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July 9, 2008
Securing Their Future
Evolution can be a funny thing, and not only if you’re a religious fanatic. Despite how self-evident natural selection might seem, the adaptations it gives rise to can leave us scratching our heads, not unlike our conspicuously hirsute forbearers. Take, for example, the traditional news publishing model. Competence in identifying misplaced participles no longer guarantees a hungry young grad a seat at the editorial table—but willingness to take a bullet just might.
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Media
July 8, 2008
Drinking the Staycation Haterade
This is the summer of the staycation, or so much of the media seems to think. High fuel prices are making people forgo that road trip or thousand-mile flight and instead spend some time at home, or visiting local attractions. That sounds perfectly okay to us—there's plenty of stuff in our hometown that haven't gotten around to checking out—but can we please do away with word "staycation"?
Media
July 8, 2008
A Good Op-Ed is Hard to Find
Finding the right man is so difficult. And if the most-emailed New York Times stories are any indication—okay, they're probably not, but bear with us—the ladies out there are still, as ever, searching for that bit of magical advice that will help them land Mr. Right. That people are searching for relationship advice is no big surprise; it seems odd to us, though, that a paper known for hard news coverage generates greater online buzz when it morphs into Cosmo for people who read.
Media
July 7, 2008
Be Patriotic: Buy a Japanese Car
Americans celebrate the Fourth of July in all sorts of interesting ways—watching fireworks, playing softball, eating fifty-nine hot dogs in ten minutes. Some are even commemorating two hundred and thirty-two years of independence from overseas oppression by purchasing cars from foreign automakers. Toyota of Manhattan and other dealers in the Tri-State area (and beyond), have launched Independence Day sales throughout the month of July. And they appear to be working, sort of.
Arts
July 1, 2008
Please Stop Saying 'Mariska Hargitay'
I have no intention of seeing the critically-panned film The Love Guru, in which Mike Meyers plays Guru Pitka, an obnoxious aspiring spiritual leader who…well, I haven't seen it, so I don't know. But I do know that the movie's would-be catch phrase (used repeatedly in the film as a mystical greeting) is "Mariska Hargitay" and that several reviewers found it so painful they were forced to keep track of the number of times it was uttered. Let's count along with A.O. Scott and the rest of the gang.
Sports
June 24, 2008
Centenarian Spends Final Days Re-Telling Stories to Reporters
Bill Werber, who just turned 100, is old enough to get pissed off at Johnny Damon's hair, and the fact that women sing the national anthem. But, clearly, he's an old man—possibly the oldest living professional baseball player—so his curmudgeonly side manages to come off as charming. At least it does in his recent interviews which, given that he has just passed the century mark, have been numerous.
Media
June 18, 2008
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Media
June 17, 2008
To Be Sure, of Course
Writing a fluffy trend piece for the New York Times? You’d do well to remember the following rules: your subject can be as asinine as you want to it to be, provided that a) it appeals to people with money, and b) somewhere, you employ the phrase "to be sure" or "of course" to acknowledge the silliness of that which you are writing about.
Media
June 12, 2008
Putin's Propaganda in the Times
In Russia, freedom of speech doesn't really exist. Dissidents are kept from public view and the press corps has been cowed by a spate of mysterious murders. The New York Times recently ran an article on the situation, which apparently now involves the eerily Soviet practice of airbrushing people from TV shows. To put it bluntly, this is some fucked up shit; and while it's hardly surprising, it's certainly worth calling attention to. What the Times did next is a bit odd, however.
Media
June 6, 2008
You Say Hello, I Say Hello
Tell us if you've heard this one before: A journalist, or writer, or academic is caught plagiarizing. He or she comes up with some half-hearted excuse, explains that the offense was minor, and is fired, anyway. A few months pass, rinse, then repeat. It happens so often that every plagiarism story seems almost, well, plagiarized.
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