Ryan Chittum

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I write about the business press for Columbia Journalism Review's The Audit. Soon-to-be expat in Aalborg

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RT @daveweigel: We're gonna repeat this "criticizing big-spending 501s = targeting small Tea Party groups" thing until people buy it http:/…

Strassel: Conservatives Became Targets in 2008

online.wsj.com — The White House insists President Obama is "outraged" by the "inappropriate" targeting and harassment of conservative groups. If true, it's a remarkable turnaround for a man who helped pioneer those tactics. On Aug. 21, 2008, the conservative American Issues Project ran an ad highlighting ties between candidate Obama and Bill Ayers, formerly of the Weather Underground.
How the Government Saved Lives in Moore, Oklahoma nyr.kr/14ZK4iq a remarkably low death toll

How the Government Saved Lives in Moore, Oklahoma

newyorker.com — Moore, Oklahoma, is not unfamiliar with tornadoes: it gets hit by one about once every five years. But the one that touched down there on Monday seemed especially cruel. The storm laid waste to nearly everything in its seventeen-mile path, destroying thirteen thousand homes, causing approximately two billion dollars in property damage, injuring two hundred and thirty-seven people and killing twenty-four, including nine children, so far.
"Not surprisingly, reporters tell me that more and more administration officials are afraid to talk to them." wapo.st/18oxEml

Leonard Downie: Obama’s war on leaks undermines investigative journalism

washingtonpost.com — Leonard Downie Jr. is a vice president at large of The Washington Post, where he served as executive editor from 1991 to 2008. He is the Weil family professor of journalism at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University and a board member of the nonprofit Investigative Reporters and Editors.
Google News search is broken, no? It's become increasingly less useful/harder to use over the last year or so
Jon Stewart destroys Peggy Noonan on IRS/Iran Contra/Watergate bit.ly/10Y0LL0

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

thedailyshow.com — Ronald Reagan fan-fiction author Peggy Noonan criticizes President Obama over the IRS scandal. Airdate - 05/22/13
BREAKING RT @AP: Amanda Bynes appears in court disheveled in a long blond wig and sweats: apne.ws/16eI8r7 -CC

Actress Bynes arrested in NYC on marijuana charge

bigstory.ap.org — NEW YORK (AP) - Police say actress Amanda Bynes has been arrested in midtown Manhattan after she heaved a marijuana bong out of a window.It happened at an apartment building on West 47th Street at about 7:40 p.m.
NB: Kayak iphone app just gave me 40% lower price on a car than exact same search exact same time on Kayak.com

Compare Hundreds of Travel Sites At Once

kayak.com — Compare hundreds of travel sites at once. Find a deal on the flight, hotel, car rental or vacation you want.
"We can be humble and live a good life with the aid of the machines, or we can be arrogant and die. " nyti.ms/170LA8H

M.I.T. Scholar’s 1949 Essay on Machine Age Is Found

nytimes.com — It was a vision that never saw the light of day. The year was 1949, and computers and robots were still largely the stuff of science fiction. Only a few farsighted thinkers imagined that they would one day become central to civilization, with consequences both liberating and potentially dire.
"'She told me: I read the old paper twice.'" nice photo essay on changing media habits in New Orleans bit.ly/12B0f3R

A year after Times-Picayune announced cutbacks, news habits changing in New Orleans

thelensnola.org — Last year, shortly after The Times-Picayune announced that it would stop daily publication to focus on its website, photographer Bevil Knapp captured images of the daily newspaper ritual around New Orleans. WWNO's Eve Troeh joined her this week to see how people and communities are adapting.
"'I asked one sister, who does not use a computer, what she does on days there is no printed paper,' Toups says."
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