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2 By Steve Huff 2/04 4:41am

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Scene from "The Thing," which isn't happening for real in the Antarctic right now. We hope.

Russian Scientists Have Not Been Eaten By Prehistoric Antarctic Lake Monsters

Contrary to somewhat overheated reports from Fox News regarding their mysterious silence, scientists with Russia's Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute are probably just very busy. The Russian team has been drilling through 13,000 feet of Antarctic ice to reach subterranean Lake Vostok, a body of water that hasn't seen daylight for 20 million years. On Thursday, an article published by Fox News seemed to leave open the prospect the scientists might have reached their goal and perhaps awakened some horrible evil from beyond time and space: Read More

By The Editors 11/30/11 10:04am

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The ever-fashionable Lady Gaga, umbrella ensemble and all.

Thanksgiving Makes Way to Presents and Pepper Spray

Do you hear those sleigh bells ring-a-ling too? Every year we think we’re going crazy when the radio starts playing Christmas songs the moment the organic Whole Foods turkey has turned to Thanksgiving leftovers. (It’s been especially unnerving this year, considering the temperature has us repacking our winter sweaters.) We’re happy to get an early jump on the shopping—er—giving this year, as long it means that we can stuff our stockings with toys from Lady Gaga’s workshop at Barneys. Only $95 for an Alexander McQueen shoe replica made out of chocolate? That’s less than we paid at the Met to see the reel heel!

Another holiday treat has been the silence on Wall Street. Maybe everyone made peace on Thanksgiving … you know, just like the Pilgrims and Indians did before the former wiped out the indigenous culture with smallpox. Read More

By Anna Sanders 11/15/11 10:33am

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Mainstream News Organizations Aren’t Very Good At Using Twitter, Study Finds

The journalism community prides itself on its social media use, but a study released yesterday reveals that mainstream news organizations are using Twitter wrong, i.e. to advance their own material as opposed to engaging with readers and followers. Researchers from The Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism and The George Washington University's School Read More

3 By Drew Grant 10/20/11 9:15am

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Adbuster page for OccupyWallStreet.org

Much Ado About ‘Adbusters’ Relationship to the Jews

If one was trying to tack the label of antisemitism onto the Occupy Wall Street movement, (which apparently, everyone is) one needs to look no further than David Brooks' October 10th op-ed for The New York Times, entitled "The Milquetoast Radicals."  In it, he points to a 2004 article from Adbusters - the Canadian magazine that first put out the call to action for OWS way back in July - with the damning title of "Why Won’t Anyone Say They Are Jewish," which plays the guessing game of Republican NeoCon's religious orientation in relation to their pro-Israeli stance.

But isn't using Adbusters to discredit what is now an independent, international movement sort of, well, besides the point?

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69 By Drew Grant 10/11/11 4:33pm

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Fox News on Occupy Protests: "Creepy Criminals"

Fox News Poll on Occupy Wall Street Backfires

On October 7th, FoxNews.com launched a survey titled "Do 'Occupy Wall Street' protesters represent your views about the nation's economic problems?" Considering the type of coverage Fox has been giving the events in Zuccotti Park, we imagine they were pretty confident that the majority of their readers would answer "No."

Unfortunately (for FoxNews.com), this is the Internet, and word of this poll spread quickly. The results started pouring in from OWS-sympathizers. Here's what we're currently looking at:
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8 By Drew Grant 10/07/11 5:07pm

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"Is this thing on?"

Organizing the Occupation: Wall Street, Post Megamarch

It's a beautiful Friday, and Zuccotti Park looks... different. Sure, there are the protesters we've come to know and expect, and the media is still there, full force. But something seems off.

"A lot of people are unhappy that the Libertarians are joining up," one General Assembly member told us on the condition of anonymity, "and there are some Tea Party people here too."

Well... right. Isn't that what Occupy Wall Street is all about? Giving everyone a voice? Not having a distinct list of demands or qualifications besides a general sense of anger at Big Banks and government bailouts?

Not anymore. This is what Democracy now looks like: Anarchy at war with its own internal organization.

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6 By Drew Grant 10/05/11 1:58pm

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Roger Ailes feels great! (Getty Images)

Roger Ailes’ Knows Sarah Palin is Hot; Has Doctor Call Him Ugly

Phew. Just when you thought Roger Ailes was just a bloodless automaton who only cares about ratings and how expressive anchors can be when he mutes them on television, he opens up and shows his more sensual side.

"I hired Sarah Palin because she was hot and got ratings," the Fox News president declared to the Associated Press recently. Okay, but which one of those features did you actually find sexually exciting, Mr. Ailes?

We'll never know, as that is all he says on the subject. But don't worry, TV's most infamous exec is full of fun soundbites today! Read More

40 By Drew Grant 10/05/11 8:50am

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Jesse LaGreca (Photo via the Daily Kos)

Jesse LaGreca: The Smartest Man on Wall Street?

When Fox News turned their cameras on the 31-year-old Daily Kos writer Jesse LaGreca last Wednesday, they didn't know what they were in for. Not only did Fox producer Griff Jenkins get schooled all over the Internet --  forcing Greta Van Susteren to respond on why they didn't air the footage of Mr. LaGreca's statements  -- but suddenly the somewhat haphazard movement was given a clear and distinct voice.

"Fox News wants to laugh at us," Mr. LaGreca told us in a phone interview Tuesday evening. "To say that we're unruly, that we're to be laughed at....because that fits into their narrative, which is that only free markets can save us. Only unregulated capitalism can save us. And anyone in opposition to that needs to be attacked and marginalized.'"

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419 By Drew Grant 10/03/11 8:42am

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Protester Jesse LaGraca schools Fox producers

Exclusive: Occupy Wall Street Activist Slams Fox News Producer In Un-Aired Interview [Video]

Even if Geraldo Rivera was at the Zuccotti Park yesterday, Fox News has generally been a tad dismissive of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Foxnews.com (as of this writing) has no coverage of this national event on their front page stories. (Hard to imagine for a network that was so gung-ho about the Tea Party!) Red Eye's Bill Schulz went out to try to "prank" the protesters. Bill O'Reilly sent a producer minion out with the same mission: to belittle OWS's cause by cutting up interviews to make people sound stupid.

Well, here is an interview that Fox News filmed, but doesn't want you to see. The segment was shot on Wednesday for Greta van Susteren's show, (though it looks like the same producer from this O'Reilly segment questioning Michael Moore's anti-capitalist agenda) though the decision was made to leave it on the cutting room floor. The reason should be obvious pretty quickly.
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17 By Drew Grant 10/02/11 3:10pm

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Geraldo Rivera and Fox News Come Down to ‘Occupy Wall Street’ [Video]

Blow the trumpets and bang in your drum circle: the MSM have finally arrived in the form of Geraldo Rivera, who came down to Zuccotti Park Sunday morning to cover the protests for Fox News. Fox News! You can't get any more mainstream then that.

The Fox anchor was immediately mobbed by Occupy Wall Street supporters who had just moments earlier been putting together a breakfast spread of bean sprout and cheese sandwiches (something that the news crews made sure to capture for B-roll). Mr. Rivera, looking not just a little like Dennis Farina, was more than happy to pose for photo opps (though he asked us to be in the picture with him…does that make us complicit with Fox?) and interviewed one protester about his cause before cutting him off mid-sentence.

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By The Editors 9/28/11 11:31am

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New York Comes Full Circle

Big things are happening in post-Fashion Week NYC. For the first time since the late 80s, all the hot young things are flooding to Wall Street. But unfortunately for Turnbull & Asser and half of the meatpacking district’s nightlife establishment, these kids aren’t spending all-nighters snorting drugs and waiting for the markets to open to Japan. They’re occupying Wall Street. And by occupying, we mean camping out in a semi-organized fashion in the Financial District, despite the fact that the financial district is no longer in the Financial District. And we have to admit, midtown just doesn’t have the same symbolic appeal. Read More