Chicago Sun-Times Lays Off Entire Photo Staff
The Chicago Sun-Times has laid off its entire photography staff, according to a report from the Chicago Tribune. Twenty full-time staffers received the grave news at a meeting on Thursday morning, leaving them jobless.
Moving forward, the newspaper will be strictly working with freelance photographers, a move that is expected to further cut down on costs in this already financially troubled industry.
Can we talk about how terrible this is?
Tumblr launches first in-stream sponsored posts on web following mobile rollout
Breathe deep, everyone.
Good to see my former Express co-worker Clinton Yates on this list. Smart guy and perhaps the best local tweeter in DC. — Ernie @ SFB
Sorry Daft Punk helmets. We have a new winner for best WSJ stipple-print of the week.
There’s 12,000 people that are going to get killed this year with guns and 19,000 that are going to commit suicide with guns, and we’re not going to walk away from those efforts (to ban illegal guns). …This is a scourge on the country that we just have to make sure that we get under control and eliminate.
New York City mayor MICHAEL BLOOMBERG, on reports that both his office and the offices of Mayors Against Illegal Guns — which he founded — received threatening letters laced with ricin poison.
If a gun nut can’t kill you with a gun, he’ll find some other way.
Background: DoJ wants these meetings on press freedom to be off the record. the NYTimes and AP said they wouldn’t attend an off the record meeting.
The tweet above was the response from the communications director for the Democratic Party.
Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/29/eric-holder-new-york-times-off-the-record_n_3355251.html
Woodhouse is rightfully getting slammed on Twitter for this comment.
Manhattanhenge! A skyscraper sunset stops traffic in New York City
(Photo: Edgar Gonzalez via Flickr)
New Yorkers were wowed on Wednesday by a sunset that was perfectly framed by skyscrapers, thanks to an urban astronomical phenomenon known as Manhattanhenge.
True story: Neil DeGrasse Tyson actually popularized the term Manhattanhenge. Here’s a 2002 article he wrote about the phenomenon. “Upon studying American culture, and what is important to it, future anthropologists might credit the Manhattan alignments to cosmic signs of Memorial Day and, of course, the All-Star break. War and baseball,” he suggested at the time.
So, here’s a quandary. From day one, the GOP’s main argument against ObamaCare (or BaucusCare, as we like to call it) has been that the individual mandate, which requires people above a certain income threshold to purchase health insurance, is unconstitutional. But years later, as it debates immigration reform, Republicans are realizing that allowing uninsured immigrants to stay in the country could be a massive financial drain on the health care system. That confronts the party with an awkward choice: Either accepting that financial drain, or impose an individual mandate on undocumented immigrants. We’re very curious to see how this will play out; will Republicans end up voluntarily defanging their own strongest argument against the Affordable Care Act? source
All of the new Oklahoma laws aimed at limiting abortion and contraception are great for the Republican family that lives in a gingerbread house with a two-car garage, two planned kids and a dog. In the real world, they are less than perfect…yet I cannot convince my Republican colleagues that one of the best ways to eliminate abortions is to ensure access to contraception.Doug Cox, a Republican state legislator and practicing physician, in an op-ed today. “Denying access to [the morning-after pill] is a sure way to increase legal and back-alley abortions,” Cox wrote. “Moreover, such a law would discriminate against low-income women who depend on Medicaid for their health care.” Oklahoma Republicans have proposed several draconian restrictions on abortion and contraception; while Cox opposes abortion, he’s been honored by Planned Parenthood for defending a woman’s right to contraception and “effectively argu[ing] against more than 160 anti-women’s health measures.” source
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Drifting to the Democrats: Chaffee was Republican from 1999-2007, when he served in the US Senate from Rhode Island. He then became an Independent and ran successfully for Governor in 2010. Now—facing a tough reelection fight and terrible approval ratings—he’s planning on switching fully to the Democratic Party before next year’s vote, sources say. Chafee endorsed Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012; White House Press Secretary Jay Carney says that the president “welcomes Gov. Chafee to the party.” Even though Chafee technically left the GOP in 2007, you can bet national Democrats will point to his most recent switcharoo as evidence that the GOP is becoming too extreme for its more moderate members. (Photo credit: AP) source
He’s baaaaack! Joe “Cuff Him!” Miller has filed papers for another Senate run in Alaska next year, where he’ll take on incumbent Democrat Mark Begich. In 2010, Miller became a unique example of the Tea Party activist who knocked off an establishment Republican in the primaries but then lost to that same Republican in the general election (Lisa Murkowski launched a successful write-in campaign to retain her seat). Begich is considered extremely vulnerable this cycle; he won the seat in 2008 after an very close race with Ted “Series of Tubes” Stevens. (Photo credit: AP) source
Here’s what Google has in store for the Gmail inbox. By the end of the video, you’ll be asking yourself … “wait, why doesn’t this already exist in my inbox?” This, friends, is Google firing back at Mailbox.
A Tweet of a Vine of an Instagram of a Tumblr Post of a Facebook Post of a Tweet
And here’s a reblog of that same tweet of a vine of an Instagram of a Tumblr Post of a Facebook Post of a Tweet. No big deal.
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