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Around the Blogosphere, 26 July-1 August 2010

Submitted by Erastmus on Mon, 07/26/2010 - 00:20

So, what's been hot on the blogs this week.. well, lets see..  lets start with Mel Gibson. Apparently, someone released at least 5 tapes where the former action hero makes death threats towards his ex-wife, where he admits to have punched her, and mr Gibson doesn't stop there.. he also spews anti-semetic, homophobic and racial remarks on those tapes. Will he be able to get back into the movie industry ever again? Don't know. Time will tell.


Moving on, as I posted a few days ago, BP has photoshopped several of their photos on their official website. BP have confessed to this although blames an overzealous photograph for the doctoring. John Aravosis from americablog.com was the blogger who blew the whistle about the edited photographs, and Washington Post picked up on his story.

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Around the Blogosphere, 12-18 July 2010

Submitted by Erastmus on Mon, 07/19/2010 - 00:10

Not surprisingly, the hot topic in the Swedish blogoshere this week has been the resignation of the the Swedish Minister of Employment, Sven-Otto Littorin. The reason given for the resignation was because of a tough seperation and custody process, and because of being hunted by media in its wake, Littorin stated that personal issues was more important than his role as Minister of Employment. However, a few days later, it was revealed that the allegedly true reason behind his resignation came just the next morning after an evening newspaper found that Littorin purchased sex from a prositute. This has been strongly denied though, and the newspaper who came with the allegations have been sued. Could be damaging for the sitting government, considering that it's election year.

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