Anthony Shadid’s final story. He reported and wrote it before his death.
The Web according to Samuel Rubenfeld, a journalist published in The Wall Street Journal, WSJ.com, Dow Jones Newswires, Houston Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle, Midland (Texas) Reporter-Telegram, The Hill, Village Voice, Newsday, Times of Middle Country and my alma mater's campus newspaper, The Hofstra Chronicle.
I'm 24 and living in Astoria, Queens. I listen to a ton of music and read a lot about politics, public policy, the news media and the future of journalism. I also am a big fan of the Knicks, Jets and Mets. Expect a heavy dose of things to read. • Ask me anything
Samuel Rubenfeld's Tumblr
I'm 24 and living in Astoria, Queens. I listen to a ton of music and read a lot about politics, public policy, the news media and the future of journalism. I also am a big fan of the Knicks, Jets and Mets. Expect a heavy dose of things to read. • Ask me anything
Samuel Rubenfeld's Tumblr
Tunisia Islamists Test Ideas Decades in the Making - NYTimes.com
28 points, key threes and a Knicks 104-97 victory over the world champion Mavericks. Jeremy Lin real enough for you yet?
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At 9, he settled a dispute with a pistol. At 13, he lit out for the Amazon jungle.
At 20, he attempted suicide-by-jaguar. Afterward he was apprenticed to a pirate. To please his mother, who did not take kindly to his being a pirate, he briefly managed a mink farm, one of the few truly dull entries on his otherwise crackling résumé, which lately included a career as a professional gambler.
Mr. (John) Fairfax was among the last avatars of a centuries-old figure: the lone-wolf explorer, whose exploits are conceived to satisfy few but himself. His was a solitary, contemplative art that has been all but lost amid the contrived derring-do of adventure-based reality television.
”— I think I just read the NY Times obit for the real life “Most Interesting Man in the World.” (via cajunboy)
NYPD monitored Muslim students all over Northeast
The New York Police Department monitored Muslim college students far more broadly than previously known, at schools far beyond the city limits, including the elite Ivy League colleges of Yale and the University of Pennsylvania, The Associated Press has learned.
(Source: soupsoup)
What’s left of Seaburn Bookstore in Astoria (Taken with instagram)
Rumbleseat- Trestles
This is Chris & Chuck from Hot Water Musics acoustic band from the 90s. I have yet to have found actual live footage of Rumbleseat from when they were an actual band. This is awesome.
oh my GOD a real live actual rumbleseat video
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
FUGAZI - WAITING ROOM
live recording from sept 3rd, 1987: the first ever fugazi show
the public debut of this song is undoubtely one of the most important moments in music history. this version has joe on backing vocals (guy picciotto was in the audience but not yet the band) and is played at a significantly slower tempo
(Source: saummos, via sanchezventura)
Four works of outsider art (“art brut”) selected by Katie Bachner, who interviewed outsider art collector, Sam Farber, in our February issue.Madge GillHigh Priestess, 1930-1940Thorton DialLost, 2004Henry DargerAfter McWhorter Run. Gladelinians attack and blow up train carrying children to refugeMartin RamirezUntitled, (Trains and Tunnels),1952-53
“National security and intelligence reporting often requires quoting anonymous officials, of course, and is subject to the same pitfalls that other source-centric beats face (like Wall Street dealmaking, for example). Even a piece on coverage of that coverage — like this one — includes one anonymous source. All of which begs a very germane question: To what extent is this community of foreign policy background sources spinning the media on Iran? And does the media really have any way of meaningfully assessing the merits of what those sources are saying?”
notmetaphoric asked: Seeing as you are a journalist and a sports fan, do you think the Jeremy Lin story is being blown way out of proportion? Granted he's jumpstarted an average team that resides in the largest media market, but does he really deserve so much coverage?
I am the least objective person to whom you could ask this question. I am a lifelong and diehard Knick fan, and yes I’m afflicted with all of the Linsanity bug.
That being said, on an objective level, I would say he was the perfect athlete at the perfect time for a team stuck in the doldrums in a ho-hum season for a league trying to re-establish itself after a damaging lockout.
His story is the most compelling thing to happen to the league in my lifetime. (I’m not going to retread it.) He has made everyone around him better, and contributed his own assertiveness to a game that badly needed a great team player.
So, yes: Lin deserves all the great coverage he could get. His struggles and his triumph further spoil a city that has had a very, very good month.
Survey Finds Nearly 75% Of Europeans See Corruption As Major Issue In Their Country - Corruption Currents - WSJ
A survey by the European Commission found that 74% of respondents believe corruption in a major issue in their country.
The Eurobarometer survey (pdf), conducted in September 2011 and fielding nearly 27,000 responses, found a wide disparity between countries’ perceptions of themselves: 98% of Greece think graft is a major problem, while only 19% of Denmark’s respondents said the same.
“It is disappointing to note that the practical results in tackling corruption across the European Union remain unsatisfactory,” said Cecilia Malmström, commissioner for Home Affairs, in a statement. “How many times have we said it was high time to act? Europeans expect national governments to take decisive steps. It’s time they did.”
Overall, the survey found people more positive than its last iteration released in 2009, when 78% said corruption was a major problem in their country. However, nearly half said it got worse over the last three years, and less than 10% said the level of corruption has decreased. About one-third said corruption levels remain the same.
