Culture Buzz And people wonder why print media is dying! Psst… the link is broken.
Politics Buzz Expect the poll numbers to change fast in response to the wave of good news for Gingrich. Romney, meanwhile, bogged down in argument over tax returns; he’ll release his 2010 returns Tuesday.
Culture Buzz Because nothing sells papers like subtle race-baiting with a splash of sarcasm! That said, “Mad as hell Michelle” does roll off the tongue nicely.
UK daily newspaper, The Daily Mirror used the image on the left and then badly photoshopped Amy Winehouse's head on to it for a printed article. Looks like News of the World aren't the only scumbags out there. Who knew? (Via)
Bravo, San Francisco Chronicle! You just made Rick Santorum throw up in his mouth. (via SFist)
This how you sell free newspapers! Hipster punching and George the adorable bed bug sniffing dog on the front page. Bravo! (via Cocaine Unicorns)
Sports Buzz The front pages of New York and New England area newspapers today. In case you missed it, the Jets defeated the Patriots last night. It was kind of spectacular. (Via Newseum.org.)
In the United States the Special Victims Unit takes pedophiles down. In Europe, they celebrate them.
One more reason why newspapers are becoming archaic historical artifacts.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/09/technology/09paper.html
Japan's largest business newspaper, the Nikkei, is now threatening legal action against people who link directly to their articles. So this is totally not cool in their books.
OMG. The most insane NY Post title ever. (Get it?!…….Buccaneer, Young Buc, Rap Sheet, etc, etc)
Business Buzz The New York Times has threatened to shut down the Boston Globe (which it owns) in 30-days unless the paper makes major cuts. Needless to say, people in Boston are not pleased.
Two Jewish newspapers photoshopped the female ministers out of Israel's new cabinet photo. It's considered a violation of modesty to publish pictures of women by ultra-orthodox Jews, so this is one way to deal with it.
You knew this was coming: the Chicago Tribute replaces masthead names with Twitter accounts. Not the first newspaper to jump on the Twitter bandwagon, but definitely to first to Twitterize the entire staff via the Masthead.
From the obituary pages on the last ever print run of the Seattle Post Intelligencer this Tuesday. Goodbye and RIP, Old Media. We hardly knew ye.
I love my RSS reader, but sometimes I really want to know what made the front page of the New York Times. Enter Newscan, a slick little project from Rayogram and the Newseum.
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1883785,...
Those smug bastards over at Time magazine have drawn up a list of the ten major newspapers most likely to go under or go digital very soon. Topping the list is the Philadelphia Daily News, which nobody reads anyway (I'm from Philly), but some non-second-rate papers included on the list are the Chicago Sun-Times and the Boston Globe, which is reportedly losing $1 million each week.