The following is an excerpt from OpinionJournal.com’s “Best of the Web” written by the editor, James Taranto.
It’s Always in the Last Place You Look
“Last Vivaldi Concerto Found in Scotland”–headline, Reuters, Oct. 7
Bottom Stories of the Day
- “Escalator Malfunction Nearly Injures Bruce Willis”–headline, New York Post, Oct. 6
- “AP Sources: All Hopeful Mideast Talks Can Go On”–headline, Associated Press, Oct. 7
- “Obama to Democrats: Stop Sulking”–headline, USA Today website, Oct. 7
The ‘Blue Site’
“NBC Universal and Microsoft, the parents of msnbc.com, are holding high-level talks about changing its name, an unusual and potentially risky endeavor for the third most popular news Web site in the United States,” the New York Times reports:
The two parents have not yet agreed on what to call the site. But according to internal memorandums obtained by The New York Times this week, the parents have concluded that the brand known as msnbc.com, a strictly objective news site, is widely confused with MSNBC, the cable television channel that has taken a strongly liberal bent in recent years. . . .
Under the current plan, the msnbc.com Web address would become a site exclusively for the cable channel, fulfilling the channel’s desire to have an independent site to promote its TV programs. The existing news site, called the “blue site” internally, would move to a new and as-yet-undetermined Web address.
Good thinking calling the “strictly objective news site” the “blue site.” At least no one will mix it up with RedState.com. …
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