salon vs. slate vs. atlantic

http://boingboing.net/2013/01/14/dread-cthulhu-leads-his-cult-t.html

http://blogs.thescore.com/mlb/2013/01/14/jeffery-loria-leads-the-miami-marlins-to-milestone-year

lolllllll oh that is too good

http://www.theonion.com/articles/sponsored-the-taliban-is-a-vibrant-and-thriving-po,30910/

well it finally happened, salon has published a truther:

http://www.salon.com/2013/01/22/give_truthers_a_chance/

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

i like how he ends it by reminding us that "the jfk 'truthers' were eventually vindicated." oh right, i remember when that happened!

salon runs JFK conspiracy stuff a lot

ghost rider did 9/11

"What concerns me about the repudiation of the Hookers is that the 9/11 Truthers are being tarred with the same “crackpot” brush. "

lololololol

oh good salon finally found a replacement for greenwald

there it is

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.

salon is like atlantic's lil brother trying to get attention after the scientology thing

hey guys look at us we publish crazy shit too won't somebody talk about us on twitter please just a little

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.

hah

lol slate couldn't help taking a swipe
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2013/01/23/salon_truthers_online_mag_publishes_retracts_9_11_conspiracy_story_give.html

slate won "the contest"

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.

fuckin junior editors amirite

i totally get it. what senior editor wants to read the fucking "partner sites" for content?

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?

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

no real person would ever call himself 'buzz'

i wanna know where they stand on beyoncegate.

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

read your kottke blogs

slate won "the contest"

― J0rdan S., Thursday, January 24, 2013 1:05 AM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

http://natethayer.wordpress.com/2013/03/04/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-freelance-journalist-2013/

damn

Yeesh

"repurposing" is absolutely Orwellian

"we both, as it were, moved on to different places"

"repurposing" is absolutely Orwellian

― screen scraper (m coleman), Tuesday, March 5, 2013 5:49 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha no it isn't

it is a really good lengthy article to propose somebody be paid nothing at all for.

http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2013/03/05/the-problem-with-online-freelance-journalism/

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/03/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-digital-editor-2013/273763/

interesting, but ew.

just sad all around tbh

no vision of editorial direction or mission or etc. at all in that post.

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.

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

i hope that guy is haunted by the ghost of ralph waldo emerson.

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

but I mean what is 'the atlantic' anymore, it's a brand and a website address

Lia Mahkara•3 hours ago

I can't help but think someone's being paid by the word...

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lol

the comments section there is a fascinating set of people

here's a twitter feed for u hoos: http://twitter.com/AvoidComments

the new new republic site is really nice