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Day: July 23, 2010

Just In From the Trailer Park

Good Lord.

This is the world we live in. I blame the parents 100%. Child neglect, pure and simple.

Care about your kids for goodness sake. Don’t give them unfiltered access to the internet. Be careful of their participation on social media networks. I could go on and on…

BACKGROUND: The Art of Trolling: Inside a 4chan Smear Campaign [source unavailable] | 11 Year-Old Viral Video Star Placed Under Police Protection After Death Threats [source unavailable] | Jessi Slaughter Suicide Hoax [source unavailable] | 4chan’s Sad War To Silence Gawker [source unavailable] | 4chan Hackers Attack Gawker Again [source unavailable] | …More

The Elusive White iPhone 4

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It was supposed to be available shortly after the announcement of iPhone 4. Then, it was going to be available “in July”. As of last week, it was going to be released “at the end of July”. Well, fahgetaboutit, says Apple:

White models of Apple’s new iPhone® 4 have continued to be more challenging to manufacture than we originally expected, and as a result they will not be available until later this year. The availability of the more popular iPhone 4 black models is not affected.

Apple hasn’t specified what the problem is. It’s just a color, right? I mean, how hard can it be to create a white phone? I could understand if they were trying to go all crayola 64 color on us, but come on, we’re talking an easy color here, right?

Wrong.

It’s a whole lot more complex than anyone thought.

I held off upgrading my iPhone 3G in hopes that the white one would be released next week. Now, I’m not so sure it’ll ever see the light of day.

Daniel Schorr, Dead at 93

The senior news analyst for NPR and Washington veteran journalist has died.

Schorr died Friday at a Washington hospital after a brief illness, said Anna Christopher, a spokeswoman for National Public Radio, where Schorr continued to work as a senior news analyst and commentator.

Schorr’s career of more than six decades spanned the spectrum of journalism — beginning in print, then moving to television where he spent 23 years with CBS News and ending with NPR. He also wrote several books, including his memoir, “Staying Tuned: A Life in Journalism.”

schorr_young Obit Schorr

RIP

Ezra Klein, a.k.a “Juicebox”

Ace keeps the fire burning over the Journolist controversy.

I myself wonder what the hubbub is all about. Everyone knows the main stream media is a clique largely populated by left wingers. Cliques hang together and commiserate with one another. Before Jourolist, these people met for drinks after hours in overpriced bars to discuss their trade. You gotta believe there was plenty of collusion back in the day. You can’t blame the interwebs for starting this stuff. The ‘net just gave these guys easier access to one another, and less hangovers too, I imagine. So for people to be jaw-dropped over the fact that liberal members of the media talk with one another about “fairness” in their “unbiased” news reporting, and at times try to influence each other to gang up on other “out of compliance” media outlets is just plain silly. This stuff started long ago, and won’t end just because Journolist is offline.