Kara Swisher

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Viral Video: "Machete" Slices and Dices Arizona Law

Talk about good timing–Robert Rodriguez’s upcoming “Mexploitation” movie, “Machete,” centers on Mexican immigrants and the border, a perfect flashpoint for the controversial and appalling new immigration-related search laws passed by Arizona recently.

Director Rodriguez used the opportunity yesterday of Cinco de Mayo to release an anti-Arizona promo for the film, which had its origins as a fake trailer in his previous work, “Grindhouse.”

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The problem with the Billionaire Savior phase of the newspaper collapse has always been that billionaires don’t tend to like the kind of authority-questioning journalism that upsets the status quo.

— Ryan Chittum, writing in the Columbia Journalism Review about the promise of Pierre Omidyar’s new media venture with Glenn Greenwald