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Comment by Swordfish: The Money Honey is married? Who knew? more » | Other threads

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    Media Bubble: Wal-Mart Will Not Tap Your Phone Again. Guaranteed.

  • Wal-Mart is really, really sorry that they taped a Times reporter's calls. They don't want you to think they're Hewlett-Packard or anything. [NYT] More »
    • 03/06/07
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    Media Bubble: We're All Out Of 'Times' Allusions

  • Arthur Sulzberger may try to take the New York Times private rather than see it fall into the hands of Hank Greenberg or Jack Welch. [BW] More »
    11/30/06
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    By abalk2

    Comment by Steverino: You forgot to add quotes around "reporting" in that HuffPo item. more » | Other threads

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    Media Bubble: Here Is The Internet

  • We think it's kind of tacky to mock a Parkinson's patient for writing a doddering, fogeyish column about the Internet. So we'll let Wonkette do it. Anyway, our guess as to the mystery journalist is Kaus. [Slate] More »
    11/29/06
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    Comment by Balk: For the record, that is not the work of our graphics team. In case that wasn't obvious to anyone. more » | Other threads

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    Media Bubble: Switching Chairs

    • Will Kristine Johnson replace Roz Abrams as weekday anchor on WCBS News? Yeah, us either. [NYDN]
    • David Schneiderman out at New Times, Bill Jensen in. Memo: "Over the next few days and weeks, Bill, his wife Kendall, and their two children, ages eight and six, will be preparing to leave Boston and move to a Village Voice city, probably either Phoenix or Denver." You hear that, Phoenix and Denver? You're Village Voice cities! And apparently interchangeable. [VV]
    • Either LAT editor Dean Baquet is the bravest man in journalism or he doesn't want to be the only one standing when the music stops. [NYT]
    • Kurt Andersen still thinks LAT readers are dumber than NYT readers, just not as many of them as he previously suggested. [Romenesko]
    • Barry Diller has "an amazing, gnarled face that speaks of his Beverly Hills youth as well as time spent on his beloved yachts." Also, a shitload of money. [Guardian]
    10/27/06
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    Comment by Professor Korbel: I'm dealing with a crushing hometown blow too, vw. First Jessica left Gawker. And now, the thought of not having Roz... more » | Other threads

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    Media Bubble: Get Well, Clay Felker

    • Post headline promises way more than it delivers. [NYP] More »
    10/05/06
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    By abalk2

    Comment by The One: Shanna just did what so many of us have wanted to do for the past few years. more » | Other threads

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    To Be Young, Nave, and Totally Scammed on an Apartment

    "Tragedy is when I cut my finger," Mel Brooks once said. "Comedy is when you fall into an open manhole and die." The two lightbulbs in our kitchen burnt out last night, and it was tragic. This, on the other hand, is comedy gold: More »
    06/28/05
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    By Jesse
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    'Village Voice' Union Set For Apocalypse

    Maybe it's a little early to go around voicing our Chrismukkah wishes, but we don't care: This year, we'd love for just one alternative newspaper to happily survive and thrive. The New York Press is slowly dwindling into a whisper-thin shadow of its former self, and now comes word that the fine staffers at the still-venerable Village Voice are readying for some babymamadrama. More »
    06/28/05
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    By Jessica
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    Diaperquest: You People Know Nothing

    Syd Schanberg revealed in this week's Village Voice that he once got a tip that "a gifted and well-known newspaper editor liked to have sex wearing diapers." Responsible journalist that he is, however, he did not follow up on the tip. Fortunately, we are not responsible journalists, and, accordingly, we asked you for your thoughts. Not only wasn't there sufficient consensus among the responses to suggest that one was correct, indeed many of the guesses didn't even fit the criteria. Still, because we like any excuse to put famous media folks' heads on the bodies of diaper-clad babies, here are some of the more intriguing responses:
    • "Katharine Graham, and it's not such a secret — I'm pretty sure it's in her autobiography." [Ed.: She's not an editor, we certainly don't remember it being in her autobiography, and, at least, the index doesn't include an entry for "diapers."]
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    06/16/05
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    Wednesdays With Sydney (Early!): I'll See Your Foot Fetish and Raise You a Diaper Kink

    That wunderkind new "Media Clips" columnist at the Voice, Syd Schanberg, this week looks at the Post/News pissing match. We think his point is that the two tabs should focus less on each other and more on aggressively covering the city (did we mention that prescriptive media criticism puts us to sleep?), but the best part is buried in an aside.
    Some weeks ago, the Post reported that the News' new editor in chief, Michael Cooke, has a shoe fetish. Really? And how was that supposed to encumber his journalism? I was once told that a gifted and well-known newspaper editor liked to have sex wearing diapers. (I never followed up on it.)
    Our money's on Abe Rosenthal. Got a better guess? Let us know: tips@gawker.com. More »
    06/14/05
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    Voice of the Underclass

    Wow. We've been so fixated on the preppy loucheness of New York magazine, we forgot how tumescent the rest of the New York media world has gotten—even the muckraking fiftysomethings at yon tribune of the dead counterculture, The Village Voice. Yes, children, spring is in the air, and the Voice's sap is definitely rising, to judge by reporter Aina Hunter's dispatch from a recovery school for johns in Brooklyn:
    "When I was in the lifestyle, I didn't care anything about all you," begins Rosetta Menifee, a blonde woman in her late forties wearing glasses and a suit. Talking to a class of 50 men at the Brooklyn John School, she looks like a social worker, but she sounds like Lil' Kim.
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    05/10/05
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    Wednesdays With Sydney

    Breaking news: Top execs of huge media conglomerates are paid a lot of money! More »
    05/04/05
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    By Jesse
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    iFired

    An editorial assistant at Fader was fired for talking to the Times about the theft of his iPod. Sounds like a job for super-lawyer Ted Olson. —MG More »
    04/27/05
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    Sydney Schanberg: Resist Much, Obey Little

    When former Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Sydney Schanberg was named the Voice's new Press Clips writer a few weeks back, replacing Jarret Murphy, he promised to bring a fresh energy to the task despite his age (71 years young!). The proof is in the pudding this week:
    The press has been grappling with how to cope with this extreme control and distortion of news, some reporters and editors more than others. One possibility they might consider is civil resistance, as in quiet, nonviolent, respectful rebellion.
    Funny how you have to be over 70 these days to give real fuck about the quality of journalism, eh? (The Thoreau quote is a nice touch.) Next up: Schanberg teams with Helen Thomas, brings down Western Civilization. We'll be there drinking a margarita. More »
    04/19/05
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    Musto Takes Blind Item Guessing Game Over The Edge

    In his latest column for the Village Voice, Michael Musto takes a giant gossip shit: More »
    03/29/05
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    By Jessica
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    Young Fogies vs. Old Softies: It's Pazz & Jop Time Again

    In its annual Pazz & Jop Critics Poll (transposed letters how edgy!), the Voice gives the #1 and #2 album of the year slots to rapper Kanye West and Beach Boy Brian Wilson, respectively. More »
    02/08/05
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    By noelle
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    Gawker Holiday Gifts: Michael Musto

    Anticipating a slow news week, we asked a few media and blogging luminaries to play Santa and tell us what gifts they would deliver to five people or entities of their choosing. First up is the always affable and holiday-sluttering Michael Musto who's been writing about gossip and pop culture for the last 20 years in the Village Voice. His picks: More »
    12/29/04
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    By Andrew
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    Highly-Important Internal Memo

    TO: All @ Gawker More »
    12/22/04
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    By Jessica