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we are all cafe press now

Enjoy Your Obama Cover Outrage All Year 'Round With This Collectible!

Wondering what to get for the outraged liberal person in your life? Perhaps this person already has a Mother Jones subscription and Arianna Huffington's book and no more room for bumper stickers on the back of their Prius or whatever? Help keep their anger at Daily Kos-commenter levels with a reproduction of the New Yorker's offensive/stupid/ corrosive/overcriticized/whatever Barack and Michelle Obama caricature cover! Prices at the magazine's store range from $29.95 for note cards for bitter poor white Hillary Clinton supporters to $280 for a large framed cover, appropriate for the caviar communists who run Hollywood (or, more likely, for those people's decorators). Give the gift that keeps on feeding extremism, all year 'round! [New Yorker Store]

9:43 PM on Tue Jul 15 2008
By Ryan Tate
1,197 views, 114 comments

Latest by gecko: @Mike_Jahn: Fantastic plan! But it'll have to wait until morning...I need to sleep too. Goodnight, Mike, and anyone else who is conscious! more »

all about us

Ethan Hawke's Banana: Todd Barry on Gawker

Comedian Todd Barry makes jokes about Gawker! Specifically, every uppity celebrity's favorite fantasy feature, the Gawker Stalker map. The joke is something about Ethan Hawke and bananas but I got distracted and don't remember it exactly (luckily the audio is above). He also recounts how he asked some fans to inundate our Stalker line, George Clooney style, with hundreds of Barry sightings. He asked that the phrase "easy on the eyes" be used. Unfortunately, it didn't happen.

4:27 PM on Tue Jul 15 2008
By Richard
1,594 views, 16 comments

Latest by n/a: @GregSamsa: settle down...it's part of Todd Barry's comedy routine...he says a fan told him he had 'gay timing'...sheesh...i'm only homophobic when i'm offline...you know that. more »

the olds

A Guide To The Media Methuselahs

"I don't want to die. I love what I'm doing," said Viacom chief Sumner Redstone on CNBC yesterday. My, what a positive and also extremely sad quote! Coming from an old, old man like Redstone, it's more of a last-ditch prayer to Father Time than a peppy statement of on-the-job satisfaction. After the jump, a complete guide to the top five elderly figures in media moguldom. They're a cast that could end up having spent decades in power—probably because the younger counterparts who should be overtaking them decided to go into the tech industry on the West Coast instead (except Nick Denton). May these old men all live, um, a lot longer: More »

10:29 AM on Tue Jul 8 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
3,537 views, 15 comments

Latest by n/a: Diller still looks good because he continues to receive life-prolonging loads of 100% pure Aryan sperm squirted up his butthole on a regular basis. more »

kevin rose

Digg Founder Says Rupert Murdoch Is An Old, Barry Diller Is Savvy


The founder of Digg.com talks about sitting down with the heads of News Corp. and IAC in an interview on Big Think. "When I sat down with [Murdoch] it was a hand-holding process," says Kevin Rose, whose site is reportedly now being courted by Google. "When I sat down with Barry Diller, he was telling me about my business...it blew my mind." Rose is also amazed by Al Gore. More »

3:03 PM on Mon Jun 30 2008
By Nick Douglas
2,362 views, 7 comments

Latest by Nick Douglas: I'm just mentally switching the words "Digg" and "Gawker" in all the comments. more »

photo album

When They Were Young

Bob Colacello's party photographs from the 1970s—when the reporter edited Andy Warhol's Interview magazine and chronicled New York's social scene—are strangely poignant. To think that immortal Chelsea boy Calvin Klein (top) was once so debonair! Grizzled mogul Barry Diller (pictured with Diane von Furstenberg then and now) had such a seductively wicked smile. It's hard to imagine Vogue's André Leon Talley (pictured next to Studio 54's Steve Rubell and Warhol) as anything other than the imposing African cardinal he plays on the red carpet. And then one remembers that today's socialites will one day appear equally ludicrous to the generation that comes after them, evidence that they were ever young buried in Patrick McMullan's photo database. More »

5:21 PM on Fri Jun 27 2008
By Nick Denton
4,447 views, 16 comments

Latest by n/a: Bob was a lot more fun back then, before he started 12-stepping with the rest of the hoi-polloi more »

nepotism

Diller's Stepson May Lose His Front-Row Lakers Seats

There's one person apart from shareholder John Malone who stands to lose when IAC is broken up: Alex von Furstenberg, adopted son of the internet conglomerate's boss, Barry Diller. The shaved-headed socialite, Diane von Furstenberg's son by her first gay husband, will still inherit a large part of his adoring stepfather's fortune. But after IAC is divided into five, Alex von Furstenberg may have trouble securing the front-row seats at Lakers games that are such a mark of social status in Los Angeles, where von Furstenberg has lived since 2005. He's been relying on Diller's office to cadge tickets to the bastketball games from Ticketmaster, the online ticketing service which IAC is spinning off. The IAC boss will remain chairman of Ticketmaster after the split, but one peons still hopes Diller and his relatives will no longer be able to use the service as a personal favor bank. More »

3:34 PM on Mon Jun 2 2008
By Nick Denton
4,182 views, 7 comments

Latest by n/a: AvF looks an awful lot like a guy with whom I did a scene for a porn video recently. Hmmmmm............ more »

barry diller

Gay Mogul's 'Stuff-Less' Marriage

IAC's Barry Diller has just explained—to the audience at the Wall Street Journal's D Conference—the breakdown of his relationship with the internet conglomerate's biggest shareholder, evil John Malone's Liberty Media. Paid Content was taking notes. Diller's metaphor? "Partnerships are marriages without the stuff." Oops, Freudian slip! More »

3:30 PM on Wed May 28 2008
By Nick Denton
2,006 views, 12 comments

iac

Humble Diller Not That Humble

Having escaped John Malone's hook, former studio boss and internet tycoon Barry Diller is attempting to reinvent himself, says Portfolio's Duff McDonald. The new Diller trademark? Humility. "We were kidding ourselves if we thought we could pull off an integrated conglomerate that acts like G.E. or P&G in anything less than 10, 20, or 30 years." Diller is indeed cutting internet conglomerate IAC down to a more manageable rump of web sites such as Ask, Citysearch and Evite. But the 65-year-old tycoon hasn't entirely lost his trademark vindictiveness. Doug Lebda—who sold Diller online mortgage search engine Lending Tree for $726m before the real-estate bubble burst—was prepared to buy the business back at a discount. Why hasn't that happened? "No one is allowed to school Diller twice," says a mogul watcher.

5:30 PM on Mon May 12 2008
By Nick Denton
1,061 views, 5 comments

Latest by n/a: Diller still hasn't lost his sense of tackiness, which was always odd given what a bright guy he is. more »

IAC's Summer Explosion "IAC/InterActiveCorp boss Barry Diller is pushing ahead with plans to break up his company into five separate businesses, and downplaying talk about a possible asset swap with Liberty Media...Diller said he hopes to complete the spin-offs by August." [Post]

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Barry Diller, John Malone May Kiss And Make Up "Fresh off his legal victory over Liberty Media, IAC/InterActiveCorp boss Barry Diller is expected to meet with his board this week to restart the process of breaking up his company into five separate pieces, The Post has learned. At the same time, sources said Diller and Liberty Media Chairman John Malone are continuing to talk about a deal that would trade one or more of IAC's assets for Liberty's ownership stake in IAC." [Post]

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Adventures in Journalism

Times Journo's Prison Weekend

The New York Times' Barry Bearak reports on his four-day stint in a Zimbabwe prison on charges of "committing journalism." It began when 21 policemen and detectives raided the lodge where he'd been staying. "The crowded room was hot. Already, I felt jailed. I needed a breath of air, but when I moved toward the door, Detective Jasper Musademba, a well-built man in a jacket and tie, stopped me. He had been the most threatening of the police. 'If you try to go outside...' he said sternly, stopping in midsentence. He made his hand into a gun and pulled the trigger. 'You’ll kill me?' I asked. 'Good,' he remarked wryly. 'Then you’ve seen that movie.'” More »

10:53 AM on Sun Apr 27 2008
By ian spiegelman
864 views, 5 comments

Latest by fileunder: I'll get to this as soon as I'm done absorbing today's "Dude"/"Wassup!" advertising article. Gripping stuff. more »

junior high

'NYT' Bullied Boy Bullied a Boy

Turns out the subject of that New York Times article about the Arkansas kid who gets beat up all the time, Billy Wolfe, is himself a bit of bad news. And that Pulitzer-winning reporter Dan Barry either missed or ignored that complicating little twist. A story in the Northwest Arkansas Times details a police report on young Wolfe: "[T]he police report contains allegations that Billy harassed a student confined to a wheelchair with muscular dystrophy by sneaking up behind him and screaming to aggravate the disabled boy’s sensitivity to noise, by bouncing a rubber ball against the disabled boy’s head, and by calling him 'stupid' and a 'retard.' The police report provides further context on the assaults described in the NYT." More »

12:17 PM on Fri Apr 25 2008
By ian spiegelman
3,288 views, 44 comments

Latest by tempest: What is it you call a [person who's being picked on by a bully] anyway? A "bullee"? I'm so confused. more »

Times Reporter Out On Bail In Zimbabwe "Under the terms of his bail, [Barry] Bearak was released to a clinic; he suffered some injuries to his back as the result of a fall from the concrete bunk in his dark, crowded cell to the floor, seven feet below, Mr. Nkomo said. Mr. Bearak’s passport was confiscated, and he was required to put up 300 million Zimbabwe dollars as bail, about $10,000 at official exchange rates but only about $7 at black market rates." [Times]

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journalismism

Zimbabwe Scaring The Crap Out Of All Media

Amid the jailing of Times reporter Barry Bearak, news organizations are rightfully getting scared shitless about covering the nation of Zimbabwe, where elections are believed to not be going well for the ruling government. So CNN took the unprecedented step of concealing its reporter's identity. The BBC blurred the face of its reporter. Huge credit to the networks for filing from a country where they are formally banned; apparently people in the streets are "absolutely thirsty for information" and get most of it from foreign outlets. CNN's anonymous report: More »

5:13 AM on Fri Apr 4 2008
By Ryan Tate
1,185 views, 7 comments

Latest by n/a: @8Millionth: Cecil Rhodes was a racist, self hating homosexual, who built his fortune and "county" on the backs of the Mashona and Matebele people, while screwing over other Europeans and the British Empire at the same time. There is a special more »

barry bearak

Scary: Times Reporter Arrested In Zimbabwe After Adding His Byline To Story

Times reporter Barry Bearak was frightened enough of authorities in Zimbabwe that he at first withheld his byline from today's front-page story about declining support for the ruling party there. But he later changed his mind and added his name online and to some print editions. He was promptly arrested by police in Zimbabwe, who have now said, according to AFP, he was "detained on suspicion of reporting without press accreditation. Zimbabwean authorities, who barred most foreign media from covering last Saturday's general elections, warned a week ago they would deal severely with journalists who sneaked into the country and were caught operating illegally." [via Radar, HuffPo] (photo via HuffPo)

9:02 PM on Thu Apr 3 2008
By Ryan Tate
1,070 views, 17 comments

Latest by vulturesquadron: 'Mugabe' is so fun to say. more »

refugees

Tina Brown "Still Having Trouble Getting Her Email"

The picture of the grandes dames of New York publishing, fighting for places aboard the internet lifeboats, is a source of endless amusement—not least because they bring their feuds with them. More »

4:58 PM on Wed Apr 2 2008
By Nick Denton
3,591 views, 22 comments

moguls

Barry Diller Chooses Grandpa Font

So internet mogul Barry Diller won the struggle for control of IAC, the ungainly conglomerate which owns sites such as Ticketmaster and College Humor. Here's his celebratory announcement to employees. It's rather clunkier than one expects of the highly quotable IAC boss. Presumably Diller means, in the last line, that employees can have more confidence in the future; wishing IAC colleagues instead more surefootedness implies that IAC's missteps were somehow their fault. And some graphically-aware assistant really should help the 66-year-old former studio boss change his default email font.

9:48 AM on Mon Mar 31 2008
By Nick Denton
1,500 views, 21 comments

Latest by fuzzymuffins: comic sans is removed from my computer. more »

debunk

Did College Humor Just Shake Off Adult Supervision?

Say farewell to Mo Koyfman, the IAC executive dropped in to monitor the crazy kids when Barry Diller's internet conglomerate acquired College Humor. He's resigned from his position as chief operating officer of the dorky web site. There's nothing particularly amusing about the news, except for the assumption that Koyfman represented adult supervision. Founders Josh Abramson and Ricky Van Veen were always substantially more straight-laced than their reputation for rampant loft parties would indicate; while 30-year-old wannabe modelizer Koyfman, however engaging, is as much a grown-up as Barry Diller is an internet guru.

1:34 PM on Thu Mar 27 2008
By Nick Denton
1,333 views, 10 comments

Latest by n/a: There's something about "their reputation for rampant loft parties" that's bugging me. The use of rampant just doesn't sound right, but it's not wrong enough for me to really criticize. more »

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