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The USA Today report on disgraced ex-reporter Jack Kelley is out, and boy, does it paint the newspaper as a grim place to work… One reporter, whose instinctive reaction to a Kelley exclusive would have kept it out of the paper had she been an editor, described the reason she did not challenge it […] Wikipedia’s influence spreads … this Wikipedia article was cited as a web reference for congressmen in this House Reform subcommittee briefing memo. Hey, you can spot me in this U.N. webcast … I’m at the 16:30 and 20:30 minute-marks. Wikipedia’s influence spreads … this Wikipedia article was cited as a web reference for congressmen in this House Reform subcommittee briefing memo. Hey, you can spot me in this U.N. webcast … I’m at the 16:30 and 20:30 minute-marks. Interesting article from an Arabic-language translation service summarizing 18 Arab-media commentaries to Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ.” Islam holds that Jesus wasn’t really killed on the cross, the article states — he was raised up to Heaven and a “likeness” was crucified in his place. Who knew? So today is the five-year anniversary of the Columbine school shooting. There’s a great article here on Slate on the minds of the killers: The FBI and its team of psychiatrists and psychologists … believe they know why Harris and Klebold killed, and their explanation is both more reassuring and more troubling than our […] So an article I wrote for the News was the basis for this column last year by Boston Herald humor columnist Beth Teitell. (I’m only noticing it now – the powers of googling one’s name…) She kinda questions my observational skills regarding this ring Ben Affleck wore on the fourth finger of his left […] Usually Fox does a good job on the national sports broadcasts — better than CBS anyways — but jeez, not tonight. They had the score wrong in the second inning, had the number of outs wrong … had this annoying “Scooter the Knuckleball” animation that they at first displayed with no sound. The second […] Oh my gosh … I got totally taken in by this Harvard Lampoon paraody of H-Bomb, this Harvard University sex magazine coming out soon. The Lampoon sent me a copy because I had written about H-bomb when it was first announced. I totally bought into it & showed it around the office … thankfully […] CNN just had something about how Republicans are trying to make John Kerry’s website the top result for “waffle” I just happened to be on Google when they did their report, though, and couldn’t find Kerry in the top 12 pages of results for a waffle search. So my comments last month about former USA Today reporter Jack Kelley, unmasked as a fraud, created a small stir. Here’s what I said on Romenesko: Apologies for Jurgensen, Moon? 3/20/2004 2:09:31 PM From DEREK ROSE: One wonders if all the people who so nastily attacked USA Today editor Karen Jurgensen and publisher Craig […] Very interesting NYT magazine article: Yet what really merits outrage about DDT today is not that South Africa still uses it… It is that dozens more do not. … Independent malariologists believe it kills two million people a year, mainly children under 5 and 90 percent of them in Africa. Until it was overtaken […] Okay, so I kinda redesigned the blog, added a comments section. I also have new windows for my bedroom! Fuzzy webcam image: So far today I’ve received 26 emails to my “anything at derekrose.com” email address… and 25 of them have been spam. Thankfully – most of them have been filtered succesfully into my Outlook “spam” subfolder thanks to Spam Bully, my Outlook ad-on … it cost $30 but I think has been well-worth it. You […] |
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