US Airways Tweets Pornographic Image, Leaves it Up for an Hour

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US Airways posted an extremely pornographic image on its Twitter account Monday.
The Internet exploded and images of the tweet and the photo made the rounds, Business Insider reported.
The photo showed a completely nude woman on her back sticking a plane into her vagina.
A customer service representative posted the message in response to a complaint filed online. It was posted online for an hour before being removed.
A representative for American Airlines, which is merging with US Airways, released the following statement. Business Insider posted the statement on its website.
"Our investigation has determined that the image was initially posted to our Twitter feed by another user. We captured the tweet to flag it as inappropriate. Unfortunately the image was inadvertently included in a response to a customer."

Associated Press is So 'Over' It

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The word "over" is now acceptable to use in copy instead of "more than," The Associated Press announced last week.
"More than" had been deemed the acceptable use of indicating greater numerical value. "Over," until now, had been used to denote positioning.
“The language evolves, the usage evolves, and we’re trying to be sensitive to it,” said Associated Press editor Minthorn.
Other changes include:
"Wal-Mart" is now hyphenated.
"first aid" (noun) and first-aid (adjective)
"in vitro fertilization" (IVF is acceptable on second reference
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NYT: Reporters are Responsible for a New Kind of Math

A column in The New York Times by David Carr last month suggests that online news will be a booming industry in 10 years.
It also has a long way to go before it gets there because now the math just doesn't add up, Carr suggests.
Pageviews and money are already inexorably linked.