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Sinead O’Connor Pens Second Letter to Miley Cyrus, Asks: WTF?!?

We had to know Sinead O’Connor would fire back, didn’t we? The singer first posted an open letter to Miley Cyrus yesterday, begging the artist to remain clothed and to not allow herself to be prostituted by the music industry. It was really more of a critique of that business world than a slam of the singer. But Miley took the posting very personally – and replied even more personally. Sinead O’Connor vs. Miley Cyrus! She ran multiple Tweets from O’Connor’s former account that depicted the head-shaved star as mentally unstable, referencing a troubled time in Sinead’s life and comparing her to Amanda Bynes . So O’Connor has now fired off a second letter via Facebook. “Miley… Really? Who the fuck is advising you?” she asks. “Because taking me on is even more fuckin’ stupid than behaving like a prostitute and calling it feminism. You have posted today tweets of mine which are two years old, which were posted by me when I was unwell and seeking help so as to make them look like they are recent. In doing so you mock myself and Amanda Bynes for having suffered with mental health issues and for having sought help.” She makes a good point, no? And she continues: “I mean really really… who advises you? have you any idea how stupid and dangerous it is to mock people for suffering illness? You will yourself one day suffer such illness, that is without doubt. The course you have set yourself upon can only end in that, trust me.” Since going off on O’Connor, meanwhile, risque photos of Miley, her nipples and her waxed crotch have gone public. Read the rest of Sinead’s letter below and decide: Is she in the right? Was Miley way out of line for how she attacked the Irish artist? I am staggered that any 20 yr old woman of the 21st century could behave in such a dangerous and irresponsible manner as to not only send the signal to young women that its ok to act like prostitutes but also to the signal that those who have suffered or do suffer mental health problems are to be mocked and have their opinions invalidated. Have you no sense of danger at all? or responsibility? Remove your tweets immediately or you will hear from my lawyers. I am certain you will be hearing from all manner of mental health advocacy groups also. It is not acceptable to mock any person for having suffered. It is most unbecoming of you to respond in such a fashion to someone who expressed care for you. And worse that you are such an anti-female tool of the anti-female music industry. I hope that you will apologise to Amanda Bynes and to any person who has been wounded by your mockery of those who have suffered. And I hope that you will wake up and understand that you in fact are a danger to women. Furthermore you posted a photo of me tearing the pope’s photo .. as if to imply insanity.. by doing so all you have achieved is to expose your staggering ignorance. I suggest you read The Philadelphia Report, The Boston Report, all the reports which will illuminate for you why that action of mine remains sane and valid. By mocking it you mock every child who suffered sexual abuse at the hands of priests and had it covered by the Vatican. You could really do with educating yourself, that is if you’re not too busy getting your tits out to read.

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Aereo: Internet Startup Draws Fire From Fox as "Threat to Economics of Broadcast TV"

Fox is threatening to convert its entire operation to a pay-TV-only channel if Internet startup Aereo continues to “steal” its over-the-air television signal. News Corp., which owns Fox, said not being paid by Aereo threatens the economics of broadcast TV, which relies on both retransmission fees and advertising. Say what now? Anyone with an antenna can pick up a TV station’s signals for free. However, as we well know, cable and satellite companies typically pay stations and networks for the right to distribute their programming to subscribers. Industry-wide, those retransmission fees can add up to billions of dollars every year. Fees that Aereo is circumventing with its new business model: Aereo takes broadcast signals from the air with thousands of little antennas, recodes them for Internet use and feeds that to computers, tablets and phones. Subscriptions start at a mere $8 per month, which is much cheaper than a cable package, though the service is mostly limited to broadcast channels. Obviously, they were sued VERY fast, but last week, that industry was shaken after a federal appeals court issued a preliminary ruling siding with Aereo. The company contends that it doesn’t have to pay those fees because it uses thousands of tiny antennas to grab the signal, and a judge agreed. “This is not an ideal path we look to pursue, but we can’t sit idly by and let an entity steal our signal,” NewsCorp COO Chase Carey said in response. “But if we can’t do a fair deal, we could take the network to a subscription model.” While most people get Fox through a pay cable TV provider anyway, millions of other Americans rely on the free signal coming over their own antennas. If realized, Carey’s proposal would amount to a sea change in how Fox does business; currently, Fox sends its signal to TV stations across the country. Those stations, 27 of which it owns directly, relay Fox programming such as New Girl and Glee for free in local markets and add their own local news, etc. Carey didn’t explain how TV stations would be affected if Fox shut off the signals it sent to broadcasters and went straight over to a pay TV model. Later, the company said in a statement that any change due to the Aereo situation would occur “in collaboration with both our content partners and affiliates.” Last week, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York said that Aereo could continue its service despite a legal challenge by Fox, ABC, NBC and CBS. In a split ruling, the court accepted Aereo’s position that having individual antennas meant that Aereo wasn’t retransmitting signals illegally for profit. Rather, the appeals court said that Aereo enabled its subscribers to do what they already could on their own with their own antenna and video recorder.

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#OWS Bat Signal: “It’s the Beginning of the Beginning”

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Very cool. Via NYMag, Xeni Jardin at BoingBoing has an interview with the creator of the #OWS “bat signal“. Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Balloon Juice Discovery Date : 18/11/2011 07:06 Number of articles : 2

#OWS Bat Signal: “It’s the Beginning of the Beginning”

iLounge sounds attenuation alarm on Verizon iPhone [video]

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The iPhone 4′s antenna situation truly is the story that just will not die. Now that the antenna gripes of the GSM iPhone has been exhausted, why not move on to the heir apparent… the CDMA iPhone. iLounge has published a seven minute YouTube video showcasing a karma sutra of death grips that can affect the signal quality of your Verizon iPiece. It’s not much of a secret that all cellular phones can… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : The Boy Genius Report Discovery Date : 08/02/2011 23:21 Number of articles : 2

iLounge sounds attenuation alarm on Verizon iPhone

Kermit The Frog Would ‘Love To Hang Out’ With Lady Gaga Again

‘We tried texting, but Miss Piggy keeps jamming the signal,’ frog says. By Jocelyn Vena Lady Gaga and Kermit the Frog at the 2009 Video Music Awards Photo: Kevin Mazur/ WireImage Kermit the Frog knows Miss Piggy might make it impossible, but he would still love the chance to see his VMA date, Lady Gaga , again, even though he’s confirmed that the pair are only friends. “I’d love to hang out with Lady Gaga,” he told MTV News about the VMA winner

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