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I am sitting literally 4 feet from Julian Assange right now. … How can this be Tumbld? … He is wearing a dark suit with a knit scarf casually flung about his shoulders. He has a decent haircut. He is casually chatting at a table, swirling a glass of wine.

Monica, in a message to me about an hour ago, from an undisclosed location in London. (Our first reportorial instinct these days is: How can we Tumbl it?) The latest on Assange is here. (via washingtonpoststyle)

I love that my favorite news Tumblrs love Tumblr as much as the audience does.

02/8/11

inothernews:

First rule of journalism: you don’t talk about fight clubs.

02/7/11

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Actually, I did the easiest thing, which was writing. At the end of the day, it was about the power of the people.

Google Executive Wael Ghonim, in his first international interview, admitting he was behind the Facebook page that sparked Egypt’s revolt. (via cheatsheet)

(via newsweek)

02/7/11

Breaking: Keith Olbermann to join Current TV - NYTimes

shortformblog:

brooklynmutt:

Keith Olbermann, the former top-rated host of on the news channel MSNBC, will announce his next television home on Tuesday, and people familiar with his plans pointed Monday to a possible deal with the public affairs channel Current TV.

Current TV? Someone’s getting an instant ratings boost!

(via theatlantic)

02/7/11

AOL buys Huffington Post for $315 million

Wait, AOL has money!?!

02/6/11

Media Diet: How do people keep up with the deluge of information?

I need to read this whole series now. I want to be well-informed, but god it can be overly time consuming. Add this to the list, I guess.

02/6/11

Philadelphia doctor accused of murdering patient, newborns

This article is depressing. I read it at work and realized my mouth was gaping open from shock and disgust.

I fear that anti-abortion groups may use this to fuel their fire, but in my eyes it should be the other way around. Barriers to abortion health care can make women vulnerable to people and situations like this. Ignoring the earlier outcries from impoverished, minority women perpetuates that vulnerability.

01/19/11

go:

reblogged via usnews:

More Americans Get Their News From the Internet: The gap between television as the number one source and the Internet is shrinking
The percentage of Americans who say they get most of their national and international news from the Web has increased 17 points since 2007, and the gap between TV viewers and mouse clickers is even more narrow for people ages 18-49. Women in this age bracket prefer TV news to the Internet 62 to 52, while men 18-49 actually prefer surfing the Web for updates over TV news, 56 to 55 percent.
(Chart via Pew Research)

go:

reblogged via usnews:

More Americans Get Their News From the Internet: The gap between television as the number one source and the Internet is shrinking

The percentage of Americans who say they get most of their national and international news from the Web has increased 17 points since 2007, and the gap between TV viewers and mouse clickers is even more narrow for people ages 18-49. Women in this age bracket prefer TV news to the Internet 62 to 52, while men 18-49 actually prefer surfing the Web for updates over TV news, 56 to 55 percent.

(Chart via Pew Research)

01/12/11

rand0mflora:

I do not think that word means what you think it means.

via

Hahaha! Where was the copy editor on that one?

(via braiker)

01/11/11

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When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, “Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.

Fred (Mr.) Rogers (via apsies)

(via apoplecticskeptic)

01/8/11

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