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The Jane Austen/Pride and Prejudice controversy continues. Authors have forever adapted and borrowed from literary classics, so why all the vitriol with this latest (and very raunchy) adaptation/re-imagining?
http://mitziszereto.com/blog/pitchforks-jane-austen-and-me/The Jane Austen/Pride and Prejudice controversy continues. Authors have forever... more
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The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) has called for an apology and retraction after the Huffington Post this week featured, on its home page, an article titled, “Sex For Tuition: Gay Students Using ‘Sugar Daddies’ To Pay Off Loan Debt.”
GLAAD called the post, authored by Amanda Fairbanks, “one of the most trite, stereotype-peddling articles we’ve seen in a long time” and denounced the Huffington Post for standing behind it.
WHOOT! Go get that editor! How did this every get by?! As if no HETEROSEXUAL has ever done this. it is a GAY ONLY Practice?! Yeah right!
http://tinyurl.com/3mwqvu3The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) has called for an apology... more
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A strange and fascinating sea-change has taken place at Huffington Post.
UK users, like myself, are now automatically directed to the UK front page on log-in, which consists of UK headlines (fair enough) and international news.
The US front page is entirely different and consists almost exclusively of US political news.
Though the UK front page is more “international”, the news there is likely to be of very little interest to any UK commenter, because it is simply a regurgitation of the day’s main headlines, which most UK users (no matter what their educational level or background) will either have heard on the radio during breakfast or read on their way to work on the bus. The links are to mainstream publications, both broadsheet and tabloid, most of which already have a vibrant online comments section.
The low number of comments on HP UK reflects this redundancy.
Meanwhile, over on the US front page, the ”World” section is no longer easily accessible – as it used to be – but has now been relegated to a subsection of “Other” right at the very end of the toolbar, way behind the“Celebrity”, “Comedy” and “Local” news sections.
As a result, US commenters are just shouting around in their own little echo-chamber, chasing their own tails, getting excited about such earth-shattering events as Michele Bachman’s corndog eating techniques and Sarah Palin’s toenails.
It’s like a media version of the Berlin wall. Never the twain shall meet.
The transatlantic dialogue, which once made HP so attractive, has been effectively silenced.
So, while Michele Bachmann may have been historically wrong when she talked about the “threat” of the long-defunct Soviet Union – somewhat perversely, she may actually have a point: there's a new Cold War going on.
The Iron Curtain has been resurrected – this time in the media.
We are seeing what John Pilger described, almost a decade ago, as the “vociferous brainwashing” of the US.
We are seeing what Noam Chomsky described as “manufacturing consent”.
And we cannot but agree with Robert Fisk when he suggests that most US newspapers should be renamed “American Officials Say”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kvc0xIdvR7kA strange and fascinating sea-change has taken place at Huffington Post.
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President Obama will address the nation tonight on troop withdrawal.
http://corksphere.blogspot.com/President Obama will address the nation tonight on troop withdrawal.... more
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The forgotten war in Afghanistan rages on as these five new combat videos show.
http://corksphere.blogspot.com/The forgotten war in Afghanistan rages on as these five new combat videos show.... more
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Please take a couple of minutes to view two videos I have posted on my blog. One is a tribute to World War II vets and other a memorial to our troops killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
http://corksphere.blogspot.com/Please take a couple of minutes to view two videos I have posted on my blog. One is a... more
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These three videos from the war in Afghanistan have not been shown on American TV.
http://corksphere.blogspot.com/These three videos from the war in Afghanistan have not been shown on American TV.... more
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The mainstream media in the United States has abandoned the Afghanistan war because they will tell you people are tired of reading and hearing about it. What a rotten shame.
This video shows what our US Marines are doing in Afghanistan.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTGEPwyHJsYThe mainstream media in the United States has abandoned the Afghanistan war because... more
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Video of Apache chopper releasing their payload on a car before the occupant had time to surrender.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fmefuk0SfsVideo of Apache chopper releasing their payload on a car before the occupant had time... more
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Royal Irish Regiment returns from war to a boisterous crowd of well-wishers.
http://tiny.cc/z24npRoyal Irish Regiment returns from war to a boisterous crowd of well-wishers.... more
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