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UPDATE: Late this morning Onion CEO Steve Hannah took to Facebook to issue an apology:
On behalf of The Onion, I offer my personal apology to Quvenzhané Wallis and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the tweet that was circulated last night during the Oscars. It was crude and offensive—not to mention inconsistent with The Onion’s commitment to parody and satire, however biting.
No person should be subjected to such a senseless, humorless comment masquerading as satire.
he tweet was taken down within an hour of publication. We have instituted new and tighter Twitter procedures to ensure that this kind of mistake does not occur again.
In addition, we are taking immediate steps to discipline those individuals responsible.
Miss Wallis, you are young and talented and deserve better. All of us at The Onion are deeply sorry.
We’re interested to hear your thoughts.
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“Meticulous breakfast prep often signals violent tendencies.” On James Bond’s prandial fussiness and breakfast as character indicator in fiction.
For more of this morning’s roundup, click here.
Whipped, not beaten.
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“Anne Hathaway: C+” Michael Schulman grades the Oscar acceptance speeches: http://nyr.kr/W8FSgy
…and, read David Denby on the First Lady at the Awards (“Not good, Academy. Pleaes don’t do it again”), and the night’s highs and lows: http://nyr.kr/15KxxRx
and Claire Hoffman on Seth MacFarlane, creepy imitator and Oscars host: http://nyr.kr/13iytgx
(via newyorker)
(Source: newyorker.com, via newyorker)
The Wall Street Journal’s interesting look at why Brazil is the social media capital of the universe ! It is the largest market outside the U.S. for Facebook and Youtube, and is one of Twitter’s top-five active user groups.
http://on.wsj.com/VBYfoi
How an algorithm could change your newsroom’s social publishing strategy.
“As more people in any given newsroom are publishing to social platforms — andaas more people bypass the homepage and instead use Twitter and Facebook as the entry point to any given news site — analytics companies see new opportunities to help media companies leverage real-time social data. “
One of the themes I keep hearing at Davos is about open access to data and transparency by governments. There has been an open government movement for many years now with varying levels of success but we haven’t seen the type of major shift in power to the hands of citizen as a result. You can…
The latest , Davos special issue of Reuters magazine is here !
http://bit.ly/13YPdao
