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According to a North Korean Central News Agency report, "peculiar natural wonders" have been witnessed since Kim Jong-il died on Saturday. And we're not talking about Kim Jong-il's face appearing in a crummy piece of toast. More »
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You would think that the AP would be satisfied with its status as "last remaining source of non-local 'news' for 95% of American newspapers." But no! Now they want to be kings of the internet, and whatnot, as well. More »
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In your hazy Thursday media column: Patch struggles with internet tendencies, Wall Street loves News Corp, Chris Matthews is banned from HBO, "new media residuals" sucks, and the AP warns reporters about the Twitter. More »
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In your beautiful Wednesday media column: MSNBC's doing fine without Olbermann, network news is on the rise, a crazy NY Daily News rumor, the AP plays footsie with North Korea, David Cho to Grantland, and a Village Voice strike update. More »
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In your overcast Monday media column: a new yuppified AP Stylebook, NewsBeast's ad troubles, HuffPo keeps on poaching, Carol Smith to Hearst, and Glamour's iPad revolution. More »
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In your breezy Friday media column: Conde Nast forsakes its hasty iPad pursuits, Fred Dicker's still alive, journalists meet Tumblr, TV networks approach pseudoevent overload week, and the AP and its union strike a deal. More »
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Prince William and Kate Middleton are a young, attractive couple who have been living together for ages. If they haven't had sex by now we'd be worried. Luckily nobody in the UK cares about whether their princesses are virgins anymore. More »
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Thank ever-loving Christ: The official AP stylebook has dropped the hyphen from "email." The AP will no longer write like your computer science teacher in 1997. Now maybe they can stop capitalizing Internet and the Web. More »
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Indiana's Republican legislature tried to pass a major anti-union bill this morning, as is the hot new trend. It would have passed. But thanks to the Wisconsin example, Indiana's Democrats knew how to respond and have fled the state to deny Republicans a quorum for a vote. They're either in Illinois or Kentucky because, as the Indianapolis Star explains, they "need to go to a state with a Democratic governor to avoid being taken into police custody and returned to Indiana." This gets more fun by the day. Aren't you having fun? Well, in any case. More »
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In your finally Friday media column: journalism's least competent weed dealer located, a Wikileaks smear scheme exposed, Rupert Murdoch believes in himself, AP employees put their cars on strike, and Eminem only speaks to middle school news outlets. More »
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In your stranded Monday media column: an AP vs. NYT journo-feud, Jon Stewart is slobbered over again, business cable news networks are finally making the big bucks, and Nick Kristof loves China so much. More »
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[Colorado is definitely going to have a white Christmas after being pummeled by winter storms. This Colorado woman clears out her walkway. Image via AP.] More »
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The AP, even with its recession-inspired cutbacks, is a great news service—but a pricey one, by newspaper standards. So Thomson Reuters is starting a competing U.S. news service. Like AP, but crappier cheaper. More »
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Yesterday a demolition crew blew up a 275-foot tower at the old Mad River Power Plant in Springfield, Ohio to great fanfare. But there was one problem — it fell the wrong way and took out the area's electricity. More »
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In your cooling Thursday media column: Roger Ailes has apprentices, newspaper websites are popular, the AP gets rid of its writers, and Jack Shafer defends Joe Nocera. More »
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In your pre-vacation Friday media column: the AP warns reporters on war propaganda, another Newsweek departure, China's "future of journalism" candidate, and ABC pulls a story, while standing by it. More »
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In your comeuppance-laced Thursday media column: Bill O'Reilly tussles with Newsmax, an airline magazine that doesn't suck is discovered, business journalism salaries revealed, and the AP kills the "Ground Zero mosque." More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5616951&view=rss&microfeed=true The AP is seeking a Washington, DC bureau chief on Craigslist(!). And a futon. More »
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Fox News is moving to the front row of the White House Briefing Room, beating out Bloomberg and NPR to take an empty spot occasioned by the retirement of longtime Hearst reporter Helen Thomas. And the AP moved somewhere, too! More »
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Bruno Souza, a popular goalie, has been arrested, along with his wife and several friends, for murdering his 25-year-old mistress, chopping her up, and feeding the pieces to dogs. He says he will "laugh at all this" later. [via, Image:AP] More »
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It's the New York Times new-ish headquarters and the American Institute of Architects has declared it the most unattractive in the city, more so than a T.G.I. Friday's and a Trump tower. Really? We're not so sure about that. More »
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Alvin Greene, the South Carolina Democratic Senate candidate who didn't campaign for his primary win, is feeling the fatigue of a general election. (Even though he still doesn't campaign.) The once media-friendly figure in now just shooing AP reporters away. More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5580454&view=rss&microfeed=true The AP's opinionated Washington editor Ron Fournier will become editor-in-chief of the National Journal Group. More »
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Today we heard that Simon Rich, wealthy son of New York Times writer Frank Rich and product of Dalton and Harvard, has a new movie in the works, in addition to a gig writing for SNL. Is that unfair? More »
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[A crazed fan celebrates after Brazil scored a goal during the team's 2-1 victory over North Korea at the World Cup. He was one of thousands who gathered to watch the game on Rio's Copacabana beach today. Image via AP] More »
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The 16-year-old almost lost at sea is speaking out: "I think that a lot of people are judging me by the standards they have for their teens...and thinking 'she's exactly like them.' They don't understand." Spoken like a typical teen. More »
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Say it with us now: Bwunnnnnnnnnnk! The South African noisemaker of choice, a plastic horn thing that makes a loud, obnoxious drone, will not be banned at International Soccer Christmas, at least for the time being. Sorry, millionaire ball-kickers. [NYT] More »
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Minnesota's lunatic congressmonster, Michele Bachmann, was on a little radio program this morning talking about our sinister president Barack Obama and she essentially asserted that he is the worst president ever. Then she threatened to karate-kill him. Oh boy. More »
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In your standoffish Tuesday media column: Robert Thomson is talking trash nonstop, Michael Isikoff's liberal bias exposed, CNN is giving up on news, Good Morning America goes into the magic business, and shameless Onion regurgitation of the day. More »
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ABC News is reporting that Joran van der Sloot—once a suspect in the 2005 disappearance of Alabama teen Natalee Holloway, who went missing while vacationing in Aruba—is wanted for questioning in the murder of a 21-year-old Lima woman. More »
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The top kill method of pumping mud into the Gulf Coast oil leak has apparently worked. The pressure on the gunk geyser is very low and once it is at zero, they fill the hole with cement, the end. [LAT] More »
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Vaughn Ward—the Sarah Palin™-brand, speech-robbing, Puerto Rico-bashing, "establishment" Congressional candidate—lost Idaho's Republican first-district primary to Tea Party-backed Raul Labrador, a known Puerto Rican, yesterday. What? The Tea Party voted against Sarah Palin and for a foreigner??? Unbelievable. [WSJ] More »
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Well, alleged affairs. Though kid-tested, Sarah Palin-approved South Carolina gubernatorial candidate Nikki Haley has denied it, a political blogger named Will Folks insists that he and Haley had an affair while she was married. First Mark Sanford, and now this?? More »
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Faisal Shahzad isn't the first terrorist I've had a crush on, but is it just me or is the new photo of the Times Square bomber not nearly as cute as old ones? The clink isn't good for his complexion. More »
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Chicago chef Rick Bayless, known for his Mexican-inspired cuisine, was invited to be the guest chef for tonight's White House state dinner in honor of Mexican president Felipe Calderon. Not everyone appreciates he's been tweeting every detail about the preparations. More »
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This morning President Obama nominated Solicitor General Elena Kagan to be on the Supreme Court. But few people are talking about her qualifications. They only want to know if she's into the ladies. Let's look at the facts, shall we? More »
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[Just an hour after a bomb scare, Times Square returned to tourists and T-shirts like normal. Image via AP] More »
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[A woman flees the fumes from a flaming manhole at 40th Street and Seventh Ave today. This is the last thing Times Square needs right now. Image via AP] More »
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The land around the Hollywood sign was going to be turned into luxury estates if someone didn't buy the 138-acre parcel first. A conservation group has now raised the cash. Who was the last-minute donor? The founder of Playboy, naturally. More »
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[The lines of people filing their taxes at the last minute at the James A. Farley Post Office on Eighth Ave started early today. They're probably hell now. You have until midnight, people! Image via AP] More »
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