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A lot’s been said about the Virginia Quarterly Review’s Waldo Jaquith’s shocking takedown on of Wired editor Chris Anderson’s new book, Free: The Future of a Radical Price, in which Anderson appears to have lifted nearly a dozen lengthy passages almost verbatim from uncredited sources. Many look like they were stolen from Wikipedia — not exactly a reliable source. [...] The State, a 100,000+ circulation McClatchy paper in South Carolina that I’d never heard of till this week, is owning — OWNING — the Mark Sanford story. [...] It seems like just about every obituary of the beloved gold-hocking, giant-check-delivering, former announcer of The Tonight Show Ed McMahon includes the phrase “second banana.” [...] El Pollo Loco has launched an ad campaign ridiculing Kentucky Fried Chicken for, gulp, using “beef powder and rendered beef fat” in its new grilled chicken marinade [...] Good news, failed bankers. The CIA is collecting the worthless flotsam of the great ship Wall Street for “a mission like no other” — economic and financial analysis for the U.S. government! [...] A man who tried to steal more money than the U.S. owes China was indicted this week. A no-brainer nominee for world’s dumbest criminal, Marlon T. Moore — also known as “X-Large Moore” — filed an income tax return that sought a refund of nearly $15 trillion, The Miami Herald reported today. [...] It’s a New York state of mess. The New York State Senate — a corrupt, incompetent body even by the humiliating standards of state government — has been in turmoil all week because two Democrats defected, flipping a narrow 32-30 majority from the Democrats’ favor to the Republicans’. [...] Two really smart brothers have announced plans to start a newspaper — like, an actual paper newspaper — in Detroit. The brothers, Mark and Gary Stern, are 63 and 67 years old, and apparently they think it’s still the 1940s. Their paper’s chances of success? The same as the Lion’s Super Bowl prospects this season. [...] Mine magazine is Time Inc.’s latest gambit to make print profitable. Both praised and panned, Mine is a collection of supposedly personalized stories — selected just for me! — wrapped in Lexus ads and mailed to me for free. It doesn’t feel particularly personal. But it’s all mine. [...] Fifty-year-old paper boy Martin T. Holtet of Wisconsin pleaded guilty yesterday to bilking The New York Times out of more than $200,000 in bogus subscriptions. The Madoff of paper routes! [...] |
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