Gawker
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Media Crack
Honduran President Just Sitting Around Hoping a Reporter Will Visit
In your Friday-like Thursday media column: Howard Kurtz types many words for no good reason, Rupert Murdoch denies wanting to own the NYT, the WaPo can't stop distancing itself from that sellout email, and journalism is practiced in Honduras. More »
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Comment by marinaorangina: why don't you call him the DE FACTO president of honduras? not elected, not democratic.... geez, gawker... more » | Other threads
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ethics
Washington Post Mistakenly Tells Truth About 'Sponsored' Media Events
The Washington Post sent a flier to DC corporate lobbyists and other scum offering them an exclusive, schmoozy dinner with political officials and Post reporters for only $25,000. Now they're disavowing it! Come now. They were just too honest. More »
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Comment by CountryClubRepublican: I don't care how one rationalizes it: selling access to government officials, lawmakers, and a newspaper's reporters and editors is... 1 Responses | Other threads
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polls
We've added New Orleans and Miami to our Great American News City poll. Re-vote now!
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media
New York Blade Folds
The New York Blade, one of NYC's only major gay papers, is shutting down. Its entire staff has been let go. But there's still some far-fetched, theoretical hope. More »
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Comment by I'm Waitin' for Dolemite: every time I read The Blade I secretly thought it would be awesome to have Zorro on every cover. alas they... 4 Responses | Other threads
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polls
Where Is the Great American News City?
Gambling, gangsters, celebrities, creeps—Las Vegas is "journalism heaven," says this guy. OH? We know a few cities that would dispute that. Newspapers may be dying, but news is alive and well. Where are America's Best Stories? Candidates below! More »
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Comment by Perhaps Not: Um, nowhere in the South? No New Orleans, no Atlanta? Try again. 8 Responses | Other threads
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Media Crack
Where Were You When Vibe Died?
In your emboldened Wednesday media column: More on the Spin layoffs, "Where were you when Vibe died?" stories begin, Froomkin's proud, Michael Wolff's unnecessarily loud, and newspapers are how(itzer)ed. More »
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Comment by Rickyneck: The best part of Vibe was the "20 Questions". If unkut.com decided to make a magazine, that would be what's... more » | Other threads
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bright ideas
Let's Screw Up the Entire Internet to Save Newspapers
The hot new idea among people who think about "journalism," and the sanctity thereof: let's ban linking, on the internet! Let's also ban wheels, in order to save the horse industry. Let's also ban talking about things!
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Comment by contains_hot_liquid: Out of genuine curiosity/ignorance: Why don't the papers just start charging subscriptions for their online content? I'd pay $5 a month,... 66 Responses | Other threads
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smackdowns
CNBC Host Driven to Cursing Freak-Out By Bloggers
We haven't followed Dennis Kneale's feud with financial bloggers, but it sounds hilarious: They call him "Beaker," "super dipshit," "clueless," and compare his show to a Saturday Night Live skit. Kneale wants the world to know. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by ChillbearLatrigue: Wait. So you're telling me that "dickweed" is now in play? This is a very interesting development in deed. 3 Responses | Other threads
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Media Crack
Fox Biz Reporter Did Read a Book About 'Stocks' Once
In your censorious Tuesday media column: A Russian journalist dies after an attack, Fox Business Network hires only the best financial experts, dumb high school censorship, and newspapers all dying as usual. More »
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Comment by hypocriteoath: looks more like a Kalishnikov than a shotgun but what do I know? I'm just a gunless NYer. 2 Responses | Other threads
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new journalismism
Twitter-Addled CNN Refers to Tweets as a 'Source'
Everyone's coverage of the uprising in Iran has been Twitter-centric, for obvious reasons. But CNN, in an apparent attempt to look like they have real, non-Twitter newsgathering capabilities, has been regurgitating Twitter posts and attributing them to unnamed "sources." More »
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By John CookComment by Aaron Altman: CNN also seems to ignore that PersianKiwi's last Tweet was on June 24th - he/she hasn't been heard from since,... 5 Responses | Other threads
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Media Crack
Still a Few More Years Before the Total Collapse of the NYT
In your sad Monday media column: the New York Times will limp along a little longer, Iran locks up journalists while they're engrossed in Twitter, Tim Rutten is predictable, and the television industry loses a couple billion, no biggie. More »
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Comment by kneetoe: Well, good news about the VJ job, anyway. God was I awful. 1 Responses | Other threads
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public relations
How Censorship Finally Helped Wikipedia's Co-Founder
Jimmy Wales had an image problem. After bending his online encyclopedia's rules for a lover and, allegedly, for a benefactor, the Wikipedia co-founder faced rebuke and embarrassment. Then the New York Times made him a hero. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Charax: I don't think that Times link links to what you think it links to. 1 Responses | Other threads
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magazines
Is This Interview Over?
Like every other print magazine in the world, Interview continues to have problems. More »
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Comment by AtomicBalm: Let's all breathe pure Helium for 12 hours straight and then see if we think, sound and feel like Bjork... 2 Responses | Other threads
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sandwiches
News From Abroad
Breaking: "While they have not abandoned their love of food, French people increasingly are resorting to a humble sandwich for the noon meal." But: "sandwich consumption per capita is still lower than in other countries." [WaPo]
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By PareeneComment by procrastinator, esq.: The article referred to a gentleman eating at a cafe on "Rivoli Street." Is that anywhere near Champs Elysees... 1 Responses | Other threads
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Media Crack
Iran Arrests Entire Newspaper
In your overwhelmed Friday media column: Iran just arrests everyone, for reporting, Conde Nast's September prayers will not be answered, a new chairman at the FCC, and the Mark Sanford source remains at large. More »
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Comment by uncivily obedient: The Iranian government is run by jerks. Is that the besy you could come up with? 1 Responses | Other threads
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debunker
Daily News Breaks Farrah's Death Before It Happens?
The New York Daily News tried to say it broke the news of Farrah Fawcett's death online before it even happened. Time stamp proof: More »
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Comment by OhCandida!: Well is she still dead now? And can I first dibs with the body? 20 Responses | Other threads
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Media Crack
New Trial For Anna Politkovskaya's Accused Killers
In your breakthrough Thursday media column: a new trial for a Russian journalist's murder, a mini-Jayson Blair at a college paper, Steven Brill's optimistic projections, and Boston Globe staffers are unhappy with their lot in life. More »
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Media Crack
Is Les Moonves Being Adequately Compensated For Losing $11.7 Billion?
In your ever-gray Wednesday media column: Les Moonves can barely afford a dozen new million-dollar condos, The Daily Beast folds on freelance contracts, layoffs at MTV and TruTV, and the New York Times Co. is sick of your rumormongering. More »
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Comment by SultanaEleusis: That Les Moonves painting is missing a few pancakes. more » | Other threads
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journalismism
Anchorman Sequel, Real Life Version
Wisconsin is home of the media crazy. A TV anchorwoman in La Crosse traced those harassing emails she was getting—they're coming from inside her co-anchor's house! More »
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Comment by smartster: I am from Wisconsin, I am. This is such a good example of the well known Midwestern passive aggressiveness. People... 14 Responses | Other threads
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Media Crack
Successful Writer Feels Not So Successful
In your perennial Tuesday media column: It still sucks to be a writer, sucks if you bought a newspaper, sucks to make stock picks, sucks to produce news on television, and somebody got a new job! More »
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Comment by Phyllis Nefler: Wait, what's in the evil Daily Beast contract? Surely someone here has their hands on it. I WANT ANSWERS! more » | Other threads
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media
Boston Globe Runs In Big Circle
Two weeks ago, the Boston Globe's newsroom union rejected a $10 million package of (necessary) cutbacks. So management slapped them with a huge pay cut. Now they're ready to accept...what they turned down, basically! What a waste of time. More »
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Comment by worth79: yes - because red sox fans have had a tough road of late... 7 Responses | Other threads
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journalismism
Feds to Hound Blogs for Acting Like Magazines
Some writers accept free products, services or trips and then write "reviews" of said items. When magazines and newspapers did this it was fine, but now that bloggers have joined in, it may well become a federal offense. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by momo: I've gotten free shit over the years and as if I write about it, I mention it. It's one... 1 Responses | Other threads
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Media Crack
It's Fish Wrapper, Not Weed Wrapper
In your maudlin Monday media column: Magazines fail at drug-smuggling, sad layoffs at Videogum and Boston Magazine, newspaper reporters in Canada may strike(!), the NYT pokes the WaPo, and an update on the Milwaukee journalist-cop affair scandal. More »
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Comment by lindsayism: I don't know what bugs me more: losing my job, or that horrifying '70s-Mom-haircut photo from 2001. 13 Responses | Other threads
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new york times
Bill Keller's Grand Media Tour
You simply cannot turn on your television these days without seeing New York Times editor Bill Keller expounding on something, or explaining something, or being made fun of. He is ubiquitous! More »
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Comment by nellicat: Would some of you journalist types please sound in about the "keeping secret the kidnapping of a NYT reporter" issue?... 3 Responses | Other threads
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Death of Ideals
Slave Labor: The New, New-Media Profit Model
Here's a question both Arianna Huffington and Guest of a Guest blog mogul wunderkind Rachelle Hruska want to know: Why pay for something - or for them, content - when you can get it for free? Like slavery, but different! More »
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By Foster KamerComment by Soup: This is an excellent piece but people make a lot of assumptions about compensation. For example, I assume that Foster... 8 Responses | Other threads
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Media Punk'd
International TV/Radio Stations Get Punked By Fake Air France Crash Footage
So: someone at a Bolivian television station and someone at a Dutch radio station are sitting around on a Sunday, probably bored. And then, boom: they think they scooped the world with footage from Air France Flight 447. More »
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By Foster KamerComment by ronniedobbs: All I want is to read that everyone died instantly without suffering any pain, yet these stories are not forthcoming... 11 Responses | Other threads
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memos
AP Tells Reporters To Muzzle Facebook Friends
Someone sent us the Associated Press' guidelines for staff social networking and, in keeping with company tradition, they're on the paranoid side. You should probably read them, since basically everyone in the world must now follow them. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by DrunkRobot: WTF? I may be wrong but if you work for the AP, you'd fall into one of three categories. Your... 1 Responses | Other threads
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journalismism
Would You Like to Write for the Washington Post? Try Being a Thoroughly Discredited Ex-Bushite
So you know the Washington Post fired lovable liberal-ish White House blogger Dan Froomkin(!). But there is good news: they are still giving column inches to non-journalist Bush appointees! More »
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By PareeneComment by persimmon: discredited vile partisans guilty of various crimes against this nation Let's face it, it's Iraqis much more than Americans who've had... 1 Responses | Other threads
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journalismism
"The Words 'a', 'and', and 'the' Are Not Included in the Rate"
Journalism. It is not a lucrative profession. Maybe you could be a freelancer though? Easy gigs. Airline magazines! Travel pieces! The sad reality: More »
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Comment by TouchedByAnOctopus: Of course this tailless monkey doesn't want to pay. Most of these Mongoloid devils would kill their own mothers over... 5 Responses | Other threads
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Media Crack
F The Police
In your scandalous Friday media column: a reporter has an affair with a police chief, another reporter's charged with assaulting an old man, Meredith is the new queen of magazines, and Reader's Digest increases its pap quotient. More »
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Comment by reggattagirl: Wow, is there a man shortage in Milwaukee? That's the best she could do? 1 Responses | Other threads
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burned sources
UPDATED: Fox News Kept Mum on its Involvement With Ensign's Affair
Doug Hampton, the cuckolded husband of Sen. John Ensign's mistress, wrote a letter to Fox News five days before the story broke that Ensign had ruined his life and career. Fox never reported it, and called Hampton an extortionist. More »
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By John CookComment by Dr. Nick: "Allegedly, the woman's wife wanted money from the senator" (italics mine) That's some quality journalism there, Greta. 3 Responses | Other threads
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publicity stunts
Newspaper Parodies Grow Ever Less Amusing
National Lampoon parodied a newspaper back in the 70s, and The Onion was founded in 1988, and last year there was that mildly interesting fake New York Times, but the latest spoof paper is indistinguishable from an earnest lefty, arguing. More »
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Comment by Nice Beaver: This is better than the September 12, 2001 issue of PETA Times that led with the headline "100% of Dead... 5 Responses | Other threads
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Media Crack
Bill Keller Will Go Wherever He Wants, Suckas
In your waterlogged Thursday media column: Bill Keller defends his Iran trip, Jon Stewart is cruelly eviscerated, the Weather Channel wants big ratings so it can then fail like other TV networks, and the internet reigns supreme. More »
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Comment by MissPeacock: The Weather Channel is my guilty morning pleasure. I love their morning anchors (Kevin Robinson and Nicole Mitchell), but their... more » | Other threads
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Media Crack
Greta Van Susteren Talking Out the Side of Her Neck
In your plastic Wednesday media column: Greta Van Susteren explains why she's a better friend to "poor African Americans" than Barack Obama is, along with newspaper news, TV news, and New York Post blowjob news. More »
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Comment by Hey_mikey: Wow. Greta helped who? She must have gotten a bad batch of Adderall. more » | Other threads
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journalismism
Bloomberg Brags About Lamest 'Scoop' Ever
Bloomberg's been bragging it suddenly tripled its number of scoops in the first quarter. How did the financial wire do it? A company mole forwarded along one particularly egregious example. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by soonbanned: People who've never worked at Bloomberg don't understand how insular the company is. If it's anything that's not financial news,... more » | Other threads
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censorship
Is the Associated Press Aiding Iranian Censorship?
Trying to report from a country like Iran under state-mandated censorship is hard. The Associated Press is making it harder by caving to the demands of the Iranian regime and refusing to allow its Iranian subscribers to use this photo. More »
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By John CookComment by Jim Cahill: Uh, Iran already has access to the image. The picture is even taken from IRIB TV in Tehran. Those exclusions... 1 Responses | Other threads
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journalismism
Did media careerism help build the case for the Iraq war? This guy thinks so.
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journalismism
Army Officer: Bomb North Korea Before They Nuke Us, Like Iraq
Who was that insane lieutenant colonel telling Fox News we should bomb North Korea? That would be Robert Maginnis, who fought the gay menace for the Family Research Council, then claimed Iraq had many horrible weapons. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by ChillbearLatrigue: I don't get it, if we don't bomb North Korea, which I'm sensing that most of you think is a... 6 Responses | Other threads
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from the mailbag
Bloomberg's Dubious Claim: Three Times Scoopier This Year
Bloomberg retains a reputation as the most brutal and authoritarian of the news wires, so it's no wonder the company's internal memos could pass for North Korean propaganda. Scoop production increased threefold, the glorious regime just reported! More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Schadenfrau: Did anyone ever have a job interview at this place that still chills them to the bone today? Anyone? 7 Responses | Other threads
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