Newspapers are essential to a functioning society. They inform; they provide context; they shine a spotlight on the shortcomings of bureaucracy, the overreaches of government (yes, this does happen — just perhaps not in the insidious manner that conservatives seem to think, or imply),…
This is the best thing inothernews has ever written. And he’s written a lot of good stuff.
When reading this, consider two recent stories that have shaken the core of two separate newspapers: 1) The Seattle Times’ recent controversy over political ads and 2) The San Diego Union-Tribune’s recent drama regarding its owner helping fund a controversial anti-Obama documentary. When these large papers cross these kinds of lines without the history allowing them to, nobody wins. Don’t forget that.
Tumblr Crushes: brooklynmutt / soupsoup / think4yourself / hypervocal / imwithkanye / gifhound / jtotheizzoe / inothernews / jgreendc
Some of Tumblr’s finest right over here.
Tumblr Crushes: imwithkanye / inothernews / kohenari / joshsternberg / thedailywhat / newsweek / nedhepburn / journalofajournalist / brooklynmutt
Follow these people. Watch your dashboard feed get at least 13 percent funnier. But no more than 16 percent.
inothernews says: I think we broke it.
insaniyat asked: Too much exposure, too fast? It’s not working for me :(
» SFB says: It’s very finicky about addresses. When setting yours up, type in your address using the format “yourname.tumblr.com” without a slash, even if you have a custom domain. It will come up with an error if you don’t. Either way, it’s still pretty beta, but it looks cool. Only real downside is that the information getting analyzed is public, so just know that going in. — Ernie @ SFB
Tumblr Crushes, bad luck edition: inothernews / brooklynmutt / joshsternberg / reuters / nationalpost / producermatthew / zainyk / soupsoup / cheatsheet
And a hat tip to a couple great Twitter folks: @mini_utne, @pbump, @elanazak @jcstearns, @johnness, @_mikehayes, @margafret and @efleischer! Your feed will get significantly more entertaining if you follow each of these great people.
EDIT: Based on nothing other than a request from inothernews, Tumblr has called Mississippi for Rick Santorum!
Follow Saturday: producermatthew / inothernews / imwithkanye / reuters / apsies / pantslessprogressive / newsweek / joshsternberg / breakingblog
Also, mad props to @stefanjbecket, who has quickly become a Twitter favorite.
Tumblr Crushes: producermatthew / reuters / joshsternberg / pantslessprogressive / newsweek / inothernews / imwithkanye / brooklynmutt / breakingblog
<3 Happy … you know the day.
Don’t let the GOP candidates have all the fun.
You can be heard during Wednesday night’s Republican presidential debate, too - in our debate live chat with Shortformblog, InOtherNews, Ilya Gerner, EvilTeaBagger, PantlessProgressive, and The Motley Fool’s Morgan Housel!
If it’s anything like last time, we’ll range from cracking wise on the candidates to arguing about the nuances of a candidate’s position (why are you smirking, Herman?) to digital Bad Lip Reading singalongs.
OK, so maybe the third thing was just Decoder.
Sign up below to get a handy reminder e-mail - The debate starts at 8 p.m. ET on CNBC, but we’ll get things cranked up a bit earlier around 7:45 p.m. See you there!
Our next debate with DC Decoder will feature a lot of our favorite Tumblrs. Will you be there?
Watch: PCB gets a visual shout out on GMA’s Yahoo/Tumblr...
Wrote a thing.
Hat tip to this headline writer.
Congrats Tumblr!
Don’t screw this up Yahoo.
In 2007, I was...
I started tumblr when I was at one of the lowest points of...
Tumblr Crushes: inothernews / dcdecoder / newsweek / joshsternberg / imwithkanye / pantslessprogressive / manicchill / jeffmiller / thespringsgazette
Howdy, Colorado Springs.
Tumblr Crushes: inothernews / pantslessprogressive / dcdecoder / newsweek / thedailyfeed / imwithkanye / soupsoup / thenextweb / popculturebrain
Ooh, a bit of a shakeup this week. We still love you, BrooklynMutt and Josh Sternberg! And our new favorite Tumblr, Newspaper Snack Machines, deserves a mention.
Tumblr Crushes:
Our top list for the week: Welcome to the club, I’m With Kanye!
Tumblr Crushes:
Thanks to favorites as always — and to the-bryman, who claimed a while back that he would be on this list, only to find himself here.
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