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Your $12 Pack of Cigarettes Will Now Come With These Horrible Pictures [Health]

Posted on November 16, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Your $12 Pack of Cigarettes Will Now Come With These Horrible Pictures [Health]

Under a law signed by President Obama last June, all cigarette packs sold in the U.S. must have anti-smoking messages covering 50% of the front of the package starting next year. Here’s what the FDA is proposing. More

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New Rules for Media Ethics [Advice]

Posted on November 16, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on New Rules for Media Ethics [Advice]

After the absurd spectacle of one of TV’s most partisan shouting heads being suspended for making political donations, it’s clear that the time has come for journalism’s ethical guidelines to be updated, in the spirit of common sense. Let’s try! More

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The Creepy Sex Manifesto by the Author of The Pedophile’s Guide [Excerpts]

Posted on November 16, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on The Creepy Sex Manifesto by the Author of The Pedophile’s Guide [Excerpts]

Philip Greaves gained instant notoriety on Wednesday when his book The Pedophile’s Guide to Love & Pleasure became a sudden, bizarre bestseller . But The Pedophile’s Guide isn’t the only book Greaves has written. More

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Postal Worker Secretly Films Customer’s Racist Rant [Video]

Posted on November 16, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Postal Worker Secretly Films Customer’s Racist Rant [Video]

Things got ugly when a black mail carrier refused to take back a letter he’d delivered to a lady in Hingham, Mass. She went on a racist rant and slapped him. He secretly taped it all on his cell phone. More

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Boardwalk Empire Is Officially a Let Down [Reviews]

Posted on November 16, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Boardwalk Empire Is Officially a Let Down [Reviews]

Because of its storied history of quality programs, I give every show that airs on HBO a chance. But after nine episodes it’s time to pass judgment on the network’s lavish Prohibition-era drama Boardwalk Empire : It’s just not good. More

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Tina Brown Is a Hagfish [Media]

Posted on November 16, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Tina Brown Is a Hagfish [Media]

Let us explain. The hagfish is a blind, slimy, deepwater eel-like creature that darts into the orifices of its prey and devours them, alive, from the inside. Which is what Tina Brown is doing to Newsweek . More

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Young American Soldier Confesses to Murder of Unarmed Afghan Civilians [Video]

Posted on September 29, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Young American Soldier Confesses to Murder of Unarmed Afghan Civilians [Video]

Those US soldiers in Afghanistan accused of murdering Afghan civilians “for sport,” which the Guardian first reported weeks ago? It took some time for US media to pick up on the story, but a leaked video confession has surfaced. More

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Which Tabloids Lie the Most? [Exclusive]

Posted on September 29, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Which Tabloids Lie the Most? [Exclusive]

In the constantly-contradicting world of tabloid journalism, is anyone reliable? We analyzed 20 months of reported break-ups, marriages, and pregnancies to tabulate our first-ever Tabloid Reality Index , batting averages for America’s five major celebrity glossies and the rumors they monger. More

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2010’s Craziest Political Ads (So Far) [Video]

Posted on September 29, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on 2010’s Craziest Political Ads (So Far) [Video]

Have you noticed all of the really, really strange, embarrassing, or disturbing political ads coming out this election year? If you’ve missed any, here’s a collection of the year’s “best.” More

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Columbia Writing Professor Sends World’s Haughtiest Email to Former Students [Academia]

Posted on September 29, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Columbia Writing Professor Sends World’s Haughtiest Email to Former Students [Academia]

Janette Turner Hospital is the author of Orpheus Lost and other books, and a professor at Columbia. She sent MFA students at her old school, the University of South Carolina, the following note about their inferiority. It is amazing. More

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