August 2010
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“even after it provided the documents to the media outlets, WikiLeaks still...”
– Is WikiLeaks More Than Just a High-Tech Brown Envelope? Yes (via interestingsnippets)
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“A new survey from USC Annenberg School of Journalism’s Center for the Digital...”
– Read the whole thing here: Internet Users Don’t Trust Newspapers - mediabistro.com: FishbowlLA (via marissabrassfield)
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Winston Churchill Goes Digital  →
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Today in history ... this stuff happened
762: Baghdad is founded. For hundreds of years, it is an icon of civilization. Now, just an icon of destruction. 1934: Bud Selig is born. Baseball writers object. Sorry, I’ve got nothing. Jokes, anyone? 1956: “In God We Trust” becomes the U.S. National Motto, when President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s signs a joint resolution of the U.S. Congress. This is the last time all...
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“i write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see...”
– joan didion: journalist and novelist (via bohemianwaif)
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Captured: America in Color from 1939-1943 →
Wonderful historical photos.
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1933: Capt. Lou Albano is born. He goes on to become a famous WWE wrestler best known for his roles in Cyndi Lauper music videos and for playing Mario in “The Super Mario Bros. Super Show.” He dies in 2009, beloved by formerly young girls who bopped out to “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” and formerly young boys who still play Super Mario Brothers. 1957: The International...
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Really? sashosh: Multimedia journalism rap It was so bad that I had to keep watching. 
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1540: Thomas Cromwell is executed on charges of treason levied by King Henry VIII. To the disappointment of some, Herman’s Hermits never sing a song about him. 1821: José de San Martín declares Peru’s independence from Spain. He’s later called the George Washington of South America. But San Martín didn’t chop down no stinkin’ cherry tree. 1993: Andorra joins the...
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“Journalism is literature in a hurry.”
– -Lola (via magicstardust) So true!!!
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ABC changes U.S. newspaper circulation rules to... →
infoneer-pulse: U.S. newspapers will completely change they way they report circulation beginning October 1, following changes to circulation rules made by the Audit Bureau of Circulations’ board, Editor & Publisher reported today. The changes include newspapers now being able to count one subscribers multiple times; for example, a subscriber may be counted once for his print subscription,...
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“The film, known for its rich saturation and archival durability of its slides,...”
– Exposed: The Last Roll Of Kodachrome (via shawnyeager)
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“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in...”
– George Bernard Shaw (via kevinsalas)
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1905: Leo Durocher is born. He either played for or managed three of the four baseball clubs in New York City - a teammate of Babe Ruth and a manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers and then the New York Giants. Seventy years later, Alex Rodriguez is born. Here’s betting Durocher was ticked off that A-Rod got off with just being chastised for hanging out with gamblers when he got in much more...
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