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Gawker jumped the shark. Yet again. There was an presidential primary, which was lost by the media. CBS News urged politicians to tend to the hipster vote. Hillary Clinton was photographed by a beefcake photographer. We hated on cable news bigwigs (Roger Ailes, Lou Dobbs and Bill O'Reilly).
Other media news: we began the deathwatch of Portfolio's Joanne Lipman. Tacky: we unearthed an old girlfriend as Elle's uber-boss announced his engagement. Prediction: under Rupert Murdoch, the Wall Street Journal will retire, at least sometimes, the beloved A-hed front-page color piece. Embarrassment of the week: the internet experiments of New York's media giants.
On the lighter side, found: an old ad for Pakistan International Airlines, with the shadow of a jet airliner falling across the Twin Towers. The Simpsons announced the death of print; we followed up. New York loved The Wire, even though the HBO show's creator didn't return the affection.
The serious media caved to public interest in celebrity meltdowns. Associated Press decided that Britney Spears was a "big deal" — here's the leaked internal memo. Following AP's lead, we provided handy guides to Britney Spears' trajectory, and Tom Cruise's heterosexuality, for people who didn't want to dirty themselves with such trashy gossip. For those readers for whom even that was too much text, we ran celebrity photographs, and let commenters trump our captions.
In news of Gawker's home-grown celebrities, bench-pressing strongman Aleksey Vayner returned with a self-help book. A Merrill Lynch research analyst mounted his own dirty protest. Uber-geek Jakob Lodwick hooked up with his former girlfriend's "adopted little sister". In more jailbait news, a Gawker Stalker provided an upskirt photograph of one of the stars of Gossip Girl.
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