Author: Adam Martin

Shep Smith Apologizes After Fox News Airs a Suicide

Fox News / YouTube

A carjacking suspect being chased by police in Phoenix suddenly got out of the car and shot himself on live television, prompting Fox News's Shepard Smith to apologize after the network aired the footage.

By Adam Martin

Apr 26, 2011

AOL Is Serious About Recruiting 8,000 Unpaid Bloggers in Eight Days

The plan is for them to write a new "local voices" section on Patch.com

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By Adam Martin

Apr 26, 2011

New Push to Reverse Prop 8 Decision Because Judge Is Gay

Vaughn Walker's sexuality was no secret, so why the objection now?

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By Adam Martin

Apr 26, 2011

Aflac Finds a New Duck Voice

After a very public process the company chooses a Gottfried replacement

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By Adam Martin

Apr 26, 2011

Friendster to Thankfully Erase All Your Old Photos

It's not closing, but the site is dropping your materials and moving to Asia

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By Adam Martin

Apr 26, 2011

Bill Keller on the New York Times's Definition of 'Torture'

He says calling all Guantanamo interrogation "torture" would be "polemical"

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By Adam Martin

Apr 26, 2011

Visions of Chernobyl 25 Years Later

Highlights of anniversary coverage of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster

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By Adam Martin

Apr 26, 2011

Trimming the Times: A Would-Be Terrorist; New York's Gambling Parlors

A guide to what's in the New York Times for those worried about hitting its pay wall

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By Adam Martin

Apr 25, 2011

The Silly Speech in Student Free Speech Fights

The Connecticut case over "douche bags" is the latest in a long tradition

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By Adam Martin

Apr 25, 2011

Iran Says It's Identified a Second Cyber Attack Worm

Tech defense chief walks a fine line between raising alarm and writing it off

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By Adam Martin

Apr 25, 2011

Roger Ebert Wins New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest

The film critic has been sending in entries for five years

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By Adam Martin

Apr 25, 2011

The Media Maneuvers Leading to the Guantanamo Files

Julian Assange's relationships with the news outlets he feeds is tangled at best

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By Adam Martin

Apr 25, 2011

Trimming the Times: Guantanamo Secrets; Shipwreck Ethics

A guide to what's in the New York Times for those worried about hitting its pay wall

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By Adam Martin

Apr 22, 2011

Where to Move if You Never Want to See a Mosquito Again

There are four places on earth, not counting Antarctica

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By Adam Martin

Apr 22, 2011

Revealed Court Records Scandalize Site Specializing in Revealed Court Records

Alabama prosecutors allowed 40 confidential applications to go online

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By Adam Martin

Apr 22, 2011

Anonymous's Winking Denial of the Playstation Blackout

"For once we didn't do it," group says

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By Adam Martin

Apr 22, 2011

Dissecting the Profile of the Long Island Serial Killer

A lot has been said before, but not as succinctly

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By Adam Martin

Apr 22, 2011

David Cameron Caught in 'Lounge Suit' vs. 'Tail Suit' Controversy

The British prime minister's royal wedding attire becomes a political issue

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By Adam Martin

Apr 22, 2011

Crime-Scene Tattoo Leads to Murder Conviction

A crime reporter can barely conceal mocking disdain for a "doe-eyed" gangster

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By Adam Martin

Apr 21, 2011

The Army's Arduous Task of Choosing a Battle-Ready Smartphone

It's going with Android for its prototype, but it's keeping the receipt

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By Adam Martin

Apr 21, 2011

New York City Uses Anti-Mafia Law to Sue Cigarette Vendor

City seeking $20 million in lost tax revenue

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By Adam Martin

Apr 21, 2011

Group Paid Protesters to Serenade Obama's Breakfast

Bradley Manning support group offering cash for singers

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By Adam Martin

Apr 21, 2011

'Foreign Policy' Finds Its Funnybone in Web Site Crash

The staff turns a technical emergency into a twitter zing-fest

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By Adam Martin

Apr 21, 2011

Is Syria's Government Fighting Twitter Protests With Spam?

Some bloggers have noticed disturbingly lame accounts

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By Adam Martin

Apr 21, 2011

Libyan Rebels Would Prefer New Equipment to Advisors

The West is rooting for some shoddily armed underdogs

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By Adam Martin

Apr 20, 2011

Understanding the Hate Crime Charges in the Rutgers Suicide

Indictment today in the prank that allegedly led to a death

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By Adam Martin

Apr 20, 2011

Two Journalists Killed in Libyan Fighting, Others Injured

Documentarian Tim Hetherington and photographer Chris Hondros were reporting in Misrata

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By Adam Martin

Apr 20, 2011

Twelve Years After Columbine, No Consensus on Making Schools Safer

Campus safety laws are a slapdash of anti-bullying measures and armed teachers

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By Adam Martin

Apr 20, 2011

'Three Cups of Tea' Author Faces Attorney General Probe

A media scandal over the book has turned potentially criminal

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By Adam Martin

Apr 20, 2011

France and Italy Follow Suit, Sending Advisors to Libya

Additional troops coincide with U.S. aid

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By Adam Martin

Apr 19, 2011

Lawyer for Ai Weiwei Is Released from Detention

Liu Xiaoyuan though he was being followed before being held in custody for five days

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By Adam Martin

Apr 19, 2011

Careful What You Say at Reuters

A rough month for HR, with a bureau chief fired and a senior editor reprimanded

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By Adam Martin

Apr 19, 2011

First Sokol-Related Lawsuit Names Buffett

Berkshire Hathaway shareholder wants payout for loss of goodwill

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By Adam Martin

Apr 19, 2011

Uganda Threatens to Shut Down Social Networking

But reported failed attempt from last week shows that might not be possible

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By Adam Martin

Apr 19, 2011

Hearing Vietnam Echoes in Britain's Libyan 'Military Advisors'

A team of soldiers will work with rebels to improve their military capabilities

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By Adam Martin

Apr 19, 2011

Restaurants That Offer a Side of Bullets

A look at some restaurant killings in the wake of Brooklyn's pizza attack

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By Adam Martin

Apr 19, 2011

French Jets Bombing Libya Were Recently on Sale There

Now they're on display for other interested weapons customers

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By Adam Martin

Apr 18, 2011

Twitter Wants to Buy TweetDeck for $50 Million

Guess the application didn't sell in February after all

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By Adam Martin

Apr 18, 2011

Gaga Restaurant Workers Grumble, Spawning Awful Headlines

If employees are unhappy, that doesn't make it a "bad romance"

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By Adam Martin

Apr 18, 2011

Why Would Someone Flout Rules to Buy Tanking TEPCO Stock?

Japanese regulators want to know who bought a 10% stake in the Fukushima operator

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By Adam Martin

Apr 18, 2011

How Portugal Lost Sunday's Finnish Election

A Finn nationalist party's 19 percent vote share could doom a Portugese bailout

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By Adam Martin

Apr 18, 2011

Demand Media Is Losing Its War with Google

A new search algorithm is knocking down the content farm's visibility, share price

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By Adam Martin

Apr 18, 2011

Surgeon Retreats from Critical Storm Sparked by Semen Editorial

Critics thought the Valentine's Day stunt reflected surgery's "macho culture"

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By Adam Martin

Apr 15, 2011

Andrew Breitbart's Book Isn't Changing Anyone's Mind

First reactions to the right-wing online provocateur's tome are predictably polarized

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By Adam Martin

Apr 15, 2011

Famed Brooklyn Pizzeria Owner Stabbed on Tranquil Sidewalk

Brazen daylight attack may have been mob-related

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By Adam Martin

Apr 15, 2011

What Johns are Saying About the Long Island Serial Killer

The customers of prostitutes have an online community, just like everyone else

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By Adam Martin

Apr 15, 2011

New York's Worst Serial Killer Talks About Its Newest

Serial killer Joel Rifkin says the bodies found in Long Island are not his victims

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By Adam Martin

Apr 15, 2011

Suing Blogger Compares Huffington to Marie Antoinette

Former HuffPo blogger pulls no punches regarding his lawsuit and his critics

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By Adam Martin

Apr 15, 2011

By Adam Martin

Apr 14, 2011

Report: China Spying Extensively on U.S. Government and Companies

How Chinese hackers outperform pretty much everybody else in the world

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By Adam Martin

Apr 14, 2011

Did Zipcar Get Swindled on Its Massive IPO?

At the end of a slam-dunk trading day, questions about underwriters' ethics

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