You may recall that it was a particularly ridiculous Drudge homepage that led to the creation of the “PANIC!!!!!!” graphic that subsequently became my oft-praised Twitter avatar. Well, Drudge has struck again: That’s Newark Mayor Cory Booker, a Democrat, who made headlines over the weekend by criticizing President Obama’s anti-Bain Capital ads. ABC says the Obama camp is in damage… Read more »
Mitt Romney “won” the Iowa caucuses tonight by 8 votes out of 122,255 cast, “beating” Rick Santorum 30,015 to 30,007. That’s a margin of 0.0065%, which is even narrower than Florida’s unbelievably close 2000 election (0.0090%), and essentially meaningless in the absence of a recount. The caucuses ended in a tie, plain and simple. As dramatic as that was, CNN’s… Read more »
The New York Times issues the nerdiest correction ever. LOL! (Hat tip: dcl.)
There has been a lot of virtual ink spilled on the topic of the NYT pay wall. Just visit Daring Fireball for a run down of some of the better comments on this. The short of it is this, the pricing model is confusing and complicated, and subscribing to a print edition (either weekdays or Sunday only) will net you… Read more »
I went on a bit of a Twitter rant just now, via iPhone while grabbing a coffee at Starbucks, after my phone got a CNN Breaking News alert which announced: “A now-retracted UK study that linked autism to childhood vaccines was an ‘elaborate fraud,’ a medical journal reports.” Here’s the rant: What say you, @JennyMcCarthy? RT @cnnbrk: Study linking #autism… Read more »
The “paper of record,” and the headline of the day:
A look at how some of this morning’s California newspapers covered last night’s massive San Bruno natural gas explosion and fire: More after the jump — including a bunch using the very same photo as the Santa Cruz Sentinel and the Daily News, and a few others with a very similar photo of the fireball. That’s interesting to me, because… Read more »
[UPDATE: Some fantastic, newspaper-by-newspaper design analysis & critique here.] Reaction from Ohio:
Take a look at the above-the-fold front page of yesterday’s Denver Post: Do you think some headline writer, or editor responsible for page layout, was having a little fun at our “wannabe avenger” president’s expense? Heh.
Meanwhile, across the pond: If you didn’t know… clod (n.): A dull, stupid person; a dolt.
