As a radio broadcaster, it takes a lot of guts to call bloggers "inadequate, pimpled and single"
As a radio broadcaster, it takes a lot of guts to call bloggers inadequate, pimpled and single
Shhh. OK, Daily Express and Channel Five owner is divorced
The gossip is strangely quiet as Richard Desmond and Janet Desmond divorced over Richard’s ‘unreasonable behaviour’.
Semantics or semetics in the Guardian
The Awl found points out a classic Guardian correction
A piece of correspondence on the letters page expressed the view that an attempt by Jewish activists on a sailing boat to break the sea blockade around Gaza this week had been important in “reasserting the Jewish tradition of standing up for the victims of injustice” (30 September, page 35). But due to an editing error, when a version of this sentence was rendered as the letter’s headline a key element, the reference to victims, was missed out, so the heading read: Reasserting the Jewish tradition of defending injustice.
News of the World to remove itself from Internet
Good news from Planet Murdoch, the News of the World is planning on removing itself from the Internet. By erecting a paywall, the company has decided to cover its shame and ensure that no-one will ever have to read what the NotW entertainingly describes as ‘news’ and ‘columns.”
The End Times: Enders Game
The End Times: Enders Game
1. Making a human of Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg [New Yorker]
2. Long, crunchy Jon Stewart profile [New York]
3. Sympathy for the devil [The Atlantic]
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