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    The Fallacy Behind Efforts to Save 'Public Service Journalism'

    German Newspaper Feud Gets Penis-y

    BusinessWeek Layoffs Make Fools of Optimists

    AP Layoffs: Final Thoughts

    The Post and News Do a Good Foot Job

    The Vice Guide to Creating a Successful Publishing Empire

    AP: Layoff Goals Accomplished

    New Yorker Cartoons Now on XBox, For Some Reason

    Rumors: Staff Shuffles at New York Post, Sports Illustrated

    Local Reporter Makes It Big
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    11/20/09

    In reply to German Newspaper Feud Gets Penis-y
    Did anyone else get the "Pimmel über Berlin" (Penis over Berlin) pun? It riffs on "Der Himmel über Berlin" (The Heaven over Berlin) title of that famous Wim Wenders film aka Wings of Desire.

    No? Just me? OK, I'm a dork.
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    11/20/09

    In reply to The Fallacy Behind Efforts to Save 'Public Service Journalism'
    What amazes me; not one sentence about the writing. Snappy? Ponderous? Meh?
    @Zirinsky
    Congrats, you get the blue-ribbon today.
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    11/20/09

    In reply to German Newspaper Feud Gets Penis-y
    Now why doesn't the NYT do a Murdoch mural like that on the side of their building? These German are taking us to school on how a real editorial feud is handled.
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    11/20/09

    In reply to The Fallacy Behind Efforts to Save 'Public Service Journalism'
    So, do you think Gawker is a better website now than it was the day it launched?
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    11/20/09

    In reply to The Fallacy Behind Efforts to Save 'Public Service Journalism'
    Well, in the old days before child labor laws, urchins were their distribution system, so maybe it's 2 steps forward, 3 back
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    11/20/09

    In reply to German Newspaper Feud Gets Penis-y
    That's what trying to conquer the world does to a country. You wind up with cocks on the sides of buildings.
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    Image of Richard Petty Bourgeoisie Richard Petty Bourgeoisie
    11/20/09

    In reply to German Newspaper Feud Gets Penis-y
    Also, read between the lines on the GMA item: The staffers are concerned about the show's basketball team as much as anything else.
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    11/20/09

    In reply to German Newspaper Feud Gets Penis-y
    Right, because cobras have hoods, just like European wieners.
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    11/20/09

    In reply to The Vice Guide to Creating a Successful Publishing Empire
    How soon until they start producing 'Teen-Vice' complete with interns staring on an MTV reality show
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    11/20/09

    In reply to The Post and News Do a Good Foot Job
    They are being unnecessarily callous in their reporting.
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    11/20/09

    @scroll_lock: No, it's just that their humor is a bit arch.
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    11/20/09

    @blix: You two heels have no sole.
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    11/20/09

    @alboy2: You're right instep with us. Well done!
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    11/20/09

    @blix: Makes me laugh! Thanks.
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    11/20/09

    In reply to AP Layoffs: Final Thoughts
    "Probably the most striking thing about these layoffs was the high number of victims who were 10, 20, or 30-year-plus veterans of the AP."

    Of course they went for the olds. Old=expensive. Never mind the experience, skill, institutional knowledge, value, etc
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    11/20/09

    @If_I_Had_a_Poodle: This.

    And I actually personally know two people, both 20-something college grads, who just interviewed for the AP's summer internship, too.

    That they laid off so many veterans is no surprise. It's an easy way to hire more "employees" for less money and obligation. You don't get health benefits or severance pay when you're just a longtime "intern," after all.
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    11/20/09

    @Sergio Hernandez: Huge expansions with "freelancers' is what the entire news business did in the -80s and the internet wasn't even invented yet. It was so blatantly and egregiously an effort to avoid paying fair wages and offering decent benefits that the Labor Dept busted a lot of them for it.

    #tips
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    11/20/09

    @Sergio Hernandez: Huge expansions with "freelancers' is what the entire news business did in the -80s and the internet wasn't even invented yet. It was so blatantly and egregiously an effort to avoid paying fair wages and offering decent benefits that the Labor Dept busted a lot of them for it.

    #newspapers #greed #unionbusting #destroyingjobs
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    Image of lionel-mandrake lionel-mandrake
    11/20/09

    In reply to The Vice Guide to Creating a Successful Publishing Empire
    Here's the problem with tagging your business model to one particular demo, especially a demo with as particular and flighty and as generationally specific an aesthetic as the Gen-Y hipster set. Eventually they get tired your product, or outgrow it, or somehow you start missing the boat on whatever whimsical bullshit the new trend is. Then you can't give your product away.

    Hope those Vice guys are socking the money away, because I figure they have five years left, tops. Why five? Because that's when the main body of hipsters start having to go straight, start getting married, start having kids, start needing real jobs, and when the trust funds start running out.
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    Image of SunanditaSquirrel SunanditaSquirrel
    11/20/09

    @lionel-mandrake: And there are no younger folks to take the places of aging hipsters. Got it.
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    11/20/09

    @lionel-mandrake: If you've been paying any attention at all to what Vice has been doing (VBS, ahem) over the last few years, you'd know the level of "whimsical bullshit" is at an all-time low. The don't-give-a-shit tone is still there but the topics are heavy hitters.
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    11/20/09

    @SunanditaSquirrel: Did you read the words "generationally specific" in what I wrote?

    Meaning, once the very specific and narrow generation to which Vice pitches itself, outgrows the Vice product, they will no longer consume the Vice product.

    Unless, of course, they can make the transition into staying relevant to next bunch of hipster twats who come along.

    #tips
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    11/20/09

    @Lowboy: Truthfully, no, I haven't paid attention at all. I couldn't be less interested.

    #tips
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    11/20/09

    @lionel-mandrake: Don’t forget – its not just the population of Williamsburg reading it, it has a major global circulation (it’s actually hard to avoid in the UK, you find it stocked just about everywhere).

    I totally disagree with your five year theory - When I was 16/17 I used to read Vice - I haven’t touched it for years now (I’d much rather read about it on Gawker), but now I find my little brother who’s 17 reads it avidly....and so on…
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    11/20/09

    @lionel-mandrake: Hmm... Interesting that you have an opinion worth writing on something that you couldn't be less interested in. I do, however, like your name/icon so I"ll let it slide this time.

    Seriously, though. Perhaps you should give it another go. It's not all tits and cocaine anymore. Just some tits and cocaine.
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    11/19/09

    In reply to Local Reporter Makes It Big
    But how would he handle a beaver golden shower?
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    Image of A Message To Rudy A Message To Rudy
    11/19/09

    In reply to New Yorker Cartoons Now on XBox, For Some Reason
    It's called BWC technology: Because We Can. It's the same technology used to make those Charles Schwab commercials that are computer rotoscopes of people talking about their investments so detailed that they might as well used the acutal footage of the real people they used to base the computer graphics on.
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    11/19/09

    In reply to New Yorker Cartoons Now on XBox, For Some Reason

     
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    11/19/09

    @Deric: FAILBOT for me! Trust me, there's a not so witty caption at the bottom of this cartoon.
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    11/19/09

    @Deric: Christ, what an asshole.
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