December 2009
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Declassified: British Authorities Didn't Inform... →
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Programming Announcement
Our @jess7bennett is going on NBC/Carson Daly for New Year’s Eve, along with her entourage. Tune in! We’re sure this means nothing.
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Also in Most-Read Stories from This Year That We...
This story will break your heart, and Jess Bennett tells it really well:
This is a story about a photo—an image so horrific we can’t print it in NEWSWEEK. The picture shows the lifeless body of an 18-year-old Orange County girl named Nikki Catsouras, who was killed in a devastating car crash on Halloween day in 2006. The accident was so gruesome the coroner wouldn’t allow her...
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In Which NurtureShock Endorses the University of... →
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Also, There Is an AMAZING Picture of Tori Spelling...
Dick Clark New Year’s Eve, still rockin’.
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So You Know Who to Blame: The World's Top 10... →
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Also, "Newsweek: The Empire's Magazine" is Going... →
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britticisms:
“Maps” by Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Wait....
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“Newsweek magazine takes the liberty of predicting and saying that 2010 will be...”
– Hugo Chavez, ladies and gentlemen. Responding to this.
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“Because the federal agency that regulates alcohol, the Alcohol and Tobacco Trade...”
– Eve Conant, being service-y on the subject of vitamin-enhanced booze.
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WatchThis, from our Tony Dokoupil, was both one of our most-read stories this year, and also one of our favorites. A taste:
From 1975 to 1986, Anthony Edward Dokoupil distributed at least 50 tons of Colombian and Mexican grass north of the Mason-Dixon line. He started small, with suitcases and a rental car that he would drive up from Florida. As he cultivated his Latin American connections, he...
Foreign models flock to China, which embraces a... →
johncarney:
Keith Richburg is one of three or four people writing in mainstream media who are worth listening to on questions of race and identity.
Hmm. We think it’s more than 3 or 4, but we agree that this indeed a good, smart piece.
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Well, This is Encouraging
Hosenball:
The Homeland Security Department unit which routinely screens US-bound international airline passenger lists before clearing a flight for takeoff has access to the government’s classified master data base of intelligence on terrorism suspects—but rarely checks the data base before notifying airlines that a flight is good to go.
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Interestingly, This is EXACTLY How We Talk to Our...
This story, from Tucson Weekly, about the suspension of the managing editor of the University of Arizona Daily Wildcat, is about 18 kinds of awesome. But this exchange, as reported by the managing editor, Shain Bergan, is the best part:
Alex: Shain, you’re done. You can’t dictate your own story from outside the newsroom. Shain: What are you talking about? Alex: No, that’s it!...
juliasegal:
toosweet4rnr:
The Gap Band - You...
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“It’s impossible to write about how human activities are altering the...”
– Begley, bringing rationality.
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“Cities are going to have to make similar painful cuts. Because previous...”
– David Graham on the next budget crisis in government.
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“have gun
give up money”
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male, 20s, Pioneer Bank, Watervliet NY, $2000
(via banknotes)
Sigh. It’s so rare these days when people really get how to do simplicity. This guy is the Steve Jobs of bank robbery notes.
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“During my time in Washington, the quantity of information has increased but its...”
– Samuelson, with his take on what’s wrong with journalism.
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“If you’re going to call yourself a news network, then cover the news.”
– Rachel Sklar, MSNBC criticized for response to terrorism story (via soupsoup / winstonwolfe)
Why is the WaPo preferred style “Web site” instead of website? I find this highly irritating. I just checked and the New York Times does it too so I’m sure everyone else must but can we change this please?...
Newsweek.me
inothernews:
newsweek:
Because we’ve long been of the opinion that the real motto for most major news organization is really “We report. You shut the fuck up,” we’re cautiously excited about Tumblr’s new Formspring-within-Tumblr functionality; we, too, would be happy to let you ask us anything. That said, there are a few things about Formspring.me that we don’t love (yes, we have one. Like a...
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Newsweek.me
Because we’ve long been of the opinion that the real motto for most major news organizations is really “We report. You shut the fuck up,” we’re cautiously excited about Tumblr’s new Formspring-within-Tumblr functionality; we, too, would be happy to let you ask us anything. That said, there are a few things about Formspring.me that we don’t love (yes, we have...
Twitter's List of 370 Banned Passwords →
tanya77:
My faves:
16. 8675309
40. asdfgh
56. bitches
64. booger
180. justin (you’re one letter off)
Why does Twitter hate “Rush2112”? Are they more Power Windows people?
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“Until now, Tehran hadn’t concerned religious moderates—most of whom are...”
– Babak Dehghanpisheh, on ongoing protests in Iran
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WatchThe moving picture version of this is just as good…
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Asked and Answered
We asked for alternate names for the Underpants Bomber. Some responses, via Twitter.
absurd: Chaddi Bomber.
terimeyer: Hot-pants bomber? Eunuch bomber?
OmniPresent101: The Brief Case Full of Blues Bomber ?
pblaauw: “Underpants Gnome” (thank you, South Park)
Luisraos: Victoria’s Bomber
jomolungma: Well, he failed, so how about The Shitty Bomber?
derekahunter: Fire...
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Newsweek's Editor's Video Picks 2009 →
(via sarahfrank)
Sigh. We still love The District…
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Def Leppard Inks Deal To Develop A Cartoon Series →
negevrockcity:
…only 30 years too late! /remembering their ads on the back covers of 1990s DC Comics //feeling old
We get hysteria!
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Seriously, Can We Come Up With a Better Name than... →
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Also, We Loved 'Cache', But It Kinda Made Us...
Marc Bain talks to Michael Haneke:
Your movies, as you say, deal with many uncomfortable topics. But they never give the viewer a sense of justice being served. Is there an emotional reaction you want from your viewers? I try to take the spectator seriously … Mainstream cinema raises questions only to immediately provide an answer to them, so they can send the spectator home reassured. If...
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“There were a total of 674 passengers, not counting crew or the terrorists...”
– FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: The Odds of Airborne Terror (via mikehudack)
Once again, Nate Silver is the voice of rationality. Except, of course, that terrorism is an act of man, and lightning an act of God; in theory, we can do something about the former.
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“One of the problems is newspapers fired so many journalists and turned them...”
– Media consultant Alan Mutter. NYTimes: Adding Fees and Fences on Media Sites http://s.nyt.com/u/AMx (via adamiss) (via thedeadline)
Ha! Why do you think Nwk is doing this Tumblr in house? We’re kept in cages here…
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“Lisa Bedford is what you’d imagine of a stereotypical soccer mom. She...”
– From Jess Bennett’s great look at the world of Preppers, people who getting ready to survive the coming apocalypse in style.
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“If you gained a few pounds over the holidays, check out QuickTrim at WalMart...”
– KimKardashian
She’s here to help, people. Just helping you keep that ass phat, not fat.
(via skybarn)
Hmm. Walmart paid $10,000 for that and she can’t even get the corporate name right?
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The Whole Thing is Pretty Fun, But This Is...
Scarborough interviews Maher:
OK, final question from me. You talk about the fact that you had good Christmas memories. Do you have a favorite? Um…
Going back to your childhood? I’m trying to help you here with all of the people you’ve pissed off already. So give me your favorite Christmas memory. I don’t know about a specific one, but what I remember was a Christmas...
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Fake Steve is Surprisingly Tame in This Response →
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The Anatomy of a Smear: How The Reigning King of...
jhnmyr:
A couple of days ago I was pointed to a video on TMZ.com that featured “Avatar” director James Cameron involved in a verbal scuffle with who the gossip website would have you believe was a “fan.” The question is implicit in the video and write-up: “Why would a wealthy Hollywood director be so rude as not to sign an autograph for someone going out of his way to meet his hero?” Having...
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In Which We Receive Perhaps Our Greatest... →
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