Dec. 18, 2012 at 10:51pm with 79 notes
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As it turns out, she was not a teacher. Nor does it appear that Nancy Lanza had been a substitute or a teacher’s aide at Sandy Hook Elementary School, as some reported. Other accounts said incorrectly that she had been killed at the school along with her students, rather than at home before her son’s rampage at the school.
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The Washington Post’s Paul Farhi • From an article today detailing the mistaken narratives and misinformation that sprung forth in the early hours after the Sandy Hook shooting, and how those mistakes can persist. This is not the first time we’ve seen so much bad information swarm a tragic incident, or even a school shooting — reports of motive in the aftermath of the Columbine shooting have also since proven dubious (perhaps explained best by Columbine author Dave Cullen). source (via shortformblog)

Seriously… the media coverage of this tragedy has sickened me. Fuck the 24-hour news cycle.

Dec. 17, 2012 at 7:00pm with 42 notes
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We’re the people who sit back and tolerate children owning guns, and we’re the ones who tune in and watch the up-to-the-minute details of what they do with them. I think it’s terrible when anyone dies, especially if it is someone you know and love. But what is more offensive is that when these tragedies happen, most people don’t really care any more than they would about the season finale of Friends or The Real World. I was dumbfounded as I watched the media snake right in, not missing a teardrop, interviewing the parents of dead children, televising the funerals.
— Marilyn Manson, “Whose Fault Is It?” (Rolling Stone, 1999)
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We applaud the creation of a bomb whose sole purpose is to destroy all of mankind, and we grow up watching our president’s brains splattered all over Texas. Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised. Does anyone think the Civil War was the least bit civil? If television had existed, you could be sure they would have been there to cover it, or maybe even participate in it, like their violent car chase of Princess Di. Disgusting vultures looking for corpses, exploiting, fucking, filming and serving it up for our hungry appetites in a gluttonous display of endless human stupidity.
— Marilyn Manson, “Whose Fault Is It?” (Rolling Stone, 1999)
Dec. 16, 2012 at 2:22pm with 388 notes
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We applaud the creation of a bomb whose sole purpose is to destroy all of mankind, and we grow up watching our president’s brains splattered all over Texas. Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised. Does anyone think the Civil War was the least bit civil? If television had existed, you could be sure they would have been there to cover it, or maybe even participate in it, like their violent car chase of Princess Di. Disgusting vultures looking for corpses, exploiting, fucking, filming and serving it up for our hungry appetites in a gluttonous display of endless human stupidity.
— Marilyn Manson, “Whose Fault Is It?” (Rolling Stone, 1999)
11:47am with 42 notes
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We’re the people who sit back and tolerate children owning guns, and we’re the ones who tune in and watch the up-to-the-minute details of what they do with them. I think it’s terrible when anyone dies, especially if it is someone you know and love. But what is more offensive is that when these tragedies happen, most people don’t really care any more than they would about the season finale of Friends or The Real World. I was dumbfounded as I watched the media snake right in, not missing a teardrop, interviewing the parents of dead children, televising the funerals.
— Marilyn Manson, “Whose Fault Is It?” (Rolling Stone, 1999)
Dec. 5, 2012 at 5:00pm with 76 notes
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kohenari:

The War on Christmas is really heating up, as Bill O’Reilly goes so far as to argue that Christianity isn’t an organized religion in his effort to save Christmas from anti-Christmas warriors.

This is confusing.

I can only presume that what’s happening here is that the atheist is arguing that any perceived War on Christmas is actually entirely appropriate since organized religion has no place in the public sphere … to which Bill O’Reilly responds that Christianity isn’t an organized religion but a philosophy, which would make its establishment in the United States (and the public celebration of its holidays) entirely acceptable and not at all constitutionally problematic. This is also — as Jon Stewart points out — probably the most inane thing anyone has said in this most recent inanity-filled iteration of the War on Christmas.

HT: Marcus Sanborn.

Nov. 4, 2012 at 6:00pm with 19 notes
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The media doesn’t do a very good job and Americans don’t do a very good job at getting on the case of things that are not immediate or completely easy to understand right away or have no celebrities involved.
— Bill Maher
Sep. 15, 2012 at 3:59pm with 199 notes
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They had an election and they elected moderates. They rejected Islamists. And yes, there are al-Qaeda factors and there are extremists in Libya today, but the Libyan people are friends of ours, and they support us, and they support democracy. So you were wrong about — so you were wrong about Libya.
— Senator John McCain to Fox’s Sean Hannity on Libya (via mediamattersforamerica)
Sep. 2, 2012 at 12:02pm with 7 notes
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aflightybroad:

has anyone else noticed this weird trend of referring to the president as “mr obama” in the media

like

i don’t recall bill clinton getting called “mr clinton”

or bush being called “mr bush”

they were “president clinton” or “president bush” …

or was i just not paying attention? IS IT JUST ME.

Mar. 12, 2012 at 5:58pm with 135 notes
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latimes: ‘Doonesbury’ abortion story arc moves to Op-Ed page: A story line about a woman seeking an abortion in Texas prompts Times editors to relocate the strip from the comics pages for the arc’s six-day run.

latimes:

‘Doonesbury’ abortion story arc moves to Op-Ed page: A story line about a woman seeking an abortion in Texas prompts Times editors to relocate the strip from the comics pages for the arc’s six-day run.

Mar. 3, 2012 at 8:00pm with 4,419 notes
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Always worth re-blogging.

Always worth re-blogging.

Sep. 6, 2011 at 6:22pm with 25 notes
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liberal-life: Viewers’ Opinions Toward American Muslims broken down by Media Source This chart  shows how Fox viewers, more so than viewers affiliated with any other news outlet, are more likely to hold incorrect and Islamophobic views More Information @ Think Progress

liberal-life:

Viewers’ Opinions Toward American Muslims broken down by Media Source

This chart  shows how Fox viewers, more so than viewers affiliated with any other news outlet, are more likely to hold incorrect and Islamophobic views

More Information @ Think Progress