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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 »
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Comment by Kid Twist: Maybe I should rethink my plan for "The Hand-Copied Blog." It'll be a shame to have to lay off all... 6 Responses | Other threads
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Media Crack
Haha, 'The Ennuist'
In your sunny(!) Monday media column: Macy's costs the newspaper industry $600 million, Vogue is dreadfully low-class, The Daily Beast speaks very well of a book, and here's the name of new thing to write for: 'The Ennuist.' Haha. More »
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Comment by GooberSaysHey: "New Orleans: Is It Still There?" Ugh, I have nothing to say to this. 3 Responses | Other threads
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media
Michael Wolff: He Used to Have a Mustache, And Credibility
"The scandalous elements of a man having an affair seem to escape me." That is Michael Wolff, talking about himself. We think some of the aggregated headlines over at his news websiteSploidNewser might help enlighten him! More »
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By PareeneComment by Mount_Prion: Please tell me he was never REALLY a porn star. 4 Responses | Other threads
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hacks
Happy Blogiversary to Mickey Kaus!
Slate ur-contrarian Mickey Kaus has been bloggin' away for 10 years now! He is most proud of a) thinking he invented various ancient quick-fix policy ideas and b) immigrant-hating. More »
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By PareeneComment by Foster Kamer: Commence Phyllis Nefler freakout in 3, 2... 4 Responses | Other threads
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from the mailbag
Hipster Blog Author Speaks, Comedically
Joe Mande, the NYC comedian revealed yesterday as the author of the Look At This Fucking Hipster blog and recipient of the latest Tumblr-to-Book deal, has shed some comedic light on his book deal, via email. Here it is: More »
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Comment by bytememehard: I looked at that fucking hipster blog and learned something. Mustaches are back in style. Who knew. 5 Responses | Other threads
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blog wars
Getty Heir Giving Up on Feud Already!
The costume-wearing heir to the Getty oil fortune is back with a new entry on the "What's it like to be rich?" blog! Did Peter Getty bring the funk right to our face?? (No). Click through to find out! More » -
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Rich Getty Heir Wants Blog Fight!
Earlier this week we expressed dismay that wealthy San Franciscan heirs Peter and Billy Getty had decided to write an infuriating blog about: "What's it like to be rich?" And now, thanks be to god, Peter Getty wants to feud! More »
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Comment by hypocriteoath: You see... PG thought he was being funny in his first post and that people would just laugh at it... 5 Responses | Other threads
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mediaite
Unlaunched Media Blog Has Facebook Sibling Intern. (Plus: A Preview!)
An addition to the Celebrity Media Intern Class of '09: Arielle Zuckerberg, the kid sister of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. She's indentured herself to Dan Abrams-affiliated media blog Mediaite.com. It hasn't launched yet, but we have an exclusive preview! More » -
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media
MissBehave Totally Dunzo
Cool-girl mag MissBehave went online-only early this year, and now it sounds like the people who run the place are totally closing up shop, kaput, blammo, totally erased from the face of the earth, blog and all. If you know more on this, email us. [Blogue. UPDATE: Yes, it's dead.]
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Comment by Schadenfrau: "I have visions of grander for my new lifestyle." I really hope she does. 4 Responses | Other threads
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charity
The $13,000 HuffPo Intern Speaks
Last week we identified Luisa from Rio as the probable lucky future journalist who's the $13,000 high bidder on a (priceless) Huffington Post internship in a charity auction. Then she emailed us! Meet her:
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science
Study Suggests Liberal Media Read Liberal Media
Here is a breaking survey that you will probably hear about: people who read blogs find them to be informational! Oh, wait, here's the controversial bit: journalists only read liberal blogs. More »
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By PareeneComment by City_Dater: There are conservative blogs offering real news and analysis? Where? Once the "Obama is a Communist Muslim, Bill and Hillary... 3 Responses | Other threads
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Media Crack
Goodbye Playguy, Adios Honcho
In your countercultural Tuesday media column: Gay porn mags fold en masse, Chevron is evil as usual, Slate deems women capable of running their very own blog, and prison radio kicks ass: More »
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Comment by Nic Fit: My old neighbor posed for Honcho. He once proudly showed me the issue he was in, and I can tell... 15 Responses | Other threads
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bloggers
Greta Van Susteren Is Not Her Friend's Husband's Handler
Greta Van Susteren, an adult with a lucrative career as a famous journalist, writes the best blog in the world. She is terribly upset that someone called her a "handler." More »
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By PareeneComment by sassenach: She'll sic the Scientologists on you. I agree that her Palin obsession is quite weird. 3 Responses | Other threads
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Media Crack
Steal From Work. You'll Need it Later.
In your survivalist Thursday media column: Domino staffers sell their swag, Boston Globe staffers give in, magazine staffers pull pranks, and more: More »
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Comment by scroll_lock: Goddamnit, I'd be at that Domino sale in a heartbeat if I were in NYC- those prices are great. I... 8 Responses | Other threads
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curmudgeons
CNN's Tony Harris Doesn't Want to Read Your Stupid Comments on His 'Blog Page'
CNN curmudgeon Tony Harris has been a hold-out when it comes to his network's desperate insistence that you keep going to its various blogs while you are watching television. Today he cracked. He hates blogs.
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By John CookComment by Banjo-Sea Kitten: Usually this guy just scores an 11 on my ego meter but today I heart him. 6 Responses | Other threads
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gossip
Roger Friedman's Back—in Blog Form!
Roger Friedman got laid off by FoxNews.com this month for watching a pirated movie. He's already back in the game. You can't keep him down, in any sense of the word! Let's check in: More »
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Comment by GuidoHyena: Roger Friedman is a horse's ass!! I was overjoyed to watch him get his fat ass fired. more » | Other threads
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microtrends
Mark Penn Can Help You Make Thou$and$ on the Internet!
Just in case you had any remaining shred of a suspicion that inane Microtrend maker-upper Mark Penn might actually have some worthwhile advice about something, today he touts blogging as a good job opportunity. Ha! More »
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Comment by Mount_Prion: Unrelated: Anybody here randomly not able to reply to people today? When I hit the reply button it just bounces... 3 Responses | Other threads
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Media Crack
Journalism Needs Heavily Armed Heroes
In your foggy Monday media column: Reporters in peril. Institutions crumbling. David Denby and Dan Abrams to the rescue! More »
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Comment by souldecirce: David Denby's name is penicillin to my bacteria. I cannot, cannot read his film reviews. Also, please say you're joking about... 2 Responses | Other threads
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media
Chicago Tribune Stakes Future On Paper-Blogging
The Chicago Tribune is bankrupt and will lay off 20 percent of its staff on Wednesday. So how is it going to survive? By making its reporters rewrite items from gossip blogs! More »
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By John CookComment by moraliste: It's going to survive from quasilegal taxes on interstate traffic, ie internet sales taxes. Just wait. 1 Responses | Other threads
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internal memos
D.C. TV Newsman Quits; Blogs Ruined the News
Alan Henney is an assignment desk editor at Gannett-owned WUSA-TV in Washington. He quit this week—mad as hell, the whole bit. In his farewell email, he blamed too much blogging, not enough news-ing: More »
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Comment by SultanaEleusis: No word of future plans? Isn't that required? 3 Responses | Other threads
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standards
The New York Times Makes Comical Statements About the Internet, 1995-2009
The New York Times has issued a formal set of standards for their in-house blogs, marking the first time blogs have ever had standards (No "snark"). The latest in a rich history of technomazing ideas! More »
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Comment by ithacabaron: Yo, Gawk -- If you want blogs to be accepted as legitimate sources of news (including yours) by the general public,... 12 Responses | Other threads
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anniversaries
The Web at 20: Not Quite Old Enough to Drink, Yet Drives Us to It
Dear important scientist Tim Berners-Lee: Thank you for inventing the World Wide Web 20 years ago. It's really great and stuff! But were you aware of the crimes committed in your name? More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by tetragami: Oh Christ, someday I will be explaining to kids that I am older than the internet. 11 Responses | Other threads
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new things
Newspaper Discovers 'Radar'
"Most Americans had likely never heard of RadarOnline before now. But the site almost instantly made a name for itself with the Octo-Mom story."—LAT, today. Come on now. I mean, really.
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Comment by pareeneisaninfidel: This post proves how much Hamilton doesn't get "it". Head out of your ass, buddy; America actually continues above... 2 Responses | Other threads
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media
New York Magazine's Happiest Editorblogger
Hugo Lindgren was Adam Moss' first hire at New York magazine, following Moss over from the NYT magazine. Now Lindgren is one of New York's bloggers. They sure take this "blogging" thing seriously! More »
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Comment by SultanaEleusis: I think Lindgren is misunderestimating the downturnaround. more » | Other threads
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Media Crack
Juan Williams is the Next Alan Colmes
In your gale-force Thursday media column: Juan Williams is controversial, more magazines die, Wonkette launches a spinoff, and teen sex remains incredibly popular: More »
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Comment by gticlutchburn: Even if Juan Williams isn't a Republican, he will be soon. The GOP is collecting token black dudes like they're... 9 Responses | Other threads
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security
Israeli Security Forces Detain Blogger For Terrifying Textual Criticism
Are you an American Jew considering a move to Israel? Good for you! Hope you haven't ever blogged any mild criticisms of Israeli policy, though! More »
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By PareeneComment by FreddieBietzsche: Pareene, you have obviously never been to Israel. This "interrogation" is no big deal. 28 Responses | Other threads
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disasters
Snark Infiltrates The New Yorker!
Second-string New Yorker movie critic David Denby hates 'snark.' He wrote a whole book of fiction about it! What would the man think if he knew that snark—yes, snark—is creeping into his own publication's content? More »
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Comment by eightfifteen: The pet cat from Thundercats is being featured in the New Yorker? Weird. 3 Responses | Other threads
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recessionomics
Jossip Really, Really Wants To Sell Itself
It's been a long year for David Hauslaib and his Jossip blog empire. Now Hauslaib seems eager to exit his flagship site, running the "for sale" sign above atop Jossip.com. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Rumpelstilskin: I hope they keep Queerty going, Jossip had gone downhill in a hurry. 5 Responses | Other threads
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Hopefully true
Vincent Gallo May Be Old, But You Are Gay
Cold-eyed Hipsterwood blowjob recipient and woman-threatener Vincent Gallo is going to be appearing in some ads for H&M! A perfect fit, in Bizarro World. And, under "Too Good To Check": he calls bloggers GAY: More »
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Comment by Mount_Prion: This guy is one of the stronger reasons I wish spontaneous human combustion were real. And under my control. 10 Responses | Other threads
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media
So Long, Pajamas Media
Pajamas Media was founded by a bunch of conservative bloggers dissatisfied with the liberal MSM. And now, like the liberal MSM, they are all out of money. More »
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By PareeneComment by Aaron Altman: They should've taken their pajamas off. 7 Responses | Other threads
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wendy and lucy
Why Has Michelle Williams Stolen The Life Of This Ex-Con HuffPo Blogger?
Honestly, we only keep Huffington Post on our Google Reader to keep up with all of Alec Baldwin's histrionic musings. Still, we're glad we didn't miss today's HuffPo dip into kookier, Michelle Williams-related territories. More » -
Media Crack
'Roger Ebert...Can Kiss My Ass'
In your pleasant Thursday media column: Jay Mariotti is an asshole, Teens can't read, checks are bouncing, and more: More »
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Comment by Colonel Mustard: Seventeen continues to dominate in the field of made-up Most Embarrassing Stories. I remember reading one where a girl... 12 Responses | Other threads
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media
NYT Launches World's Least Heated Argument
Finally, as promised, the New York Times has brought opinions 'Online,' to the internet, with its new 'web log' thing, "Room for Debate." Lets' explore! More »
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Comment by katastic: Ice cream is good vs. Ice cream is awesome! And.....go! 7 Responses | Other threads
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media
WaPo Launching Some Political Site
After being pwned by Politico, the Washington Post is launching a secret new political website in two weeks, and has hired TPM's Greg Sargent as blogger-in-chief. Politics and blogs, together? It just might work. [TPM] More »
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Comment by SultanaEleusis: This will be even more reason for me not to buy the print version of the paper. more » | Other threads
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journalismism
Battle of the Copycat Tech Blogs
The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal are locked in an obsessive death match. Only one newspaper can survive! But until one slays the other, they're mimicking each other's every move.
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By Owen ThomasComment by KirkLazarus: "Drop the cutesy sub-brands ... and just start running stories online, without ghettoizing them in special blogs. Either they're worthy... 1 Responses | Other threads
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trendwatch
Print's Epitaph: We Were the Original Blog
As print dies, we will no doubt see an avalanche of obituaries for once-great, now-decrepit publications. In this vein, The New Yorker's Louis Menand celebrates the Village Voice's heyday in the late 1950's and early 1960s. More »
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Comment by bikini_lounger: Maybe when there is no more original and reliable news content to speak of, people will decide its worth paying... 3 Responses | Other threads
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blogs
Torontoist folding. No money in Toronto. [Torontoist]
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jean-marie gustave
Blogs Might Have Stopped Hitler
No, it wasn't Andrew Sullivan or Michael Wolff who said it: Nobel literature prize winner Jean-Marie Gustave just said in his Nobel lecture to the Swedish Academy, "if the Internet had existed at the time, perhaps Hitler's criminal plot would not have succeeded - ridicule might have prevented it from ever seeing the light of day." What a surprising show of faith in blogs (the ridicule specialists of "the internet") from the uber-elite! We remember when bloggers were the drunken, discretion-less, pajama-clad degenerates of the media world. Now they're saving the world, retroactively! Of course this is hopelessly naive. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Uncle_Billy_Slumming: Beware our steel toed bunny slippers of death. Unfortunately, corporate charley is onto this already and employs bloggers and commenters to... 5 Responses | Other threads
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jossip
Mollygood, Stereohyped Shutting Down
We heard from a pretty good source that two Jossip-owned blogs—celebrity-focused Mollygood and black person-focused Stereohyped—are shutting down, probably due to the bad economy. And it's at least half confirmed, because Mollygood has just written a post confirming that she's gone [UPDATE: Now it's totally confirmed; additional goodbye post here]. They're both pretty decent blogs in their fields, so the appropriate response here is sadness. If you have more details we should know, feel free to email us; below, a small excerpt of Mollygood's goodbye [UPDATE 2: And a statement from Jossip boss David Hauslaib]: More »
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Comment by narnio: what category exactly? jossip hasn't been relative for years. 2 Responses | Other threads
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bloggers in peril
Blogs Beat Print in Free Speech Crackdowns!
Back in the day, bloggers who didn't do any reporting like Mickey Kaus and Jeff Jarvis and probably Glenn Reynolds used to spend a great deal of time talking about how the blogs (specifically their blogs) would soon supplant the "Main Stream Media" forever. Well, some years have passed, and the MSM is in dire straits, but blogs have not really made much of a dent in CNN and the New York Times' market share, eyeballs-wise, and the boundary-blurring has manifested itself mainly as old school publications getting a little more "webby" in tone and content. There is one metric, though, that has bloggers pulling ahead of their MSM counterparts: jail time! The Committee to Protect Journalists just released its 2008 prison census, and as you can see in the attached pie chart, internet people finally make up a greater share of the journo prison population than snooty newspaper jerks. Way to go, internet, and Burma! [CPJ]
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By PareeneComment by American Dreamer: this chart is totally useless because it doesn't indicate the total number of people covered by the pie chart (if... 4 Responses | Other threads
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