Did you know there’s a Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg? I do (I even know how to pronounce it) and today it got me in trouble on Twitter because I did what I usually do with NewsCut, I connected unrelated (though interesting) facts with something that’s currently in the news, in this case the effort to rename Lake Read more →
Jane Rosenberg ‘s assignment was to sketch the courtroom while Patriots quarterback Tom Brady complained about being suspended for cheating. Twitter misfits didn’t like how she drew Brady. Read more →
This is what our presidential campaign has come to. A Twitter fight. Read more →
A Minneapolis man and his two kids were thrown off a Southwest Airlines flight from Denver to Minneapolis on Sunday because he tweeted his displeasure that the two kids weren’t allowed to “priority board” with him. “In leaving I said, you know, ‘Real nice way to treat an A-list. I’ll be sure to tweet about Read more →
A genuine apology offered — rare today in public life — and a glimpse of horror from a lawless place.
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Fox created the controversy in the first place, then dismissed the controversy as the fault of social media. Read more →
Do newsroom bosses give the audience enough credit for understanding social media? NPR has put the question in the spotlight after an education reporter tweeted on an NPR account that while she tries to provide diverse voices, only the white voices call her back. That’s a typical social media grenade and one of NPR’s news Read more →
A post on Reddit says they were found in a Goodwill store, and now the social media site is doing what it does best: Solving mysteries.
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Maybe there no longer is such a thing as spontaneity in the world. Maybe every documented bit of kindness, every cute scene, every bit of wonderful whimsy is nothing but the detritus of Mad Men.
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If a woman with Stage IV breast cancer wants to blog and tweet about her illness and experience, who is anybody else to criticize her? Read more →
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