam — which the president did not see — supposedly elicited his famous lament: ‘If I’ve lost Cronkite, I’ve lost middle America.’ Shortly thereafter, Johnson would make his most memorable television appearance, announcing that he would not run for president in 1968.”
Take Me, Obama
He’s Just Not That Into You: Obama Aide Calls Female Journalist ‘Bitch, C-t, A-hole’
“When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal”
Say what you want about Nixon – at least he was man enough to do his own dirty work.
More here: Yeah, I Got the Abusive Treatment From the WH and the Same ‘You Will Regret This’ Threat
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
“What was the process for getting dressed?”
CBC Fruit Fly Guy
When we first arrived we were welcomed, asked how long we’d like with the good doctor and where we should set up our shot. When it was revealed we represented Sun News, we were no longer welcome.
David Suzuki didn’t just refuse to speak to us. He refused to appear altogether, sending a handful of hostile event organizers to remove us from the premises. They would, eventually, but not before creating a real drama in front of a real audience that exposed the real nature of David Suzuki.
After much debate and my reiterating I would be staying to ask a question, one of the event-organizers-turned-Suzuki-mandated-attack-dogs turned to the sizable crowd, incensed that I wouldn’t leave quietly, and yelled for someone to call 911 – help! A reporter is trying to do her job!
No one did anything except Green Party leader Elizabeth May (who was at the event as a moderator) who got up, ran across the floor and pleaded for me to be allowed to stay, yelling to the organizer: “Only Rob Ford calls 911 on the media!”
Credit where it’s due. Good for her.
Not Waiting For The Asteroid
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
“Just wait until the New York Times stumbles upon how centuries of increasingly larger oceangoing vessels pulling into the Hudson River has transformed Nieuw Amsterdam beyond all recognition.”
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
After school board honcho Chris Spence and staff reporter Madhavi Acharya Tom-Yew were both caught plagiarising a few weeks ago, the Toronto Star started using anti-cheating software called iThenticate, to help them with the problem.
Tale Of Two Losers
It was the best of times, it was the worst of Times… (h/t Terry)
Your moral and intellectual superiors
Was: “Sarah Palin Joins Al-Jezeera”, now: “Sarah Palin tries to stay relevant”.
Politico has the back-story.
I guess it’s proof the education system is failing students when a reporter gets tripped up by a site called the The Daily Currant.
I guess the author of “Sex in the South: Unbuckling the Bible Belt.” projects her fear of the evangelicals under her bed.
The fun can be found at #suziparkerscoops.
Let Me Fix That Headline For You
Your Intellectual Superiors on Display
Did you know that Global Warming causes asteroids? Well, you see, weather is a meteorological event so therefore meteors are meteorological events too. So thinks CNN anchor Deb Feyerick.
The World Still Has Too Many Reporters
Dean Beeby, The Canadian Press;
Many images proposed at the start of the process did not make the cut. Rejected were illustrations of a gay marriage, an RCMP officer wearing a turban, and “hockey with a twist … with a black player.”
The reasons for early rejection are not clear in the heavily censored documents, obtained by The Canadian Press under the Access to Information Act.
h/t Richard E
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
While I realize some members of the media make their email accounts public — for instance, Ben Smith is ben@buzzfeed.com — it would just be wrong-wrong-wrong to hack those accounts and make public the contents. I just can’t express how wrong it would be. Doing such a thing would make you the mayor of Wrongtown, so please just don’t to it.
I’m serious.
Don’t.
I’m not saying the release of those emails wouldn’t get a lot of attention. But it would be the WRONG kind of attention.
That’s all I’m going to say, because I’m just heartsick over the thought of such a wrong thing happening to aseitz-wald@salon.com or luke.johnson@huffingtonpost.com.
So, so wrong.