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March 31, 2008
Contemplating Pendejo
Last year, Gelf wrote about the troubles that the press has had with translating foreign expressions into English. One of the slang phrases that had caused the most trouble was the Spanish word pendejo, especially after Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez took to calling George Bush exactly that. The New York Times recently had similar troubles with the word.
Media
March 19, 2008
What To Do About Online Meanies?
What should be done about the state of the online commenting system, in which anonymous trolls can visit newspaper sites and say mean things about one another and even, gasp, journalists? If you ask Edward Wasserman, a professor of journalism ethics at Washington and Lee University, something should definitely be done—he's just not sure what.
Media
March 14, 2008
The Times Gets Jiggy With It
Some—the old, white and privileged, mostly—would take umbrage at the suggestion that the mainstream media is still the firm province of the old, white and privileged. But consider the way the New York Times chronicles terms both pop cultural and rap-related. Channeling everyone's hopelessly-out-of-touch grandparent, the Times sees fit to highlight each modern vernacular curiosity it comes across, typically years late to the game, in a manner equal parts patronizing and amusing. Our current favorite comes in the Times' exclusive piece on Ashley Alexandra Dupré, one of ex-Governor Spitzer's partners in (state-funded?) bliss.
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Media
March 4, 2008
A Train Wreck of an Article
John McCain has a lot of reasons to thank the New York Times these days. Besides for the infamous He-May-Be-Screwing-A-Lobbyist Article, which ironically has helped McCain shore up the Republican base and raise a ton of money, the folks on the editorial side of the paper are also lobbing him softballs.
Media
February 28, 2008
Post Poaches Puff Piece
Earlier in the week, the New York Post published a short piece entitled "Yankees Pinch-Hit for NYU"about the university's plan to hold graduation ceremonies at Yankee Stadium, and the anxiety that decision has caused some students who root for the Mets and Red Sox. A harmless, amusing piece of filler for the paper. Just a day earlier, however, NYU's campus newspaper, Washington Square News ran a very similar article on the same subject called, "Sox, Mets fans irked about grad spot."
Media
February 21, 2008
Fug-ging Censors
Strangely, the most interesting part of a recent blog post on the New York Times website about a paper-bound anthology of blog posts is not the incredibly meta- nature of the discussion. Nor is it the fact that the anthology's introduction includes the phrase "the stink of the link." Instead, it's the Gray Lady's refusal to print the name of one of the blogs included in said anthology because, according to City Room blogger Sewell Chan, it is "just this side of unprintable, at least for The New York Times."
Media
February 20, 2008
Lindsay Monroe
If you want some cheap amusement, check out the comments section of any site that's talking about how New York Magazine got Lindsay Lohan to strip down and pretend to be Marilyn Monroe. There, amongst the vitriol about how this decade's mildly talented sex symbol is way lamer than that decade's mildly talented sex symbol, you'll find lots of snarky comments about Lohan's surprisingly un-bodacious body:
Sports
February 4, 2008
It's a Manning's World
If the last Giants drive of Super Bowl XLII was as shocking to you as, say, a racist Panda ad, then you were not alone. With just over three minutes left in the ball game, you could have gotten 40:1 odds on Eli Manning becoming the night's MVP. But after a series of impressive scrambles (and one amazing catch by David Tyree), Manning became the hero of the night, and shed much of his reputation for being soft and, well, not so good.
Politics
January 16, 2008
Primary Metaphors
The generally weird primary season has been especially screwy this time around. First, Hillary Clinton pulled off an improbable upset in New Hampshire. Now, with Mitt Romney's recent Michigan win, it's possible the Republican nomination might not be sealed until March. Such wackiness seems to have made our pundits a little loopy, and the off-the-wall metaphors have started to pour in. (Ann Quinlan of the Fort Worth Business Press was among the first, describing the Iowa caucuses as "evening coffee klatches with a serving of trigonometry.") Here are a few of our favorites:
Media
December 11, 2007
ESPN Borrows From Wikipedia
The next time that the folks at ESPN decide to highlight a local story about a young kid killing a big wild animal, they should try to make sure that the story they include doesn't crib wholesale from that bastion of truthiness, Wikipedia.
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