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journalismism
NYT Blog Tries to Unpublish 'One of the Best Kept Secrets in Brooklyn.' Fails.
Yesterday, the New York Times' blog about the Fort Greene neighborhood published a post on a "secret underground climbing gym" in Brooklyn. Today, they took the post down. For a preposterous reason! Now it's getting way more attention. More » -
Media Crack
Bill Keller's Had Enough of Your 'Jokes.' Jerk
In your famous Friday media column: exclusive thoughts from Steven Brill on the future of paid online newspapers, Rebecca Dana gets a new job, newspapers die and thrive, and Bill Keller will never be on the Daily Show again. More » -
Recessionomics
Now Theft-Worthy: Salt
The Way We Live Now: Broke as a joke from coast to coast. They're selling heroin in Maine. They've sent everyone on furlough in California. And in the Midwest, you can't even leave salt outside without enterprising Americans swiping it. More » -
Kari ferrell
Hipster Grifter Catching Mad Charges, In Utah
Just when you were about to give up on life, there's a Hipster Grifter news update! Kari Ferrell had more charges filed against her out in Utah yesterday. Let's learn about them! More » -
outrage
Proud Reputations of L.A, Television, Fox Destroyed by Harlot
Body-displaying sex symbol Jillian Barberie Reynolds still has a job as a, heh, "weather and lifestyle anchor" on Fox TV in L.A., while actual journalists are getting laid off. How long will we allow sexy ladies to defile our televisions? More » -
Fitness
Extreme Dieting Prolongs Your Miserable Life, Say Donut-Munching Scientists
After torturing rhesus monkeys for decades with extremely low-calorie diets, scientists have finally proven that eating less can help primates (you) live longer. And the United States of America has proven that eating more kills you quick. Related: Donut Wars!! More » -
Billy Mays
Dead Man Sells Adhesives
Billy Mays is dead, but his ghost will return to haunt your television until you order roll after roll of Mighty Tape, to quiet the bearded demon. It's what he would have wanted. More » -
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Scandals
Canned! Pug Puke Arrestee Too Hot For TV
Chrissie Brodigan, captured the hearts and minds of New York after pulling her puking pug dog off the L train and subsequently getting arrested for it. Now, she's been fired from her job. This has gone too far! More » -
hustlers
'Generational Consultant' Holds America's Fakest Job
The fakest job corporate America ever created was "Branding Consultant"—until now. Meet Anne Loehr, a "business coach" who will (for a small fee) explain the mysteries of "Generation Y" to a corporate audience. She knows your soul, kids. More » -
Unjust desserts
Chocolate Is Death
A 29 year-old chocolate factory worker in New Jersey died today after falling into an eight-foot-deep vat of melted chocolate. One option for the poor man's cadaver: a mold for chocolates. More » -
Rain dogs
Tom Waits Being Cool
"All I remember was my sax player making a fire out of chop sticks and holding his horn over the flame to warm it up before we went on. Everyone was dressed up in moon gear." And fuck Frank Sinatra: More » -
Recessionomics
There Once Was a Man From Nantucket. He Died Broke.
The Way We Live Now: Sucked of our nectar. How far does this hellacious recession reach? All the way into Nantucket, hallowed home of corporate titans. Jack Welch now supports himself by re-selling home run balls he caught, fact. More » -
Scandals
More NYT Photoshop Fakery Found
Photo District News has found evidence of digital manipulation in three more of the 'Ruins of the Second Gilded Age' photos published by the New York Times Magazine last weekend. It's starting to look like a *real* scandal. More » -
trendwatch
Tag-Teaming in the Meat Room: Butcher Lust Becomes Frenzy
Hipster farmers are pussies. Yuppie foodies are embarrassing half-men. But butchers—so fucking hot, OMG. All the blood. All the meat. All the editing in the world can't conceal NYT reporter Kim Severson's butcher lust: More » -
Media Crack
Rupert Murdoch Declares Culture War
In your woebegone Wednesday media column: the WSJ takes on the NYT's culture section in a total death match, TV networks not upset they lost $23 in ad money covering MJ, more Hobo New York Times coverage, and newspapers burn. More » -
journalismism
New York Times Happy to Consider Story as Long as They Don't Have to Pay Expenses
Hobo broadsheet the New York Times, last seen telling its reporters that text messages are too expensive, has found another way to save precious nickels: getting freelancers to pay their own reporting expenses. With virtual panhandling! More » -
Science
College Kids All Racist In Their Own Special Ways
College: where drunk kids are guinea pigs for social science. The funnest college-kid studies involve race, because they make everyone uncomfortable! Now comes a new study of interracial college roommates that proves we're all terrible. A racial breakdown:
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mythbusting
There Must Be a Metaphor in NYT Photoshop Scandal
Last weekend the New York Times Magazine published a beautiful set of photos of abandoned buildings and such, as a chronicle of the end of the gilded age. Now they've pulled them for probably being Photoshopped. Fakery! More » -
Lawsuits
Bike-Shove Victim Will Take Cops' Money
The bicyclist who got shoved off his bike in Times Square by an asshole cop last year is suing the NYPD for $1.5 million, which gives you another reason to watch this YouTube clip and really, really hope he wins. More » -
Lawsuits
'Promiscuous Slut,' Legally Defined
Maximilia "Ava" Cordero, alleged underage lover of billionaire perv Jeffrey Epstein, sued the New York Post two years ago after it ran a story saying she was born a man, and was slutty. The decision is in! Sexlaw frontiers, here.
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Losers
Ruth Madoff: Unsympathetic Figure
Ruth Madoff is getting her passport back, so that she may—if she's smart—flee this country for an isolated life far, far away. Our poll of public sympathy for her did not come back with encouraging results: More » -
Dissent
Andrea Peyser Disgusted By Your Sicko MJ Lovefest
With all of this tabloid love for Michael Jackson today, which brave soul shall stand up and proudly fly the "Sicko!" banner of dissent? Hark! Andrea Peyser still exists. More » -
champions
Marijuana Smoker Lands Fast Food Job
While you were all just hanging out last weekend swimming in a pool and smoking weed, Michael Phelps was being quietly reintroduced as a pitchman for Subway. More » -
Chris Brown
Go Directly to Jail
Chris Brown, woman-beater, showed up at Puffy's White Party last weekend wearing a $300,000 pendant "that spelled out the word 'OOPS!' in diamonds." What a fucking asshole. [YBF via The Awl] More » -
Pitch of the day
'Amazon women live in huts massage gringos all over except butts(etc.)'
A successful PR pitch starts with a subject line that grabs the eye. Congratulations to Eric Schwartz, who pitched us a spa review story with the subject line above. Aspiring writers, take note. Here's a taste of the story's magic: More » -
Recessionomics
Pope Wants World's Money, For Shoes
The Way We Live Now: Under the thumb of the papacy. The Pope is calling for some super-Illuminati to rule the world economy. No need, dude; we had one already, called Ikea. And it's laying people off. More » -
Media Crack
'The Printed Blog' Was Not Deceptively Brilliant
In your failure-prone Tuesday media column: The Printed Blog does not revolutionize the media, the Washington Post investigates endlessly, the newspaper industry declines more than 100%, and—what's this?—the City of New York wants to give money to you! More » -
Scandals
Pug Puke Contretemps May Make Pug Mom a Temp!
Chrissie Brodigan was victimized once, when her pug dog threw up on the L train. She was victimized again when she was arrested for the puking incident. Now she may lose her job. More » -
Controversies
Joe Jackson Pancake Painting a Little Too Intense For Corporate America
Speaking of important Michael Jackson news, pancake-painter-to-the-stars Dan Lacey has some! He painted this moving portrait of "Joe Jackson with a Michael Jackson memorial ticket and a pancake upon his head." Ebay is censoring it! More » -
How to sell
Best Saleslady Ever Not Appreciated
A popularity contest that pits snobby Saks Fifth Avenue against a lady who gave away free money? It's no contest! Saks is mad because this lady—who worked there—gave away $1.4 million of their money. Counterpoint: people like money! More »
















