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"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

‘Streisand Effect’: Scientology Imploding?

One of the principles of the New Media age is that attempts to suppress the truth tend to backfire, generating greater interest in the hidden truth. The so-called “Streisand Effect” may now be invoked in the wake of Monday’s debacle in which The Atlantic published a ludicrously over-the-top “advertorial” for Scientology and was forced to […]

‘Just Another Elitist Hypocrite’

The National Rifle Association’s new ad: (Via Memeorandum and Hot Air.) Liberals were on a gun-control rant for the past month. The NRA’s been signing up dues-paying members: A day before President Barack Obama is scheduled to release Vice President Joe Biden’s recommendations to curb gun violence in the United States, the National Rifle Association told U.S. […]

LIVE AT FIVE: 01.16.13

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS French, Malian Troops Go On The Offensive French commit 2500 troops to Mali Obama Gun Proposal To Look Beyond Mass Shootings “Comprehensive approach” = more laws that already don’t solve the problem Top Japanese Airlines Ground Boeing Dreamliners After Emergency Battery problem latest in a string of teething troubles […]

Steubenville ‘Rape Crew’? Non-Facts Smear the Innocent in an Ohio Town

Michael Nodianos in the now-infamous Aug. 12 video “Michael didn’t know the Jane Doe in this case. . . . He left the party around midnight on Saturday, went to McDonald’s and then to a friend’s house. She was leaving just a few moments after he arrived at the second house. He saw her leave […]

At Least One Chief Executive Is Doing The Correct Thing

by Smitty So the guy who already knows he’s not going to meet his budget deadline is going to surround himself with children and infringe upon the 2nd Amendment. Mataconis figures that flinging this much humus is likely to make something stick, in particular, the executive orders. One can hope the fiasco proves a bridge […]

Eighteen Severed Human Heads Stopped En Route to Chicago ‘Research Facility’

Somewhere in Illinois, a “research facility” is being operated by zombies, cannibals or, perhaps, a mad scientist from Transylvania: The 18 human head specimens that arrived at O’Hare International Airport from Rome just before Christmas were on their way to a research facility in the Chicago suburbs — a facility that is “under investigation,” a source told the […]

Why Doesn’t President Obama Support ‘Citizens Against Senseless Violence’?

New York Times headline today: Obama Poised to Back Comprehensive Plan to Curb Gun Violence If he’s against “gun violence,” why would his attorney general call the cops on a peaceful group promoting its own “comprehensive plan”? Posing as “Citizens Against Senseless Violence,” [James] O’Keefe and company visited the homes of anti-gun journalists employed by […]

The Problem With ‘Sponsored Content’: Atlantic Unpublishes Scientology Article

How do you turn pixels into profits? This is an industry-wide issue for journalism in the digital New Media age, and the “sponsored content” approach — selling ads that look like articles — is supposed to be the wave of the future. Well . . . The Atlantic apparently sold space to the Church Creepy Ripoff […]

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