Republicans came up with all kinds of convoluted and made-up explanations for voting against gun background checks, and some are starting to do the same for the immigration bill. A few are even using the Boston bombing as an excuse. But for many lawmakers, the real reason is depressingly familiar. They don’t want to give President Obama anything he wants.
It doesn’t really matter how many business groups say the immigration system has to change, or how many suburban voters are disgusted by the easy access to guns for criminals. For these Republicans, the visceral hatred of the president is their only guiding star, and they are absolutely convinced the voters in their districts feel the same way.
A government in gridlock is a government that doesn’t work. (ht Connie Schultz)
Titanic Sinks Four Hours After Hitting Iceberg
Survival Facts: If you were a third class passenger, your chance of survival was 25 percent
First class passengers had a 62 percent survival rate. Second class passengers had a 41 percent survival rate. The crew had a 24 percent survival rate.
Fun Fact: What happened to the iceberg?
Bonus: Images of the Titanic wreck made by stitching together hundreds of optical and sonar images collected by robots via Scientific American Woods Whole Oceanographic Institute, and National Geographic.
Image: April 16, 1912 edition of the New York Times.
“Noted names missing.”
Like the New York Times but don’t like paying a ton of money to subscribe to that paper of record? Today’s your lucky day. $1 subscriptions for two months of digital NYT on Groupon today. Whoot. (ht @Romenesko)
UPDATE on NYT email: “The email was sent by the NYT,” a spokeswoman said. Should’ve gone to appx 300 people & went to over 8 mil. Story TK
— Amy Chozick (@amychozick) December 28, 2011
An annoying story, but a fun one, admittedly. Update: Here’s Amy’s story.
A high-profile e-mail message hits many. A couple of hours ago, we received the above message from the NYT, thinking it strange they were canceling our print subscription because we only have a digital one. We called the number, and were told the lines were busy, and offered a fax line to call — because, clearly, faxes are the most modern mode of communication these days. Then, just a few minutes ago, we saw this:
A spam message was sent broadly today with the subject “Important information regarding your subscription.”
— NYTCo Communications (@NYTimesComm) December 28, 2011
The email was not sent from The New York Times.
— NYTCo Communications (@NYTimesComm) December 28, 2011
Not good, huh? Well, according to Business Insider, the company in charge of these accounts was compromised earlier this year. Did you get this message?
» EDIT: Yuri Victor at The Washington Post says it’s likely the e-mail was a mistake, despite the company’s claims otherwise, and that the sender had the right to e-mail subscribers for the paper.
» Second edit: A New York Times reporter says that the Times made an error, and that the message wasn’t spam.
The Times revises its story to shift the blame away from NYPD onto protesters, via FreakOutNation.
As we keep seeing this pop up on our dashboard this morning, we’d like to again point out the commentary on this piece we published last night (via our friend Megan Lavey-Heaton). The Times didn’t take this info out of the story; they just moved it from the lede.
Tweet of the night: A witty rebuttal from our friend Michael Roston, who, ironically, is the home page producer of NYTimes.com.
I’m moving back to New York in a few days. Unlike past...
OMG. I got so...
In this week’s Newsweek, a little...
Tumblr this morning. [h/t anne]
#@#$%!.tumblr.com
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The New York Times Co. said it has sold more than half its holdings in the Fenway Sports Group, which includes the Boston Red Sox, for $117 million.
This related story seems at least somewhat relevant.
Let’s play a game: With just a photo and a headline, can you guess who this New York times profile piece is about? Any takers?
There’s journalism, and then there’s the NYT. Today, as runners got past the finish line at the New York Marathon, the New York Times (fresh off Cheesegate) got a bunch of the finishers to take post-race photos, and some of the faces are pretty amazing. Witness the post-marathon glow. (In other news, Chilean miner Edison Pena reached the finish line, too.) source
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