The Weingarten column was better than usual for him, and it drew on a close-to-the-surface reservoir of Swiftian anger at what his industry and publication have become. #media
@Smitros: "The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of Black Beauty. Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings."
@Smitros: Also: Only old Benjamin professed to remember every detail of his long life and to know that things never had been, nor ever could be much better or much worse; hunger, hardship, and disappointment being, so he said, the unalterable law of life.
Especially since he fucked the thing up so badly. Linking to your earlier mention of the WMD item, as if it were a real news story, doesn't illuminate anything -- that item was utter bullshit, based on nothing. #newyorkpost
george will, thomas friedman and david brooks should really get one entry as they are all pretty much the same: mildly bright establishment figures working as hard as they can at repackaging the ideology of the ruling classes for consumption by everyone else
Ooooh! Michelle Malkin didn't make the list. Mr. Malkin is going to get anger sex tonight. Though I can't imagine Michelle does anything but anger sex.
Good for Weymouth. I mean, it wasn't called Snow White and the Seven Fellas Whose Butts Protrude Just Enough For One To Think "I Bet That Dude Used To Be A Dwarf, But Had That Crazy Bone-Lengthening Surgery."
"So while the old editor of Vibe moves on to a thing partly founded by Henry Louis Gates, the new editor of Vibe comes from fat ass-featuring mag King."
I prefer to think of it as thick ass-featuring mag King, thank you.
Actually, you might want to read the Bronstein bit a little more closely, Ham. At the time, Bronstein was running the old (Hearst) SF Examiner, which in those days was an afternoon broadsheet yoked to the Chronicle by a JOA. It wasn't about Bronstein being cheap, it was about having Sweet F.A. for a newsroom budget.
Hunter wrote a column for the Ex through the late '80s and into the '90s, and he was at the top of his form in those days. Thanks for reminding me how much my local newspapers used to only suck most of the time, instead of all of the time.
Suggestion: If someone were getting paid for the McSteamy, you might want to get the MSM to credit Gawker and not Fleshbot.
Of course, I've seen the uncensored version on your sister channel, but when folks see tv-friendly, blurred excerpts, they might be more apt to visit Gawker than the site with the racier title.
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Thank you. #media
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-- Orwell, Animal Farm #media
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I prefer to think of it as thick ass-featuring mag King, thank you.
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Hunter wrote a column for the Ex through the late '80s and into the '90s, and he was at the top of his form in those days. Thanks for reminding me how much my local newspapers used to only suck most of the time, instead of all of the time.
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Of course, I've seen the uncensored version on your sister channel, but when folks see tv-friendly, blurred excerpts, they might be more apt to visit Gawker than the site with the racier title.