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great moments in journalism

Your Vagina's Feelings Are Important To Fox News

Fox News felt, perhaps, a bit upstaged by ABC News' sensationalized report on how Hillary Clinton slept in her own home 11 years ago, so the cable news network decided to flood the zone with even more of its own tabloid hype than usual. FoxNews.com started with "Woman Gets New Anus Instead of Leg Operation" then moved on to "Is Your Vagina Depressed?" (Sex site Nerve.com spotted the racy headlines quickly.) Fox's report on vagina pain, aka Vulvodynia, was noteworthy not just for the headline, but also because a paid Vagisil consultant and advisory board member, Dr. Adelaide Nardone, touted a Vagisil product for the disorder, and neither she nor Fox disclosed to viewers her relationship to the feminine hygiene brand. Perhaps these sorts of stories are inevitable when you give your medical correspondent his own blog called "Dr. Manny After Hours." After the jump, video of the Vagisil plug, plus Dr. Manny encouraging a woman — her vagina, really — to buck up and look at the bright side of life. More »

4:30 AM on Thu Mar 20 2008
By Ryan Tate
3,617 views, 50 comments

Latest by n/a: @MartyPants: ok get me the vagisil kit NOW!!!! Dr. Pulva here I come! more »

trendsquatting

In Case You Thought About Growing A Beard, Watch This

To celebrate the return of the beard (I know), the Chicago Tribune interviewed the sketchiest bearded men they could find. "Meeting people and rubbing your fuzzies on them is an extra hello," according to one guy with a half-grown-in beard who'd just finished plucking phone numbers from a Help Wanted board. During the entire interview, the cameras center on the beards, presumably to protect the men's identities while the child molestation charges blow over. That cinematography choice takes this two-minute clip (shown below) from dumb to priceless. More »

2:56 PM on Sat Feb 16 2008
By Nick Douglas
4,372 views, 28 comments

Latest by smartster: i wouldn't judge beards by the weirdos in the video. for every one of these beard clowns, there is a Ché Guevara who uses the beard for ultimate style. more »

webtards

YOU! Can Make Bad News Stories For CNN

Old Media is dead! Today CNN officially launched iReport, the first citizen media site other than Current, NowPublic, Newsvine, and other ones that don't matter. But CNN's making a good run for not mattering either. See, some reports on the site, which has the tagline "Unedited. Unfiltered. News," get edited and filtered and put on TV. What made the cut? Teenage book reports and disaster porn. I'd put an example below, but CNN failed to learn from the one thing YouTube does right and let people embed videos on other sites. A real shame, because they'll miss out on all this news: More »

6:03 PM on Thu Feb 14 2008
By Nick Douglas
1,090 views, 17 comments

Latest by Jenniferhdaniel: You make the news, we publish it. You read your news, we laugh all the way to the bank while turning said submitted woodland creature stories and disaster porn potboilers into possibly "real" news segments, which we will air as more »

trendsquatting

Okay, Which Second Life Employee Is Sleeping With The Entire NYT Tech Section?

Jesus, it feels like every week the New York Times finds a new "trend" involving Second Life, the virtual world that lets people interact with avatars to blah blah blah ugh. In the 65th Times story about SL, it's virtual job interviews, which even the Times knows are nearly non-existent, admitting that Second Life owner Linden Labs "doesn't keep statistics" but "says the number has grown exponentially" in the world's five-year history. Which could mean, since we're given no parameters, that there are all of thirty-two employers using a technology half as useful as AIM and a webcam. Also, the Wall Street Journal did this story, but better, last June. Bad enough, but here's what makes the Times's coverage of Second Life such an epic failure. More »

10:05 PM on Sun Feb 10 2008
By Nick Douglas
6,523 views, 24 comments

Latest by n/a: People who make money in Second Life are independent. Most are agnostic to Second Life itself, knowing that virtual worlds in general are profitable if one knows how to profit from it. The smart ones are in multiple more »

journalismism

TMZ At NYU

Today, TMZ vampire Harvey Levin visited NYU's journalism department to talk about how he practices his craft and the entire self-aggrandizing mythos of journalism reportedly ate its own tail and then puked it back up in disgust, forever. Our favorite quotes: More »

6:20 PM on Fri Feb 8 2008
By Pareene
4,343 views, 22 comments

great moments in journalism

Matt Drudge Just Wants You To Know, Hillary Clinton Coughed Again

The only two videos on Matt Drudge's YouTube account both feature Hillary Clinton having a coughing fit. Weird thing is, he used his account once last May to show her coughing at a commencement speech, then again today to show her hacking it up on TV. While the old video has actual footage, the new one is just a camcorder pointed at the TV, which would be déclassé even when copying last night's Family Guy. Both videos are below, if you share Drudge's Clinton-cough fetish. More »

1:08 AM on Wed Feb 6 2008
By Nick Douglas
782 views, 12 comments

Latest by KarenUhOh: @VirusWithShoes: Given that many insist she wears a codpiece, I suppose it's appropriate. more »

great moments in journalism

'Beheading Sodomites' Is Funny At The Wall Street Journal

Mark Steyn reviewed a book about a Broadway songwriter for the Wall Street Journal, and there was just no way for the National Review contributor to write on that topic without somehow dragging Islamic militants into the whole thing, so he wrote this hackneyed lede about how this one Muslim Brotherhood founder hated on Broadway showtunes in like the 1940s or whatever. To return to the book from the topic of Muslims Hating Our Precious Freedoms, Steyn wrote probably the worst transition in the history of literary criticism, in any language, on any planet, ever. It is, at best, a terrible joke puking its own awfulness all over women, gays, Israelis and anyone who remembers exactly how the Wall Street Journal lost a reporter in Pakistan eight years ago. It reads as follows: More »

9:26 PM on Tue Feb 5 2008
By Ryan Tate
3,605 views, 27 comments

Latest by htotheomo: @VirusWithShoes: Sorry for the delayed response. He's hot. Are we now worried with what people say? I say my star is rising! more »

trendsquatting

Porn Is Coming To Phones! Again! For Serious This Time!


Actually no. Reuters' story today, "Porn to spice up cell phones," is just a rehash of a trend story that was never fulfilled, despite plenty of publicists planting the story to promote clients' phone-porn ventures. Take, for instance, the 2004 Cox News story, "Can you see me now? Porn coming to U.S. cell phones," a result of Playboy expanding into mobile phones. Of course Playboy was late, as there was already a story about the struggling phone-porn industry in 1992, when cell phones were actually larger than a naked woman. Click through for the full-size screencap from the Lexis Nexis archives &mdash and the real reason Reuters ran this story. More »

2:54 PM on Wed Jan 30 2008
By Nick Douglas
1,361 views, 20 comments

Latest by DorothyMantooth: @fiveinchtaint: I just bought the first five seasons on DVD. It's TOTALLY as good as you remember, my dilznoofus!Gazziza! more »

corey delaney

Your Glasses Are Famous: Australian Media Keeps Chasing Party Kid Corey Worthington

Corey Worthington, the 15-year-old Melbourne boy who threw a wild party at which over 500 guests terrorized the neighbors, vandalized cars, and chased off the cops, is still attracting a ricockulous attention spree from the media. Since his first interview on Australian tabloid show A Current Affair, Worthington (sometimes called Corey Delaney) appeared on the show again after ACA tracked him down to the beach where he's hid from his parents since the party this past weekend. The video, including highlights from the interview that got over a million viewers on Break.com, is below. Meanwhile, Worthington's been interviewed by Fox FM and tracked by MSN, which reports he's refused to remove his sunglasses all week, ever since he told the ACA interviewer that the glasses were famous. More »

4:28 PM on Wed Jan 16 2008
By Nick Douglas
10,137 views, 28 comments

Latest by designmartini: You can hardly blame the kid for answering such dumb questions sarcastically. If some bitchy anchorwoman told me to take my sunglasses off my response would've been way less suitable for television, and not nearly as hilarious. more »

corey delaney

Some Hipster In Australia Threw A Party. Here's Why It's World News.

By "world news" I mean "the current favorite video being passed around online." And by that I don't even mean it's the most-watched video of the week, but that this video of an unapologetic Australian hipster ruffian is being passed around every pass-stuff-around site until it seems it's taken over the Internet. Below, a summary of the video and a timeline of how it spread (and of course the video itself). More »

3:33 AM on Wed Jan 16 2008
By Nick Douglas
35,730 views, 16 comments

portfolio

Well Do They Or Don't They?

Portfolio magazine takes diversification to a new extreme: The mag leads January's issue with Robert Reich's admonition to "get corporate money out of politics" since companies often "set the agenda" and "pour millions of dollars into the system." Flip to the back pages, and veteran business journalist Roger Lowenstein is slamming a book on responsible investing with the argument that corporate "donations seem too small to encourage any meaningful and lasting shifts in government policy."

6:19 AM on Thu Jan 10 2008
By Ryan Tate
242 views, 1 comment

great moments in journalism

French press buys fake Facebook exec's story

The press's shaky grasp on Facebook usually manifests itself in opinions: "It's the new Google" (it's not), "it doesn't have the ad-clog and spam problems that plague MySpace (it does). But this time the French press got the entire story wrong. When the 28-year-old French man unaffiliated with Facebook claimed to be the company's new president in France, the country's press, including L'express and Le Parisien (which later front-paged a retraction), ran with it. Techcrunch.com has the long version, I've got the short version. More »

2:44 PM on Wed Jan 9 2008
By Nick Douglas
2,644 views, 29 comments

Latest by DorothyMantooth: @moff: I knew he had it in him! more »

great moments in journalism

In New York, Delis Contain Foodstuffs!

I don't really like to stoop to making fun of stories. You know why? Because I've written so many bad ones myself! Hi-o! Hell, everyone does! And also, who cares? That aside, it's safe to say I may never get over this opening paragraph in the Times metro section: "Across the city, delis and bodegas are a familiar and vital part of the streetscape, modest places where customers can pick up necessities, a container of milk, a can of soup, a loaf of bread." INDEED. Whatever, the story is somewhat redeemed because it is about deli cats, which are the most awesome cats in the world and anyone who is against them is EVIL. What would you rather have, the occasional scratch and cat hair on your bagel or RAT-NIBBLED TRISCUITS?

To Dismay of Inspectors, Prowling Cats Keep Rodents on the Run at City Delis [NYT]

10:29 AM on Fri Dec 21 2007
By Choire
2,138 views, 76 comments

Latest by pezkills: @Itsjustcatnip: In Pittsburgh there used to be a used book store in Squirrel Hill. The owners had carved out cat-sized holes in the bases on may bookshelves, so their cat could cruise underneath all the time. Always more »

We're becoming obsessed with the story of the shoot-out on Friday night at the poker game in "unmarked office on the seventh floor of a commercial building at 251 Fifth Avenue, at 28th Street." There isn't much new on the story—but as a former math professor from New Jersey was killed in the poker den, it gave the "North Jersey Media Group" the opportunity to write this immortal line: "Those who knew Frank DeSena say the Wayne man had been dealt a good hand in life." URK. [NYT]

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We did not know Stanford had such a problem with poverty but apparently Natalie Portman did. Threadbare Stanford sweatshirts, playing Ultimate Frisbee with a plastic plate, reading Edward Said by dwindling candlelight? The horror! [NY Post]

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Time's Josh Tyrangiel on Radiohead's plan to let fans choose what they'll pay for their first new album since leaving EMI: "In an industry stuck in the financial equivalent of Hurricane Alley, In Rainbows is more than just a storm. 'This could be the mother of them all,' e-mailed an A.-and-R. executive at a major European label. EMI pulled in $3.6 billion last year. It is a couple of Radioheads away from a musical New Orleans." [Time not online.]

33 comments

Regarding Britney Spears's temporary loss of custody over her children: "'Gimme More' is something she is likely to demand from the judge, but for that to become a reality Spears had better make sure that she rehearses her mothering skills with more vigor than she does her lyrics." [ABC News]

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that rosie's crazy

Rosie O'Donnell Troubled In Head, Says 'Post' Shrink

With the publication date of Rosie O'Donnell's memoir Celebrity Detox fast approaching, the Post spins into action, taking their hard-hitting approach to news to its logical extreme. They had a couple of psychiatrists read an advance copy and perform a diagnosis of the former "View" host. What did the good doctors learn? "Rosie O'Donnell is full of rage, has a profound distrust of men, craves public adoration, shows signs of post-traumatic stress disorder and dishes out her anger mostly to women because of deep-seated abandonment issues over her mother's death." More »

5:30 PM on Mon Sep 17 2007
By abalk
3,142 views, 17 comments

Latest by gonzosmom: @LolCait: Freud Flintstone. more »

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