9 posts and columns on headlines

Viral Video: Occupy Wall Street Headline-Making

in Media on October 28, 2011 at 12:58 am PT

This is one of the funnier takes on Occupy Wall Street, looking at how various news organizations come up with headlines about the movement.
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Hate Ads? You'll Love This Site. Love Ads? You Too.

in Media on January 14, 2011 at 8:30 am PT

A site for people who love to complain about ads. That’s most of you, right? It’s created by an ad guy, of course.

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Articles About Happy News, Sex Shared More on Facebook

in News on May 3, 2010 at 11:00 am PT

Negative news, from crime to the shaky financial system, might grab the most headlines. But in the world of Facebook sharing, it seems that positive stories trump negative ones–and sex still sells.

Palm Running Out of Time–Again

in News on March 19, 2010 at 7:14 am PT

Remarking on Palm’s gruesome third quarter during an earnings call yesterday, CEO Jon Rubinstein called the company’s performance “extremely disappointing to me personally.” This sentiment seems to be widely held among investors, who are dragging the company’s shares through the mud today, and analysts questioning whether Palm can ever pull off the turnaround for which it’s striving.

Meet Maureen Dowd’s Favorite Writer: Talking Points Memo’s Josh Marshall

in Media on May 18, 2009 at 7:05 am PT

Many of you are just hearing Josh Marshall’s name for the first time, following the New York Times’s admission that columnist Maureen Dowd “failed to attribute” some of her column to him. But that’s a shame because Marshall’s site is noteworthy on its own merits: It’s a self-funded, profitable new-media site that does both blogging/aggregation and real reporting.
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