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This is still bothering me, obviously, and in order to sate my tin-foil sleazeball conspiracies, I'm publishing an email sent to me in order to corroborate my post that TMZ's coverage of the Erin Andrews peepholery was a little sketch.
When you start bathing in the gossip hog shit kiddie pool, as this site has tended to do on occasion, stories like this usually come from anonymous sources because that's how hog shit is made into sausage.(Congratulate me for breaking the world record for pork metaphors in one sentence.)
For disclosure's sake, let's just say he's probably the closest thing you'd get to an "expert" on all things TMZ-related and a trusted confidant of this site. (Not Nick Denton. Don't trust that guy whatsoever.) And this email came unsolicited, late on Saturday night, which is usually the best time for such ranting.
For those interested, take it as is.
You are so on target about TMZ's role in this Erin Andrews thing. Here's a few things to keep in mind:
They had these videos in their possession a full six months before the story broke (their item today notes, Someone tried to sell the clips to TMZ, but we refused to buy or air them because they were an obvious invasion of Erin's privacy).
Okay, if this was such an outrageous and invasive (and likely criminal) act on the part of the person trying to sell the videos, why the fuck didn't TMZ do a story back in January about the attempted sale of the videos? Or try and determine the identity of the person behind the Yahoo address from which they were sent?
Wouldn't that be the first thing a reputable outfit (with clean hands) would do? How fucking hard would it have been to figure out who the source was? He contacted them looking for cash...and was wide open to being stung if TMZ wanted to out him. That would have been a huge story—and one with legs, since Barrett would have invariably been arrested, tried, convicted, etc. The site would have looked like heroic crimebusters.
But they do nothing. Harvey Levin & Co. sat on their fucking hands for half-a-year knowing that this crime had occurred and said nothing. Only after it blows up do they roll over for Andrews's attorney.
Perhaps what really happened back in January was they were trying to negotiate a deal and could not come to terms with the guy. There's a reason why Levin lied to you about not knowing anything about the tape (and why TMZ published that phony smokescreen about the tapes possibly being done by an ESPN employee).
As a very close reader of TMZ, I can tell you that they have never ever passed up the chance to do a story about a celebrity sex/naked tape or photos. Never. They constantly do stories about purported offers for stars to pose nude or appear in pornos (Octomom, etc.). These are usually bullshit stories created (and fed to TMZ) by porn outfits like Vivid, but Harvey jumps on them and attaches that red TMZ "Exclusive" banner to each one.
The one sex video story TMZ never reported out was the one about which they exclusively knew all the details.
Also, this "we refused to buy or air them because they were an obvious invasion of Erin's privacy" crap might come as a surprise to Rihanna, whose battered face they splashed all over their site (after purchasing the police evidence photo from, it appears, an LAPD cop).
Couple of other things. The federal complaint says that Barrett sent TMZ clips on January 28 and January 29. Did he send more videos on the 29th because TMZ asked to see extra stuff?
According to the complaint, Barrett sent the videos to the e-mail address of Dennis Broad, a key Levin deputy. How did Barrett get that address (which is nowhere on the site)? Seems obvious that Barrett's contacts with TMZ were not limited to those two e-mails he sent. Might he have first contacted them via their tip phone line (or tip e-mail account) and been directed to send the stuff to Broad?
Also, I think your assertion that Levin has access to the FBI is likely not accurate. He laundered the info through Andrews's lawyer for a reason. He'd prefer that TMZ stays an arm's length away from the bureau. I'm sure he does not want to set a precedent whereby he directly provides a law enforcement agency with information leading to the arrest of one of the site's prospective paid "sources." Because if he's open to doing that, how could he defend against a police/prosecutor request/subpoena to give up the Rihanna cop?
Of course, by using Andrews's lawyer as a pass-through, he may have effectively waived that privilege anyway.
Finally, it is worth looking at the case of Roderick Davis, an L.A. guy who was arrested in 2007 for stealing a variety of production photos, documents, etc. related to the last Indiana Jones movie. TMZ had clearly gotten hold of some of this material (which Davis had been offering for sale to gossip sites) and used it in a story on their TV show. So they know something about hot/illegally obtained goods
Mr. Levin has yet to respond to our second email query about all this fun stuff. I'll keep trying and update if/when he does.
As you were.


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Greetings Rabbits! I have come across a website that is new to me and may be of interest to you. It covers the State of North Carolina and is called "Cemetery Census." Here is a description from from website:
"Cemetery Census is a strictly volunteer effort to record the burials in local family, religious and municipal cemeteries. We are not associated with any government agency, religious affiliation or commercial cemetery entity. This is strictly a labor of love by the many volunteers who collect, record, photograph and make available these valuable resources.
Allen Dew is the originator and driving force behind Cemetery Census. Allen started collecting cemetery records from several sources in 1995 and 1996. A few years later, Allen published these records on the Internet. The collection has grown to include several counties in central North Carolina.
Plans and capabilities have been put into place to expand the collection to other counties and states in the surrounding area. Partnerships have been established with Historical Associations and Genealogical Societies to import and display their cemetery information."
It also has a section that explains and defines cemetery law in North Carolina. This is a wonderful project completely done by volunteers. Take a few minutes and check it out.
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- S. Lincecum said...
This is "new-to-me," too! :-) Thanks for sharing it.
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We may have been too optimistic last month in noting the end of a year-long period of microrecession in the U.S. economy.
Here, we've been tracking the number of public U.S. companies that have been announcing decreases in their dividends each month. August 2013 had seen the number of U.S. companies acting to cut their dividends drop below the key level of 10 per month, which we've previously observed marks the boundary between a growing U.S. economy and a U.S. economy that is experiencing recessionary conditions.
The data for September 2013 is now out, and the early suggestion is that the U.S. economy is not yet out of the woods.
As we ask in the chart, is this a proverbial dead cat bounce (a one-time event as the number of companies acting to cut their dividends bounces back into recessionary territory) or is the U.S. economy experiencing the same kind of recessionary conditions that characterized the entire year from July 2012 through July 2013?
There are two things of which we can be sure. Neither the impact of the partial U.S. government shutdown, which didn't even begin until 1 October 2013, nor the potential impact of a U.S. Treasury default on the U.S. national debt that President Obama has planned for 17 October 2013 are responsible for this outcome.
Instead, since the number of public U.S. companies announcing dividend cuts each month is perhaps the single best indicator of the real-time health of the private sector of the U.S. economy, what the data for September 2013 really suggests is that the U.S. economy is quite not as strong as the previous data indicated.
And that could be a more significant factor in driving today's stock prices than the increasing level of political noise emanating from Washington D.C.
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I couldn't get the webpage working in IE (due to a script error) but after a lot of trouble it seems to be working in Firefox now.
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In one of my annual visits to the dentist, he told me about the time that he was taken ill from an unexplainable disease. After many tests, he had to be flown to Manila from Mindanao to be properly treated at the toxicology unit of a state-run hospital: the diagnosis was chemical poisoning. "It must be something in the water," he told me.
My dentist was lucky, he could afford to fly to Manila for adequate diagnosis and treatment.
Some communities aren't so lucky. They are poor and don't have the means to access the proper diagnosis of chemical poisoning so very often victims simply go untreated.
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For more than a year Greenpeace campaigned in the Philippines to raise awareness about the value of a pollution disclosure system via a Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (PRTR). The process of engaging government entities was extremely slow but late last year we saw a concrete sign of progress when on December 12th 2011 Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago filed a bill. This bill seeks to establish a Philippine Pollutant Release and Transfer Registry Act, and acknowledges Greenpeace's campaign role in shaping the decision.
The bill came as a surprise but was very much welcomed. It would have been the perfect Christmas present if the following days our country had not been hit by the worst cyclone in years.
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Hey Oppo! I just want to say thanks for being such a great crowd over the past year. I didn't even start as an author here, just commenting on random stuff. Then I started posting my own ramblings, yadda yadda yadda, and tomorrow begins my first day working for Jalopnik full-time.
I'll still be your weekend dude for the foreseeable future, along with posting on most weekdays, so you're not rid of me just yet. Thanks also for putting up with all my typos, my not-at-all interesting asides, and my constantly conflicting opinions.
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Can We Make Discovery A More Integral Part Of Process?/
The volume & density of NOISE seem to have been the dominant parts of the discovery process for some time now. We choose what we choose generally based on how often we hear ourselves being told to make that specific choice.
Everything becomes about level of spend and placement when it is all about how much noise you can generate.. And when it is about noise, everything really stops being about choice, but something much closer to just impulse. But what would happen if we started valuing certain voices over others? What would happen, if we committed ourselves to choices, and worked to reduce our impulses?
There once was a time when film audiences listened to critics, where what someone said about your film, or any film, actually mattered. It would be hard to imagine a scene in a modern movie about a filmmaker (if such a film could actually get made) when every character waited for the reviews to hit -- yet don't we all remember that scene quite well from past films about filmmaking or any tale about any creative act. It used to be that other than the audience's applause, the critic's review mattered most.
Word of mouth has always been something to cultivate, but the science behind it has always been lacking. What is the strategy that one can employ to heighten desire among sympathetic ears? When does interest spread for the core group and then spread like a virus in ever-expanding circles? If we value the opinions of the people closest to us, what can we build, what do we need, to help share their opinions so that word of mouth can truly bloom?
Do the new group of social network recommendation tools that have been rolling out over the past year+ help build word of mouth or do they just contribute to the volume of all the static? Back in the days when everyone read the same newspaper -- and thus heard the same voice -- were we better off, or were we really in a hell, albeit in an ignorant one, because we were stuck with stuff that had to appeal to the widest audience?
GetGlue is a social reccomendation assistant app. TechCrunch sums it up well (of course):
GetGlue, a social browsing assistant that shows ratings and recommendations of movies, books, restaurants, stocks, and more on the web, is furthering its mobile strategy today with the launch of an Android app and mobile website.
Similar to the recently launched iPhone app, the free Android app and new mobile site allows users can to check-in to their favorite shows, music, movies and books, and see what their friends are enjoying in real-time. With each check-in, users earn points and stickers from GetGlue and other major brands. The app also allows users to rate their favorite shows, movies, music and books and receive personalized suggestions.
You can also share check-ins with your Twitter and Facebook friends, rate lists of popular shows, movies, music and books, receive weekly new releases and customized recommendations, and access existing reviews, clips and ratings for 20 million movies, books and albums.
Hmmm.... is this what we need to make discovery a more integral part of the process? Are we utilizing these tools? Should we? And if not, why aren't we?
Jinni.com is another such tool that describes itself with the promise to "find movies, TV shows matching your taste" and to "allow you to watch what you wish for", but as Brian Newman remarked:
I don't find it remotely useful. I don't think many people sit down, think what will I watch tonight? Hmmm I want a "fish out of water" story, I'll click on that on Jinni and then click on Wall-E....which is what it just recommended to me when I looked at it again.
So where are we left? It's great that the programmers are working on this, but what is the solution? What do we need so that people can find better matches for what they are looking for?


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Editor's note: Child-custody cases fall under a peculiar category of the law, with special restrictions meant to protect both the child and those charged with ensuring his/her welfare.
In January, we reported on an unusual custody case involving a now 17-year-old Buncombe County boy diagnosed with chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome (see "Home for the Holidays," Jan. 6 Xpress). At that time, we promised further coverage pending an upcoming court hearing, which was held Jan. 14.
But even though the custody case has been resolved and the juvenile in question will be 18 in just over four months, state law bars most people from examining the official records without a court order. Meanwhile, confidentiality requirements bar the Department of Social Services from even discussing the case.
Whatever may be said to justify such protections, they unquestionably pose a significant obstacle to parsing these complex cases.
Many substantive questions simply cannot be asked (see sidebar, "Unanswered Questions"), making it almost impossible to assess whether the authorities handled a given situation appropriately.
The following report, then, is necessarily based on what could be heard and observed in open court or gleaned from outside experts.
"I cannot express in words how much of a living hell that last eight months of my life have been. I can't stress how pointless, unnecessary and painful this whole thing is and has been."
With these words, 17-year-old Ryan Baldwin emphatically called the authorities charged with protecting him from harm to account for how they'd treated him. The poignant courtroom moment capped a convoluted saga that had totally upended the lives of this Black Mountain family.
On Dec. 5, 2007, the Buncombe County Department of Social Services received a report alleging that the homebound teenager's medical needs weren't being met because his parents would not agree to some recommended treatments. The report also implied that the mother had factitious disorder by proxy (popularly known as Münchausen syndrome by proxy), a controversial diagnosis that some in the field reject as bogus.
Ryan, then 15, had been diagnosed with movement (tic) disorder, chronic fatigue syndrome and severe autonomic dystonia. The year before, the Social Security Administration had declared him disabled.
Under state law, the DSS is required to investigate complaints that, if proven true, would constitute child endangerment, and on Dec. 7, the agency dispatched a social worker to the Baldwins' home to discuss the claims. Due to confidentiality requirements, the Baldwins could not be told who'd made the allegations.
Thus began a two-year odyssey that would highlight the difficulties of diagnosing, living with and treating chronic fatigue syndrome; the questionable nature of the Münchausen label; and the unquestionable power of the DSS.
A "family-centered" approach
Although Angela Pittman of the Buncombe County DSS couldn't talk about the Baldwin case, she did discuss her agency's general philosophy and procedures.
"It's a very difficult job to balance, to look at and to work with families every day, and to make sure that kids are safe," said Pittman, the county's social work program administrator. Staff members, she noted, "are an extremely committed bunch of people that … believe in the work and want to get it right."
Last year, her department's 100 child-service specialists worked with 3,782 minor children and their families, including the Baldwins.
Like all N.C. counties, Buncombe operates its Department of Social Services under state and federal guidelines. The state rules stress a "family-centered" approach that Pittman said results in "more partnering."
Absent an "on-the-spot emergency," she explained, the first step in responding to allegations of abuse, neglect or abandonment is to sit down with the family and outline the concerns. "Then we talk about is it viable and is it safe for the child to remain in their home." If that seems unlikely, the department will "always explore kinship options first" — i.e. having the child stay with relatives or family friends.
If that's not deemed feasible, however, the DSS may actually take custody of the child, albeit with the goal of retaining as many connections to the community as possible (same school, same church, same friends) and making "kinship" placements a high priority. But "the thing that runs throughout," asserted Pittman, "is we are legally mandated to ensure child safety."
A "multilevel decision"
In Ryan's case, the safety issue triggered a yearlong investigation, followed by another full year of court appearances and a succession of foster homes. And in the process, the whole idea of "kinship" got stretched rather thin, as Ryan was removed from his home, forbidden to even speak to his parents, subsequently also taken away from his grandparents, and dispatched to foster care in outlying counties.
In March of 2008, the DSS shipped some 25 pounds of Ryan's records to Dr. Molly Berkoff, director of the UNC School of Medicine's Child Medical Evaluation Program in Chapel Hill, for formal review. It took Berkoff roughly nine months to complete her evaluation. During that time, Investigative Social Worker Jo Galloway visited the Baldwin home regularly, testifying later that she'd never observed "anything overly dangerous for Ryan."
Berkoff's report finally arrived in late December, triggering a "multilevel decision" to officially charge Ryan's parents with medical neglect, according to Galloway.
Despite never having met with any of the Baldwins, Berkoff concluded that Ryan was at risk because he didn't have a primary-care physician. She recommended mental-health evaluations for both the boy and his mother, specifically looking for evidence that Lisa Baldwin had Münchausen syndrome by proxy. Under questioning by the Baldwins' attorney, however, Berkoff said that it was the original DSS complaint — not Ryan's medical records — that referenced Münchausen's.


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Team members of the Xbox One division might just find a special gift under their trees this holiday season – a special white edition of Microsoft's latest gaming console.
An image was leaked on Reddit by user Kinect10DLL and showcases a white Xbox One unit with the inscription "I MADE THIS" engraved on the front. Xbox team members will also receive all one player launch titles, a year of Xbox live (something you imagine wouldn't be hard to obtain for someone working on the Xbox team), and a special Live achievement.
The image cannot yet be confirmed, so we ask our users to take the information with a grain of salt, but we have to admit that the Xbox One does looks sexy in white.
If you are a member of the Xbox One team and want to reach out to us to confirm the image, you can do so by clicking here.
What do our readers think – would you prefer a black or white edition of the Xbox One?
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Fila is making noise in the golf business these days with offerings for men, women and children.
Part of Fila Golf's 2013 line, includes waterproof wind jackets for both men and women.
The London men's jacket and the Victoria women's jacket include the following features, according to Fila:
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Both jackets retail for $110 and are just as useful and stylish on the course as they are off it.
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