May 2013
I can absolutely assure you that ITVS does not want your film to be buried.” She...
– How Far Did PBS Go to Avoid Offending a Sponsor? : The New Yorker
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The bridge comes into the lives of all Bay Area residents sooner or later, and...
– Jumpers, The fatal grandeur of the Golden Gate Bridge. Read: The New Yorker
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BREAKING NEWS: Boy Scouts of America have voted to allow gay members
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The Girl Who Turned to Bone - The Atlantic →
Unexpected discoveries in the quest to cure an extraordinary skeletal condition show how medically relevant rare diseases can be.
What did Obama know about the Code Pink heckler and when did he know it???
– @ATLGreg1
The voice of that woman is worth paying attention to. … Obviously, I do...
– Pres. Obama
(@Newshour)
When you judge Obama, remember how he allowed Code Pink to scream at him at...
– @bobcesca
So yes, the conflict with al Qaeda, like all armed conflict, invites tragedy....
– President Barack Obama (via soupsoup)
Think hard about the lead. Don’t be afraid to begin with your best fact.
– Ezra Klein, Washington Post journalist, on what it takes to make hard policy facts easy reading. (via poynterinstitute)
The latest global study by AVG Technologies, the anti-virus company, found that...
– Medical Daily
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‘Shame on us’ if we elect Anthony Weiner.
– N.Y. Gov. Andrew Cuomo
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"Of Muslim appearance": One phrase and why I'm... →
h/t @rbaum
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PBS has become more and more dependent on viewers nothing like you.
– The Colbert Report’s STEPHEN COLBERT, on reports that PBS killed a documentary critical of one of the gazillionaire Koch brothers — a major public broadcasting supporter.
Ugh.
(via inothernews)
Shortly before “Park Avenue” aired, Melissa Cohlmia, the chief spokesperson for...
– Jane Mayer: How Far Did PBS Go to Avoid Offending a Sponsor? : The New Yorker (via markcoatney)
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It’s pronounced Dgif … the ‘D’ is silent.
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I think before his second term is over, we’re going to see a miracle before our...
– Michele Bachmann decides God will repeal Obamacare. (via think-progress)
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Wikileaks draws a crowd to documentary -... →
One good way to rile up a District movie audience is to show them a WikiLeaks documentary. At the Landmark E Street Cinema on Tuesday night, a brief but heated argument broke out in the audience — while the movie was still playing — over the involvement of Adrian Lamo, the former hacker who turned in Army Pfc. Bradley Manning in 2010 for leaking classified material to Wikileaks....
Steve Wilhite is wrong. Steve Wilhite admits that he has never even made an...
– Please Continue Pronouncing “GIF” Any Way You Please - Emma Carmichael, The Hairpin
h/t PPG
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Teens Are Turning Away from Facebook Because... →
Teenagers really are over Facebook. In a deep report published on Tuesday, Pew Research explains that teenagers departing the social network’s blue confines are looking for something more… authentic. Which, ironically, was the initial draw of Facebook, and has become something of a calling card for Tumblr and Twitter. Somewhere, Marissa Mayer is smiling.
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CNN’s Wolf Blitzer talks to an Oklahoma tornado survivor: Wolf Blitzer:...
– This is CNN, cont. - Politico
(via T Says)
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Watch: PCB gets a visual shout out on GMA’s Yahoo/Tumblr report
At the 41 second mark!
Congrats to PCB, and that interview had painfully obvious talking points. Stephanopoulos called Karp a hipster, leading to awkwardness all around.
That was a “totally different” situation, Inhofe told MSNBC, arguing that the...
– Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.): Tornado aid ‘totally different’ from Hurricane Sandy aid
Just go read the last three paragraphs on this New... →
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A third of Tumblr’s active users come from households with incomes above...
– Yahoo Tumblr Acquisition: It’s About Young People With Money
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…already Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., says he will insist that any federal...
– Roll Call
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“Time lapse of the Oklahoma tornado. This is stunning and terrifying.” - @colinjones
via wmctv
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Yahoo is looking to the future here, and tying the entire life of their company...
– Yahoo Back On Top After Purchasing Millions Of 13-Year-Old Girls’ Blogs - The Onion