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Jul 22 2010 ∞
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frontpages:

  1. Workers on Doomed Rig Voiced Concern About Safety
  2. 4 Oil Firms Commit $1 Billion for Gulf Rapid-Response Plan
  3. New Guidelines Seek to Reduce Repeat Caesareans
  4. Power of the Purse Comes With a Pinch
  5. G.M., Eclipsed at Home, Soars to Top in China
  6. Obama Faces New Doubts on Pursuing Afghan War
  7. The Final Crime Spree of an Oxygen-Toting Robber

Glynnis keeps talking about the drumbeat for Hillary 2012 - this top photo at today’s NYT fits right in.

Jul 22 2010 ∞
“ Once you start working your way up the masthead, and hanging out with moguls at places like Davos and Aspen, this tends to happen to you: you get more comfortable, and less hungry; you think that access is more important than actual stories. Clearly Kneale has reached that place, and in a way I’m impressed that he’s happy to admit it. Most of the swanning-around class of journalists are delusional enough that they’d never do that.
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Felix Salmon (via soupsoup)

This is a great and thoughtful article by Felix, as usual.

Jul 21 2010 ∞

With Traffic Surging, SB Nation Buys One Blog And Starts Another

soupsoup:

The second maneuver SB Nation is making today is the launch of a new Tumblr blog. While the point of this may not be immediately apparent since SB Nation is already a network over over 270 blogs, SB Nation is following in the footsteps of companies like Newsweek, who have been able to leverage the unique blogging platform to extend their content.

SB Nation has hired Anthony De Rosa, the Channel Manager at Thomson Reuters, to run this blog. Bankoff notes De Rosa’s fandom, and also his popular Tumblr blog, Soup, as the reason for the move.

Soooouuup!

Jul 21 2010 ∞
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sbnation:

Glad you could make it. Pour yourself a cold drink and get comfortable.

A little background on SB Nation, in case you haven’t already heard of us: we take a different approach to online sports media. We offer over 270 different sites for sports fans, covering every major pro and college program in the U.S. and Canada as well as non-team sports like NASCAR, MMA and Golf. Here’s a directory of them if you want to find your favorites. Each site is devoted to an individual team, sport or league—like Bleedcubbieblue.com for the Cubs, BurntOrangeNation.com for the Longhorns, ArrowheadPride.com for the Chiefs or WaggleRoom.com for golf —and each has its own writers, logos, team colors and community flavor, reflecting unique team traditions and fan spirit. As a die-hard Mets fan, I’m a constant visitor of the incredible amazinavenue.com

The mothership of SB Nation is our national website, sbnation.com. It is a mix of real-time news updates, commentary, analysis and deeper features, written by some of the web’s most accomplished (and best looking) sports bloggers. We also recently launched a series of regional sites like newyork.sbnation.com.

I’m Anthony De Rosa, you may better know me on Tumblr as Soup, and I’m going to be your host here on the SB Nation Tumblr with the support of SBNation.com’s editorial team led by Tyler Bleszinski and Chris Mottram.

Welcome to Tumblr, SBNation! And welcome to SBNation, Soup!

This makes me HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY.

Jul 21 2010 ∞
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This statement came in to Tommy Christopher via email at 2:07 a.m. Amazing.

Breaking: Vilsack to Reconsider Shirley Sherrod’s Dismissal [Mediaite]

Jul 19 2010 ∞
“ The financial reregulation package just passed by Congress is far from a comprehensive reform of American finance. Despite the enormous threat to the world’s financial markets created by the failure of Lehman Brothers and the stunning excesses of insurance giant AIG and banking conglomerate Citigroup, the reforms are in truth modest. Neither the Obama administration nor Congress opted to cut banks down to size, and the bill is only placing mild limits on risky banking activities. The giant financial institutions, meanwhile, are as big—even bigger—than ever and bankers’ compensation is once again at stunning levels.
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Jeff Madrick, Obama’s Risky Business (via nybooks)

The New Yorker reblogged this, so I will too. Me smart!

Jul 18 2010 ∞
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View from the redeye. Virgin SFO —> JFK, yesterday early early a.m.

Jul 17 2010 ∞
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(Via comicallyvintage)

Jul 17 2010 ∞
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frangry:

Kate Moss, and a pixie cut, for Elle South Africa 2010

20 years of Kate Moss. Wow. Yep, that makes sense, because I was in a (wait for it) modeling comptetion when I was 17, and at the finals everyone was buzzing about how you didn’t have to be tall any more because that new British model was only 5’7”. It was early spring of 1990, I think. We’d been picked off of Polaroids taken at the Toronto Festival of Fashion. Elmer Olsen, who ran a big Toronto modeling agency, was there and pulled me up by my shoulders and kept saying, “if only we could pull you up! Up!” (I was 5’7 1/2”, as I still am.) They had us come back for semi-finals in heels and a short skirt, and then for finals with heels and a short skirt and a bathing suit. (I think my mom may have come with me. Aw. Thanks, mom.) In a nod to my 80s class, I wore a neon-multi-coloured animal-print bikini and had the biggest hair ever (like this, but teased). In a nod to 90s class, the winner was an Irish-looking waif with a short black bob, pale skin, freckles and shocking blue eyes. (Oh to go back in time with a straightener and a black maillot.) 2nd place was a blonde Amazon, the only one who didn’t chatter amicably in the room where we were gathered to wait. 3rd place was a skinny, really sweet girl with a bit of a Lauren Hutton gap…and who was 5’7”.

Voila, my modeling career. For those of  you for whom 17 was 5 years ago, well…I’m older than you.

Jul 17 2010 ∞

Oh NYT Styles, there you go again

peterfeld:

The wedding, set for July 31, is so cloaked in secrecy that in Washington, where the mother of the bride holds down a day job running international diplomacy for President Obama, details are harder to ferret out than the president’s Afghanistan strategy.

Maybe this is because Obama has given public speeches and briefings about his Afghanistan strategy, but Hillary Clinton has given no speeches about her daughter’s wedding?

That groom looks rail-thin.