Slate Fare

Keep the newspaper mix

quandmeme — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 03:31:04 GMT

First reaction was: if they're going to jump up to a mobile site go all the way and make some decent collapsable JavaScript headings; get with the times. Then I stepped back figured that you were transitioning from thenewspaper world not the blogging world. Only then did I realize that that is what I want you to keep. Whereas blogs are narrowcasting into sports and gadgets and celebrities and economics a news magazine us all those together. That's why I come to slate--when I'm not content with one of my narrowcasting rss feeds.

So don't "simplify" the page by letting me hide sections. In fact, mix it up. Tag it, but list it like a front page--like your homepage with your cover stories right there on top and the interesting ones that will never show up on my rss feeds.

Goodbye

Malechem — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:31:04 GMT

Today's Papers was the only thing that kept me coming back to Slate. I don't really need another automated news aggregator. And I was loyal! I was one of the people that paid, the year they charged a fee.

I've been with Slate since the beginning, but this is the end.

Bring back Today's Papers!

leqwisbuchner — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:18:43 GMT

I have tried Slatest for a week or two now and it is dry, humorless, and mechanical.
I am mourning my morning chuckle as I was led in a circuitous route through the morning's news.
TP has been just the ticket for my 10 minutes of hot tea and early morning world orientation - for many years now.
Slatest is NOT doing it for me.
Please bring back TP!

I'll give Slate the benefit of the doubt and try

Peggs — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:19:46 GMT

I have been reading Today's Papers daily for more than a decade. It's part of how I wake up in the morning. Like Thomas Picton, guadupede and others who've posted here today, I do not see a reason to change it. I continued to go first to Today's Papers, and then to other news sources, because TP would summarize how the major papers were reporting the top stories differently. I don't just want to know the news, I want to know the ways it's being reported because I don't trust any one news source. TP was a good, quick (and often delightfully snarky) way to begin coming at the news from different angles, daily. It reported on journalism while directing me to the news. There's lots of places to get the top news stories. I don't need one more.

I will miss TP. But I also remember writing an email to Slate complaining when my daily TP email started giving me only the first couple paragraphs and then directed me to the web. After my connection speed finally caught up to the web's content, I began to enjoy my daily visit to slate.com. So, I'll give Slate the benefit of the doubt this time and try Slatest, although I'd prefer to have Slatest AND TP.

Peggy

News 'Dots'

nerdnam — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:55:59 GMT

Great, everything is connected. So what?

I could tie a string between my left toe and my right toe, and I wouldn't know anything more than I know from News Dots.

I guess since this has shut down Worldlymrb and NCmusicman

rus — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 15:34:31 GMT

have started beating their wives to allay their frustrations

in other magazines RIP

areyes — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:38:19 GMT

hey guys, you killed my favorite section.

Iwasme, Kuniga, Ctcaguy, Bruce, JulieBoomer ALL GONE!!!

Helipilot — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 21:02:57 GMT

I guess they liked TP's veil so they use the F*** & S*** word on every other post. I made numerous complaints to TP about the abuse and never got a response. I guess with Face Book one could be tracked down. I once even had my life threatened on TP and that is crime. So may the cowards go off into the sunset.

Lib cowards are afraid to use Face Book

Helipilot — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 14:32:54 GMT

the like the veil of secrecy that TP offered them to post their garbage.

Cheney on the Left, Wolfowitz on the Right

muzza — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 17:56:12 GMT

I notice a recent love letter/article to that torture apologia Inglourious Basterds disappeared minutes after it was exposed for what it is.

If Slate turns right wing, the bastards win. If Slate goes offline entirely, because it lost it's core audience, the bastards win.

I sense a secret war.

E.Moore Kennedy widow 2 assume Brady Act-anti Heston Reins

lilmacg — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 03:29:21 GMT

A staunch Brady Committee Trustee, Mrs VICTORIA Reggie Rachlin of Chicago took over DC in 1992 when she married TMK--- Of Beruit family Roots, Ms Reggie (law degrees name) a Phi Beta Kappa (old Rev Tom Jefferson Wm & Mary society) skull n bones society) has risen to the Brady Act with Rodham and Wm Blythe IV as amended in 1992---

Who puckered up(Eu, Tu BRUTUS box cutter back stabbed) on ole MOSES Heston Family of gunsmiths in America(Sam Colt INC bankrupted and taken over after latch bust in 90s by UAW & State of Connecticut?

hmmmm

RIP Charlton Heston and family!

No Moore need for Weavers and WACO & Eldorado MormonShe then received her surrenders to the clans of Townsend/Gerry/

http://www.kidsandguns.org/familyroom/bios.asp

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Reggie_Kennedy

The second of six children, she was born Victoria Anne Reggie in Crowley, Louisiana to Louisiana judge and banker Edmund M. Reggie and Doris Ann Boustany Reggie, a Democratic national committeewoman.[2][3] She is of Lebanese descent, as all her grandparents were Maronites from Lebanon, who immigrated to the U.S. and settled in Louisiana.[4] Her grandparents became important players in the local Roman Catholic church and later their children became involved in business and politics.[4][5]

Her immediate family was wealthy because of money from her mother's family's interest in the Bunny Bread baking concern in New Orleans, Louisiana.[4][5] She was raised in a family that was constantly involved in politics and campaigns.[2] At the 1956 Democratic National Convention, her father helped deliver his state for John F. Kennedy's unsuccessful bid for the vice-presidential nomination. Over time, John Kennedy developed a close social relationship with the family.[6] Her mother cast the only Louisiana delegate vote for Ted Kennedy at the 1980 Democratic National Convention.[7]

Reggie met her first husband, Grier C. Raclin, a telecommunications attorney[4] (who later became a senior executive at Charter Communications in St. Louis, Missouri),[11] when they clerked together at the Everett McKinley Dirksen Federal Courthouse in Chicago. Their 1981 church wedding was in Crowley and "feted 400 guests with a week's worth of parties."

She and Grier Raclin have two children: Curran Raclin (a son, born 1982) and Caroline Raclin (a daughter, born 1985).[2] They were divorced in 1990.[2][12] Upon her divorce, she was left to juggle her career as a lawyer with her role as a single mother of two young children.[3]

While the Kennedy and Reggie families were friends for many years, Vicki remembers (but Senator Kennedy did not) their first meeting when Vicki was a summer intern in his Senate office's mailroom the year following her college graduation

· Grier Raclin: Vicki met Grier Raclin, an attorney, in Chicago, and they married in 1980. They divorced in 1990. Laura Blumenfeld: "Reggie met her first husband, Grier Raclin, a Washington telecommunications lawyer, while they clerked together in the federal district court in Chicago. Their 1981 church wedding, the talk of Crowley, feted 400 guests with a week's worth of parties. The couple divorced in July 1990."
Source: Laura Blumenfeld, "Victoria Reggie, Ready for Teddy; Her Friends and Family Agree. She's Perfect for Him", The Washington Post, 3/20/1992, page b.01.

http://marriage.about.com/od/politics/a/tedkennedy_2.htm

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/08/26/earlyshow/main5266696.shtml

http://www.theind.com/content/view/4871/94/

Sen. Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts left a giant’s shoes to fill in the U.S. Congress. Having been diagnosed and undergone surgery for brain cancer last year, speculation has already been well under way as to who would replace the “lion of the Senate” when the time came.

One of the names frequently mentioned is Crowley native Victoria Reggie Kennedy, Ted Kennedy’s wife of the past 16 years. Reggie is the daughter of former judge and state politico Edmund Reggie.

(Edmund Reggie directed John F. Kennedy’s presidential campaign in Louisiana in 1960 and went on to become a close confidant of Edwin Edwards.) Victoria Reggie, an attorney, has widely been credited as the resolute woman behind Sen. Kennedy’s renewed vigor and work focus of the past 15 years, helping him cement his reputation as an esteemed statesman.

In the new book Ted Kennedy: The Dream that Never Died, recently excerpted in Vanity Fair, Reggie is painted as one of three rival heirs apparent, along with Ted’s nephew Joe Kennedy and niece Caroline Kennedy. The Boston Globe is reporting today that Victoria Reggie has been lobbying Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick to honor one of Ted Kennedy's last wishes: that the state allow the governor to appoint his successor in the event of his death so as not to lose a crucial vote on pending health care reform legislation. The Globe has also recently reported, through its own insider source, that Victoria Reggie has said she is not interested in replacing Ted in the Senate

Then why are they still doing "Today's Business Press"?

mtavarozzi — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:31:08 GMT

Isn't that the same thing as Today's Papers? Of course, they'll probably use the aggregator rationale to stop the business version before they re-start TP. If your're reading, Slate, I only go to your site now to see if TP is coming back. I'm not reading anything else, and once it becomes clear that you're not re-starting TP, I will stop coming back forever.

From, a formerly devoted multi-visit/day reader.

RUS - you old GEEZER

Helipilot — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 18:27:19 GMT

TP still exists and is going strong. I'll post the link but you have to post the word 'UNCLE" to me before I give it out.

The Recession is Over. 400 More Banks Slated for Failure

Placebo — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 16:54:02 GMT

It now appears commerical realestate will follow in the footsteps of housing over the next few months. Projections are that some 5% of the nation's banks will fail because of it.

Øbama Czar #16. Green Jobs Czar - Van Jones

Placebo — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 16:11:12 GMT

Title: Special Adviser for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation at the White House Council on Environmental Quality
Salary: unknown
Reports to: Head of Council on Environmental Quality Nancy Sutley
Appointed: March 2009
Agency or department that might have handled similar issues: Environmental Protection Agency; Labor

• Will focus on environmentally-friendly employment within the administration and boost support for the idea nationwide
• Rose from near obscurity in the Oakland, Calif., grassroots organizing scene to the leader of a national movement to spur the green economy.
• Founded Green For All, an organization focused on creating green jobs in impoverished areas
• Also co-founder of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights and Color of Change, which includes Bay Area PoliceWatch, a group devoted to "protect[ing] the community from police misconduct"
• Published New York Times best-seller The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems, in October 2008
• Started career as a prison-reform advocate in Oakland, Calif., lobbying for reform of the juvenile justice system and youth-violence prevention programs
• Has law degree from Yale
• 2007: worked on the Green Jobs Act with then-Rep. Hilda Solis (D-Calif.), who co-sponsored the bill in the House
• 1993: was arrested at the Los Angeles riots that followed the acquittal of cops in the Rodney King beating. "I was arrested simply for being a police observer," says Jones, who had just graduated from Yale Law School and was working with the Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights in San Francisco.
• 1999: was arrested in the 1999 Seattle protests against the World Trade Organization
• Excerpt from a Nov. 2005 interview in the East Bay Express:
Jones had planned to move to Washington, DC, and had already landed a job and an apartment there. But in jail, he said, "I met all these young radical people of color -- I mean really radical, communists and anarchists. And it was, like, 'This is what I need to be a part of.'" Although he already had a plane ticket, he decided to stay in San Francisco. "I spent the next ten years of my life working with a lot of those people I met in jail, trying to be a revolutionary." In the months that followed, he let go of any lingering thoughts that he might fit in with the status quo. "I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th, and then the verdicts came down on April 29th," he said. "By August, I was a communist." In 1994, the young activists formed a socialist collective, Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement, or STORM, which held study groups on the theories of Marx and Lenin and dreamed of a multiracial socialist utopia. They protested police brutality and got arrested for crashing through police barricades. In 1996, Jones decided to launch his own operation, which he named the Ella Baker Center after an unsung hero of the civil-rights movement.

No "Slatest" or "Today's Papers" on Weekends?

Estabon — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 13:04:51 GMT

Well now I think we know why "Today's Papers" disappeared. It was too much work, required a little thought and thus fell prey to the most recent round of budget cuts. The proof? No "Slatest" on the weekends.

"Placebo can solve my investment gaffes!"

Fierrey persuit — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 06:09:51 GMT

Placebo is full of shit---anything he te lls you invest in is to do with leveraging himself...so if you think he/she/it is sexy,then only "God" can help you.Or perhaps Bernie Madoff!

Cap & Trade? Here's the List of Whom to "Thump"

Placebo — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 22:03:01 GMT

SENATORS TO HIT HARD:
Robert Byrd (WV) 202-224-3954, fax 202-228-0002
Evan Bayh (IN) 202-224-5623, fax 202-228-1377
Mark Begich (AK) 202-224-3004, fax 202-224-2354
Michael Bennet (CO) 202-224-5852, fax 202-228-5036
Jeff Bingaman (NM) 202-224-5521, fax 202-224-1792
Sherrod Brown (OH) 202-224-2315, fax 202-228-6321
Max Baucus (MT) 202-224-2651, fax 202-224-9412
Robert Casey (PA) 866-802-2833, fax 202-228-0604
Kent Conrad (ND) 202-224-2043, fax 202-224-7776
Byron Dorgan (ND) 202-224-2551, fax 202-224-1193
Kay Hagan (NC) 202-224-6342, fax 202-228-2563
Tim Johnson (SD) 202-224-5842
Mary Landrieu (LA) 202-224-5824, fax 202-224-9735
Carl Levin (MI) 202-224-6221, fax 202-224-1388
Blanche Lincoln (AR) 202-224-4843, fax 202-228-1371
Ben Nelson (NE) 202-224-6551, fax 202-228-0012
John D. Rockefeller (WV) 202-224-6472, fax 202-224-7665
Arlen Specter (PA) 202-224-4254, fax 202-228-1229
Debbie Stabenow (MI) 202-224-4822
Jon Tester (MT) 202-224-2644, fax 202-224-8594
Mark L. Pryor (AR) 202-224-2353, fax 202-228-0908
Olympia Snowe (ME) 800-432-1599, fax 202-224-1946
Susan Collins (ME) 202-224-2523, fax 202-224-2693
Gregg (NH) 202-224-3324
Lisa Murkowski (AK) 202-224-6665, fax 202-224-5301

What time/post is it?

Fierrey persuit — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 05:47:21 GMT

"Slate fare"?

Does this mean "Placebo" can be maimed,first,and then shot?

Can you say Ghost Town? No posts this morning?

kunigunda — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 13:54:13 GMT

Goodbye Fray

Øbama Has Accomplished One Thing....

Placebo — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 18:35:49 GMT

He has abosolutely assured the fact,.... that a black will never sit in the WH again. One would have expected him to watch his step more closely, so as to pave the way for future people of color. Instead he has festered a culture of hate in his feeble attempt to "redistribute" the nation's wealth,..his attempt to "socialize" the American system of capitalism. He's out of control and America now sees that. From the facist government control of the banks, to the outright communist confiscation of GM & Chrysler, the illegal appointment of 30+ Czars ( to poke the congress in the eye) 5 of which are self avowed marxists. WH imaginary powers are springing up like dandelions. Now we're hearing of an "Internet Czar", and an FCC Czar to shut down and silence the opposition. Well boy,...America just shut YOU down on government run healthcare. You've been scratchin' for a war against America since last january. Keep it up and you'll get a war even YOU won't believe and probably not the kind you envisioned. This is the United States of America. It will not allow itself to be "ruled" by a tyrant,..or a dictator. America , by god sir, is going to be run by Americans. I wouldn't get too comfy with your place in the world. The democrats won't hold the house and senate forever. When they're out,...we're going to nail your ass to the wall. Make you an example,...and a warning to others.

The Slatesh article ARE better...so why sink the fray

PatIowa — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 19:21:07 GMT

responses and discussion of the Slatesh "Today's Press"...and why repress discussion of "current events?

So in response to your bitching, Slate says GFY

kunigunda — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 01:04:43 GMT

We're doin' it. We like it. STFU.

I have been looking for a reason to drop this bad habit.

Slate has provided the impetus.

I suggest we all drop off for a month and see what Slate thinks about that.

But, seriously guys, everyone does this. Bring backTP!

MRZ — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 15:53:13 GMT

Ok, Slate. I've tried "Slatest" for the week. I've signed up for my thrice daily emails. I've given it a shot.

It's ok. It's similar to what every other news aggregator does, except maybe not as well. As with other aggregators, I've seen some interesting links. But it's no TP.

TP is how I start every morning. If I don't have time for any other news in the morning (or any news at all), I at least read TP. When I lived in Alaska, I'd read the next day's TP every night before bed. When I had limited bandwidth in Afghanistan, I'd read TP. When I've been out of internet contact for a few days, I go back and read all the TPs I missed to catch up with what was going on in the world. I don't think this is possible with the "Slatest."

TP is what brings me to Slate everyday and makes it my #1 news source. I imagine the constant updates to the news aggregator are designed to bring people to Slate more-and-more, but I find myself wanting to come less-and-less.

What's the value added to the "Slatest" over other news aggregators? It might be the helpful (TP-like) summaries that go with each article. But who wants to click on each link to read these summaries. At least put the whole summary on the front page (like with TP) so I can read them and eat my breakfast without have to click every 30 seconds.

My understanding is that the "Slatest" is supposed to up-date three times a day to match the news cycle. But it doesn't. The Morning, Afternoon and Evening editions share substantial overlap in content. This is annoying and a repetitive waste-of-time. Please, either update all 12 articles listed, or list a fewer number that you have the time and resources to update.

Libs fold like a lawn chair over P changes. ObamaCare would

Helipilot — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 14:36:18 GMT

decimate them!!!!