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Taibbi Gets Shrill

Matt speaks for me. It's so good to know that even when I'm too tired or beat down to express myself, I've got friends in the blogosphere with the outrage and eloquence to do it for me. So good I'm posting the whole thing:

"Now, after she shaved her head in a bizarre episode that culminates a months-long saga of controversial behavior, it's the question being asked by her fans, her foes and the general public: What was she thinking?"-- Bald and Broken: Inside Britney's Shaved Head, Sheila Marikar, ABC.com, Feb. 19

What was she thinking? How about nothing? How about who gives a shit? How's that for an answer, Sheila Marikar of ABC news, you pinhead?

I'm not one of those curmudgeons who freaks out every time that Bradgelina moves the war off the front page of the Post, or Katie Couric decides to usher in a whole new era of network news with photos of the imbecile demon-spawn of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes. I understand that we live in a demand-based economy and that there is far more demand for brainless celebrity bullshit than there is, say, for the fine print of the Health and Human Services budget. Read more…

Bloggers are Harder to Understand Than Differential Calculus

If you work for TIME, that is. Don't bother reading it. Chris explains why:

It never ceases to amaze me that while bloggers are often criticized by many journalists for not fact-checking their stories, stories about bloggers are regularly littered with glaring factual errors. They might take a lesson from our book, and back up their assertions with a standard citation method, such as hyperlinks. Take, for example, the new piece in Time magazine about Amanda Marcotte. While, unlike every other establishment piece on this story today, this article does at least mention that John McCain's blogger, Patrick Hynes has been the center of controversy, check out how many things they got wrong:
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Your Liberal Media: Libby Edition

So I'd rather eat glass, take a bath in acid, walk across an electrified grid barefoot, etc., than watch CNN. But hey, look what I just learned. Guess who has a dad on the Advisory Board of the Libby Legal Defense Trust? Bowtie Carlson! Has he mentioned that yet, in his coverage of the trial? Read more…

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