February 2011
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Oscar recap
Me: Remember when 'It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp' won an Oscar? That was AWESOME.
Becca: Yeah, kind of like when that band, you know, that Suburbs band won the Grammy.
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I have used Twitter to set up two interviews this week. This is distressing, because if Twitter becomes useful for genuine professional purposes…where am I going to go with all my sarcasm and whining?
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Encouraging moments
Graphic design professor: You will, eventually, bleed from an X-Acto knife.
Fu: I thought the bleeding was supposed to stay on the page...
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To add my voice to the many sounding off:
I saw Nir Rosen speak at the Boston Book Festival this past October, with Thanassis Cambanis and Haleh Esfandiari as part of a panel on the Middle East. I do remember finding him insightful, but also wondering if he thought through his statements fully before speaking.
To be clear, I didn’t think then that Rosen deliberately tried to be...
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Why Public Media Matters →
My best friend wrote this.
Besides being awesome solely for that reason, it’s also absolutely true.
But to risk losing public broadcasting’s relevant and educational voice in a sea of often otherwise mind-numbing “mainstream” stations is something we cannot afford at all (While The Bachelor does teach you how to embarrass yourself on national television, it...
I just watched a commercial on Hulu aimed at parents, suggesting their lazy, irresponsible, untrustworthy children (i.e., all children) are probably addicted to media.
That’s absolutely ridiculous.
Of course I’m addicted to media.
But I don’t see how that’s a bad thing.
Media is everything.
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People who have lived in Brookline
Conan O’Brien
James Taylor
Barbara Walters
John F. Kennedy
Theo Epstein
Larry Bird
The guy who invented the safety razor
A couple of ambassadors, authors and photographers
A contestant on America’s Next Top Model (cycle 15, which apparently existed)
Mike Wallace
The creator of Roger Rabbit
As of September 1, Anna, Andy and me
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[[Best Coast—‘This is Real’]]
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“Destiny has no beeper; destiny always leans trenchcoated out of an alley with...”
– David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
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A list of journalists threatened in some way in... →
theatlantic:
abcworldnews:
We’ve compiled a list of all the journalist who have been in some way threatened, attacked or detained while reporting in Egypt. When you put it all into one list, it is a rather large number in such a short period of time.
Important.
Not only important, but scarily long.
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Christiane Amanpour doesn't have Anderson Cooper's...
So that makes her totally less worthwhile as a human being, right?
I’m pretty sure TMZ thinks so, based on the offensively disrespectful “news update” they titled “Christiane Amanpour — I Was Attacked in Egypt, Too!!”
It’s perfectly legitimate journalism (though, for the record, I do not actually expect “journalism” to occur at TMZ) to make...
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I’m currently watching the second hour of Anderson Cooper 360, live from a shadowy basement in Cairo, where it’s just after 6am and the danger hasn’t dwindled.
I pretty much lack words at the moment, but I want to acknowledge my amazement at a couple things.
One, that this didn’t become real to many people until Anderson Cooper got attacked earlier today. As much as I...
