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Greta Van Susteren Exposes Palin Family Kitchen Activities!
Square-jawed Fox News host Greta Van Susteren is out to show that the media is not totally in the tank, by giving a fair and balanced interview to Gov. Sarah Palin right in her own back yard! And by that we mean not just "the state of Alaska," but literally "her own back yard." Greta is chronicling her trip to Wasilla on her very own blog, "GretaWire," which allows us all to take an intimate peek into this cross-continental journalistic excursion. Question: On a scale of 1-10, how much of this trip was for "journalism," and how much was for "Whoa, free snowmobile ride!"? Let Greta's own pictures guide you: More »
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Comment by misslinda: That is just godawful placement of the stove. People, never ever ever put a stove up against a wall, it... 10 Responses | Other threads
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Circ may be down 17 percent (uh, controlled! right!), and they still have Joel Stein writing for them, but at least there's one thing going right at Time: The softball team beat the New York Times last night, 20 to 11, to win the championship in their cute little media softball league. The trophy will be on display on the 22nd and 24th floors today, so if you're in the building, head over and pay tribute, okay?
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Comment by PRIsNotJournalism: Jayson Blair played -- and skewed the run count. Go Time. more » | Other threads
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Penny-Pinching 'Times' Plays Hardball, Employees Play Nothing
Bad news for the boys and girls of summer at The Paper of Record:The New York Times is cancelling the softball team. An H.R. representative told me that the company is no longer paying for employee activities like this, if we want to continue we'll have to pay for it ourselves. The registration fee is $2000, and they're not willing to part with it.
This is a shame, especially when you consider the 30% growth in online revenues they predicted. (Oooh, we can't wait until next week's annual report, currently in edits!) Now we'll never see John Noble Wilford's gyroball! -
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Media Softball: Satire Always Wins
Last Thursday, the staffs from the Observer and New York magazine took to the softball field; it would be no small exaggeration to say the prettily pink players from the Observer had their witty asses handed to them on the proverbial plate (we imagine that if New York were to actually use a plate for this purpose, it'd be an elegant piece of dinnerware from Kate Spade's Gramercy Park line as recommended by Strategist). The score was 15-10 and, as the Observer write-up indicates, the crushing loss stemmed from a shitty first inning that had the NYO down 9-0: More » -
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By JessicaComment by commentator #6304: I bet Tea Partay hits Letterman faster than those mentoes & diet coke dudes. more » | Other threads
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'NYer' Softball Write-up Just Too Precious For Us To Ignore
One of the vows we took when coming aboard the good ship Gawker was to drastically reduce the coverage of media softball games: Frankly, we couldn't give a shit about a bunch of folks who all went to the same six schools tossing spherical objects around Central Park, and, really, we felt bad about taking material that should rightfully belong to Deadspin. This morning, however, we were forwarded Matt Dellinger's coverage of the recent New Yorker/Harper's outing, and, well, it's just so adorable that we have to share it with you. See, Matt wrote it up Harper's Index Style, which, if not necessarily comedy gold, is certainly comedy silver. After the jump, see what Conde Nast employees do instead of fixing up their website. More »
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By abalk2Comment by raincoaster: Paid by the word. How do I get the gig liveblogging this for MediaBistro? more » | Other threads
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Media Softball: Tom Hanks Waves Foam Finger for 'Vanity Fair' Victory
While the rest of the country spent most of last week dressing their Roman-Candle wounds, the Vanity Fair softball team was making history on the diamond, schooling the world-renowned High Times Bonghitters, 8-5. The stoners took an early lead in the game, but it didn't take long for the Veefers to exact their vengeance for May's 13-4 loss to the Bonghitters. More » -
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Media Softball: Battle of Jellinek; Felix Dennis to Wear Cheerleader Skirt
There's a major showdown brewing for tonight: Dennis Publishing brothers Maxim and Stuff will take to the softball field for a fierce battle of Axe Body Wash-scented supremacy. The game takes on a new relevance, however, with the recent defection of former Stuff EIC Jimmy Jellinek to the top of Maxim's masthead, taking with him three former Stuff staffers. Thus the game ensures to be nothing more than a violent grudge match. The question, however, is not whether or not Stuff can win back its pride or if Maxim will smack them into submission — it's whether or not Jellinek will play. As we understand it, his editorial skills may be an asset, but Jellinek's athletic prowess helps no team.
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By JessicaComment by mark duffy: The game should be played with a hardened breast implant. more » | Other threads
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Media Softball: CollegeHumor Out-Lads 'Maxim'
In a stunningly average display of athletic prowess and a minimal-at-best understanding of slow-pitch softball, the boys (and solitary girl) of CollegeHumor.com held off a furious last-licks rally by Maxim to defeat the mag, 15-13. More » -
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Media Softball: Gawker Media Lets 'WSJ' Win
Obviously, we love summer softball. We love it only slightly less when it requires that we be at Central Park at 11 AM, as we were on Saturday, to play the disturbingly nice kids from the Wall Street Journal. More » -
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Media Softball: 'VF' Beats Air America, Invents Witty, Alliterative Nicknames
More mopping up this morning of last week's softball. Vanity Fair filed a report late yesterday on its Thursday-night drubbing of the Air America team — dubbed by the VF wits the "Pugnacious Progressives," "Blue-State Broadcasters," "Syndicated Seditionists," and "Left Dialers." Valiantly playing on the face of an impending deluge, VF and Air America held on reach the middle of the fourth, when the game ended in a 9-4 VF win. So how could it take from Thursday night till Monday afternoon to write up three and a half innings? The nicknames, clearly. More » -
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Media Softball: Bonghitters Keep Streak Alive, Mop Up WNYC
In all the excitement Friday about Richard Johnson and Andy Pemberton and Leon Freilich's impending vacation, we somehow missed an important report in our inbox: More » -
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Media Softball: Now With Long-Lead Production Sked
One wouldn't accuse the Vanity Fair softball team of being prompt with its postgame reports — they work at a monthly, after all, and you know the flexible relationship those kinds of people have with deadlines — but you've got to give them some credit: They're now posting reports on the public VF site, and they've even got pictures. In the Veefers' Rashomonic look at last week's tilt against High Times, the Bonghitters still win but the prose is more flowery. More »
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By JesseComment by TorturedWriter: Interesting how the Vanity Fair players are no one on the masthead you've ever heard of. more » | Other threads
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Media Softball: 'BizWeek' Is Better Than 'WSJ'
We missed this Friday because our email wasn't working quite right. (Today our web browser isn't working quite right. Fun!) But we know you don't want to be left behind on any details of media-softball season, so we must pass on news, even if a touch belatedly, that BusinessWeek pulled out a come-from-behind 9-8 victory over their rivals at The Wall Street Journal last week. So now you know who is clearly the superior source for business news. More » -
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Media Softball: Bonghitters Bogart the Veefers
The High Times softball team continues to steamroll its way through the media competition, pulling out a 13-4 win over the Vanity Fair squad last night. Editor-at-large Steve Bloom has a wrapup of the game, but there's no mention of VF's sartorial choices. We presume Graydon's kids wore tartan-plaid uniforms, and we further presume they looked spectacular. More » -
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Media Softball: 'High Times' Smokes 'The New Yorker'
As if isn't bad enough that The New Yorker took home only two National Magazine Awards last night, the far worse news is that the mag's softball team suffered its eighth straight loss to the fabled High Times Bonghitters. One bright spot: Apparently they've got spiffy new personalized uniforms. More » -
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Media Softball: 'High Times' Beats 'The Onion'; 'BizWeek' Beats 'Paris Review'
We've fallen behind in reporting on the fledging 2006 media-softball season, but we're determined to make it up to you. First, and most interestingly, High Times has graciously begun providing newsreel-style "Potcasts" of their games. We're duly impressed with the craftsmanship, but, even more than that, we're impressed with the thing's actual existence. We could never motivate to get something like that finished, even if we were sober. More » -
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Gawker's Week in Review: Fake Writers Will Never Learn
• Harvard sophomore Kaavya Viswanathan gets spanked for plagiarizing her debut novel. Little, Brown enters shame spiral for having given an underage hack a two book, $500K deal — they cope by pulling her bestseller from the shelves. More » -
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Media Softball Season, Now Puffing Along
The first media softball of the season arrived this morning: More » -
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'New York' Mag: You Will Play Softball, and You Will Like It
The sun is shining, the pollen is in the air, and that means one of our favorite times of year is right around the corner: Media softball season! And with that comes our favorite part of our favorite time of year: Media softball memos! And here's the opening pitch, an announcement of New York's first — and compulsory — softball game. In which they will be playing against themselves. (But don't knock it, to paraphrase the Woodman: It's a game with someone you love.) More » -
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Softball: One of These Things Is Not Like the Other
Yesterday we reported on Tuesday night's New Yorker-Gawker Media softball extravaganza in Central Park. Our summary: More » -
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Survival of the Prettiest: Gawker vs. NYer Softball
Unfortunately, his lucky Gap khakis failed him. More » -
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Softball: To Foxman's Chagrin, No Doubt, 'VF' Tops 'Cargo'
No word yet on the big Today vs. GMA softball rematch. But here's a report from the VF-Cargo battle, which apparently primarily focused on the truly important part of any softball game: More » -
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Softball: 'New Yorker' vs. 'CJR'
In tonight's big media softball faceoff, Coach Dellinger's well-oiled New Yorker machine will take on the scrappy watchdogs of Columbia Journalism Review, who we believe will actually be playing rather than just umpiring. More » -
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Softball: Not All History Is Written By the Winners
So, yes, the legendary High Times Bonghitters beat The New Yorker on the softball field Tuesday night, and we carried a terse report yesterday, sent by a Bonghitter. But, as you well know, it's just not the same without New Yorker coach Dellinger's nicknamerrific wrapup — so it's a good thing that one of our favorite Conde pixies forwarded Coach's report to us this morning. It's been too long since we've heard from Dellinger — a few weeks, it seems like — and now we know why: After last week's game the Harper's publicist poisoned him, and he was too ill to report. More » -
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Softball: 'New Yorker' Can't Harsh the 'High Times' Mellow
Because it's much too hot to worry about anything real, we present the latest dispatch in our disturbingly comprehensive coverage of media softball. This just in, from the fragrant High Times offices: More » -
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Today in Softball: 'VF' Smokes 'High Times,' &c.
• First, a terse report from 4 Times Square: "Tis true, Vanity Fair pulled it out and beat High Times 3 to 2 last night. First time in 5 years or so. However, there were no signs of pastels or Izods." More » -
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Softball: 'High Times' vs. 'Vanity Fair'
We're told the High Times bonghitters are taking on VF's squad tonight. First pitch is at 7 p.m. in Central Park's North Meadow, and we suspect this will be about the biggest clash-of-worldviews game around. We expect worn 501s, concert t-shirts, and old Chucks on one side, with summer whites, pastel polos, and saddle shoes — or maybe a nice, supple, driving moc — on the other. More » -
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Softball: 'The New Yorker' vs. 'Harper's'
Not one but two reports arrived today on last night's big New Yorker vs. Harper's softball faceoff. The short version is this: The New Yorker folks won, 6-3, and one child played, though it was not Adam Gopnik's. Both reports after the jump. More » -
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Reader Email: Root, Root, Root for the Home Team Edition
We're like the drug dealer in an after-school special. The first few fixes we give you for free, then you're hooked and can't help yourself. It's the only explanation for this email: More » -
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Softball: Morning Show Wars Continue
Here's the only softball news we have for you this weekend: More » -
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Battle of the Titans: Gawker vs. Onion Softball
There was apparently some important play going on here, but an intern brought Corona and we stopped watching. More » -
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Softball: Stoners vs. Neocons
We're told the High Times crew kicked some WSJ softball ass this weekend, with the Bonghitters beating the Journalistas 11 to 3. More » -
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Softball: The Stoners vs. The Man
A Dow Jones spy reports that The Wall Street Journal's softball team is taking on the lovable losers of High Times tomorrow morning in Central Park. North Meadow, Field 2, 11 a.m., for all you fans. More » -
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Softball: Sublimating the Ayem Ratings Wars
Moving their to-the-death battle to a typically non-casualty venue, Today and Good Morning America faced off on the softball field this afternoon, at Heckscher Field in Central Park. More » -
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Softball: Upstairs/Downstairs at Conde Nast
This latest softball update arrives from a Conde staffer insufficiently important to merit working at 4 Times Square. (The signature on her email lists a Third Avenue mailing address.) More » -
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Softball: Causing Biz-Mag Staff Changes, Maybe
We received a press release an hour ago announcing that John Byrne, editor of Fast Company for the last two years, has left the magazine to join BusinessWeek. "This is the one job I could not turn down," Byrne said of his new gig in the FastCo-issued statement. "I have every confidence in Fast Company's editorial team and every confidence in the magazine's new owner to get the magazine to a new level of success." More » -
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Dreams of Field
You've probably noticed our recent media-softball obsession. So, too, have the good people of The Onion, who then went and challenged us to a game. There was lots of emailing back and forth, many schedules checked, and Wednesday, July 27, was settled upon as a date that worked for both the Onionians and Team Gawker Media. More »
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