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http://israelseen.com/feed/ (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
Israel Resource Review By David Bedein Wed Nov 10 2009 The days of quiet diplomacy between the government of Israel and the New York Times is over. Israel has declared an unprecedented war against the New York times, for what it calls tendentious and unfair coverage of the Jewish State. At the focus of the storm is [...]
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Physorg (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
The science section of The New York Times contained an unusual article on Tuesday. The story about a huge floating garbage patch in the Pacific Ocean was not written by a Times reporter but by a freelance journalist whose expenses were paid by hundreds of donors in an experiment in "crowd-funded" journalism.
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No Land Grab (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Atlantic Yards Report Last week’s opportunity to have Bruce Berg, a Fordham University professor of political science, answer questions from readers on the New York Times’s CityRoom blog, sent me to Berg’s January 2008 book New York City Politics: Governing Gotham, a book that treats the West Side Stadium and Atlantic Yards as prominent examples. In covering AY, he gets part...
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Atlantic Yards Report (Free subscription) | yesterday
Last week’s opportunity to have Bruce Berg, a Fordham University professor of political science, answer questions from readers on the New York Times’s CityRoom blog, sent me to Berg’s January 2008 book New York City Politics: Governing Gotham, a book that treats the West Side Stadium and Atlantic Yards as prominent examples.In covering AY, he gets part of the story right, notably...
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Townhall.com (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
...in Maine. Conservatives have long been pointing to the two states that the Left has held up as models for health care reform - Massachussetts and Maine - as a cautionary tale for the rest of the nation. To many...
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Adventures of Hoogrrl! (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Check out some art world controversies brewing HERE . 1. A public museum's display of a private collector's collection. 2. A continuing discussion of conceptual art. Is it art?
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
While search and display are far bigger categories than online video advertising, the digital advertising sector that is hot right now is online video advertising around premium news content. The Wall Street Journal's sale of pre-roll advertising for its new show the News Hub is sold out at a rate of $50 per 1000 views, an extremely high number, Brian Stelter reports in The New York Times ....
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Spanish Teaching (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
WA today Motion Says Letterman Fostered HarassmentNew York TimesA lawyer for the man accused of trying to extort $2 million from David Letterman suggested on Tuesday that Mr. Letterman ran a workplace rife with sexual misconduct and contended that his client was simply trying to sell a story to the …Lawyer for accused Letterman extortionist seeks [...]
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Valleywag (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
... RESPONSES ABOUT THE COOLNESS OF CHORAL GROUPS ONLY.Summary: Sing along with "Glee"Media Outlet: New York TimesRegion: United StatesDeadline: 01:11pm EASTERN - 17 NovemberQuery:Story is for Styles section of the NYT. The topic: how is the hit show"Glee" affecting kids' participation in school choral groups or chorusesAre they joning in droves? Are they, in fact, startang their own suchgroups....
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Blog (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Bruce Davidson, East 100th Street, 1966-68 With the release of a three-volume retrospective publication and two current exhibitions in Manhattan, Bruce Davidson has been attracting some much-deserved attention. Randy Kennedy discusses Davidson’s endurance and photographic prowess in his Sunday...
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Weiwen's religion blog (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
A NYT article reports that the bar association in New York is pushing to offer legal counsel to immigration detainees. An excerpt: A startling petition arrived at the New York City Bar Association in October 2008, signed by 100 men, all locked up without criminal charges in the middle of Manhattan. In vivid if flawed English, it described cramped, filthy quarters where dire medical needs were ignored...
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Newmark's Door (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
. . . and decides that it is just unnecessarily superb. Excerpts: The Bugatti shifts occupants around like a Star Trek transporter: from a standstill to 60 miles per hour in 2.7 seconds, to 125 m.p.h. in just over 7...
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Google News - Top Stories (Free subscription) | yesterday
Telegraph.co.uk Falling Far Short of Reform New York Times Reduce the growth of health care costs. Bend the curve. Find the game changers. Reform the delivery system. Health care reform has always had two main goals. The first — insuring the uninsured — carries grand overtones of social ... The Stupak amendment, deconstructed Los Angeles Times Congress to miss health care deadline,...