Freelance photojournalist Mannie Garcia — an Oval Office regular for 19 years who shot the Obama portrait appropriated in Shepard Fairey’s Hope posters — is considering filing a civil rights lawsuit against the police in Maryland. When documenting a suspicious arrest, he was brutally assaulted by armed bullies in uniform, but that was just the beginning of his Kafkaesque nightmare. Read more »
Protest crew FEMEN have halted their trademark toplessness and doubled up on double entendre to protest corporately bribed reporting in Ukrainian journalism. Watch ‘em chant “Don’t Fuck Our Brains!” here. SFW. Yes, SFW. We know! What the hell, right? Read more »
Revolutionary technology from Condition ONE gets you as close to the front line of the Libyan Revolution without the consequences of getting shelled. They’ve got an epic video promo that demonstrates how you easily you can pan through all the bloody happenings with a simple swoosh of your iPad. Read more »
According to the the Committee to Protect Journalists, the Chinese government doesn’t think protests in the country are news events that should be covered by the media and so they’re cracking down on reporters. Officials said journalists must seek advance permission and have threatened to revoke visas and residence permits if this “illegal” reporting continues. These new directives were issued to news outlets like the AP, the BBC and others.
After some girls from Moscow State University’s journalism department presented Putin with their boob’n'pantyfest calendar for his birthday, their fellow students responded quickly with their own calendar and a boner-killing dose of reality: Putin is not so great. Put your pants back on. Read more »
Who says print journalism is dead? It’s not at the New York Post, which sent intrepid reporter Mandy Stadtmiller to spend a night with America’s first legalized male prostitute, “Markus.” Oh boy. Read more »
On Sunday the New York Post unveiled its newest columnist, an advice columnist to be specific: former Eliot Spitzer-boning hooker Ashley Dupre. Read more »
In the process of digging through the myriad of sordid Tiger Woods stories out there this morning, I somehow overlooked this amazing little tidbit from the New York Post: Read more »
Earlier today, as I plowed through my extensive collection of bookmarked online information sources, I made my daily stop (Well, not really) over at Hudson, New York’s Register Star, the newspaper serving the fine folks up in Dutchess and Columbia counties, where apparently it’s a painfully slow news day. Read more »
Just so you can fill your daily quota of listening to an old person wistfully remembering the good ole days, here is semi-blowhardy writer person Gay Talese explaining how the technological innovations, in this case the tape recorder, have “killed journalism,” i.e. made it impossible for him and others of his ilk to get magazine editors to dish out thousands of dollars on airfare, 4-star hotel suites and expensive dinners to obtain a story. But alas, those days are long gone. Nevertheless, Talese is tells a good story. Read more »
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