U.S.C.’s Annenberg School of Communication & Journalism Professor Marc Cooper recently criticized the New York Times for not running the Charlie Hebdo cartoons. The NY Times editor Dean Baquet responded on Facebook by calling Cooper an “asshole.” I don’t know whether in fact Cooper is an “asshole,” but it wasn’t wise for Baquet to use language…
Earlier this week you may have seen the news (it was scattered everywhere) that a Maryland local official, Kirby Delauter, told his local newspaper that they weren’t allowed to use his name in the paper and that he would sue him if they did. This was roundly and justly ridiculed by everyone as an absurd
According to the The New Orleans Advocate , Pearl River, Louisiana Mayor James Lavigne had this to say at his farewell address last week: Lavigne began threatening to leave, demanding to be told who had informed the news media of the meeting. “It’s a public meeting,” said Ashley Rodrigue, of WWL-TV, who broke the story
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Madonna is in the news again! There was a time in the mid-80s and into the 90s when that was a weekly truism. But pop stars way over 50 have a much harder time generating headlines. Madonna has done it again by co-mingling her album cover images with photos of Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King, Jr. She’s been accused of insensitivity at best and racism at worst. In her defense, Madonna claims she is simply uploading art created by her supporters to her Instagram account.
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