Pictured is Bae Seok-bum, a "40-year-old South Korean construction worker who also operates a website for fortunetellers." Like most construction workers who dabble in fortunetelling, he is not the favorite son of North Korea's absolute dictator. But he looks like he could be, right? So when he posted this photo online, the media was like, "let's go with it!"

During a broadcast Wednesday, Japan's TV Asahi said the station had received information from an unnamed source who had met the younger Kim numerous times. It said the source told it that the authenticity of the photo was "90%."

The image associated with this post is best viewed using a browser.Hopefully he can at least parlay all this attention into a windfall for his fortunetelling business. Meanwhile Kim Jong Il's actual favorite son and likely successor Kim Jong Un, hasn't been photographed since this picture of him when he was 12. So by now he probably looks like this.

[LAT]

Nevins and her husband, Sidney Koch, booked first class Delta seats and were headed to Sundance when Obama was scheduled to speak. But Delta told them they could watch the speech in the air! Then, tragedy:

But shortly after takeoff, many of the television monitors in first class failed, including Ms. Nevins’ monitor, [their attorney] said...

“Sidney had been watching Obama’s speech and a couple times when President Obama was speaking, the airplane pilot made a public address interrupting Obama’s speech,” said Jean Frost, an assistant executive director at the Directors Guild, who was also in first class. “Sidney got very upset at that happening and went to talk to the stewardess.”

Ms. Frost said that Mr. Koch eventually admitted he lost his temper, for which he apologized.

Haha, but the flight crew was like fuck that, and they had Port Authority police officers waiting for the "verbally abusive" Nevins and Koch, and when they arrived they were detained and questioned! Then they were released, but now they might sue Delta & Co. for being so mean and calling the cops.

Next time maybe watch the speech at home if you really want to see it? [The Caucus; pic via]

"We fight every night, now that's not kosher. I reminisce with bliss of when we was closer. And wake up to be greeted by an argument again, You act like you're ten," the 27-year-old writes...

"My friends always tell me how I'm lucky to possess the best looking girl in the whole U.S.," the blog continued, "...it seems like just two years back when we were bonded and not pierced, but now I keep itchin' to jet."

How long before Celebuzz exclusively learns that Travis just copy-and-pasted the lyrics to "Looking at the Front Door" by Main Source? I guess they'll figure it out sooner or later.

10. Sarah Palin Reads Everything—this one is really one of the media's finest moments (by Katie Couric, who knew?), and Sarah Palin is the one fucking up. But it's about the media, so fuck it. Your almost-VP, ladies and gentlemen.

9. Anderson Cooper Fucks Up the Invisibility Thing—Remember that ridiculous "hologram" technology CNN rolled out on election night, as if they had extra money to throw around? The next day they tried to follow up with an invisibility technology, but Anderson "Equinox" C. fucked it all up. Ah well.

8. MSNBC Reporter Calls Spike Lee 'Uppity'—Hey that's RACIST.

7.
LA Times' Fake Tupac Scoop—Lesson: don't use serial con men as sources for front-page investigations.

6.
Jackass Reporter Mocked by iPhone Nerd—Comeuppance.

5. Jane Fonda Says Vagina Word—A celebrity saying "cunt" live on the Today show is mildly amusing. The fact that this video got more than half a million hits is just one more example of the difference between what people say they want and what they really want, and the reason we can't have nice, intellectual things.

4. Peggy Noonan Is Accidentally Honest—Peggy Noonan ironically exposes herself as even more morally bankrupt by lapsing out of character to tell the truth.

3.
Michelle Obama "Baby Mama"—Surprising this one could happen on a network like Fox.

2.
Martin Bashir's Babe-a-licious Speech—A gala speech at the Association of Asian-American Journalists: Not the best time to talk about how you'd like to bone your colleague.

1. Sue Simmons Says Bad Word—Well this one is pretty classic by now. Just what bad word did she say? We'll tell you: it's 'fuck.' You'll probably watch the clip even though you know that.

BONUS:
Richard Blakeley's Video Compilations of All-Time Stupid Reporter Tricks—Those are worth watching.

With 15 minutes left in the trading day yesterday, Dow Jones ran a mistaken report that (almost singlehandedly) erased the day's gains in the DJ Industrial Average:

General Electric's stock fell 4 percent in the last minutes of trading, only to end down 1.5 percent at $19.20.

Dow Jones reported that General Electric's Chief Executive Jeffrey Immelt said GE aims at keeping 2009 profits at the same level as this year, even if revenue drops 10 percent to 15 percent.

But after the closing bell, Dow Jones corrected their story, saying that GE Chief Executive Jeff Immelt had not forecast 2009 profit to be flat.

The news service said Immelt had been speaking hypothetically when he told a business group in Spain that he would ask his managers to maintain profits even if revenues at their businesses fell as much as 10 percent to 15 percent.

That's from Reuters, and there are plenty of other reports in dozens of other outlets about this major reporting screwup. So, what does the Wall Street Journal—the flagship paper of Dow Jones—have to say this morning about yesterday's late selloff in the market?

The Dow Jones Industrial Average finished down 74.16 points, or 0.8%, at 8990.96. It was up more than 290 points and down nearly 175 points within the last 15 minutes of trading.

General Electric was a catalyst in the late-day swoon, finishing down 1.5%.

The late-day market selloff reflected a "sell the rallies" mentality in the stock market, said Todd Steinberg, head of equities and derivatives for the Americas at BNP Paribas. After Tuesday's rally and gains Wednesday afternoon, "stocks got back up to levels where people were comfortable selling," he said.

We'll translate that: Nothing! The WSJ had nothing to say about how its own company's fuckup led to this rapid selloff of GE "in the late day swoon."

And that's how you try to sweep an error under the rug, unsuccessfully.

HHW, we hear, has trouble paying its vendors, writers, and photographers. Or just doesn't want to. Either way, lots of people who have done work for the magazine are pissed at it. So it was pretty dumb for HHW to (mistakenly?) blast out an invitation to its 50th issue release party to a long list of contributors who hadn't been paid yet. Cue the responses!

And the kicker:

That's why you should pay people for their work.

[UPDATE: And possibly there will be some sort of protest rally]:

Lesson 1: Layoffs provide innovation, somehow. Message to clients:

Lesson 2: Keep this all quiet! From the FAQs:

Lesson 3: No, really. Keep this all quiet:

One note from Mr. Hollander reflected on the company's PR plans around the layoffs. He wrote, "This is a tough one. Since we're not opting to get out in front of the press, we will be left to defend. I think we may need to prepare for different contingencies depending on how they may hit us — because they will hit us. RISK assessment."

It's too much. Read it all at Ad Age.

We do feel sorry for whoever sent that email. ("Chief People Officer Rose Zory.")

For this week's examination of the ideal surgically-enhanced face, New York's Jonathan Van Meter spoke with the publisher of a fashion magazine. 'When I told her I was working on a piece about plastic surgery, she leaned in and whispered, “You must talk to David Rosenberg.” Then my friend, who will turn 60 next spring, confessed that she had just plunked down a $4,000 deposit and will be going under Rosenberg’s knife for a face-lift later this year. All told, it will cost her $30,000, including recovery in a fancy hotel and a private nurse attending to her every need.'

The source's name wasn't explicitly revealed in the piece, but there simply aren't that many fashion magazines; there are fewer female publishers; and a basic Nexis search shows that Elle's Carol Smith (pictured here next to New York's plastic-surgery cover) turns 60 in May 2009. In case there was any doubt, Van Meter's "friend" was once his colleague at Vibe magazine, where he was editor and she was publisher in the early 1990s. It didn't take long for Portfolio's Jeff Bercovici to make the connection, and extract an embarrassing admission from the Elle publisher that she was the one with the birthday plastic-surgery plans.

According to Bercovici, Van Meter declined to confirm whether Smith was the publisher in question. Given the obvious clues he so carelessly left, his belated discretion is redundant.