Conor and Phoebe kick things off by discussing Internet aggregation: what’s the fair way to attribute content that you discover through someone else? And what if that person isn’t a journalist? Phoebe, who is attending SXSW, shares her misgivings about a marketing company that is using homeless people to provide roving hotspots. Conor probes the question of obituaries: does a famous person’s personal life deserve mention? They close with the Rush Limbaugh controversy—instead of being forced to issue an apology, should public figures be pressured to submit to a debate?
Play entire videoDavid Carr in the NYT on aggregation at SXSW
Kashmir Hill’s controversial post on a NYT Magazine story
The original NYT Magazine story, by Charles Duhigg
Phoebe on Michael Browne
Phoebe on SXSW
Wired on Homeless Hotspots
Phoebe on previous work by the same ad agency
Katie Roiphe on obituaries
Conor’s Breitbart obit
Conor on Breitbart’s legacy
Jonathan Franzen on Edith Wharton
Mark Oppenheimer’s profile of Maggie Gallagher
Phoebe on Elizabeth Taylor
Roger Ebert on Taylor
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