INQUIRER: Former State Sen. Vincent Fumo was convicted of all 137 counts against him today as his marathon federal corruption trial ended in a stunning victory for prosecutors. The jury also found co-defendant Ruth Arnao guilty of all 45 counts against her. After a 30-minute hearing this afternoon, U.S. District Judge Ronald L. Buckwalter agreed to let Fumo and Arnao remain free pending sentencing although he ordered them to post bail of $2 million and $500,000, respectively, by Wednesday. The two had been free on unsecured own-recognizance bail since they were charged. Both defendants were ordered not to leave the […]
WEEK IN REVIEW: The Good News Flower Hour
The Good News Flower Hour #13 The week that was in just five minutes! Hosted by a stoned daisy with the obligatory voice of gawd. Funny. Sad. Good for you. Tastes great, less filling.
Ann Coulter’s Sultry Neo-Con Hate Bait Loses Lock On The Discretionary Spending Of The Dumb And Mean
CONDE NAST: Coulter’s latest book, Guilty: Liberal “Victims” and Their Assault on America, is something of a misfire by Coulterian standards. Of course, what constitutes a disappointment for Coulter would be a mega-hit for most authors; in its two months on sale, Guilty has sold 100,500 copies, according to Nielsen BookScan (a number that only reflects around 70 percent of actual sales). But with it moving steadily down the best-seller list, it looks certain that Guilty will fall far short of matching her earlier results. Her 2006 polemic, Godless: The Church of Liberalism, sold 279,100 copies in hardcover, according to […]
PAPERBOY: Slow Jamming The Alt Weeklies
BY DAVE ALLEN Like time, news waits for no man. Keeping up with the funny papers has always been an all-day job, even in the pre-Internets era. These days, however, it’s a two-man job. That’s right, these days you need someone to do your reading for you, or risk falling hopelessly behind and, as a result, increasing your chances of dying lonely and somewhat bitter. That’s why every week, PAPERBOY does your alt-weekly reading for you. We pore over those time-consuming cover stories and give you the takeaway, suss out the cover art, warn you off the ink-wasters and steer […]
WORTH REPEATING: He Hit Me & It Felt Like A Kiss
E: Chris Brown‘s manager, Tina Davis [pictured, below right], who was rumored to be the woman whose text message played a role in the Feb. 8 altercation between Brown and Rihanna, has flat-out denied, via her attorney, ever having had a romantic relationship with the R&B star. “The relationship between Ms. Davis and Mr. Brown is that of manager and client,” declared attorney Marshall B. Grossman in a written statement issued Wednesday. “There has never been any other relationship. The rumors in circulation are false. There are no emails between Ms. Davis and Mr. Brown of the type which have […]
THIS JUST IN: Tom Waits Goes Gold, Goes Hollywood
[Photo by MICHAEL T. REGAN] TOM WAITS latest 3 CD set—Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards—has been certified gold by the RIAA® and will be released on vinyl by Anti- Records in the not-too-distant future. He has also collaborated with Kool Keith on N.A.S.A.’s recently released The Spirit of Apollo, which also features such diverse artists as David Byrne, Karen O and Ol’ Dirty Bastard. As for new material, Waits and his long time collaborator and wife, Kathleen Brennan, have begun writing new songs, which they plan to record this summer for an upcoming CD. (No release date at this time.) […]
HOT DOCUMENT: The Tenacity Of Nope
—–Original Message—– From: Hale, Ellen Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 2:03 PM To: Hale, Ellen Subject: AP and the Obama Hope Poster Wednesday, March 11, 2009 AP Staff: The Associated Press today filed a countersuit claiming misappropriation of the AP photo underlying the ubiquitous Obama Hope poster and other materials by graphic artist Shepard Fairey. The suit claims “blatant violation” of AP’s copyright of the photo and seeks damages, injunctive relief and a declaratory judgment stating that the photo was used without permission. This is an important case for us. Licensing of AP content sustains our newsgathering and other operations. […]
EXPLAINER: How We Got So F*cked
If you haven’t been following the Jon Stewart Vs. CNBC cage match, CLICK HERE and get yourself schooled. Huffington Post just unearthed this 2006 interview with the execrable Jim Cramer, now a shouting head on CNBC, bragging about all manner of unethical and illegal activity he conducted back when he was a hedge fund manager — just one more carelessly tossed stone of self-interest that has reduced the hall of mirrors that was our financial sector to the sad pile of broken glass it is today. Here is some of what he said back in 2006: -On manipulating the market: […]
WEEK IN REVIEW: The Good News Flower Hour
The Good News Flower Hour #12 The week that was in just five minutes, told by a stoned daisy with the obligatory voice of God. [cough, cough] And if you haven’t see it already, please check out Jon Stewart’s CNBC smackdown after the jump, it is quite possibly fake journalism’s finest hour eight minutes.
PAPERBOY: ‘Beer The Drum Slowly’ Edition
BY DAVE ALLEN Like time, news waits for no man. Keeping up with the funny papers has always been an all-day job, even in the pre-Internets era. These days, however, it’s a two-man job. That’s right, these days you need someone to do your reading for you, or risk falling hopelessly behind and, as a result, increasing your chances of dying lonely and somewhat bitter. That’s why every week, PAPERBOY does your alt-weekly reading for you. We pore over those time-consuming cover stories and give you the takeaway, suss out the cover art, warn you off the ink-wasters and steer […]
PLOT THICKENS: Philadelphia Newspapers Wants To Investigate Who Bugged Meeting With Lenders
INQUIRER: Philadelphia Newspapers L.L.C. has asked a U.S. bankruptcy court for permission to hire special counsel to investigate what it described as the “unauthorized recording” of a confidential meeting between the company and its senior lenders, according to a filing Friday. The document filed by the owner of The Inquirer, the Philadelphia Daily News and Philly.com did not identify the party that allegedly made the recording. Brian P. Tierney, chief executive of Philadelphia Newspapers, found a digital voice recorder under some papers on a table where the company met with creditors, two sources who spoke on the condition of anonymity […]
OPERATION RUSHBO: Culture Jamming The Right
POLITICO: Top Democrats believe they have struck political gold by depicting Rush Limbaugh as the new face of the Republican Party, a full-scale effort first hatched by some of the most familiar names in politics and now being guided in part from inside the White House. The strategy took shape after Democratic strategists Stanley Greenberg and James Carville included Limbaugh’s name in an October poll and learned their longtime tormentor was deeply unpopular with many Americans, especially younger voters. Then the conservative talk-radio host emerged as an unapologetic critic of Barack Obama shortly before his inauguration, when even many Republicans […]
BREAKING: Inquirer Swallows Daily News
Early reports are confused and conflicting, but from what we can gather Philadelphia Newspapers CEO Brian Tierney is meeting with Daily News peeps as we type this, to discuss folding the Daily News into the Inquirer…DEVELOPING UPDATE: Just got off the phone with a DN newsroom source and here’s the deal: Starting March 30th, The Daily News will become ‘an edition of’ the Inquirer. This is largely a technicality, meaning no job cuts, both papers function pretty much as is, separate news staffs and managers, both competing for stories, etc. By making DN an ‘edition of’ The Inquirer, Philadelphia Newspapers […]