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twitterati
Twittering a Bodily Collapse — and a Rescue
A tech marketer saved his nephew; a tech writer was rescued by an ambulance. The Twitterati saw the whole thing. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by belltolls: Dan Abrams: I saw you on television recently and it looked like you have recently been sleeping on a park... 4 Responses | Other threads
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dan abrams
Where Were You When Mediaite Launched?
At around 1:30am Eastern time, Dan Abrams' Mediaite, his "Huffington Post meets Gawker" website, went live. We've been trying to take a look at it, but it keeps going down. Ah, growing pains! More »
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Comment by RachelSklar: Hi Cajun, thanks for the interview. Did you fall asleep after I wrote you and said I was booting up... 6 Responses | Other threads
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Beef!
Media Catfight: Rachel Sklar vs. Jeff Jarvis
Former Huffington Post media reporter and Dan Abrams' henchwoman Rachel Sklar is pissed at her friend, blogger-journalist Jeff Jarvis. Jarvis posted a now-infamous email of hers to his blog and absolutely lit her up in the process. Sklar fired back. More »
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By Foster KamerComment by ninety_nine: Fun fact: my screen name comes from the fact that you can't make through 10 minutes of argument with someone... 7 Responses | Other threads
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media jobs
Dan Abrams Is Looking For Fresh Meat
Dan Abrams is soon launching Mediaite, his very own "Drudge meets Huffington Post," which he'll certainly use to promote clients of his endlessly shady PR firm. He's now looking for contributors who, like him, have no qualms about selling out. More » -
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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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Video Media Strangeness: Rachel Sklar, David Carr, Diet Coke, In A Bar.
Not entirely sure what to make of this: The Daily Beast just posted video of Rachel Sklar and David Carr (henceforth known as SklarCarr) talking. It's weird. Especially when Carr notes that the New York Times doesn't need saving. More »
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By Foster KamerComment by Peter Feld: I''m sorry Rachel. "I love his jam"???? 6 Responses | Other threads
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media reporting
Sharon Waxman Ate Breakfast At Balthazar And Lived To Tell The Tale
For all the media fetishists in the house: Sharon Waxman wrote an excruciatingly facepalm-worthy report about what eating breakfast at NYC media-commissary Balthazar is like. Please go back to LA, and don't take my soft-boiled eggs with you. [HuffPo]
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By Foster KamerComment by raincoaster: Are there bistros that are other than "French-style" bistros? Like, I dunno, Breakaway Former Soviet Republic-style bistros? 2 Responses | Other threads
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Media Crack
Dana Milbank Steals Man's Underwear on Normal Saturday Night
In your shiny Monday media column: Spy magazine lives, David Carr survives, Dan Abrams hires, Dana Milbank thrives, and Fleur Cowles dies: More »
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Comment by Jupiter8: Spy Magazine gets the gasface 'cuz they ripped it off Third Bass... more » | 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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twitterati
The Twitterati Get a Free Lunch from the MSM
Twitter is the ideal medium to express your own idiocy. Dan Abrams denounces the mainstream media which gave birth to his career, a Google-enriched entrepreneur eats its free lunch, and Alan Meckler discovers Twitter: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by kolacek: The only thing gayer than Twitter is an article about Twitter. [...and STFU, twaggots. I live in San Francisco and my... 2 Responses | Other threads
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Media Crack
Dan Abrams Doesn't Sweat the 'Faux Issues'
In your traditional Tuesday media column: Dan Abrams insists he's clean, the Great Magazine Die-Off continues, newspapers are not doing well, TV on the good trains, and more! More »
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Comment by Cheap Shot: "Nearly 20 bloggers launched a blog rally". How threatening! 4 Responses | Other threads
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dan abrams
Since you asked, Mediaite.com is an unpronounceable mess. But only because you asked.
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media
Dan Abrams Wants to Buy a Few Good Bloggers
Former MSNBC host Dan Abrams, not content with running his shady new conflict-of-interest-laden PR firm for working journalists, now wants to start up his very own "'Drudge meets The Huffington Post' site." Oh good. More »
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Comment by the supergoddess: I see he's following Gawker's "penis only" business model. Oddly missing from the list? My Cock. 5 Responses | Other threads
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twitterati
The Twitterati Destroy the News
Credulous bloggers think Twitter will make more money than newspapers! That's a low bar. In the meantime, the media's Twitter addicts from the New York Times to ReadWriteWeb prove how value-free the status-updating service is: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Sproing: I have had an unreasonable crush on Queen Noir for about fiftenn years. 3 Responses | Other threads
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twitterati
The Twitterati Launder Their Woes
Not a good day for the Twitterati! Dan Abrams found himself stalked by a coworker. Perma-perky PR person Brooke Hammerling got bummed out. And an underling of Tina Brown faced up to an unwelcome chore: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by ian spiegelman: I thought I already told all of you media folk to shut the fuck up. There's nothing more disgusting than... 4 Responses | Other threads
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twitterati
Twittering Like a Peacock
Did GE corporate issue a memo about this "Twitter" thing? Because all of a sudden, Ann Curry and a bunch of other NBC people are using it. Can't wait to see the Six Sigma metrics! More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by sarrible: Am I the only one who can't tell Dan Abrams and David Shuster apart if they aren't side by side? 1 Responses | Other threads
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guys
The Five Worst '50 Hottest Bachelors'
Page Six Magazine is folding, but not before they stroke the egos of anyone who could maybe give them a job with this here list of NYC's 50 Hottest Bachelors. Five problematic entries: More »
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Comment by SanjivaniChrysippus: Seth Meyers, 35, Andy Samberg, 30, & Fred Armisen, 42, three for the price of one. A Seth Meyers/Andy Samberg... 13 Responses | Other threads
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romance
Renee Zellweger and Dan Abrams: Wine Lovers
Ooo, the rumors are true. MSNBC character and PR firm owner Dan Abrams is dating permasquint actress Renee Zellweger. There's photographic evidence! More »
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gossip roundup
Britney Spears In $14 Million Book Deal?
Britney Spears will somehow seduce a publisher into paying millions for three books from her; Lindsay Lohan wants to re-seduce Gotham via magazine spread and Dan Abrams keeps seducing actresses. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by LilyBartleby: Dan Abrams strikes me as the type of guy who's a trifle short-changed and orally overcompensating. It's not working. 4 Responses | Other threads
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marketing
Tori Spelling, Others To Save Advertising
NBC is launching a female-focused quasi-marketing agency featuring the following people: Maria Bartiromo, Meredith Vieira, and Tori Spelling. Raise your hand if you don't see the problems with this. (Hand down, Tori). More » -
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Britney's Sad, 'Vacant' Birthday Of Disses
- First Britney Spears' guests whispered behind her back about how she looked "vacant" and "out of it" at her big birthday party. Then the singer's ex Kevin Federline told People that Spears' craziness had him "concerned with my children," whose well-being he felt compelled to fight for via custody battle when Spears "went behind my back" and filed for divorce, leaving him "completely blindsided." Finally, her first husband was thrown in jail.
- But at least hunky former MSNBC anchor and raiser-of-journalistic-ethics-questions Dan Abrams came to Spears' party. And she might have talked to party guest Heidi Klum about a Project Runway gig.
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By Ryan TateComment by Our Lady of the Massacre: Alright, I'm just gonna come out and say it: Brit's youngest son (Jayden) looks like he has FAS. 8 Responses | Other threads
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dan abrams
Dan Abrams Responds: 'We could not be taking ethics any more seriously.'
Former MSNBC host-turned PR employer of media people Dan Abrams has sent us a response to our coverage of his project, in which we pointed out that being a journalist and a corporate consultant at the same time is a conflict of interest. You can judge it for yourself, but we should note that, 1: If media reporters gave free passes to all friends and/ or former colleagues, media reporting would be even worse than it is now, and 2: Like we said, we're not allowed to sell out until after we've been laid off. Permanently. Here's his full note: More »
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Comment by accomodatingasian: "We want you in the network"... Does this only sound super-insidious to me? 4 Responses | Other threads
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dan abrams
Dan Abrams Defends Straw Man Version Of His New PR Firm
Former MSNBC host Dan Abrams is a popular guy, because it's been rumored that he has jobs to give out. Abrams, you'll recall, is starting a ridiculous, conflict-of-interest-riddled PR firm that will distinguish itself by selling corporate clients (or just moguls) the advice of current journalists, bloggers, and other media types. The Observer spoke to Abrams, and he says he's gotten 650 applications already—"the bulk of whom are freelance journalists, people who are writing books and individuals who have recently been laid off or walked away from jobs in the media industry." Are we missing something here? More »
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Comment by ElvisWorley: Not really pertinent at all to this post, but hey, no one has better things to do today at work. I... 2 Responses | Other threads
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dan abrams
Dan Abrams Tries To Explain Away Obvious Conflicts Of Interest. Fails.
Former MSNBC guy Dan Abrams seems to have noticed that his plan to start a PR firm made up of actively employed members of the media who will sell their consulting services to corporate clients is causing some uproar among people who believe that it would be a blatant conflict of interest for any journalist to be part of it. Which should include you, and anyone else who doesn't think members of the media should take outside pay for PR work. Abrams and his cohort in the project, former HuffPo media critic Rachel Sklar, offered long defenses of the idea to Daily Intel. Let's do some critical analysis, shall we? More »
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Comment by Richard Lawson: Dan Abrams looks like the prep villain in an 80's B comedy. 9 Responses | Other threads
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ronald perelman
Why Would Ronald Perelman Need Better Press?
So, former MSNBC guy Dan Abrams is starting a "consulting" firm full of random media people to give advice to rich corporate clients about how to handle media-related issues. Do you know what that's called? It's called a PR firm. But this PR firm would never call itself that, because that would make the media people it employs sound corrupt. The thing is, this firm's business plan is so annoying that the rest of the media (us) is going to cover its clients even harder to make up for it. For example! Abrams' first client is billionaire Ron Perelman. Now why would Ron Perelman need to worry about his reputation? More »
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Comment by Hamilton Nolan: We didn't forget any wife. One of his wives died. 3 Responses | Other threads
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dan abrams
Dan Abrams' Ring Of Media Informants
Last year the SEC and New York attorney general's office opened investigations related to a novel business: a company that hired as "consultants" moonlighting workers with access to proprietary information of interest to hedge funds. Ethical questions will also be asked about the network of insider media consultants Dan Abrams has assembled after Rachel Maddow took the Elle Macpherson-dater's MSNBC slot. With advisors like former Us Weekly editor Bonnie Fuller, ex-Huffington Post writer Rachel Sklar and Lockhart Steele, once of Gawker Media, Abrams Research is meant to be simply a "mock jury of bloggers, TV personalities and newspaper or magazine editors," the Wall Street Journal reports. But it could get so much more thorny than that. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by abbe diaz: Bold! So like, once a upon a time, these peoples were called "publicists" and/or "PR managers," yes? And being at the... 2 Responses | Other threads
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gossip roundup
Courtney Love's 60-Blog-Post Freakout
- Apparently Courtney Love said something about being suicidal amid her 60 (!!) blog posts Sunday but she also said her mood was "pirate" (good, right??) and that "ebaz and mj dresses saved my life." Also putting on a dress made her feel pretty. Also: "Dada, circus."
- NBC's Dan Abrams and supermodel Elle Macpherson are an item. [P6]
- After a fan committed suicide in front of her house, Paula Abdul hired "healers" to get rid of ghosts, and still is convinced the place is haunted. [P6]
- Sean Combs: ""I shave and groom my private areas." Good morning to you too, Sean. [R&M - second item]
- No one tell Ricky Gervais the pound is now worth less than $1.50. The city needs all the economic stimulus it can get [R&M - third item]
- Oil heir Brandon Davis is now said to be a degenerate gambler, in addition to a sponge. [P6]
- Madonna is crushing Britney Spears' only-recently-revived hopes and dreams. [Showbiz Spy]
- Miley Cyrus is not dead. [E!]
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By Ryan TateComment by Aaron Altman: Dear Courtney: My offer to be your personal editor, assistant, whatever is still open. I swear!!!! Let's work something out.... 14 Responses | Other threads
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rachel maddow
Predecessor On Maddow: 'What The Fuck?'
New York magazine expanded on the legend of MSNBC hotshot Rachel Maddow, revealing her further as a sharp scholar ("I still send students to [her] thesis as a model," says a Stanford professor), unabashed bleeding heart (spending nights "worrying about nuclear proliferation and the Fourth Amendment ") and refreshingly down-to-earth television personality ("There is nothing funnier than a fart"). It also broke the news that the Rachel Maddow Show host now, at long last, owns a television! But then the profile reminded us Maddow got her slot at the expense of a guy in a long-running feud with her advocate Keith Olbermann: More »
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By Ryan TateComment by American Dreamer: I thought Rachel Maddow would just be another talking clown but I came away deeply impressed. She really puts to shame... 2 Responses | Other threads
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Olbermann Favorite Ascends At MSNBC
After frequent guest and guest-host appearances on Keith Olbermann's left-leaning Countdown, political commentator Rachel Maddow will get her own MSNBC show as everyone predicted, replacing Dan Abrams' Verdict 9 pm weeknights. The Times' Brian Stelter writes that "Ms. Maddow will almost certainly be a closer ideological fit with Mr. Olbermann’s," reinforcing our earlier point that, despite its protestations, MSNBC will inevitably become basically the Fox News of the left as it moves to hold on to the young viewers Olbermann has attracted. Judging by the comments attached to Stelter's blog post, this should be a popular decision. Maddow, at least, is un-Fox-like in one way: She hasn't been afraid to smack down her MSNBC colleagues. After the jump, no fewer than three videos of Maddow doing so, with Joe Scarborough, Chris Matthews and Pat Buchanan. More » -
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MSNBC's Wonder Boy Dan Abrams Knows When To Quit
"MSNBC said today that [general manager] Dan Abrams, who has been the host of a 9 p.m. news hour called 'Live with Dan Abrams' temporarily since July, will stay in the job permanently, leaving behind the managerial position he had occupied for a little over a year." With MSNBC's ratings nipping at CNN's heels, this can only be good for Abrams: If ratings stay high, he can take all the credit, and if they start to go down, hey, he can just blame the new guy. Also notable: Dan Abrams, though he unfortunately refers to his program as "snarky," has "no interest in doing Keith Olbermann." Boy, is he not alone in that. More »
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By abalkComment by Dwayne Provecho: Oh shit, I'm not alone! Thanks to the Dan Abrams tag, I found this: [gawker.com] more » | Other threads
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media
Media Bubble: 'Times' Tells Feds To Eat A Bag Of Dicks
- NYT says "[Redacted], you [redacted] [redacted] of the CIA. Go [redacted] a up your [redacted] [redacted] [redacted] until it [redacted]." Ouch. [NYT] More »
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By abalk2Comment by JupiterPluvius: I'm not sure why we're supposed to be worried about Seth Mnookin, based on that link? I mean, I... more » | Other threads
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Media Bubble: Exiled From The Cond Kingdom
- Wall Street Journal Managing Editor Paul Steiger set to retire at the end of next year. [NYP] More »
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By abalk2Comment by SecureLocation: I think everyone who works with Olbermann would agree that he's very talented and very nuts. more » | Other threads
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media
Media Bubble: What Would Jesus Expense?
• You ever get so incapacitated by the incredible number of jokes that you could possibly do about a story that you just bury it in a linkdump? Because sometimes we do. [FBW] More »
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By abalk2Comment by Cheap Shot: Fivehole obviously hasn't been to Six Flags Holy Flume ride yet. more » | Other threads
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Remainders: At Least She Keeps Her Butterfly Backtoo Covered
• Campbell Brown, you naughty girl! The Today show interim co-host flashes her inexplicable ankle tat — no idea what that's supposed to be, but she really should've gone for a fairy or a dolphin. [Animal] More » -
dan abrams
Dan Abrams Is Not Happy with the 'Times' This Morning
Well. We thought we had it on good authority that new MSNBC chief Dan Abrams was not, in fact, a virgin. But then, we also thought he was younger than 40. More » -
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MSNBC's Dan Abrams Is a Mediocre Drag Queen
We were intrigued when an email arrived this morning with the subject line "Dan Abrams." We were even more intrigued when we read the message: More » -
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Dan Abrams' Ego Promoted to GM of MSNBC
Not one week since MSNBC's former president Rick Kaplan "stepped down" from his post, the fledgling network has promoted Dan Abrams to the position of general manager. This comes as bad news for fans of drowsy afternoon legal analysis, as it means he will no longer be hosting the Abrams Report (though he will, however, continue to act as NBC's chief legal correspondent, so we'll still get to watch Dan bat his pretty blue eyes on the Today show and Dateline). More » -
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Wikipedia, Your Very Reliable Source for Relationship Gossip
We were directed earlier today to the Wikipedia bio for MSNBC host Dan Abrams, which contains some awfully surprising news at its very tail end: More »
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