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TIME’s Breastfeeding Cover Causing Social Media Uproar. The social media world is abuzz Thursday over the latest TIME Magazine cover (full size here), showing a Los Angeles mother breast-feeding her 3-year-old son. The story hits newsstands on Friday (it is behind an online paywall to non-TIME subscribers), addresses the trend of “attachment parenting,” and has sparked debate on Twitter about two topics:
- How old is too old to breast-feed?
- Is this photo beautiful or disturbing?
TIME’s blog explains that the photographer chose this particular cover image because the accompanying article is about attachment parenting, and, he says, “I liked the idea of having the kids standing up to underline the point that this was an uncommon situation.”One of the mothers interviewed in the story, Dionna Ford of Kansas City, Mo., discovered how difficult it was to wean her son off breast milk.
“After six months, I decided I’d wait until he turned 1,” she says. “But after my baby turned a year old, he was still a baby — not talking, barely walking — and I wondered why I’d stop now.”
Actress Alyssa Milano, who had a baby last year, tweeted:
“@Time no! You missed the mark! You’re supposed to be making it easier for breastfeeding moms. Your cover is exploitive & extreme.”
What did you think of the cover? Initial reactions?
-LD
Photo: TIME Magazine
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Pop Chips Pulls Ashton Kutcher Ad. The company behind the controversial ads that are buzzing around the web has responded.
From TIME:
Following an Internet outcry, Pop Chips pulled the clip of the character, “Raj”, from its official YouTube and Facebook pages, the New York Times reported. If you haven’t seen it, you didn’t miss anything (an abbreviated version exists here). The campaign featured Kutcher doing fake dating service videos dressed as four different characters–a stoner, a biker gang-type, a Karl Lagerfield-esque guy, and then Raj–all “bachelors” looking for love. They each got their own clips and all of them shared a penchant for a certain brand of potato chips. While the other characters were mostly just unfunny one-dimensional cut-outs, having Ashton dress up to give a canned Indian impression in brown-face came off tacky and pretty offensive.
Pop Chips founder and CEO Keith Belling responded on the company website Wednesday, saying:
We received a lot feedback about the dating campaign parody we launched today and appreciate everyone who took the time to share their point of view. Our team worked hard to create a light-hearted parody featuring a variety of characters that was meant to provide a few laughs. we did not intend to offend anyone. I take full responsibility and apologize to anyone we offended.
Chime in: Do you think the Ashton Kutcher/Popchips ad is racist?
-LD
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Photo: Youtube
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Whoa. Beavis and Butthead Are Back! From MTV.com: “It’s been almost 14 years since the slackest slackers of a generation, Beavis and Butthead, filled the airwaves with their shenanigans, but when the duo returns to television with new episodes Thursday (at 10 p.m.), the MTV they return to is quite a different one.”
When the duo was last on the air, the TV world was full of music videos (just for reference, the top song/video back in ‘97 was Aqua’s “I’m a Barbie Girl”). But MTV today has a whole new look with their plethora of reality programming, something the show plans to poke fun at. And the other question: can the duo make it in a Youtube and Twitter era when everyone has their chance to be a couch critic? Time.com’s James Poniewozik tells you why they will:
“With MTV, the boys have moved on to reality shows. Are there a thousand other places, on TV and blogs and in your Facebook newsfeed and IM windows, to find people making fun of reality shows? Sure: an entire TV show, H8R, was briefly dedicated to the people who did that.
But it’s still a pleasure to find someone really funny doing it, and as the pair turn on an episode of Teen Mom to watch one of the show’s unemployed babydaddies playing a video game and philosophizing, Butt-Head has not missed a beat: “This guy looks like he might be stupider than us.” When Snooki and Jenni on Jersey Shore make a chalkboard chain of the housemates and their hookups: “If they get this chart long enough, they can find out where herpes began.”
Are you excited for the show’s triumphant return? Why or why not?
-LD
Photo: Youtube
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![Resume Your Illegal Texting and Walking, Philly. Mayor Michael Nutter set the record straight with an official release this morning and on Twitter (as retweeted here by The20’s @marclamonthill).
First reported by another local news station yesterday, the web (including Time, Gawker and more), talk radio stations and social networks were buzzing about a reported $120 ticket being issued for texting while walking around town.
But it’s not true! According to an official statement from the Mayor’s Office, “Pedestrians may be reminded to be more aware of their surroundings; however, there are no citations issued by the PPD for texting while walking.”
The20’s @BrianPHickey wrote a great blog post about why it should be illegal, while @anniemal (who was notably worked up about the potential fine this morning) thanked the mayor for the clarification with this tweet:
@anniemal: Thank you @Michael_Nutter for announcing pedestrians will NOT be ticketed for walking and texting.
What do you think? Should texting and walking be a finable offense?
-LD
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Resume Your Illegal Texting and Walking, Philly. Mayor Michael Nutter set the record straight with an official release this morning and on Twitter (as retweeted here by The20’s @marclamonthill).
First reported by another local news station yesterday, the web (including Time, Gawker and more), talk radio stations and social networks were buzzing about a reported $120 ticket being issued for texting while walking around town.
But it’s not true! According to an official statement from the Mayor’s Office, “Pedestrians may be reminded to be more aware of their surroundings; however, there are no citations issued by the PPD for texting while walking.”
The20’s @BrianPHickey wrote a great blog post about why it should be illegal, while @anniemal (who was notably worked up about the potential fine this morning) thanked the mayor for the clarification with this tweet:
@anniemal: Thank you @Michael_Nutter for announcing pedestrians will NOT be ticketed for walking and texting.
What do you think? Should texting and walking be a finable offense?
-LD
[@marclamonthill, Time, Gawker, NBC Philadelphia, @BrianPHickey]
