Operation Reverse Ferret
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― Theodora Celery, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 05:10 (eleven years ago) link
scientologists should have just bought newsweek imo
― mookieproof, Monday, January 14, 2013 7:58 PM (Yesterday)
haha the thought of tina brown trying really hard to make scientology look Of The Now is cracking me up
― maura, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 14:42 (eleven years ago) link
http://boingboing.net/2013/01/14/dread-cthulhu-leads-his-cult-t.html
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 15:12 (eleven years ago) link
http://blogs.thescore.com/mlb/2013/01/14/jeffery-loria-leads-the-miami-marlins-to-milestone-year
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 15:51 (eleven years ago) link
lolllllll oh that is too good
― maura, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 16:50 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.theonion.com/articles/sponsored-the-taliban-is-a-vibrant-and-thriving-po,30910/
― silverfish, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 21:41 (eleven years ago) link
well it finally happened, salon has published a truther:
http://www.salon.com/2013/01/22/give_truthers_a_chance/
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 05:57 (eleven years ago) link
oh dear
the best thing about that is how he buries it in the middle of the piece though, like yeah these sandy hook people sure are crazy, btw planes can't melt steel
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 23 January 2013 06:14 (eleven years ago) link
i like how he ends it by reminding us that "the jfk 'truthers' were eventually vindicated." oh right, i remember when that happened!
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 06:21 (eleven years ago) link
salon runs JFK conspiracy stuff a lot
― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 23 January 2013 07:11 (eleven years ago) link
ghost rider did 9/11
― buzza, Wednesday, 23 January 2013 07:30 (eleven years ago) link
"What concerns me about the repudiation of the Hookers is that the 9/11 Truthers are being tarred with the same “crackpot” brush. "
lololololol
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 08:03 (eleven years ago) link
oh good salon finally found a replacement for greenwald
― Mordy, Wednesday, 23 January 2013 13:25 (eleven years ago) link
there it is
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 23 January 2013 13:30 (eleven years ago) link
salon removed the story and apologized for the truther stuff (but not the JFK stuff lol).
http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2013/01/no-jfk-in-salon-apology-for-truthers-piece-155038.html
Salon founder David Talbot (no longer with the company) has said that the Kennedy assassination "grew out of the American government.""I think it was the CIA that was given the job of implementing (the coverup); I think they brought in the mob at crucial times to take care of some of the dirtier work," Talbot, the author of a 2007 book about the Kennedys called "Brothers," said in a 2011 interview. "Basically, this was an executive decision made at the highest levels of American government, and that involved people at the CIA and at the Pentagon."In 2011, Salon published an article by Jefferson Morley called "The holy grail of the JFK story," which advised readers on how to "get into the conspiratorial weeds" of Kennedy's assassination: "Kennedy’s death was said to be the tragic result of the psychotic actions of one individual... More likely, Kennedy was ambushed by enemies who sought to avoid detection," Morley wrote.
"I think it was the CIA that was given the job of implementing (the coverup); I think they brought in the mob at crucial times to take care of some of the dirtier work," Talbot, the author of a 2007 book about the Kennedys called "Brothers," said in a 2011 interview. "Basically, this was an executive decision made at the highest levels of American government, and that involved people at the CIA and at the Pentagon."
In 2011, Salon published an article by Jefferson Morley called "The holy grail of the JFK story," which advised readers on how to "get into the conspiratorial weeds" of Kennedy's assassination: "Kennedy’s death was said to be the tragic result of the psychotic actions of one individual... More likely, Kennedy was ambushed by enemies who sought to avoid detection," Morley wrote.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 20:28 (eleven years ago) link
salon is like atlantic's lil brother trying to get attention after the scientology thing
― iatee, Wednesday, 23 January 2013 20:31 (eleven years ago) link
hey guys look at us we publish crazy shit too won't somebody talk about us on twitter please just a little
― iatee, Wednesday, 23 January 2013 20:34 (eleven years ago) link
wow,in the last few weeks Atlantic puts up Sci-Ti propaganda and Salon publishes a Truther. It's only a matter of time until Slate starts publishing stories about how black people are genetically inferior. oh wait.
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 23 January 2013 20:36 (eleven years ago) link
hah
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 23 January 2013 20:39 (eleven years ago) link
lol slate couldn't help taking a swipehttp://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2013/01/23/salon_truthers_online_mag_publishes_retracts_9_11_conspiracy_story_give.html
― Mordy, Thursday, 24 January 2013 01:03 (eleven years ago) link
slate won "the contest"
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 24 January 2013 01:05 (eleven years ago) link
The article was selected from the partner site because a junior editor saw that it was connected to the Sandy Hook truther coverage and got a little “overexcited” about it, Lauerman says.
Salon fucked up that Imam gives Syrian rebels permission to rape 14-year-olds story too. I wonder if it was the same junior editor.
― Mordy, Thursday, 24 January 2013 01:06 (eleven years ago) link
fuckin junior editors amirite
― mookieproof, Thursday, 24 January 2013 01:08 (eleven years ago) link
i totally get it. what senior editor wants to read the fucking "partner sites" for content?
― Mordy, Thursday, 24 January 2013 01:09 (eleven years ago) link
favorite part of that article is when he says "all conspiracy theories" are the result of "bogus" official stories. Like, for example, the moon landing?
― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 24 January 2013 01:18 (eleven years ago) link
ok but to be fair there is a lot of strong evidence that kubrick directed the moon landing after the actual moon landing failed to provide usable footage
― Mordy, Thursday, 24 January 2013 01:20 (eleven years ago) link
no real person would ever call himself 'buzz'
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 24 January 2013 01:22 (eleven years ago) link
i wanna know where they stand on beyoncegate.
― s.clover, Thursday, 24 January 2013 03:18 (eleven years ago) link
read your kottke blogs
― mookieproof, Thursday, 24 January 2013 03:21 (eleven years ago) link
― J0rdan S., Thursday, January 24, 2013 1:05 AM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 28 January 2013 02:28 (eleven years ago) link
http://natethayer.wordpress.com/2013/03/04/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-freelance-journalist-2013/
― iatee, Tuesday, 5 March 2013 05:05 (eleven years ago) link
damn
― j., Tuesday, 5 March 2013 08:29 (eleven years ago) link
Yeesh
― Deafening silence (DL), Tuesday, 5 March 2013 10:22 (eleven years ago) link
"repurposing" is absolutely Orwellian
― screen scraper (m coleman), Tuesday, 5 March 2013 10:49 (eleven years ago) link
"we both, as it were, moved on to different places"
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 5 March 2013 12:14 (eleven years ago) link
― screen scraper (m coleman), Tuesday, March 5, 2013 5:49 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
haha no it isn't
― zero dark (s1ocki), Tuesday, 5 March 2013 15:05 (eleven years ago) link
it is a really good lengthy article to propose somebody be paid nothing at all for.
― s.clover, Tuesday, 5 March 2013 17:15 (eleven years ago) link
http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2013/03/05/the-problem-with-online-freelance-journalism/
― s.clover, Wednesday, 6 March 2013 21:41 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/03/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-digital-editor-2013/273763/
― iatee, Wednesday, 6 March 2013 21:56 (eleven years ago) link
interesting, but ew.
― s.clover, Wednesday, 6 March 2013 22:12 (eleven years ago) link
just sad all around tbh
― zero dark (s1ocki), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 22:13 (eleven years ago) link
no vision of editorial direction or mission or etc. at all in that post.
― s.clover, Wednesday, 6 March 2013 22:13 (eleven years ago) link
like you can talk about 'the realities of journalism' all you want but there's also _what_ do you want to publish, and _why_, and there's not even a glancing recognition of that.
― s.clover, Wednesday, 6 March 2013 22:14 (eleven years ago) link
I mean his stated goal is to protect the illustrious property that is 'the atlantic'
but I mean what is 'the atlantic' anymore, it's a brand and a website address
― iatee, Wednesday, 6 March 2013 22:21 (eleven years ago) link
i hope that guy is haunted by the ghost of ralph waldo emerson.
― ryan, Wednesday, 6 March 2013 22:23 (eleven years ago) link
This is my institution, my connection to a legacy and a lineage. And if you come after one of us, if you come after it, I am not going to take it lying down.
stfu
― j., Wednesday, 6 March 2013 22:41 (eleven years ago) link
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 22:41 (eleven years ago) link
Lia Mahkara•3 hours ago
I can't help but think someone's being paid by the word...
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― iatee, Wednesday, 6 March 2013 22:43 (eleven years ago) link
― zero dark (s1ocki), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 23:58 (eleven years ago) link
the comments section there is a fascinating set of people
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 7 March 2013 06:20 (eleven years ago) link