February 2012
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January 2012
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Google's Suggested Searches for the GOP Field: Not...
Type something into Google, and a couple of additional searches are suggested.
Do that for the field of GOP presidential candidates, and you get a number of less than flattering suggestions.
Here’s former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who’s on his third marriage.
Gingrich’s chief rival, Mitt Romney, made millions as the head of Bain Capital.
Rick Santorum is often a...
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December 2011
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I just got up to 663 in #DoodleJump!!! Beat that!bxbsjbxjx bit.ly/DoodleJump-App twitter.com/SenJohnMcCain/…
— John McCain (@SenJohnMcCain) December 24, 2011
Whoa
spokeydoke:
WMATA announcer on the metro...
Soup: Joao Silva, Returning Home. →
cjchivers:
He left in the early fall of 2010 for a reporting trip to Afghanistan. There he stepped on a landmine and lost his legs. Fourteen months on, he came back to his wife and two children in South Africa, after a long hospitalization and period of rehabilitation in the United…
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Oy
Alarmed. RT @ksacknyt: How should I feel about the fact that my termite inspector just introduced himself as a former journalist?
— gwen ifill (@pbsgwen) December9, 2011
November 2011
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October 2011
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Unnecessary Journalism Phrases: 32. Free Gift -... →
unnecessaryjournalismphrases:
This has been submitted by several people as their pet-peeves. A gift is “a thing given willingly to someone without payment; a present,” therefore, free. We can eliminate ‘free’ before ‘gift,’ as it is unnecessary.
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“Participating businesses have often had raffles and giveaways and the…
July 2011
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Personnel not personal
@BreakingNews: I generally think you do a good job. But tonight, you made a bad typo, and, despite the efforts of a number of journalists like me on Twitter, you still have not corrected it.
Tomorrow, President Obama is making a personnel announcement, not a personal one. He is nominating Richard Cordray to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Below is the White House’s Daily...
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Watchdchillin:
This video is seriously awesome…the music gives it a cool effect, and it shows the amazement of this city.
May 2011
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The Camerons Receive Fancy Gifts from the Obamas →
nationaljournal:
From the Wall Street Journal’s Carol Lee:
The President and Mrs. Obama gave the Prime Minister a custom-made pair of White House Magnolia wood and sterling silver cufflinks engraved on the reverse with the President’s signature, as well as a first edition of President John F. Kennedy’s book,…
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Harsh Words for Conservatives from Washington Post...
Ombudsman Patrick B. Pexton writes:
The incendiary rhetoric from some on the right accusing Post journalists or other reporters of treason is reprehensible. It shows how little some conservatives know about the media and how reporters do their jobs, and it insults journalists who care about this country at least as much as self-proclaimed “True Americans.”
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April 2011
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FAA Administrator Changes Air Traffic Control...
WASHINGTON – Federal Aviation Administration Administrator Randy Babbitt announced today that he is prohibiting scheduling practices that have been identified as those most likely to result in air traffic controller fatigue. The changes will be effective within 72 hours.
Discussions with the National Air Traffic Controllers Union (NATCA) are underway and more details will be released soon.
“We...
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Watch
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“I have a love/hate relationship with being bored”
– ascalamogna
March 2011
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Mother Jones magazine on Tumblr: The best... →
motherjones:
You should, like, strongly consider applying to work for this guy:
We want to add some talent to the Sarasota Herald-Tribune investigative team. Every serious candidate should have a proven track record of conceiving, reporting and writing stellar investigative pieces that provoke change….
10,000 Words article on content curation →
Thank you for the Tumblr love!
producermatthew:
Ethan Klapper’s very kind article on my content curation over at Mediabistro’s 10,000 words.
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So, does anyone have any updates out of Fukushima Daiichi?
In 48 hours, nearly the entire narrative has switched from Japan to Libya.
But nothing indicates that plant is out of the woods yet.
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“@dabeard ‘s WINNING TWEET: #journalismmatters because … an unwatched...”
– This tweet won my boss an iPad…
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washingtonpost.com. Now redesigned. →
“I love aggregation. Aggregating, as I wrote, is what editors do.”
– Bill Keller adds a postscript to his column in today’s New York Times magazine. (via poynterinstitute)
As of 10:15AM JST Monday, there have been 235... →
IM with @Biz about starting work on twttr, March...
me: Biz! How goes? We're starting work on the twttr
implementation today.
Biz: really?! NICE
me: yeah, i roped
florian in. i think we'll be able to get most of it up and working by
the end of this week. then i'll do the sms and style side next week.
along with ajax stuff.
Biz: two weeks and we'll have twttr.
yay!
me: yeah! should be pretty quick. have all of florian's time
and all of mine.
Biz: oh man that's awesome
Biz: i've looking
longingly at my empty sms on my phone throuhout the panels
Biz: sucks that teen people has the shortcode
me: i know! that's going to
be tough. doesn't help that the code also spells TXT
Biz: hmm
yah
“Some guys consider this a lot of fun, and they’re hoping the war lasts a lot...”
– Libya’s Youth Revolt Veers Toward Chaos - NYTimes.com (via markcoatney)