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• Despite the best efforts by news channels, man forgets 26/11

  
  Faking News — Authority: 428
  Mumbai. The whole nation was shell-shocked when Amar Sabbhulkar, a 26-year-old unemployed youth, forgot that it was first anniversary of the Mumbai terror attacks on Thursday. This despite the fact that all the news channels of India were relentlessly trying to remind everyone that Mumbai was attacked and hundreds of ...
  1 day ago

• 26/11 – the more we change, the more we remain the same

  
  Conversations with Dina — Authority: 484
  I couldn’t help taking these pictures off television today. And turned off TV entirely. Which I should have done a week ago, with all the rehashing of events on 26/11 last year. Just because you have so much footage during the terror attacks, does it mean it is revamped and repackaged into more and more noise ...
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• The Empty Nature of 24 Hour News

  
  RooftopBlog — Authority: 464
  Call me crazy, but I think I’ve been lied to. Two months ago, on September 19th, 2009, I met a kind and insane fellow named Josh. Josh lives in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, and swore to me with great vehemence that within six months, Obama would step down from the presidency in shame because it would be proven without ...
  1 week ago

• French police avert school shooting, 13-year-old boy apprehended

  
  Joystiq — Authority: 793
  According to a report from The Times , French authorities have prevented a school shooting by arresting a 13-year-old boy before he could exact revenge on his teachers for poor marks. Raymond Yeddou, a senior state official in Beauvais, is quoted as saying, "He left his home with a loaded shotgun and 25 cartridges. ...
  1 week ago

• BBCs The Big Questions tackles Modern Warfare 2

  
  Joystiq — Authority: 793
  In case you were wondering yet had no intention of finding out for yourself, Modern Warfare 2 was released specifically to offend you. "The Big Questions" takes on this exact subject in this weeks episode, hosting a handful of religious leaders as well as a couple of knowledgeable game industry folks. Though we ...
  1 week ago

• Little Quiz

  
  Anonymous Arabist ??? ????? — Authority: 124
  Which of the following news stories involves Muslims or Arabs in any way? Bus driver doesn’t let passengers off bus until they pray with him . Teacher of young children refuses to be fingerprinted because she believes her holy book tells her fingerprinting is “the mark of the beast.” Vigilantes capture, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Breaking News! Alert! Imminent News Conference on Safe Child!

  
  Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print — Authority: 515
  I’m sitting here at the shop getting my car’s oil changed, and there’s FOX News playing on the television overhead. I’ve tried to ignore it, but they keep breaking out the snare drums and declaring “ALERT!” “BREAKING NEWS!” First ALERT! BREAKING NEWS! Subject: Live footage of Representative Todd ...
  3 weeks ago

• Ex-wife slams Hulk Hogan’s new book

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Washington, Nov 3 (ANI): Professional wrestler Hulk Hogan’s ex-wife Linda Bollea has slammed his new book “My Life Outside the Rings”, which refers to her as being an “abusive alcoholic.”Bollea was outraged by the book, which she says contains less facts and more lies. “As far as what he has said about ...
  3 weeks ago

• Hrithik Roshan arrested by police for smuggling aliens into India

  
  Faking News — Authority: 428
  Wagah Border, Punjab . Bollywood star Hrithik Roshan has been caught by the BSF while carrying an alien and handed over to the Punjab Police, who have detained him on charges of trying to smuggle aliens into the country. Hrithik had come here a week back to take part in a joint India-Pakistan charity show but it seems ...
  3 weeks ago

• Lecherous man declares himself as nation’s leading cleavage critic

  
  Faking News — Authority: 428
  Mumbai. Pandu Gupta, a 27-year-old jobless engineer, has demanded respect and attention of the nation for being India’s leading and perhaps the only cleavage critic. Pandu, who claims to have spent 69% of his non-sleeping time in the last fourteen years ogling at breasts of women, also released a ...
  3 weeks ago

• Swine Flu virus killed in encounter in Gujarat, opposition cry foul

  
  Faking News — Authority: 428
  Ahmedabad. Within hours of some unidentified virus, suspected to be belonging to the Swine Flu group, attacking Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, comes the claim of Gujarat Police that they have gunned down the suspected virus in an encounter. While the Gujarat government is claiming that the encounter was an ...
  4 weeks ago

• The sensational media feeding frenzy aro…

  
  Talk Islam — Authority: 554
  The sensational media feeding frenzy around the death of Luqman Ameen Abdullah continues as news organizations around the country begin to make desperate, absurd efforts to “localize” the story by claiming Abdullah “had ties” to the local area if he has ever happened to pass through there. This is from a tv ...
  4 weeks ago

• This media report from the Detroit Free …

  
  Talk Islam — Authority: 554
  This media report from the Detroit Free Press so sensationalizes Luqman Ameen Abdullah’s past that it literally communicates that they were trying to arrest him for running a “Sunni Muslim group with the mission of establishing a separate Islamic nation within the United States.” It’s not until the sixth ...
  4 weeks ago

• This type of shitty reporting PISSES ME OFF.

  
  The Feminist Texican — Authority: 500
  This article just went up a while ago.  It’s supposed to be about the lack of funding at the Brownsville Animal Regulation and Care Center, and how their shelter is too tiny to deal with the number of animals they take in.  They only have one employee to take calls—about 100 a day—and send out the ACOs ...
  4 weeks ago

• Depression: How To Watch The News

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 464
  Sometimes, one of the hardest things to do when you suffer from depression is to watch the news. In this time of sensationalism, it can sometimes be hard to watch the news without allowing it to send you deeper into your depression. There are a few things to do so as not to [...]
  4 weeks ago

• Insignia’s Little Buddy Child Tracker encourages kids to run away, disown parents

  
  Family Learning Center — Authority: 160
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  5 weeks ago

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