By Michael Massing I propose that Google set up a Journalism Innovators’ Fund with an initial annual budget of $100 million—less than 0.5 percent of the more than $20 billion it takes in annually. The fund would seek not to subsidize existing news operations but to support creative ideas and new programs aimed at...
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Today in Moronia
- ‘I’m Voting Tea Party’ t-shirts that liberals can wear to annoy teabaggers
- Liberal media again caught using religious nuts’ own actions to enrage public
- Foxhole atheist is a chaplain’s bodyguard
- Alan Grayson: Let’s make the USA number one in happiness
- Cop tasers man trying to save his burning house with a garden hose
- Psilocybin benefits cancer patients, report says
- Petraeus condemns Florida church’s plan to burn Korans
- Owner of car that broke 39-story suicidal fall, cries: “Why my car?”
- New study shows immigrants boost wages and productivity
- From Canada to Mexico on one tank of diesel
Art & Culture
What Google can do to help journalism
Working for the Man, updated
Roy Orbison, "Working for the Man," updated.
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Women in art over 500 years — in just two minutes
Faces of women as seen by artists over 500 years merge one by one in an enchanting progression of expressions that take on a new life.
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Look behind you. Brilliant.
Obama pounds McCain using a rearview mirror and highway sign metaphor with a gut-stabbing sound track.
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Amazingly effective and entertaining Obama hip-hop ad
Obama ‘08 - Vote For Hope from MC Yogi on Vimeo. I tune out hip-hop, but this is totally awsome.
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Buy this book.
Sex, drugs & rock 'n' roll made me crazy — thank God!