Peter Kafka

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Jimmy Kimmel Dupes iPhone Fans

Here’s an excellent prank from Jimmy Kimmel which proves that:

  • Believe it or not, there are lots of people who don’t spend their time reading Apple launch event liveblogs or recaps.*
  • If you are going to ask the man on the street to analyze an iPhone, don’t ask a guy in a Dave Matthews Band hat.

*But we’re so glad you do. Us, too!

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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