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When Mom Goes Viral
Some people pursue celebrity. Others stumble into it as they are rushing off to bridge club. My 85-year-old mom, Marilyn Hagerty, a newspaper columnist, is in the latter category. When she wrote a review of the new Olive Garden restaurant in Grand Forks, N.D., last week, she wasn't expecting anyone other than her thousands of loyal readers in North Dakota and northwestern Minnesota to take note. She didn't worry about how her story would play on Gawker, partly because she had never heard of Gawker.More » -
Mpls newspapers refuse to run controversial abortion-related Doonesbury comic strips
Just when it was starting to seem like Garry Trudeau’s Doonesbury was becoming nothing more than the sound of one Baby Boomer hand clapping, the long-running comic strip has found itself once again in the throes of a national controversy. This comes following word that some newspaper outlets (including both the Pioneer Press and the Star Tribune in the Twin Cities) are refusing to run this week’s six-part series that sets its target on strict abortion laws in the state of Texas.. -
CNN to buy Mashable for around $200 million, report says
This could be the news of the 2012 South by Southwest: CNN is set to pay more than $200 million to buy social media blog Mashable, according to Reuters blogger Felix Salmon. . . -
NY Times admits it deep-sixed Ron Paul
It's been obvious for almost a year now that the New York Times was participating in the media conspiracy to kill Ron Paul's candidacy by pretending it didn't exist. Nice to see them admit it. In Sunday's Times, public editor Arthur S. Brisbane wrote of the decision to deep-six the only candidate in the race who has anything interesting to say. Here's what Brisbane wrote: In a Dec. 4 column, I wrote about journalists’ reflex to impose their own narrative on a race, a dynamic that can eclipse what candidates are actually saying. Well, as last week’s Iowa caucuses demonstrated, the Republican nomination contest steadfastly resists any coherent narrative.More » -
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