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    11/09/09

    In reply to Jayson Blair Is Back, Blames Himself for the Current Media Crisis
    I am uncertain about his future as a life coach, but fully approve his back-up plan to be the first African American spokes-doughboy for Pillsbury. #journalismism
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    11/09/09

    In reply to Jayson Blair Is Back, Blames Himself for the Current Media Crisis
    Is it just me, or does his head look somewhat flattened? #journalismism
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    11/09/09

    @kentuckienne: It was bulldozed by the Truth Truck. #journalismism
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    11/09/09

    In reply to Jayson Blair Is Back, Blames Himself for the Current Media Crisis
    Life coach? Life coach?

    Pardon me while I laugh until I piss myself. Talk about your totally pointless "professions". Besides, hasn't the recession pretty much done away with bullshit jobs like "life coach"?

    Why am I reminded of Michael "Heckuva Job, Brownie" Brown, who attempted to open a security consultancy after being bounced from FEMA after his handling of the Hurricane Katrina response? Talk about some world-class cajones.

    Seriously, man... what's the goddamn' deal with these people? They remind me of Gatsby's friends in Fitzgerald's novel -- paraphrasing here -- creating huge messes everywhere they go, then going on their merry way as if nothing happened, expecting someone else to clean up after them. #journalismism
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    11/09/09

    @flugennock: "They were careless people, Tom and Daisy--they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or whatever it was that kept them together and let other people clean up the messe they had made..."

    The operative condition being "money".

    Plus I always inferred that Tom and Daisy were attractive. This guy, not so much. #journalismism
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    11/09/09

    In reply to Jayson Blair Is Back, Blames Himself for the Current Media Crisis
    Ravi, auto-play videos are of the devil.

    Re: Mr. Blair - dude needs to have a med check, because I think the Adderall is showing. I hope he knows that you're not supposed to crush or snort the time-released ones. #journalismism
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    11/09/09

    In reply to Jayson Blair Is Back, Blames Himself for the Current Media Crisis
    ...a profession that not only did I personally love doing, but that I value for society...

    I admire his stepping up to the podium and trying to turn a bad into a good, but this quote? He loved it so much he faked getting the job done and he valued it so much he plagiarized others' work. He needs to choose his words more carefully if he wants to be taken seriously as someone who has done some soul searching on the wrongs he committed. #journalismism
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    11/09/09

    @PaisleyPajamas: Remember Stephen Glass, Blair's brother-in-disgrace, who fabricated a billion stories, got caught, and then went on to pursue a law degree (ha!) and publish a contrite-ish biographical novel? Your comment reminds me of the reaction of New Republic's literary editor, Leon Wieseltier--Glass' former boss:

    "The creep is doing it again. Even when it comes to reckoning with his own sins, he is still incapable of nonfiction. The careerism of his repentance is repulsively consistent with the careerism of his crimes."

    "Careerism of repentance".. Now this is a fine, useful phrase to keep in mind. #journalismism
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    11/09/09

    @snugbug: Yes! That's it exactly. Apparently they were coming from the same point of view on the "value for society" of their work. #journalismism
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    11/09/09

    In reply to Jayson Blair Is Back, Blames Himself for the Current Media Crisis
    Did anyone else find it coffee-shooting-through-the-nose funny that he was interviewed by Fox?
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    11/09/09

    @burbere002: Yes I did #journalismism
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    11/09/09

    @adiam7: I wanna see Courtney Love interviewed by Glenn Beck! And the guy who believes in the shape-shifting giant lizard conspiracy interviewed by Ann Coulter!
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    11/09/09

    @burbere002: +!!111 Yes. Grandiosity and delusions and lying being perfect for Fox and for life coaching. #journalismism
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    11/09/09

    @burbere002: How would I be able to tell the difference between the giant lizard ( in case the guy is legit and can do it) and Ann Coulter #journalismism
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    11/09/09

    In reply to Jayson Blair Is Back, Blames Himself for the Current Media Crisis
    "I delivered an unfortunate blow to a profession that not only did I personally love doing..."

    Never were truer words said. He blew the profession, and personally loved doing it. #journalismism
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    11/09/09

    @DevilsAvocadoRedux: I was going to comment on that very verb. If "doing" a profession is your idea of correct syntax, maybe it's time to go back to school. #journalismism
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    11/09/09

    In reply to Jayson Blair Is Back, Blames Himself for the Current Media Crisis
    I love this career path: do something unethical, become an ethics specialist. Last week, I got credit towards my legal ethics requirement for listening to Nixon's former lawyer discuss how not to be a crook. #journalismism
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    11/09/09

    @Z und Vielpunkt's chick: It is the American way. Only the unethical can tell you about ethics, the unfashionable about fashion and the corrupt about corruption. #journalismism
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    11/09/09

    @adiam7: Of course it's only those who get caught being corrupt who hit the lecture circuit.

    Those who can, do. Those who can't, charge $10,000 per event. #journalismism
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    11/09/09

    @adiam7: Don't forget hackers on 'net security. #journalismism
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    11/09/09

    @adiam7: Which brings us to Emily Gould: Yoga Instructor. #journalismism
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    11/09/09

    In reply to Jayson Blair Is Back, Blames Himself for the Current Media Crisis
    Not to be a stickler, but the word "disgraced" is only in the final paragraph and no where near the guy's name. #journalismism
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    11/09/09

    @Magister: Good point. Because it should be the Homeric epithet attached to him -- "disgraced former journalist." #journalismism
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    10/31/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Biden was the most inscrutable choice, ever, for VP. Instead of "change" Obama brought out an old hack, who had trouble with both truth telling, even during the campaign, and with inserting his foot into his mouth. Oh, to know what kind of negotiation that was, to get him on the ticket---except, perhaps to allay terrified old white guys who feared a woman and a (half)black man on the ticket would bring on the apocalypse. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    apparently I am in the minority, but I love Joe Biden! I think he's like the lovable Steve Urkel of the White House. He comes in, says stupid stuff, knocks shit over, and is like "Did I do that?" Oh Joe. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Joe Biden is everything thats wrong and fucked up with congress. This dope won his seat in the Senate when he was 29 and has never had another job until being VP. He has learned about as much about how the country works from his perch in DC as Palin learned about Russia from staring at it. He is walking proof we need term limits.

    And he doesn't drink. I don't trust people who don't drink, unless they've already been alcoholics. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Why is it that I feel compelled to defend Gawker's subject matter against the editors/writers at least once a day lately?

    Either this new crop of staff writers is utterly fucked, or the editorial direction has taken a nosedive, or both.

    Is there some negative correlation between the quality of stories and the quality of AJAX/CSS? #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    @Motoko Kusanagi: From where I'm standing, it would appear to be a positive correlation. It's a good day when I get tripped up by fewer than five unresponsive scripts, infinite waits for comments to load or what have you. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    @romulus: The site gets prettier, and the content gets lamer. Just callin it as I see it. #joebiden
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    @Motoko Kusanagi: Oh yeah, I didn't mean to quibble. I agree that the site gets fancier all the time, but features seem to break often. I should have added before that it could well be my OS and browser causing headaches most readers don't experience. And in all fairness, I haven't been reading long enough to judge contemporary content against the past. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Not sure what point you're trying to make, Amrita... that you think Cheney's worldview makes some sense? That Cheney was initially popular, before everything he did brought his popularity rating to a low of 28%? I love it that Biden is willing to call a moron a moron. This is a ridiculous post. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Oh, and if you're trying to poke fun at Vice Prez Biden for weeping during the debate when he spoke about his first wife and baby daughter who died, well then, that's just messed up. #joebiden
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    10/31/09

    @Conchie Birdie: One might argue that it was the worst kind of political hackdom for him to bring them up expressly to show his "empathy" side and try to squeeze a tear out of his plastic-surgeryized eye slots. #joebiden
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