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#thegreatrecession
The official unemployment rate is now 10.2%, higher than analysts expected, according to Bloomberg.
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#cuteoverload
Jim Windolf skewers Cute Culture: "It privileges the inner child, who, necessarily, has awful taste."
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#crime
Bernard Kerik pleads guilty to fraud charges (including "the head shot"); faces 33-month sentence.
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#printisdead
No, Every Newspaper Does Not Need to Cover the World Series
There are many reasons to mourn the slow death of the newspaper industry — first and foremost the hordes of people losing their jobs. The disappearance of all-expense-paid journalist conventions masquerading as "major assignments" is not one of them.
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#media
Auletta: Google feared buying the NYT would "sabotage their identity as a neutral search engine."
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#quoteoftheday
Tila Tequila —
reacting to high school teachers who (wisely) confiscated a student's copy of Hooking Up with Tila Tequila, in Steppin' Out. Also: "You want kids to read a fucking book, then let them read a fucking book, you fucking moron." More » -
#bookclub
Perez Hilton's Rumors of Fidel Castro's Death Were Greatly Exaggerated
It's time for another Gawker Book Club meeting: Ann Louise Bardach will be discussing her new book Without Fidel: A Death Foretold. Our topic today at 4pm: how Perez Hilton caused havoc in Miami by falsely reporting Fidel's death. More » -
#quoteoftheday
Devon Brady —
an 18-year-old college student demonstrating exactly who you'll meet if you give into the utterly befuddling hype and go see the allegedly so-bad-it's-good movie The Room, in the Los Angeles Times (which also has an enlightening photo). More » -
#quoteoftheday
Gore Vidal —Â
the provacateur doing his best to eradicate any remaining supporters of Roman Polanski's effort to get the world to overlook the fact that he raped a 13-year-old girl in 1978, in an interview with The Atlantic. More » -
#quoteoftheday
Dana Cowin —Â
Food & Wine editor describing the challenges of styling bird carcasses for magazine covers, in the New York Times via CJR's The Kicker. More » -
#newyorktimes
How Arthur Sulzberger discusses his paper's problems: "What was the critical flaw to the Titanic?"
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#oopsy
Our ad sales team fell for a malware scam. Sorry if it crashed your computer.
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#quoteoftheday
Philip Roth —Â
the author giving you the justification to just give up trying to read that copy of The Plot Against America that's been on your nightstand for the last two months, in an interview with The Daily Beast via The Guardian. More » -
#contests
Can You Bring the Kushner-Trump Wedding Photos to Life?
So the official wedding pics of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump are all over the internet. Boring, right? Yes. If you can make them better, we'll pay you. More » -
#quoteoftheday
Savanna Samson —Â
the popular porn actress discussing her experience playing the porn version of Liz Lemon on last night's 30 Rock [Fleshbot NSFW], in an interview with BSCReview. More » -
#openmicnights
Want to Audition for a Gawker Night Editor Job?
We received so many responses to last week's night editors job listing that, to be honest, we need some help separating the interesting from the interested. So, we're starting an audition thread for anyone who'd like one of the jobs. More » -
#quoteoftheday
Lee Daniels —Â
describing his approach to producing films and raising financing for movies like Cannes darling Precious, in an entertaining profile by Lynn Hirschberg that will run in this Sunday's New York Times Magazine. More » -
#indignities
Salman, Salman, Salman... you should have kept your mouth shut. Was this worth it?
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#revenge
Hell Hath No Fury Like a Gawker Media Blog Scorned
This'll be fun: You know the ESPN guy and his 22-year-old ESPN sexbuddy story? Well, Deadspin heard rumors about it months ago, but got the nothing-to-see-here treatment from the ESPN flacks. Pissed, they started a daylong ESPN sex rumor dump. More » -
#quoteoftheyesterday
Oprah Winfrey —Â
predicting on Extra! last December that her supposed feud with Palin (remember when that was a thing?) would end once her book was published; Palin's appearing on Oprah's show on Nov. 16, one day before Going Rogue goes on sale. More » -
#crime
Giuliani-loved-and-Judith-Regan-loving Bernard Kerik's was sent to jail today ahead of his corruption trial. [NYT]
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#newyorktimes
This image (and video!) would be our NYT layoff-watch logo if the paper allowed embedding.
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#quoteoftheday
Morley Safer —
at a memorial service held today at Lincoln Center for 60 Minutes creator Don Hewitt who died at age 86 in August, according to Broadcasting & Cable. More » -
#breaking
The Balloon Is Empty
CNN is carrying footage of the balloon after it landed in a field in Brighton, Colo. and TV news is reporting that six-year-old Falcon Heene is not in the compartment. We're still updating on this post. More » -
#jobs
Gawker Is Seeking Night Owls
Do you stay up all night? Or maybe live in a timezone where you're up when it's the middle of the night in NYC? Oh good, because Gawker has some overnight positions open. Details after the jump. More » -
#announcements
Anarchy in the Machine: Welcome to Gawker's Open Forums
As you admired Gawker's shiny new look, you may have noticed that big "Share" box right up at the top of the page. It's part of our new "open forums," and we really have no idea what's going to happen.
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#quoteoftheday
John Mayer —Â
responding to a New York party reporter who had asked for his opinion on the health care debate. More » -
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Ivanka Trump —Â
on what it takes for someone named Trump to flourish within the Trump Organization, in an interview with Nightline airing tonight to promote her book, The Trump Card. Trump. Trump. Trump. Trump. Trump. Trump. More » -
#bookclub
Of Murder and Memory: Stephen Elliott's The Adderall Diaries
In the latest edition of the Gawker Book Club, we have Stephen Elliott discussing his murder potboiler-cum-memoir The Adderall Diaries with special guest interviewer Gawker special correspondent James Frey. They'll be dropping in comments around 12:30pm. Why not join in? More »
