 | Today, the NY Times unveiled its new paywall for the NYTimes.com website. Starting at 2 p.m., NYTimes.com has been offering the first 20 articles/month a visitor read for free, but after that, the NY Times would like visitors to pay $15 to $35 per month for unlimited access (there's a special 99-cent/week offer for this first month). Publisher Arthur Sulzberger even offered a letter to readers—and a photo of himself by celebrity photographer Brigitte Lacombe—to explain this new era. But did he realize there are ways around the paywall? Here are a few:... [ MORE ] |  | Last week, the NY Times published an outrageous article about how GE, with the help of its 975-employee tax department, paid no taxes, in spite of $14.2 billion in profits, over $5 billion made in the U.S. The Times added, "In fact, G.E. claimed a tax benefit of $3.2 billion." It's good to be rich, isn't it? You get to avoid paying taxes AND get VIP service from the NYPD. So, last night on the Daily News, Jon Stewart covered the matter in a segment called, "I Give Up," noting how GE has cut 20% of its American workforce while moving jobs overseas. ... [ MORE ] |  | It's an adolescent rite of passage: one minute you're doing rips off a beer bong and pogoing to the Mighty Mighty Bosstones at a raging house party, the next minute you're getting loaded into a police van and left for dead somewhere in Fort Lee, New Jersey. We've all been there! But you never forget your first time: a group of five teenagers say they were rounded up after cops raided their house party at about 1:30 a.m. Saturday, then locked inside a van outside police headquarters for 14 hours. ... [ MORE ] |  | Ahh, the sun is shining, spring is set to arrive by 2017 (can't wait to drink $8 Brooklyn lagers whilst listening to the sound of local bands "emerging" on the Greenpoint waterfront!) so it was the perfect day for a quaint stroll inside a bonafide bomb shelter in Washington Square Park.... [ MORE ] |  | When searching for a motive and a suspect behind the fatal shooting of BET and HOT97 personality DJ Megatron, police questioned just what he was doing on the streets that late, especially considering he left his four-year-old at home. Well, friends say they have an answer. One friend claims he had been on the phone with Megatron just before the shooting, and he said he was out buying marijuana. When the line went dead, his friend thought he had just hung up, but cops believe he was either shot or saw his shooter.... [ MORE ] |  | Two years after Caroline Wimmer was brutally beaten and strangled to death with the cord of a hairdryer, the young woman's parents are launching a multi-pronged legal attack against the ex-EMT who photographed her lifeless body and then posted the picture to Facebook, the apartment building she lived in, the city, Facbook and even the criminal classification of official misconduct. ... [ MORE ] |  | President Obama addressed the nation last night, explaining why the U.S. was involved in military actions against Libyan forces, "To brush aside America’s responsibility as a leader and -- more profoundly -- our responsibilities to our fellow human beings under such circumstances would have been a betrayal of who we are. Some nations may be able to turn a blind eye to atrocities in other countries. The United States of America is different. And as President, I refused to wait for the images of slaughter and mass graves before taking action."... [ MORE ] | | |
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