{The Briefing}
• A couple of days old, relevant nonetheless:
Pro-Palestinian supporters, or better yet— a group of antisemitic hooligans— sabotaged the Israel Philharmonic’s performance at Proms last Thursday night. While the British press— ahem, The Guardian— seems to be sympathetic towards the protesters, The Telegraph’s Stephen Pollard understands the demonstration was clearly an antisemetic act. A notable Tweet by the Culture Minister, Ed Vaizey: “Demonstrators seem to have turned [the] entire audience pro-Israel.”
• Tennis superstar Rafael Nadal, currently ranked the No. 2 player in the world, suffered a cramp during a press conference right after winning his match against the Argentine David Nalbandian at the US OPEN. The video depicts a suffering Nadal that slips away under the table. But don’t panic— the defending champion is in good shape and will hopefully take the trophy home for a second year in a row.
As was expected Nadal’s cramp caused some fuzz, but women’s No. 1 tennis player Caroline Wozniacki took it to the next level. She would do great on SNL, though personally I found it a bit disrespecful.
Watch Wozniacki poke fun of Nadal:
• Addictions come in all sizes and packages.
Though people don’t often perceive it as such, the Internet can become an addiction. But fear no more, the Center for Internet Addiction is HERE (well, since 1995 really). I just took the “Internet abuse test” an score a 44, which means: “[I am] an average on-line user. [I] may surf the Web a bit too long at times, but [I] have control over [my] usage.” How would you score?
- Lady of Press
