Job Alert: Entertainment Live Blogger
Freelance opportunity for an experienced live blogger covering red carpet events such as Oscars, Emmys, Golden Globes, etc.
Must provide links to prior live blogs. Looking for more than just curation and pulling in Twitter updates. Sharp opinion and analysis, not just a stream of one sentence quips.
Send links of prior live blogs you’ve participated in to antderosa@gmail.com
To celebrate the release of Fakes: An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, “Found” Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts, we’re posting some of history’s greatest fakes, frauds and flimflams all week long. Today: The Great Grunge Hoax of 1992.
Cob nobbler. Wack slacks. Harsh realm. Lamestain. Swingin’ on the flippity flop. These were all printed in the New York Times as a lexicon of grunge-speak—the slang of those crazy kids up Seattle. They were all fake, though, a delightful invention by a wary employee of Caroline Records. It was revealed to be a hoax in the great and feisty journal The Baffler. When the Times asked for an explanation, The Baffler replied, “We at The Baffler don’t really care about the legitimacy of this or that fad, but when the Newspaper of Record goes searching for the Next Big Thing and the Next Big Thing piddles on its leg, we think that’s funny.”
Previously: Amazons, The Dreadnought Hoax, Huck Finn and the Lost Dauphin
Source: wwnorton
For one thing, Salmon delights in argument. “I’m rude about a lot of people on the Internet,” he says brightly. “And half the time, I change my mind anyway. … I love being wrong.” Famous targets include conservative economist Ben Stein, Business Insider’s Henry Blodget, the proudly slimy hedge-funder Anthony Scaramucci, and certain fonts that he considers to be tasteless. (He once stormed out of a Reuters meeting because the agenda had been rendered in Comic Sans.)
Mr. Abu Khattala, 41, wearing a red fez and sandals, added his own spin. Contradicting the accounts of many witnesses and the most recent account of the Obama administration, he contended that the attack had grown out of a peaceful protest against a video made in the United States that mocked the Prophet Muhammad and Islam.
David D. Kirkpatrick, Suspect in Libya Attack, in Plain Sight, Scoffs at U.S.
Introducing: “The Wider Image” from Reuters, a new photojournalism app for your iPad that transforms the way you view photography from the world’s largest news organization.
See incredible, breathtaking photojournalism from the talented team of Reuters photographers. Meet the people who move the images that move the world. Play with interactive photos that show you what happened during a story and what happened next. Go beyond the bar chart and line graph with rich, visual storytelling that puts context to news and information in a whole new way.
This new app is truly awesome. I really love the photojournalist profiles.
Source: reuters
Isn’t it ironic …
It’s like a Catch-22, wanting to get in to blogging but not having a good starting point except for the idea that you want to get in to blogging. (Still with me?)
With all these things, you have to get in to the groove. The blank page is too intimidating. So here’s the first scribble on the page.
The plan is to be a platform for my upcoming adventures, let’s hope I have enough adventures worth writing about ….
Oh, the irony of blogging about wanting to be a blogger.
Welcome Lindsay to Tumblr. She’s a TV journalist for Reuters based in Los Angeles. Got any Tumblr tips for her?
Source: lindsayclaiborn
So many Tumblr followers already! Tardar Sauce has a message for you all!
Look who joined Tumblr
Source: tardthegrumpycat
Clear eyes, full hearts, can’t use
Tonight’s VP debate will be live blogged with contributions from Pulitzer Prize winner and Reuters columnistDavid Rhode, Washington, D.C. correspondents Patricia Zengerle and Sam Youngman, Reuters columnists Jack Shafer and Ari Melber, and Rob Cox and Daniel Indiviglio from Reuters Breakingviews. A live video stream of the debate will also be available.
LIVE COVERAGE: The 2012 Vice Presidential Debate
Source: reuters
Why @silvio_dasilva is so cool de la: he brought us pork buns (Taken with Instagram)
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