Archive for April 16th, 2007
Monday, April 16th, 2007
Rapist Doll for Sale at Toys-R-Us?
You know you’ve crossed some sick cultural line when gossip hound Perez Hilton — the blue-haired blogger who calls celebrities sluts and drunks with abandon and draws obscenties and cocaine trails on their pictures — complains about what you’re up to:
You want to be offended by something? How about a doll depicting a rapist and […]
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Monday, April 16th, 2007
Pulitzers
Congratulations are in order for the first member of my generation of journalists to win the Pulitzer Prize. Charlie Savage, 31, of The Boston Globe was awarded journalism’s highest honor this afternoon for his meticulous series on George Bush’s use of signing statements. Well done.
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Monday, April 16th, 2007
Who is Most Misinformed?
A new study by The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press surveyed consumers of different types of news media and found that “online news discussion blog” readers were considerably less likely to be “high-knowledge” readers than those identified as news magazine or newspaper website readers. I though this was odd but interesting […]
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Monday, April 16th, 2007
Citizen Journalism at CNN
CNN’s iReport website has photos and footage from the students at Virginia Tech.
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Monday, April 16th, 2007
Good Lord
Thirty-two dead in Virginia Tech shooting, making it “the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history.” What the hell kind of guns did the shooter have?
UPDATE: ABC News: “Two guns were recovered, a 9 mm pistol and a .22-caliber pistol.”
