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DiversiTea

Steve Benen brings it:

Though [Uni-Tea Party event] organizers said the event’s website had been visited more than 2 million times in the days leading up to today’s rally outside Independence Hall, for most of the afternoon there were fewer than 500 in attendance.

I’ve haven’t seen Fox News reports on this, but one can assume it will tell viewers that 17 billion people attended the event.

Zing.

Also worth noting that:

Of the 500 or so attendees, McMorris-Santoro and Jillian Rayfield said fewer than 20 had “non-white faces.”

If 7% of those 20 were actually there by their own design, I’d call it an unqualified success…

DiversiTea

As I understand the structure of the argument, [Josef] Joffe ridicules me because

  1. I have written a number of articles opposing fiscal austerity right now. This shows how foolish I am, because good economists never return to or elaborate on points they’ve made before. Milton Friedman wrote one article about the virtues of free markets, and never mentioned the subject again.
  2. European political leaders aren’t taking my advice. This also shows how foolish I am, because politicians always make the right decisions about economic policy.
Paul Krugman politely responds.

We are the AP, we are a for-reals, big-timey news agency. Without us you wouldn’t even know what was happening two towns over. Thus, re-using our content costs money, because our content is valuable. You, you are just some guy who runs a multi-million dollar company or some a-hole with a blog. Your content is meaningless pablum slathered on the walls of the digital romper room that is “the internet”. It is valueless and thus we are able to reproduce it in any way we choose.

InclinedPlane, Hacker News commenter, distilling what the AP meant to say in response to this.

Zing!

Man, ever since they sold out to Amazon, the one-day-one-deal sales machine Woot has totally fallen into line with the dictates of the man and/or Our Corporate Paymasters:

So, The AP, here we are. Just to be fair about this, we’ve used your very own pricing scheme to calculate how much you owe us. By looking through [the AP story on Woot’s acquisition], and comparing your post with our original letter, we’ve figured you owe us roughly $17.50 for the content you borrowed from our blog post, which, by the way, we worked very very hard to create.

Dare I say hoisted on their own petard? I feel a sudden and strong urge to buy some random bag of crap. Or, perhaps, a bandoleer of carrots.