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Monthly Archives: August 2003
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Church and State, Edit and Advertising
The Washington Blade reports that the Baltimore Sun first declined to run the announcement of a lesbian “life commitment” ceremony between two local gay rights activists on its “Celebrations” page, and then ran finally ran it–in the classified ads. The exchange of e-mails between Ingrid Ackerson, who submitted the announcement, and the Baltimore Sun advertising staff is documented here.
The root of the problem is that the responsibility for the content of the announcements section of “Celebrations” was moved in 2002 from the Sun's news staff to the advertising department–and, in the process, the editorial policy decision in favor of running same-sex “union” announcements was thrown out. Apparently, the folks in advertising and marketing felt that a ghetto in the classified section was “separate but equal” enough for gays, who they would rather not have sully the otherwise very vanilla pages of the Sun.
The Sun is currently the monopoly daily newspaper in Baltimore; however, the Washington Post is apparently starting home delivery here. Perhaps there will be some changes in circulation as a result.
Darl is an anagram for lard
…and that, apparently, is what SCO CEO Darl McBride is building his company's long term strategy on–rendered pig fat.
McBride, who a just a year ago was pimping for UnitedLinux and hoping to use SCO's installed base to push Linux into the small and medium business markets in earnest, is now claiming that all his former friends in the Linux community of being orchestrated by IBM in their attacks on his “poison pill” strategy for profits from Linux.
As the “evidence” presented by SCO of infringement on its intellectual property starts to fall apart slowly in the light of day, McBride has resorted to dumping piles of press clippings on stage at SCOForum to prove how relevant the lawsuit has made SCO. And rumor has it that some customers are considering filing racketeering charges against SCO for extortion of licensing fees prior to proof of their case.
So the question is, just who is going to have to use that lard that Darl's throwing around to grease up and bend over?
Henry Wallace, we hardly knew ye.
Former Vice President and then-secretary of Commerce Henry Wallace's1944 article on “The Danger of American Fascism” has been resurrected at truthout (and pointed to by Metafilter).
The
dangerous American fascist is the man who wants to do in the United
States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way.
The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to
poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem
is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to
use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his
group more money or more power.
Ahem. And why exactly would this resurface?
Sneaker endorsement deals get smaller
Check out 3-year old Mark Walker, Reebok spokesperson, and watch as he sinks 18 baskets in a row. Maybe Nutella should check out this kid's diet.