The Smoking Gun
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Does A Windows 8 Rumor Source Actually Exist?...and the Windows 9 project plan." That LinkedIn page was immediately linked by several blogs, which proclaimed it something of a Smoking Gun. Following that burst of news, the LinkedIn page itself was taken down. I reached out to Microsoft... In this article: Microsoft, LinkedIn, All rights reserved, Trademark, Smoking Gun, and Los Angeles |
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Sports by Books | November 19, 2009
Smoking Gun: Red Sox Owner Was Blatant Racist
2:32 PM J. Brady McCollough of the Kansas City Star on ESPN-TV if Mark Mangino will be fired: "I don't think he can make it through this. The damage has been done in recruiting." ESPN's Joe Schad: "I don't think he's going to be able to...
In this article: Tom Yawkey, Boston Red Sox, Boston, Red Sox, MLB, and Brian Brohm
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MTV.com | November 12, 2009
Rihanna's Rider Reveals Penchant For Buffalo Wings, Turkey Sausage
...were slipped in there just to make sure everybody was reading the thing). Rihanna's rider, which found its way online via the Smoking Gun, contains a handful of charming notes. In addition to the normal supplies needed by most singers...
In this article: Rihanna, Sausage, Turkey, Frosted Flakes, Boiled egg, Smoking Gun, and Van Halen
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Joystiq | November 04, 2009
Smoking Gun teases original IP with preview of 'X' graphic novel, ARG
...at what they've been up to with the first of four sneak previews of X, a graphic novel launching next year that lays the foundation for Smoking Gun's new IP. Hidden within the preview (on page 13, actually) is a link to a tie-in ARG that...
In this article: Smoking Gun, PS3, Douglas Rushkoff, Japan, Easter egg, Uncharted 2, Tax, and GameFly
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Nintendo Wii Fanboy | November 04, 2009
2009 Club Nintendo rewards have arrived!
28 minutes ago on Joystiq: Smoking Gun teases original IP with preview of 'X' graphic novel, ARG 48 minutes ago on Joystiq: No Doubt suing Activision for Band Hero 'circus act' appearance 1 hour ago on Joystiq: Ubisoft reports...
In this article: Smoking Gun, Ubisoft, Activision, PS3, and Microsoft
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PS3 Fanboy | November 04, 2009
New PSP-3000 value packs coming to Japan
...PS3 Motion Controller 3 hours ago on Joystiq: Epic Mickey is the strong, silent type (of cartoon mouse) 4 hours ago on Joystiq: Smoking Gun teases original IP with preview of 'X' graphic novel, ARG 4 hours ago on Joystiq Nintendo:...
In this article: Ubisoft, Japan, The Beatles: Rock Band, Smoking Gun, WoW, Tekken 6, Namco, Blizzard, and THQ
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Wired: Game Life | November 03, 2009
Merchants of Cool Creator Pens Videogame Backstory
The first issue of the comic, titled X, is available at a viral website set up to promote the as-yet-untitled new game from developer Smoking Gun. Rushkoff is the author of Life, Inc., a non-fiction book critical of the corporatization...
In this article: Douglas Rushkoff, Smoking Gun, Videogame, Shadow Complex, Wired.com, Arthur, Orson Scott Card, and PBS
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Boing Boing | October 29, 2009
The story behind the Do chimps grieve? National Geo photo
...debacle headed for eBay, "Hell Yeah It's Fast" sticker included Remember the La-Z-Boy DWI story Pesco blogged earlier this week? Smoking Gun has an update on the case of Dennis LeRoy Anderson, who drank "eight or nine beers" before...
In this article: Chimpanzee, Coyote, Smoking Gun, La-Z-Boy, EBay, and Facebook
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Telegraph.co.uk - International news | October 28, 2009
VS Naipual 'killed off by FBI in court footnote'
...in the footnotes of evidence submitted by Special Agent Lorenzo Benedict was spotted by the entertainment and crime news website The Smoking Gun after the documents were unsealed on Tuesday. Tahawwur Hussain Rana, a Pakistani-born...
In this article: FBI, Islam, Chicago, VS Naipaul, Nobel Literature Prize, and Nobel Prize
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ScienceDaily: Latest Science News | October 26, 2009
Smoking Gun: Just One Cigarette Has Harmful Effect On Arteries Of Young Healthy Adults
ScienceDaily (Oct. 27, 2009) Even one cigarette has serious adverse effects on young adults, according to research presented by Dr. Stella Daskalopoulou at the Canadian Cardiovascular Congress 2009, co-hosted by the Heart and Stroke...
In this article: Arterial stiffness, Tobacco, Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada, Nicotine, Smoking Gun, Oxygen, and University of Georgia
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E! Online | October 24, 2009
Balloon Boy Cops' Smoking Gun: Mom's Confession!
Today 7:35 AM PDT by Natalie Finn Turns out mom knew it was "for a show," too. Balloon Boy's mother, Mayumi Heene, has admitted to investigators that the whole "my son flew away" thing was a hoax and that she and her husband, Richard,...
In this article: Silver, Roald Dahl, Wolf Blitzer, and CNN
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The Smoking Gun is a website that posts legal documents, arrest records, and police mugshots on a daily basis. The intent is to bring to the public light information that is damning, shocking, outrageous, or amazing, yet also somewhat obscure or unreported by more mainstream media sources. Most of the site's content revolves around historical and current events, although it also features documents and photos relating to out-of-the-ordinary crimes and people. It is owned by truTV.
The "smoking gun" name refers to the smoking gun metaphor, which is commonly used to describe an incriminating piece of evidence.
One section of the site is made up entirely of "riders" in the contracts of popular music acts, focusing on the artists' personal demands; some of the publicized demands are either highly self-indulgent or inherently humorous.
The website was founded in 1997 by William Bastone and Daniel Green, former reporters for The Village Voice. Most of The Smoking Gun's content is obtained by Freedom of Information Act requests to federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies, and from public records such as court documents. The site has used those requests to assemble a collection of mugshots of current and historical celebrities.
Court TV (now truTV) purchased The Smoking Gun, as well as its sister website Crime Library, in 2000. In January 2006, The Smoking Gun was the first to report that James Frey fabricated parts of his bestselling memoir, A Million Little Pieces.
The site published its second book, The Dog Dialed 911: A Book of Lists from The Smoking Gun, in October 2006.
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