New York Times:
The authorities are expanding access to journalists who don’t belong to cartel-like media groups that analysts say have produced a relatively spineless press.
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The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
Seems like only weeks ago that CNN was parting ways with former anchor Lou Dobbs because everyone was yelling at Dobbs to stop saying crazy birther and anti-immigrant nonsense on the teevee. Despite all that negative attention, Dobbs is setting his post-CNN job-seeking hopes very high, telling reporters that he is "consider (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Google just announced that YouTube can now automatically generate captions and subtitles for videos in English. For now, this feature is only enabled on a handful of partner channels, but Google plans to make this feature available for all users in the future.In the meantime, YouTube now also offers a new 'automatic caption (Read More)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo Inc. is jumping on the Twitter bandwagon in its latest attempt to get people to use its Internet search engine more frequently.Beginning Thursday, Yahoo will mine the short messages posted on Twitter to find fresher information about hot topics. Microsoft Corp. and Google Inc. had earlier announ (Read More)
The Blog:
Three months ago, we asked for your help in picking the HuffPost Game Changers -- 100 innovators, visionaries, and leaders who are harnessing the power of new media to reshape their fields and change the world.You responded with a host of great suggestions.We then began announcing our choices for the top 10 Game Changers in (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
After 18 months of negotiation, the Open Web Foundation, a group made up of 106 employees of Yahoo, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, some small startups and their lawyers, today released a legal document template for licensing open web technology specifications. The result could be greatly accelerated time-to-market for new t (Read More)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
POMONA, N.Y. — Big political names abound in New York: Mario Cuomo. Hillary Rodham Clinton. Rudy Giuliani. And for political climbers seeking a stage in the media, a platform to join or displace the powerhouses, the man to go through for years was Dominic Carter – until last month.Carter, a longtime political anchor for New (Read More)
CNN:
Sarah Palin’s memoir officially dropped today, and she’s been making the media circuit pushing her revisionist tome, and she’s not about to let reality get in the way of her facts. Katie Couric apparently badgered her, deliberately making the VP candidate look bad by leaving most of their infamous interview on the cutting r (Read More)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
Fresh off his spectacular "Hey, let's drag a random baby onto the floor of the House of Representatives to see what the cognitively undeveloped think about health care reform" display, here's Representative John Shadegg (R-Ariz.), on the House floor last night, giving New Yorkers his vote of no confidence and darkly warning (Read More)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
On last night's edition of the Rachel Maddow Show, Maddow was joined by Chicago Sun-Times correspondent Lynn Sweet to discuss the way the Gitmo detainees have got yesterday's "Bring It On" crowd suddenly terrified to death at the prospects that they might be imprisoned and tried the way thousands of dangerous individuals ar (Read More)
readwriteweb:
From a group calling themselves Electronic Civil Disobedience comes the Transborder Immigrant Tool, a simple mobile application intended to aid and abet border-crossers from Mexico to the United States.This GPS app is built to work on the cheapest cell phones available. It brings to mind every petty-but-illegal transgressio (Read More)
Huffington Post:
In the aftermath of the Miracle on the Hudson, Capt. Chesley Sullenberger told any reporter who would listen that credit for putting the US Airways Airbus 320 safely down on the river after losing both engines to bird strikes, was not his alone. His attempt to avoid being annointed savior of the flight was ineffective -- w (Read More)