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Fighting homophobia by tracking down its source
As a journalist, I'm a big believer in free speech, but also in the idea that bigotry and wrongdoing are fair game for scrutiny. Regardless of your political leanings, it's fair to say that publicly ridiculing others in a confrontational and...
Tags: Homophobia, Susan Rice, Discrimination, Social Media, Health Organizations
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The Internet celebrates LeBron, Europe, your mom
It's Europe Day! (Yeah, we didn't know that either.) Welcome to your trends report for Friday, May 10. You're not alone if you were in the dark about the EU's annual holiday: Apparently, very few Europeans know that it exists. Nonetheless, between that,...
Tags: Klay Thompson, Mother's Day, Social Media, Leonardo DiCaprio, Media Industry
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'American Idol,' can Twitter popularity predict the winner?
The Baltimore SunAngie Miller and her steely-eyed focus transmitted into the homes of 10-plus million American Idol viewers won her 50,000 followers in the Twitterverse the week of the show's Top 10 reveal -- nearly 18,000 more social media fans than her next highest...Tags: Social Media, Entertainment Events, Chris Daughtry
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CNN, MSNBC, Fox show true colors in choice of stories this week
The Baltimore SunLast week was a great one for cable news watching. Not because any one channel did such outstanding work, but rather because several stories clamored simultaneously for the camera’s attention. The choices that a channel makes in such situations are...Tags: Journalism, Prisons, Social Media, Black Guerrilla Family, ABC (tv network)
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How to carve a swan from a watermelon (and other institutional analogies)
Tiger Woods, Microsoft and the Tea Party are all reasserting themselves. Welcome to your post-weekend trends report for May 13, 2013. Woods won his 78th PGA event Sunday in Ponte Vedra Beach, showing further recovery from a series of injuries and marital...
Tags: The Players Championship, Digg Inc., Internal Revenue Service, Microsoft Corporation, Social Media
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Niall Ferguson's blooper
At an investment conference last week, Harvard historian Niall Ferguson created a huge mess for himself. He glibly speculated that maybe because economist John Maynard Keynes was a childless, "effete" homosexual, he embraced a doctrine that favored...
Tags: Awards and Prizes, Sonia Sotomayor, Ethics, Milton Friedman, Media Industry
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Baltimore Sun Media Group mobile news products
[ SITES ] Sun smartphone and tablet site (smartphones and tablets) Touch.baltimoresun.com, specially designed to be interacted with on touch screens, automatically adjusts its presentation according to your device. Readers visiting baltimoresun.com on...Tags: Baseball, Apple iPhone, Amazon Kindle, Social Media, Media Industry
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Sanford and Hicks go to Congress, The CIA goes to Hollywood and CNN stays put
Former South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford has been elected to the House (or at least that's where we hear he's going). Welcome to your trends report for Monday, May 8, 2013. Sanford will head to Capitol Hill after facing off against Elizabeth...
Tags: The Washington Post, Zero Dark Thirty (movie), Social Media, Police Investigations, Indiana Pacers
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High-flying moves and a killer waltz for Jacoby Jones on 'Dancing with the Stars'
Tonight on “Dancing with the Stars,” each couple did two full dances. As the couples were introduced, Jacoby Jones was wearing a cowboy hat. We didn’t find out why until his first routine, which turned out to be a Viennese waltz to...
Tags: Bars and Clubs, Bleep (euphemism), Dining and Drinking, Judges, Music
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Tim Tebow will now have time to celebrate International Dance Day
Feliz Día Internacional de la Danza! Welcome to your post-weekend trends report for April 29, 2013. As the international Twitter scene lights up with colorful pictures of people dancing all over the world, the East Coast is more focused on the release...
Tags: The New York Times, Dwight Howard, Lisa Murkowski, Social Media, National Hockey League
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World watches weapons in Israel, Syria; Americans prefer to watch them on the big screen
Israel and Syria continue to fight, Robert Downey Jr. continues to pretend to fight, and in sunny, pastoral northern Pennsylvania, a former judge is still getting international attention a week after his sentencing over what amounts to a human-...
Tags: The New York Times, Punishment, Mother's Day, Prisons, Social Media
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Torrey Smith cuts off his dreadlocks
The Baltimore SunRavens wide receiver Torrey Smith has joked about cutting off his dreadlocks before but never followed through with it. Even getting pulled down to the ground by his hair two seasons ago by Cincinnati Bengals cornerback Adam Jones wasn't enough to...Tags: Adam Jones (football), Torrey Smith
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