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26 Jan 2010 23:26

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Biz: Newsday: Cablevision officially doesn’t know how to run a newspaper

  • $635M the amount Cablevision paid for Newsday, the first newspaper the company’s ever owned
  • three the number of months Newsday has been behind a strict $5-a-week paywall
  • 35 the number of subscribers the site has; hahahahahahahah wtf these guys suck source
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26 Jan 2010 23:13

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Music: One-word album reviews: A good week for indie fans, this is

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26 Jan 2010 20:58

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Biz: Toyota stops selling a ton of car brands ’cause they’ll kill you

  • 2.3 million cars, or 8 brands, now on ice for safety reasons source
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26 Jan 2010 20:53

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U.S.: L.A. on medical marijuana: OK, we get the freaking point

“These are out of control,” said Councilman Ed Reyes, who wrote legislation to scale pot places back. “Our city has more of these than Starbuckses.” source
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26 Jan 2010 20:48

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Biz: In Laredo, Texas, the literacy rate is about to severely drop

  • 250,000 number of people who live in the decently-sized Laredo, Texas
  • zero number of bookstores the city now has; thanks Barnes & Noble source
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26 Jan 2010 20:41

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Politics: James O’Keefe: Do conservative news sites have credibility issues?

  • Too often, conservative sites have failed to distinguish between solid scoops and feverish conspiracy theories, between methodical reporting and harassment, thereby damaging their credibility.
  • Daily Beast columnist Benjamin Sarlin • Regarding the James O’Keefe arrest in the grander scheme of things. Which is to say that many conservative Web sites excel at opinion but completely fail at credible reporting. O’Keefe’s take on gonzo journalism is interesting, but definitely not ethical. And other conservative Web icons – including Powerline (which broke the Rathergate saga) and Michelle Malkin – have had shining moments but inconsistent results. BigGovernment.com, which paid O’Keefe, may now be headed down that road. Sarlin gives credit to Tucker Carlson of the just-launched Daily Caller for trying to raise the standards to the likes of The Huffington Post. Will it work? We’ll see. source
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26 Jan 2010 20:25

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Politics: Twitter takes in the amusement of James O’Keefe’s arrest

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26 Jan 2010 20:21

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U.S.: ACORN pest James O’Keefe flies too close to the sun, gets burned

  • He can now be mentioned in the same sentence as Watergate! James O’Keefe, the conservative activist previously best-known for destroying ACORN’s dignity (and working for BigGovernment.com), was arrested for trying to break into Sen. Mary Landrieu’s New Orleans office, along with three others. They were pretending to work with the phone company, which is some serious LOLz and a lot less creative than the pimp/ho getup they used with ACORN. A lot of people have felt schadenfreude in reaction to all this, not the least of which ACORN itself. We just think it’s proof that Tom Green-style tactics like this don’t work in politics. source
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26 Jan 2010 10:43

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Offbeat: In Japan, cats attack giant bears and win. Awesome!

  • We know that we post a lot of cat videos, but most of them don’t offer the awesome sight of a bear getting shamed by a freaking cat. See that? That’s bear shame. In Japanese. With Japanese captions which we won’t bother translating.
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26 Jan 2010 10:34

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Music: Pitchfork throws out a make-them-famous rating for Beach House

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