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New York Times publisher and genial buffoon Arthur "Pinch" Sulzberger is not worried about how his newspaper's circulation sucks and the share price is at a historic low. You know why? Because Craig Newmark, the guy who invented Cragslist and destroyed the newspaper revenue stream, just got a Times subscription! So hey, no worries, Times staffers. If there's one thing Pinch has learned since he took over as publisher 16 years ago, it's to always mention the moose in the room. But not to bring an actual moose with him anymore. The "moose in the room" is one of those unbearably stupid management book stories, in which a moose ends up at a dinner party or something and no one at the table has the nerves to ask why the moose is there. See, the moose represents big problems that no one wants to talk about. So you are always supposed to mention the moose in the room. Get it? The whole thing is asinine. Of course, Sulzberger is big into management fads and business book bullshit (as we said, buffoon). And back when the Jayson Blair scandal was rocking the Times newsroom, he did this (per Seth Mnookin's Hard News): Now, though, he thinks that was maybe a mistake. In an infamous incident, Mr. Sulzberger showed up at a company crisis meeting holding a toy stuffed moose. It was a gimmick meant to symbolize things that people were afraid to say, but nobody was in the mood for goofy shtick. He wouldn't repeat it. "Obviously not," he said. "The anger that came out of that meeting, it was so palpable that the moose wasn't a necessary tool, it became clear," he said. "It just wasn't. Now, it had proven necessary in other situations, but it wasn't in that one, so no. "But look, if that's the biggest mistake I make as leader of The New York Times Co., this is a good thing." Ha ha "the moose wasn't a necessary tool." And you should know about useless tools, Pinch! It's a testament to Pinch's unwavering ability to miss the point that he doesn't realize the Moose Incident wasn't one bad decision but rather a lovely symbol of how incredibly out of touch he is—with his own newsroom, with the state of media today, with the national mood. Former Times reporter John Darnton just published an entertaining murder mystery set at a newspaper that bears some resemblance to the Times. Here's how he paints the publisher of his fictional newspaper: The prizes and revenue poured in. it was like standing on the bridge of an aircraft carrier and believing that you, not the ocean were actually keeping the damn thing afloat. But now, with the Internet, the blogs, MSNBC, fifteen minute news cycles, giveaway papers in the subway—Christ, you turn around for a moment and the whole damn world is different. A cliché, maybe, but it's true. Just two days ago, he asked Rosen, one of his two sons, a computer geek, to introduce him to some sites; he read a smattering of them (superficial.com, gawker.com, defamer.com) and he was aghast. Where the hell did it come from, this abiding compulsion to read about breakups and breakdowns of third-rate celebrities? To pursue them into restaurants and nightclubs as they turned bulimic or cheated on their partners or adopted African babies? And written in a spirit of such spite (he didn't know the word schadenfreude). "That's the whole point, Dad," his son had said laughing condescendingly. "You've got to be snarky." But in this book is the seed of the actual good news for Times reporters. The paper is still a great springboard to actual media success. They've taken recently to building personalities out of their contributors. It's a break from Times tradition, and a welcome one. Does it matter whatever Warren St. John's actual salary and position at the Times are? No, not so much. What matters for Warren is how effective the paper is at promoting his book, and his brand. What is David Carr? A film vlogger...? And now addiction memoirist? He's whatever the hell he wants to be at the New York Times, which is good news for people who enjoy his writing, and good news for his Amazon ranking. Is it good news for the Times? Who the hell knows. Pinch sure doesn't.

NYT's magazine reporter Daniel Kurtz-Phelan on the violence that's growing.

Sen.Obama's Children, Iranian threats, and a New York Times apology.

The author suggests ways to help those suffering from dementia.

My work, both the written material and my more widely-known video productions, has gotten widespread television, print and internet coverage throughout the current political election cycle. The coverage has been unexpected, humbling, and but for one exception, unsought. Some have attempted to besmirch myself or my work. The Times characterized some of the content of my videos as 'widely debunked.' I have been portrayed in any number of suspect and unflattering ways. And to that stilted coverage I say: So what. Hasn't anything changed on my end and I'm going to keep doing what I do, which is giving my audience what they want: Serious, hard-hitting, passionate information. Rush Limbaugh, a man whom I credit my brother John for turning me on to over the years, said it best. Don't rely on anyone to build you up (like the mainstream media) and then they are not capable of tearing you down, either. You have to hold firm to your convictions, no matter what. If you choose not to do so, then you end up the way Barack Obama is now on the issue of Iraq: Compromised, appearing untrustworthy and diminished. I won't do that, won't cede my believes because it's convenient or lucrative to do so. I won't do that to myself, and I won't do that to you, the reader or viewer, either. Some don't like that I have compared Obama to Hitler, or David Koresh. Too bad. There is a difference between making an analogy between two figures and saying that one person is the other. If you don't understand that difference, that is not my problem. Educate yourself, as I have done for myself. Learn the difference between what it means to have skill in the arts of debate, rhetoric I am here to win and to see justice done. And I will use every arrow in my large quiver for that purpose. * The video discusses the media spots for my work and then segues into some discussion of PUMAs and takes a look at some pictures of Barack Obama. Some of the pictures are Photoshopped, some are not. It's not hard to tell the difference. Finally, we have some words about Obama and some thoughts directed to my fellow Americans. * * The links for the articles/TV spot in the video: James Taranto -- Wall Street Journal -- Best of the Web (See the section: "Habits of Hate ") May 5, 2008 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121000231715367781.html --------------------------------------------- The Hotline -- National Journal -- The Blogometer (See the section: "OBAMA II: I Only Did This To Show You What They're Gonna Do!") I am "Universal", no longer on MyDD March 31, 2008 http://blogometer.nationaljournal.com/archives/2008/03/331_strange_bed.html --------------------------------------------- NYT "Political Freelancers Use Web to Join the Attack" By JIM RUTENBERG June 29, 2008 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/29/us/politics/29opposition.html?pagewanted=print --------------------------------------------- CSPAN "Washington Journal" program Third hour of the show, segment with Jose Antonio Vargas of the Washington Post (internet & politics writer) July 3, 2008 rtsp://video1.c-span.org/15days/wj070308_vargas.rm (Need latest version of RealPlayer to watch) http://www.c-spanarchives.org/library/index.php?main_page=product_video_info&products_id=205733-4 Flash Video --------------------------------------------- http://blog.pumapac.org/ http://www.justsaynodeal.com/index.html http://hcsfjm.com/ http://noquarterusa.net/blog/ http://www.hillaryis44.org/ --------------------------------------------- As always, thanks for watching and reading. It is the feedback that I receive, including the large volume of negative comments, which makes all of this worthwhile. Have a great night. - Paul

In response to a Times column about Fox News uglifying a picture of reporter Jacques Steinberg and viciously smearing Tim Arango and other journalists, the cable network's chief rageaholic, Bill O'Reilly, is pretending to be pissed at the Times for caricaturing him in the illustration for a 2007 book review. The caricature, he said during his Fox show last night, even included some kind of devil horn (clip after the jump). But O'Reilly's screaming on-air hatefest is the worst sort of act, because if you actually examine the illustration, reproduced after the jump, you notice two things. 1. There is no "horn" attached to O'Reilly. The illustration includes little dialog bubbles, like in comic books, with pointy parts of the bubbles aimed at O'Reilly's mouth. Maybe the host missed that when his producer or whoever briefed him on his outrage during a break. 2. The illustration is by no stretch a caricature, defined by Merriam-Webster as "exaggeration by means of often ludicrous distortion of parts or characteristics." It is a series of straightforward renderings of O'Reilly as he looks on camera. A variety of unnatural colors are used, but not in the service of exaggerating anything about O'Reilly or making him look bad. O'Reilly's ginned up outrage comes from Roger Ailes' mudslinging, dirty-politics playbook. The idea is to attack the critic, as the network did with our own Hamilton Nolan yesterday and as it has been doing with journalists and other targets for years now. But some of O'Reilly's emotion may very well be real: emerging evidence, as reported by Arango and Steinberg, that this old routine is getting boring and driving away viewers is apparently causing some very real panic over at Fox. [TVNewser] (Ward Sutton illustration via Times)

Una compañía japonesa ha desarrollado una tecnología que permite tocar el planeta, gracias a una proyección. La herramienta posibilita reproducir las imágenes de la computadora en mitad de una habitación. En otras noticias según una nota publicada por The New York Times, la Administración de Seguridad de Transporte de Estados Unidos dio luz verde a los pasajeros que deseen utilizar unos maletines recientemente diseñados con los cuales podrán pasar por los puntos de revisión sin tener que sacar la laptop. El Departamento de Justicia estadounidense ha abierto una investigación sobre posible violación de las leyes contra monopolios por un acuerdo publicitario alcanzado entre Yahoo y Google, según indica The Washington Post en su edición digital. En otras cosas Sony Pictures Entertainment, un estudio cinematográfico grande de Hollywood, y el gigante de internet Google presentaron dos iniciativas distintas para llevar el contenido del cine y la televisión a la red. Finalmente Nokia, el mayor fabricante de teléfonos móviles del mundo, cerró un acuerdo con Warner Music Group para incluir los títulos de la discográfica en su servicio "Comes With Music".

Lost in the mainstream media mush this week was Seymour Hersh’s explosive reporting that the Democrats bent over for the president on 400 million plus for covert funding the President requested for use in destabilizing Iran. At the very time the National Intelligence Agency was telling the President, Congress and the world that they found no concrete evidence that the Iranians were pursuing nukes, the president and his cronies were going ahead with plans to hookup with Iranian dissidents. Hoping to keep sh*t shaky and on the edge for Ahmadinejad and friends, the president requested and got approval from the top echelons of congress via a Presidential Finding. Under federal law, a Presidential Finding is highly classified and must be issued when a covert intelligence operation is being initiated. All the big wigs must be advised of what is going on and approve. According to Hersh, the finding was focussed on undermining Iran’s nuke program, regime change and sucking up to oppositi

The decline of the newspaper?? Ransom notes, papier-m ch and slacker gift wrapping will never be the same!

Filed under: Action, Comedy, New Releases, Sony, Celebrities and Controversy, Box Office, Fandom, Distribution, Exhibition, Home Entertainment It seems fairly certain that Hancock will do decent business when it hits theaters this Friday, if only because Will Smith rarely stars in a dud these days -- especially when it's face selling the movie before all else. Whether or not the film has staying power after opening weekend, however, remains to be seen, but Sony Pictures clearly has a lot of faith in its potential: Last week, the studio revealed its intentions of releasing the film online sometime after its theatrical run and before its DVD release, but only to users with Sony Bravia TV sets. It's a bold maneuver, one that assumes its core base of consumers actually have an interest in Hancock -- but the movie will make a profit either way, so it's a reasonable choice for this intriguing experiment. Left in the dust by Apple's iPod, Sony continues to struggle in its search for a piece of the digital revolution. Company head Howard Stringer recently told the New York Times that the strategy for releasing Hancock "vanishes the memory of the failures of the Sony Walkman." Well, maybe. While on-demand technology has changed the way audiences consume their media, they don't like paying more money than necessary. Asking your audiences to buy a special device in order to access what, at this point, amounts to one movie -- well, that's asking a lot. But it's still a step in the right direction. What do you think? Permalink | Email this | Comments

Reader's Entertainment Radio with New York Times and USA Today best selling author Heather Graham author of The Dead Room. www.TheHeatherGraham.com

Filed under: Drama, Paramount, RumorMonger, Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt This past Sunday, The New York Times featured a popular City-section story about the first-ever prom held for students of Brooklyn's International High School. In case you don't like to read, you can simply watch the video accompaniment here. And if you don't like to read and you don't like documentary-style videos, and have a lot of patience, you can wait for the feature film, which will apparently be hitting theaters some time in the future. According to New York magazine's Vulture blog, a number of producers are interested in optioning the article, while Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have personally brought it to the attention of Paramount Pictures, where Pitt's Plan B Entertainment has a first-look deal. Supposedly an unnamed non-Paramount studio exec beat us all to the punch by joking that "maybe Maddox and the twins can star in it." Of course, he forgot about Pax and Zahara (and the twins aren't really international). Actually, the first joke I thought about was the running gag on TV's The Critic about the kid from Easter Island who attends the United Nations School. Then, the second joke I thought of was about Brangelina's adopted children. Then I kept thinking of other things, such as how thanks to Prom Night people might assume this other prom-themed movie is also a horror flick. But that's not so much a joke as it is me trying to think on a studio exec's level (hey, we were synchronous with the Maddox bit) in order to contemplate what they'd call the thing. International Prom? A Prom for All Nations (ala the video's title)? Or will Hollywood appropriately go for one of those song-based titles? Been around the World, perhaps? Permalink | Email this | Comments

In his "On The Street" slide show for the Times Style section today, longtime fashion photographer Bill Cunningham (pic) can't get over the kids today and their saggy jeans. In fact, Cunningham keeps waiting for a pair of low-slung trousers to fall off someomne's torse, yet they refuse, and the whole thing is a tragedy. Said Cunningham: "I have waited and thought, 'Oh my God, I'm going to get one right now, his pants are going to fall off. And it hasn't happened. It's just terrible. I've waited and waited." But he'll probably get his coveted "saggy jeans fall off some kid" shot soon enough since, according to Cunningham's theory, male waistlines seem to fall in sync with the ailing stock market. Video excerpt after the jump. [Times]

charles bukowski's -- the days run away like wild horses/ i thought that the stuffy old academic world of the poet in a suit was finally done with that poem/ that a writer like bukowski could even get published at all was stunning and exciting/ it suggested poetry had gotten over itself/ but bukowski is dead and poetry has returned to its "nice" roots/ If your life is lived outside the mainstream culture, the nice, academic poets just spit on you; hoping they hit the grave/ bukowski became my hero/ today, a poet just doesn't wear a suit, he is a suit/ like the rest of publishing, it's not about what you write/ it's about who you are/ you had better be the right race/ no nuance/ have the right degrees/ the right sort of sober life/ the published writers scream it isn't so/ they're all so diverse/ right/ diverse as turf/ allows/ protectionism/ and that I am just a Bitter Old Queen/ A Demented Bitch Who Broke Le Lady Rules/ right/ your subject matter had better be approved by Disney's truth squad and your tie had better be tied correctly/ art is what the suits and the new york times blog moderators say it is/ they don't like art/ you will be banned/ i am banned from their blogs regularly/ banned/ banned/ banned/ i live in a world of spit and retribution and i am surrounded by prim little suits and warriors up to their tits in primness and contracts and success and turf and whining and crying and woe is them/ it helps if you can get a grant/ better yet leave the country/ the suffocating suits/ better yet get a teaching job/ the suits among the suits/ can you imagine the alcoholic and the junkie poet who actually lives on what he MAKES from writing poetry/ don't be ridiculous/ in some derelict hotel with the other whores and people at the edge/ actually, I can because I am immersed in their midst/ you want authenticity/ right/ sure you do/ you want the politically correct is what you want, baby/ none of the "authentic" madmen would dream of giving you what you want/ they would keep their real whoredom confined to sex/ i did/ the authentic poets would not even attempt publishing/ your loss mister perfect primboy/ i am greeted with outraged junkie scorn to even suggest it/ submit to someone who pays/ the laughter is palpable/ why bother/ i don't get it/ they hate us/ they spit on us/ they spit on you, too/ what's wrong with you/ don't you know when they vomit on you/ actually, i do/ i've been formally banned at Poets and Writers Magazine/ in fact, i wear the badge with distinction/ and write poems like this one/ to provoke them if i can and usually i can/ you could always get a real job and become an editor whore/ just numb my nose with crank/ i am one/ the days run away like wild memories when poets wrote poetry/ i am being romantic, here/ the days never loved a poet/ the very word strikes terror into the hearts of the insurance salesmen who are the real poets/ the nice ones with lawns and butterflies/ who in their right mind would invite a poet to a cocktail party the poet might sing irish odes to pubs/ i would/ poetry readings are filled with the anguish of the poets who submit to farrarstrousandlejerks but can't get published because falling down drunks are rude/ take your awards and your mfas and your tribes of suits/ and shove them where that gay old sun don't shine for lovenormoney/ give me the mad ones/ the ones who write poems on their forearms where the track marks run/ the ones who can't tie a tie/ can't stand up in front of a classroom because they fall down a lot and write most of their poetry in bed/ give me the mad ones an editor can't put on the road because it would be a bad idea/ give me the ones who don't just dance on the razor's edge, they are the razor's edge/ give me the ones who still remain entranced with sunsets even the ones that set behind the alleyways where the homeless junkies live/ don't give me some idiot like myself who would blog at le new york times/ we've had enough of her/ she protesteth tew much/ give me the ones who write poetry on their stained sheets and they bring it to the poetry reading anyway/ their sheets that smell of sweat and sex/ and art/ and death/ and dancing/ and drunk whores who have passed out/ i want to hear these poems/ give me the dead poets who were the poets and not the teachers and the suits and the editors and the tribal turf correct mister prim perfections/ give me the poets who never marry/ don't have disgusting children/ can't help being rude/ who throw vegetables at critics/ versus being one/ give me poets who give publishing the finger/ give me poets who would have testicles enough to walk out onto a stage to parody the political correctness of the mister prims/ give me the poet who is horrified at the word recovery/ give me the poet whose lawn is a concrete sidewalk littered with broken bottles of thunderbird/ give me the poet who remains electrified at everything all the time/ give me the days that run away like wild horses over the hills

Protests to Salute To Israel was a celebration Israel's Independence on Sunday, May 11th at Capitol West Steps, Sacramento, CA. California State Senator Darrell Steinberg was one of the main speakers. Across 10th street was the Protest of 60 Years of Israeli apartheid and ethnic cleansing of Palestine. Members from both groups were interviewed. Duration 1:04:02.

Jeffrey has an exploratory conversation with dance reviewer and author Dan Gesmer of Boulder, Colorado. Dan was born in Illinois in 1963. In 1986 he earned his undergraduate degree from Yale, where he wrote a thesis on Vaslav Nijinsky s artistic and philosophical vision. In the years following he became well-known as an artistic innovator in flatland freestyle skateboarding. In 1993 this led him to found Seismic Skate Systems, Inc., a prominent manufacturer of high-performance gear for skateboard long-boarding and racing. Since the late 1990s Dan has written about Nijinsky for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, international dance journals, and museum exhibition catalogs. Listen to an in depth examination of a remarkable dancer that transformed the world of dance forever with his major transcendent and consciousness expanding contribution to movement and dance and how deeply it has influenced the movement arts for the generations since. The Omni Art Salon theme music, When Angels Smile, is provided courtesy of Back To Earth

The highlights are: A. Barack Obama's promises to Israel that he may have a difficult time honoring in the future. B. Barack Obama fires first salvo across John McCain's economic bow while only receiving harmless smoke and mirrors in return. Obama has successfully pinned the Bush administration's economic woes on McCain like a tail on the donkey. From our view, he wears it well. C. Country bracing for higher fuel and food prices as farmers fear modest crops this year. With Ben Bernanke signaling an end to rate cuts to stem inflation, the country is in for a rough ride.

A private detective about to enter the Army investigates the murder of a cop by gangsters who are in the stolen tires racket. Click here to download The Movie Store

A woman has dreams that she is a werewolf so she goes out and finds men. She proceeds to have sex with them and then rip their throats out with her teeth. She eventually falls in love but then she is raped and her lover is murdered so she goes out for revenge. Click here to download The Movie Store

This wartime thriller has newspaperman James Dunn trying to track down a stolen Chinese amulet the offers a clue to a lost treasure. He is racing a Russian teacher as well as an arms dealer for the same prize. This flick includes Ralph Morgan and Linda Gray in the credits. Click here to download The Movie Store

Leo Gorcey stars as Mugs Maloney with Bobby Jordan as Danny in this lower east fight flick during the forties. Danny, managing Mugs boxing career, books him into a Conservation Corps camp for training. When the camps safe is robbed, Mugs is blamed since everyone knows he needed cash for his sick mother. What a line of bull, but it works. Click here to download The Movie Store.

Blanche Mehaffey heads the cast as FBI agent Betty Mason. At the risk of her own neck, Betty pursues the kidnappers of a wealthy businessman. She also juggles the affection of her partner Morrison (Jack Mulhall) and the victim's son Scott (Grant Withers). After five yarn-provoking reels, the film finally roars into life with a truly exciting climactic shootout. Though Blanche Mehaffey had been in films since the silent days, she never quite attained stardom, and was still being referred to as an "unknown" by the 1938 trade papers. Despite the description, this is not a bad movie.

Jimmy Mason idolizes bootlegger Matt Kelly who is interested in Jimmy's girlfriend Peggy. Unwilling to squeal on his idol, Jimmy winds up in a cruel reformatory where a new- found friend dies from abuse. Jimmy's aunt tells him Peggy is seeing a lot of Matt, so Jimmy escapes. Click here to download The Movie Store

Copycat taken into custody after N.Y. Times building sees second ascent of day.

For the second time in one day, a man attempts to climb the N.Y. Times building.

Stunt man Alain Robert is climbing the newspaper's midtown skyscraper to protest global warming and—well, because that's what the 'French Spiderman' does. The Times' new tower on West 41st Street in Manhattan is one of the greenest buildings in the city, so it's hardly the most appropriate target. But Robert has at least drawn attention: the newspaper's City Room blog is reporting from the scene. After the jump: photo of Robert—free-climbing outside a 21st-floor window—by nedward.org.

A New York Couple is a long way from their home in Brooklyn when their truck breaks down. The two run into one of those goofy fairs, and are forced to sell their only valuable possession. It's an elephant named Bunny that Ollie has grown really attached to. Jose the fair owner sees that Bunny could save his struggling side show but secretly wants the business to fail and does everything to screw up the sale and the love that is developing among the fairs crew for bunny. Why the hell this movie is entitled Machine Gun Mama escapes us. Click here to download The Movie Store

A young woman is on death row for the murder of a man who was blackmailing her family, although she claims she was framed. Her fiancée, a doctor who is conducting experiments on reviving the dead, also happens to be the state's executioner, and is assigned to pull the switch when she is strapped into the electric chair. A famous criminologist, believing her to be innocent, rushes to investigate the case and clear her before her execution date. Click here to download The Movie Store