– Stephen Colbert and Anderson Cooper are now BFFs. Matching gold Mizpah necklaces to follow.
– NPR’s style guide disallows the term “abortion clinics.” Something that sounds less baby-murdery is preferred.
The subject of Schumacher-Matos’s ombudsing was a story by NPR Justice Department reporter Carrie Johnson. On Sept. 1, Johnson did a story about how the Obama administration has taken a “more aggressive approach against people who block access to abortion clinics, using a 1994 law to bring cases in greater numbers than its predecessor.”
Violation!!!!
That language, according to Schumacher-Matos, runs afoul of NPR style rules. From the ombo’s column on the matter:
“NPR doesn’t use the term ‘abortion clinics.’ We say instead, ‘medical or health clinics that perform abortions.’ The point is to not to use abortion before the word clinic. The clinics perform other procedures and not just abortions.”
So Johnson’s wording should have read as follows:
The Obama Justice Department has been taking a more aggressive approach against people who block access to health clinics that provide abortions, using a 1994 law to bring cases in greater numbers than its predecessor.
– Instead of a Canadian rock/world music/fusion band worrying that the tea party is harshing the mellow of their band’s image/website, the tea party should worry that some dudes with Bon Jovi blowouts and matching goatees may be associated with the grassroots movement.
“If you look at the money being talked about this time around–campaigns raising $1 billion–it’s easy to expect teaparty.com to go for well over $1 million.”
That would be a handsome reward for a name chosen largely on a whim when the group got together in 1990. “Tea Party was a euphemism the Beat poets used for getting high and writing poetry and vibing with each other,” Chatwood says.
Or, you know, a term used to define a catalytic event in a country that existed long before Canada was recognized as an sovereign nation. I take your beat poets and raise you history. So it’s not like the grassroots movement deliberately set out to ruin what I’m sure is an amazing trajectory for a Canadian fusion-rock band.
All somewhat harsh joking aside, Steven Bannon (quoted in the article) is right: this is a brilliant move for the trio, especially considering the Google ranking of the URL teaparty.com and as a capitalist, I encourage them to embrace the animating spirit of our country and make those dolla dolla bills when they sell it for a small fortune. They’ve had the name registered since the early 90s and this is how marketing (and media, related) works. At this point though, the danger isn’t progressives getting the URL; the danger is the possibility of RINOs getting it and damaging the name by doing something like, oh, I don’t know, redirecting it to Mitt Romney’s campaign website.
– Fight at TechCrunch. Paul Carr resigns. Shorter story, written in Pokeman: Go, Eric Schonfeld! Schonfeld uses Twitter war!
– JOURNOFIGHT: WaPo vs Daily Mail.