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I know everyone has probably seen this already, but I’m compelled to post this Youtube video where an MSNBC journalist physically shreds the copy for a Paris Hilton story because she refuses to report on it. The irony is that the result of the act gives Paris Hilton even more publicity, since the video has been seen over 600,000 times on Youtube. You just can’t win!

via buzz machine

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Glenn Greenwald interviewed Helen Thomas, the oldest member of the White House Press Corps. She gave a cool insider’s look at the world of White House journalism and the antagonism between journalists and government officials.

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Everyone who follows online media closely has been watching to see how Youtube’s revenue sharing programs will work out. There’s something awesome about the idea of becoming an online video star using Web 2.0 and being able to make a living out of it. So far, Youtube/Google has been hushed about how this revenue-sharing would work, but Tech Blorge has an article about a 20-year-old who received a deal for his online dating show.

Of course it doesn’t say how much money he’ll be receiving. I’ll be interested to see how many people go from short film youtube careers to larger movie and television roles.

Anyone who has a Facebook and checks it regularly has probably noticed that they’ve begun to offer a ton of new features. There’s everything from a classifieds section to a movies rating section to a “super poke” function.

Nick Denton wishes facebook would go back to the days when it was a nice clean interface. I agree in some aspects. I’ve come to like some of the new features. The news feed has grown on me. I use the Movies rating system. But I think it’s a bit too much.

One of the commenters at the above link labeled this as the “MySpace-ification” of Facebook. I disagree. I think it’s much more similar to Google’s previous policy of throwing a bunch of shit at a wall and seeing what sticks. A few years ago, Google was turning out beta versions of new stuff left and right, many of which were still imperfect and didn’t catch on. I’ve noticed when using some of the new facebook features that I’ll often get error messages (that’s one similarity to Myspace, for sure). Mark Zuckerberg has gone feature-happy and launches new programs before they’re even finished.

The Guardian has compiled a list of the 1,000 best films of all time.

UPDATE: Looks as if Rotten Tomatoes has the best 100 scifi movies of all time

Though I think this New Yorker article does a much more impressive job of outlining the (sometimes deadly) oppression of journalists in Russia, the New York Review of Books has an article that describes a specific case with journalist Manana Aslamazyan, who the government attacked to set an example to other journalists.

via bookslut

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