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What the Amazon Purchase of The Washington Post Means
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Neil Irwin at the WonkBlog quells my fears of a corporate takeover:
Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, is buying The Washington Post. He’s paying $250 million, of his personal funds (we aren’t becoming part of Amazon, in other words, but rather employees of a stand-alone company that Bezos owns).
First things first: Nothing about Wonkblog changes, so far as we know. We’ll be here tomorrow, and the next day, and after the transaction closes in around 60 days, bringing you the latest news and analysis of everything that matters in the worlds of domestic and economic policy.
This was not a day any of us on the staff of the Washington Post saw coming. But it is also a shift into a form of ownership that makes a lot of sense given the realities of the business we find ourselves in. I anticipate that large quantities of brown liquor will consumed at the Post Pub tonight.
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In other news, I got my free trial of Amazon Prime in preparation for Breaking Bad next week.
NY Times Published “Rock Star” Picture of Boston Bomber 2 Months Ago and No One Cared
America’s Sweetheart, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
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Matt Taibbi (<3 ❤ <3!) posted a defense of The Rolling Stone cover that people suddenly care about:
But Rolling Stone has actually been in the hard news/investigative reporting business since its inception, from Hunter S. Thompson to Carl Bernstein to Bill Greider back in the day to Tim Dickinson, Michael Hastings, Mark Boal, Janet Reitman and myself in recent years.
One could even go so far as to say that in recent years, when investigative journalism has been so dramatically de-emphasized at the major newspapers and at the big television news networks, Rolling Stone‘s role as a source of hard-news reporting has been magnified. In other words, we’re more than ever a hard news outlet in a business where long-form reporting is becoming more scarce.
Not everybody knows this, however, which, again, is understandable. But that’s where the confusion comes in. It’s extremely common for news outlets to put terrorists and other such villains on the covers of their publications, and this is rarely controversial – the issue is how it’s done.
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Where is Edward Snowden?
WaPo breaks down the latest Edward Snowden/NSA news.
U.S. charges Edward Snowden with espionage in leaks about NSA surveillance programs
Federal prosecutors have filed a sealed criminal complaint against Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who leaked a trove of documents about top-secret surveillance programs, and the United States has asked Hong Kong to detain him on a provisional arrest warrant, according to U.S. officials.
Where is Edward Snowden now? Specifically in Hong Kong? They don’t know.
But I have a guess.
The Giant Rubber Duck. Hong Kong.
It’s brilliant. C’mon.
Well, brilliant until it moves back to US. How much would that suck. If he fell asleep in the duck and wakes up back here.
WTF Wednesday — Eel Gets Stuck in Man’s Butt
Weird News Wednesday
“The eel was about the size of a decent sprig of asparagus and the incident is the talk of the place,” a hospital source said. “Doctors and nurses have come across people with strange objects that have got stuck where they shouldn’t be before, but an eel has to be a first.”
It is unclear how the eel managed to be trapped inside the man. It is believed medics successfully removed it and the man was later discharged.
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This blog is classy.
WTF Wednesday: Turtle Attack/Bronx Zoo Tiger Pit Jumper
I completely forgot about WTF Wednesday this week. Sorry, guys.
In my humble apologies, I offer a turtle eating a shrimp:
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In other news, everyone has heard about the Bronx Zoo guy that jumped off the monorail into the tiger pit.
It was unclear from the initial reports whether he was suicidal, crazy, or on drugs. Detective reports now suggest crazy.
Before his now-infamous tangle with a Bronx Zoo tiger, David Villalobos adorned his Facebook page with New Age odes to Mother Earth and affirmations like, “Be love and fearless.”
Police said Saturday that Villalobos had told detectives that it was without fear that he leaped from an elevated train into the animal’s den. His reason, they said, was that “he wanted to be one with the tiger.”
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Also, I got a pingback on my last post from Alan.com, which is Alan Colmes’s blog. (You know, the liberal half of Blank and Hannity.) So that was pretty sweet. Thanks, Alan, or guy responsible for posting on his blog.
Fox News URL title directly contradicts article title
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/08/05/obama-says-double-dip-recession-coming/
versus
President Obama ‘Confident’ U.S. Will Avoid ‘Double-Dip’ Recession
Just something I came across while doing economics research.
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