The New York Times

The New York Times descends on Austin for the 2013 South by Southwest Interactive festival.
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By lexinyt

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Barry Diller, chairman of IAC: I’m not saying that cable and satellite are dead.

Ali Velshi, CNN business correspondent: Good, because I’d be coming to you for a job.

Mr. Diller: That’s all right, everybody does.

In this morning’s discussion with Barry Diller, where he walked the audience through his forthcoming Aereo cloud-based TV service. Unless a lawsuit stops it from debuting next week, it will stream live broadcasts to Internet devices for $12 a month. — Lexi Mainland

By lexinyt

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Tonight in SXSW party pictures: Jill Abramson, the executive editor of The Times, and Jeff Elder, the marketing director at Storify (and former newsman himself), compare tattoos at the Palm Door. Ms. Abramson’s tattoo is a New York City subway token. Mr. Elder’s is “All the News That’s Fit to Print,” The Times’s slogan since 1896. (Photo by Jeff Elder) — Lexi Mainland Note: Ms. Abramson is speaking about the future of The Times on Monday at 11 a.m.

Tonight in SXSW party pictures: Jill Abramson, the executive editor of The Times, and Jeff Elder, the marketing director at Storify (and former newsman himself), compare tattoos at the Palm Door. Ms. Abramson’s tattoo is a New York City subway token. Mr. Elder’s is “All the News That’s Fit to Print,” The Times’s slogan since 1896. (Photo by Jeff Elder) — Lexi Mainland


Note: Ms. Abramson is speaking about the future of The Times on Monday at 11 a.m.


By davidfg

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davidfg: In his keynote address, called “How to Read the World,” the comedian Baratunde Thurston, who writes for The Onion, mentioned the impact of a widely circulated Onion article that said Planned Parenthood would be opening a huge “abortionplex.” Many people did not pick up on the satire here, including a Republican Congressman from Louisiana, who posted it to his Facebook page last month and added a comment: “More on Planned Parenthood, abortion by the wholesale.” But someone who was in on the joke set up a page for the Abortionplex on Yelp, and the reviews started pouring in, 278 of them as of Saturday, analyzing the merits of the buffet and the climbing wall. “We had unintentionally created a platform for the expression of other people’s comedy and satire,” Mr. Thurston said. — David Gallagher

davidfg:

In his keynote address, called “How to Read the World,” the comedian Baratunde Thurston, who writes for The Onion, mentioned the impact of a widely circulated Onion article that said Planned Parenthood would be opening a huge “abortionplex.” Many people did not pick up on the satire here, including a Republican Congressman from Louisiana, who posted it to his Facebook page last month and added a comment: “More on Planned Parenthood, abortion by the wholesale.” But someone who was in on the joke set up a page for the Abortionplex on Yelp, and the reviews started pouring in, 278 of them as of Saturday, analyzing the merits of the buffet and the climbing wall. “We had unintentionally created a platform for the expression of other people’s comedy and satire,” Mr. Thurston said. — David Gallagher