January 2011
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When the Citizen Journalist Is Your Husband
sasquatchmedia:
Just as my Sunday editing shift was ending at The Seattle Times the other night, we got word of a shooting at a Walmart an hour’s drive from Seattle in Port Orchard, Wash., possibly four dead, possibly some sheriff’s deputies.
Within seconds, reporters and editors off work that day were calling the newsroom to offer help — they knew I’d need extra hands. What we really needed...
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Game Journalists Are Incompetent Fuckwits: This... →
gamejournos:
It’s not uncommon, when reading about games, to be told which games we’re supposed to be excited about. I think I was about half an hour into the demo for BioShock when I realized that I wasn’t actually excited about the game at all, rather that excitement had been artificially generated by the…
This is an interesting read. Some fields of journalism are subject to hype and...
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“…recycled party and formal-occasional dresses were hopes and dreams on...”
– from Dean Koontz’ What the night knows
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Woman calls cops after partner refuses to have sex →
Sadly, here in Australia our emergency line (000 rather than 911 incidentally) is all too often filled with stupid and irrelevant calls. Estimates change each year but range from 70% to 90% of calls being trivial, a hoax and a waste of time and resources.
Last year’s calls included phone calls about how to cook rice, complaining about the amount of fast food received in their order, asking...
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“Writing about Hollywood is like being a reporter at Disneyland. At first, you...”
– Former NEWSWEEK film writer Sean Smith, on his decision to quit journalism and join the Peace Corps. (Ouch.)
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Give Peace A Chance.: What's Happening in Egypt... →
promotingpeace:
The basics: Egypt is a large, mostly Arab, mostly Muslim country. At around 80 million people, it has the largest population in the Middle East and the third-largest in Africa. Most of Egypt is in North Africa, although the part of the country that borders Israel, the Sinai peninsula, is in Asia. Its other neighbors are Sudan (to the South), Libya (to the West), and Saudi Arabia...
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Inconceivable
I’m reading reports - and some of them from reliable sources - that Egypt has shut down the internet there in the face of public protest.
This level of censorship - should it prove true - should never be condoned. That it is taking place in a country heavily supported financially by the US makes it even more appalling.
One also wonders at the exact reasoning and some of us automatically...
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Those bartenders...
A woman sits down at a bar and asks the bartender for a double entendre; so he gave it to her.
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“You want a hero? Act like one. That’s the hero you should be looking for.”
– Sady Doyle
Exactly.
(via rachelhills)
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Another take on Batman? Isn't it time for movie...
dcwomenkickingass:
Darren Aronofsky has said in an interview he might adapt his Batman script for a graphic novel. You can read an evaluation of that script, an adaption of Batman:Year One, here.
All this talk about Batman reminded me of the trailer for the greatest superhero movie never made — Grayson! You know, where Dick Grayson is pulled out of superhero retirement to avenge the death of...
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“We may not be able to stop all evil in the world, but I know that how we treat...”
– President Barack Obama (via feminally)
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HAPPY AUSTRALIA DAY!
layyourweaponsdown:
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“Yesterday is ashes; tomorrow wood.
Only today does the fire burn brightly.”
– Eskimo proverb (via underdogvictorious)
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