A 28 year-old Haitian man named Edward Muncie was pulled from the rubble yesterday after being trapped for four weeks(!). May we just say "god damn?" In less uplifting news, the earthquake's death toll is now 230,000.
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The Daily Show Picks on Blogs, Too [The Daily Show]We are surprised this didn't happen sooner. Jon Stewart and The Daily Show spoofed political blogs and their love of pageview-generating hyperbole. They made fun of the Huffington Post and Mediaite and the Daily Kos. But not us. (Wah.)
Things got meta as Stewart used his O'Reilly appearance as an opportunity to make fun of the blogosphere that is right now blowing up this same O'Reilly appearance into an epic clash that would make a battle between actual, immortal Greek Titans seem like a Rock-'em-Sock-'em-Robots match.
It was very funny, though we couldn't help but feel slighted that out of the dozens of shouty headlines the segment 'destroyed' there wasn't a single Gawker one in there. Hey, The Daily Show, you know we use absurd hyperbole all the time, too!
(But unlike those other guys, it's all just a big 'ole joke to us.)
The Daily Beast writer who confessed Friday to "unintentionally" lifting several sentences from a Miami Herald article also copied passages on four other occasions, as far back as July 2009. And now he's taking a "time out" from the Beast.
On Friday, it looked like writer Gerald Posner had his minor plagiarism scandal under control. Slate's Jack Shafer busted him for one case of copying, but Posner claimed it was accidental and his editors said he would keep working. Now Shafer has three more examples of Posner stealing from the Herald, plus one involving Texas Lawyer, and Posner writes he's been suspended. He blogged: "I now realize that a method of compiling information that I have used successfully since 1984... obviously does not work... at the warp speed of the Net." Or under the bright light of Google.
(Pic: Posner's Facebook)