(What You) Missed Connections
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Two Thanksgiving scenarios: Either your parents demanded you stay off your laptop and spend time with your family and you had to secretly check your email on your BlackBerry while the turkey was carved, or you spent your entire long weekend glued to your MacBook Pro, hoping for a high school acquaintance to update their Facebook with some lame party announcement just so you could get out of the house.

Either way, here are some of the stories you may have missed while you were trying to drink your way to family tolerance.

‐ The world's oldest pot stash was found by researchers who declared the Chinese cannabis to have a high THC content and had been used for "visionary purposes." Yeah right, that's what we told the freshman RA when we got caught too.

• Michael Wolff snitches in his new book that Bill O'Reilly is not winning any friends over at Fox News:

“It is not just Murdoch (and everybody else at News Corp.’s highest levels) who absolutely despises Bill O’Reilly, the bullying, mean-spirited, and hugely successful evening commentator,” Wolff wrote, “but [Fox News chief executive] Roger Ailes himself who loathes him. Success, however, has cemented everyone to each other."

• The Cable Gamer calls foul on Michael Calderone's assessment of Wolff's Murdoch book, The Man Who Owns The News, since the Politico writer got an advance copy under a "special agreement." Ooh, shady! But not really: the contract only said the blogger couldn't write about the book before a certain time, quid pro quo in the advance-copy book business. Didn't mean Calderone had to agree with the guy.

• Roger Ebert chides AP on their imposed 500-word limit for entertainment writers and decries the backslide into the gossip beat. Meanwhile AP chief Tom Curley chides CNN for starting their own wire-service and calls it "abysmally written." And the blame buck for America's decreasing standards in journalism passes on.

• Rosie's new NBC show? Yeah, that's already gone on to the great variety show heaven in the sky after one episode and terrible ratings.

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Comments (1)

No. 1 · lettuce

at least rosie is not afraid of trying (broadway show, tv show) most of the time you must take a risk in order to be successful…and rosie did…and so what??…she still is a wonderful wife and mother and humanitarian and philanthropist…and she has her priorities straight…family first!!!

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