This just in, and out, and back in once more:

NPR’s “All Things Considered” has an interview with the NYT camwhore exposer/rescuer, Kurt Eichenwald, reporting on the “massive disruption” in teen webcam portal sites he believes that his article may have (self-admittedly, temporarilly) contributed to. Reporter Melissa Block poses the apropos question about Eichenwald’s relationship to then-teen “camwhore” Justin Berry: has this become a “crusade” (her offered term) for him? Eichenwald points to his own guilt about the “other Justins” he met while researching the piece that he did not offer legal, medical, or educational assistance to.

EUObserver reports the unfortunate removal of the (are we the only ones to use the quotes?) “pornographic” posters from Vienna billboards, one consensually withdrawn by the artist…

The… disputed posters to be removed feature three naked models wearing masks of George W. Bush, Queen Elizabeth and Jacques Chirac. The Spanish artist Carlos Aires said he had withdrawn his pieces out of concern for the other contributors and to avoid “monopolising the whole project”.

… and one not so consensually:

One of them showed a woman with her legs spread wearing blue knickers and the symbolic stars of the EU. The Balkan artist Tanja Ostojic said she saw the withdrawal of her poster as “public censorship.”

Funding organization, 25peaces is back online, with Ostojic’s poster still intact. A limited exhibition of 29 posters heads to Salzburg later this month.

BONUS TRACKS
“NYT will pay for its Pulitzers” (Jossip)
Tanja Ostojic bio, artist’s personal site

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