August 2011
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Bet they'd suspend you for redistributing...
re-incarnate: Dominic, Aug-05 12:12 (EDT): Hello. Thank you for sharing your concerns about the Missing E browser extension. People are not being suspended for using Missing e. shnayerson: 2011-05-13 15:23 Honestly, if you’re using Tumblr, you should be using this extension.  “Missing e” will make you love Tumblr if you didn’t already and it will bring you back if you’ve kind of...
Aug 5th
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Aug 5th
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July 2011
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Levi Aron may well be a deranged, depraved... →
—“Attorneys [sic] of suspect in Leiby Kletzky murder quits” [Via]
Jul 22nd
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June 2011
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Jun 6th
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May 2011
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May 22nd
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Oh my GOD, what IS THIS SPEECH??
May 19th
tetw asked: Tetw - a Tumblr dedicated to classic journalism and narrative non-fiction - would like to know: What are your favourite articles, features or essays?
May 13th
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May 13th
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This Is Not A Lifehacker Audition Post
Honestly, if you’re using Tumblr, you should be using this extension.  “Missing e” will make you love Tumblr if you didn’t already and it will bring you back if you’ve kind of just lost that loving feeling. It’s a cross-browser extension, so no excuse, unless you use Internet Explorer, and then you need more help than I’m qualified to provide. 
May 13th
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“I think it’s the official end of creativity, this Twitter.”
– Albert Brooks on WNYC today with Leonard Lopate
May 10th
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WatchWatch
No wonder there are 7 television shows on the air about animal hoarding. Via (Adweek: Nothing Beats Talking Kittens)
May 6th
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May 2nd
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May 2nd
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Phew, networks end coverage just in time for my...
May 2nd
O: "We give thanks for the men who carried out...
May 2nd
Network news anchors getting testy about President...
May 2nd
As an aside, it's kind of jarring to see Lara...
May 2nd
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NYPD cop cars outside my apartment are sounding...
May 2nd
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An American "Asset," Probably Not Ray Davis, No?
I gotta say, not really looking forward to the inevitable photographs of Bin Laden’s corpse, à la Uday and Qusay Hussein.
May 2nd
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Why am I so apprehensive about Lara Logan's...
May 1st
April 2011
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Alternative Careers for Freelance Journalists
Courtesy of the FAQ page at the National Weather Center. Q:  ”How can I become a professional storm chaser?”   A:  Very few people make a living as storm chasers. The vast majority of people who chase storms do so as a hobby in their spare time, often at a cost of hundreds or thousands of dollars a year. To become a professional storm chaser, you must be able to consistently acquire...
Apr 28th
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Shockingly Inadequate Acronym of the Day: PDS
Short for? PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS SITUATION. At 11pm tonight, the Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma, saw fit to assign this (apparently) exceedingly rare sobriquet to today’s massive storm outbreak, after more than 130 tornadoes—mind you, ginormous ones—leveled towns, killed an estimated 40 people, and prompted Alabama governor Robert Bentley to call up 1,400 National Guardsmen...
Apr 28th
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Three Reasons To Delight in Prospect of US as 3rd...
According to this weekend’s edition of NPR’s “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me,” anyhow.  Soccer, livestock, Nike factories! (Potentially.) PETER SAGAL: We went from being the world’s sole remaining superpower to the country that asked to crash in Canada’s basement until we could get it together. And now Canada wants its futon back… All right, if we do...
Apr 25th
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What a Crock of a Headline.
“Maddow To Cooper: ‘You Have A Responsibility To Come Out’ Of The Closet” [Via @BusinessInsider] “Maddow is one of the very few gay news anchors in America – well, one of the very few openly gay news anchors. Does she feel frustration towards an equally well-known news presenter who is widely assumed to be gay but has never come out? For the first time, Maddow pauses: ‘I’m sure...
Apr 25th
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WatchWatch
A Yahoo ad campaign that made me laugh. Mark this moment in history, folks.
Apr 21st
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C.J. Chivers: Almost Dawn in Libya: Chris & Tim,... →
cjchivers: We’re numb here as the clock nears 4:30 a.m., and we’re not quite sure what to do. The deaths of Chris Hondros and Tim Hetherington on Tripoli Street still seem unreal. Bryan just walked off from the little space we’ve been huddled in, working. He’ll sleep soon, I hope. The work kept us busy…
Apr 21st
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Apr 20th
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“Tim Hetherington, photojournalist, filmmaker, and Vanity Fair contributing...”
– Tim Hetherington, 41, Killed in Libya | VF Daily | Vanity Fair
Apr 20th
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Apr 20th
60 Minutes Questions Greg Mortenson's Stories →
Man. Why didn’t I see this coming?
Apr 16th
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Old Media Is Less Likely to Link than New Media →
Breaking. Via 
Apr 15th
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Socially-Oriented Browser Flock Disappears →
Yet another good thing eaten by Farmville. [via]
Apr 13th
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Apr 13th
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Apr 7th
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Apr 4th
March 2011
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Nobody Likes Quotas, Arthur.
My browser tells me it took 1.013 seconds just now for me to unconsciously blow through my monthly ration of Times stories. Who reads twenty Times stories a month? Three, I get—619 and up, also completely reasonable. But twenty? That’s just mean marketing. 
Mar 28th
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I ALWAYS COUNT.
Nota Bene, dear. fek: Sorry, Mags. If it helps, you don’t count? #’sorry, mags.’ Be grateful that I’m sparing you and the four people who will read this some trite dialogue from Dirty Dancing.
Mar 28th
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Between Delancey and Depressing
When did the Lower East Side turn into an amalgamation of post-grad B&T excess without irony; everything that would suck about Frat Row if you revisited now; and an unnerving yet still off-the-mark tribute to the theatrical production that never was of “People Resembling Hipsters Take Manhattan,” or “The Importance of Appearing Earnest Whilst Standing Behind the Velvet Rope...
Mar 27th
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Mar 24th
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Mar 22nd
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Mar 17th
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WatchWatch
You should hear her talk about the camels. Wonderful friend Ahdaf Soueif, just back from Tahrir Square, is wrapping up this week’s stateside visit tonight at Alwan for the Arts, where Amy Goodman will interview Soueif and her 26-year-old filmmaker son, Omar Robert Hamilton, who also took part in the revolution. (Check out his latest project—and donate!—here.) And by all means, come...
Mar 11th
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CNN International cut away from President Obama's...
Mar 11th
February 2011
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aatombomb: VP Biden in NYC Today →
DISTURBED BY THIS. Vice President Joe Biden is slated to spend this afternoon in New York City…guests will dine on a birthday cake in the shape of the U.S. Capitol.
Feb 23rd
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“We need to get out there and start finding more compelling stories from around...”
– The Daily’s EIC, Jesse Angelo, rallying the troops and pretty much defining good reportering. Aw jeez, someone find me my copy of All the President’s Men.
Feb 22nd
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In Which @Shnayerson Gets Argumentative, Part... →
I seem to have gotten into a wee e-scuffle with ¡A Mexican! and OC Weekly’s R.Scott Moxley over this. Sigh…
Feb 22nd
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Feb 18th
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Feb 16th
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NYU Fellow Nir Rosen Resigns Over Offensive Tweets...
Well, that took about a nanosecond. Dear @brianvan, did you just delete this reply from this here Tumblelog?
Feb 16th
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Feb 16th