Image via Wikipedia Look what never made it to the mass media outside of Bangor Maine. AlterNet James G. Cummings of Belfast, Maine, a trust fund millionaire who had ties to American Nazi groups, was murdered by his wife two months ago. But, as the FBI found out when investigating James' murder, a h...

Every day cops bust up prostitution rings in “sex sting” operations. The Exploitation Ticker-tape down at Spinster HQ clatters out the reports hourly. It is reassuring to know that law enforcement, pimps, and news media are working together around the clock to bring us this riveting rape...

The blamer will kindly excuse me for today’s lack of megatwistanalysis, but there’s a minor crisis down at the Spinster HQ Ornithology Department. A certain sidekick — I’m not naming names, but it starts with an S and ends with a “ray” — left the back door o...

I'm sure I'm nowhere near the first to remark on this, but it has recently hit me on several levels. CNN just reported a moment ago that American newspapers are in severe trouble, partly because of the economic downturn yes, which means less people buy newspapers, but also less advertisers h...

You would think that after the countless years of Bloggers calling out PR professionals on bad pitches that things would change. You would be wrong. In the spirit of trotting out another dead horse: could PR pitches be any worse? The boatload of emails that are not personalized or relevant to the co...

Blamer Belenen sent in a video clip the other day with the note “check out this animated tribute to sexism.” It was a cartoon called “Only in a Woman’s World.” Four young female characters obsess about femininity, particularly body image and food, in that glib, self-dep...

The Mobile World Congress has just ended in Barcelona and the tech press is full of stories about how the internet is now headed to a pocket near you. There were big stars in Barcelona peddling the future is mobile story, from the rapper Will I Am telling of how music is going mobile, to the actor K...

Glenn Greenwald looks at polls to shred apart the “Americans want bipartisanship” myth. In polls and in the voting booth, the only time Americans are expressing a desire for bipartisanship is when it is applied to Republicans. Let me suggest that what Americans long for is not “bip...

In his column today, Frank Rich correctly points out that America suffers from chronic denial. One of the most persistent cultural tics of the early 21st century is Americans’ reluctance to absorb, let alone prepare for, bad news. We are plugged into more information sources than anyone could have...

by Walter Brasch In May 2004, the New York Times, while claiming it was aggressive in pursuing stories about the Bush–Cheney Administration, slipped in an apology for acting more as the mouthpiece for politicians than as a watchdog for society. “Coverage was not as rigorous as it should have bee...