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Ron Jeremy or Lee Abrams?
Tribune Co.'s Chief Bonghitting Officer Lee Abrams or classic porn star Ron Jeremy? Even we can't tell! Click to enlarge, if you know what we mean. -
Media Crack
Please Hire Betty Wales
In your deluged Monday media column: Conde's heartbreaking receptionist layoff, the Miami Herald is JUST FINE, Lee Abrams is a cuddly animal, and Iceland is so touchy: More »
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Comment by misslinda: Jeez, people, stop picking on quirky little Iceland! Ya don't see anyone mocking Smudge Wednesday, or Palm Tree Sunday, or... 3 Responses | Other threads
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lee abrams
Curing The Celebrity Disease With
Tribune Co. Chief InnLOLvation Officer Lee Abrams has a new memo! "CELEBRITY CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY...We can't underestimate our importance these days. We can change this cultural disease." Both of those assertions are false. More »BongsMemos
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Comment by relunctant entity: When he looks at the Blue Man Group, what does he really see? 2 Responses | Other threads
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Media Crack
Sara Nelson Out, Sharon Waxman In
In your sobering Monday media column: Publishers Weekly editor laid off, scrounging for dollars and cougars, former New York Times Hollywood reporter Sharon Waxman's web site cometh, and more! More »
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Comment by Solomon Grundy: I'm still waiting to get paid for a review published in PW six years ago. 1 Responses | Other threads
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Listicle
The Top Ten People Who Should Be Unemployed in a Just 2009
Obviously we live in a cruel and absurd universe of well-rewarded idiocy and undeserved second chances, but if we didn't, these are the ten people you'd meet in the nu-depression's breadlines. More »
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By PareeneComment by CodePink: Those women in the LIPSTICK BUNGLE picture really have shiny legs. Holy crap, those are shiny. Are my legs supposed... 13 Responses | Other threads
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crime
Blagojevich Touched Us All
Usually the arrest of a corrupt Chicago politician would afford, at best, a paragraph of coverage here at Gawker. It's Dog-bites-man news. But Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich is a magical figure, who is connected, directly and indirectly, with so many beloved Gawker characters. Steve Dressler put together this little illustration of Blago's Web of Deceit, and all those who've been caught in it. Join us for explanations, below. More »
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By PareeneComment by GirlyWhirl: Photoshop morph Ron Jeremy and Thomas Friedman together = Lee Abrams. 4 Responses | Other threads
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tribune
The Tribune Company Is Bankrupt
The Tribune Company, owner of the LA Times and Chicago Tribune, has filed for bankruptcy. Bummer. Pretty much everyone saw this coming. The company is $12 billion in debt, its revenues are going steadily downward, it's been having round after round of layoffs, and it's run by an angry (but honest!) billionaire gnome and a Ron Jeremy doppelganger of questionable sanity. Its papers will keep publishing, but working journalists are sure to get even more royally screwed before this is all over—their pension plan actually owns the company. Key details below:
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Comment by ellemnop: I cannot tell you how ECSTATIC I am that I'm graduating college in May with a degree in media! Really,... 23 Responses | Other threads
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tribune company
Tribune Co. On Verge Of Bankruptcy
Sam Zell's Tribune Company is exploring a bankruptcy filing, the Wall Street Journal and Times are reporting. Profits have fallen faster than the media conglomerate can sell off assets, leaving the company in likely violation of debt covenants and scrounging to pay nearly $1 billion in interest. Of course, nearly two-thirds of the company's $12 billion debt comes from Zell's leveraged buyout of the Tribune last December. The cranky old real estate mogul is like a guy who bought his house with a subprime mortgage: He thought he could refinance before interest rates kicked in, but now the price of his home is plummeting and he's getting desperate. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by IndianSlipper: "The Cubs Will Be Fine, in Two-Thousand Nine" (Let me call my TShirt maker now, I'll be RICH!!!!) 7 Responses | Other threads
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lee abrams
Die, Traitors
Tribune Co. crazy man Lee Abrams to staff: "Revolutions are about 'we'. The leaders need to engage EVERYone. And EVERYone needs to engage the cause. You are either WITH the revolution or AGAINST it. You will either be embraced by the company and win or the company will beat you." Yea, he's lost it. [Romenesko]
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Comment by Moff: Have you guys seen Role Models? Because I think all of Jane Lynch's dialogue was taken from the writings of... 2 Responses | Other threads
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lee abrams
"Are the above points valid? I don't know, but that's not the point."
Hey, whoa, BLOW UP your television and get ready for DRAMATICALLY DIFFERENT sound and visuals comin atcha from a WIDE SPECTRUM OF NEW HOOKS. This is the future, people. The Tribune Co.'s "Chief Innovation Officer" and craziest dude in the newspaper industry Lee Abrams has some new memo-fied ideas that will have you looking at TVweeded out of your minda whole new way. Consider: "The old line 'Don't fix it if aint broke' makes no sense. It's like saying: Let it break...then we'll fix it." And that's just the beginning!: More » -
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"SEX AND RELIGION ARE THE TWO MOST IMPORTANT TOPICS ION THE WORLD!"
The man who shall save newspapers is back with another newspaper-saving memo! Possibly written while under the influence of ibogaine! This time Tribune's Chief InnovationOf New Ways To Make BongsOfficer Lee Abrams is doing what he does best: showering a far-flung newspaper with ideas about how they should do their job, according to none other than career radio man Lee Abrams. "What does Pravda say about our economy?" "Poker is the 21st Century Bridge." Think about it, newspaperpeople! This is hands-down the BEST LEE ABRAMS MEMO YET: More »
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Comment by Mount_Prion: Oh, my god, Hamilton, I love you for mentioning ibogaine. But, as I've said before, I have it on good information... 3 Responses | Other threads
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la times
Newspaper Fans: "Just wait til the excitement stage happens."
Are you aware that the LA Times revealed its redesign this week? Let's hope you are, because this is what's gonna save the paper! What people both inside the Tribune Co. and out really want to know is not, "How does the redesign look?" It's, "What does Tribune Co. Chief Innovation Officer and Vice Admiral of the Martian Army Lee Abrams have to say about it, in his own unmistakable way?" Well: "As we've seen with all the other Tribune newspapers, the 'plunge' is the first step. Nothing more...nothing less." Ha. And?: More »
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Comment by thatgirlinnewyork: the trib is in the "wtf did we do??" stage. now there's excitement! more » | Other threads
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lee abrams
Lee Abrams Is Too Rock-n-Roll For The US Government
Tribune's Chief Innovation (LOL!) Officer and crazy, crazy clown Lee Abrams snuck into Manhattan yesterday to "speak" at a media conference, using his trademark nonsensical version of "words." Luckily Jeff Bercovici was there to chronicle his wisdom, lest it be lost in the huge cloud of purple haze smoke that, we like to imagine, follows Lee Abrams at all times. I wonder if he got a chance to compare the newspaper industry to rock-n-roll? More »
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Comment by gnipgnop: did i miss something? when did ron jeremy get into innovation,... i mean beyond the dvda? more » | Other threads
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lee abrams
"New Media needs some Old thinking to put soulfulness and magic into their mix"
Lee Abrams is back—in memo form! The mosthighinnovative exec at Tribune Co., Abrams' job is just to sit around and compose memos full of CAPITALIZATION and deep thoughts on the newspaper industry. Which are classics! His new memo includes the following things: his thoughts on redesigns; one of his old blog posts, in its entirety; a list of the top-grossing music acts of 2008; and a disquisition on old and ratty hotels. After the jump, enlightment: More »
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Comment by Greasy Thumb Guzik: What a blind idiot! Metra trains have always been a sea of Tribs! Those of us who reverse commuted never had to... 2 Responses | Other threads
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la times
LA Times To Be Dumbed-Down To Level Of Own Executives
The LA Times is considering a redesign. One of their most prominent proposed changes: changing bylines from "Times Staff Writer" To "By (Person), Reporting From (location)," as shown. The sad, likely reason for this change: the fact that Lee Abrams, Tribune's "Innovation" officer and maker of comical pronouncements about newspapers, came into his job not even understanding what bylines and datelines mean: More »
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Comment by Don Is: As a non-journo, I have to sort of agree with him. I hate it when I'm reading a particularly great... 13 Responses | Other threads
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lee abrams
Tribune's New Section Name: 'SPECIAL FEATUREA PUBLICATION OF (PUT PAPER HERE)etc....'
Lee Abrams, Tribune Co.'s "Chief Innovation Officer" of AWESOMENESS (pictured, with top advisers) is back with another hard-rockin', mind-shockin' memo to blow the socks off all you naysayers who thought newspapers could never change! Abrams is already single-handedly responsible for the ten dumbest things said about newspapers this year, and that was before he busted out yesterday talking about "freedom to have so much belief on the brand." Are you trying to upstage your own slammin' track record of badass, Martian declarations on journalism, Lee? I think you are! More »
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Comment by BadUncle: I don't...get my news...from people...that can't...distinguish between...nouns and verbs. 2 Responses | Other threads
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lee abrams
The Ten Dumbest Things Said About Newspapers This Year. All By The Same Man!
Lee Abrams looks like Dunkin Donuts' Fred the Baker without his hair dye. But Fred the Baker got up every day to make donuts, and that's the type of old-style thinking that Lee Abrams is here to destroy! Abrams is the "Chief Innovation Officer" (LOL) of the dying Tribune Company, and also the man who says the most mystifying (and sometimes infuriating) things you will ever hear about the newspaper industry. All the time. Seriously. "“I just try to inpsire people to rethink things,” Abrams declared yesterday. “There’s no reason we can’t create a newspaper renaissance." Ha. Here are ten of Lee Abrams' stupidest"NOT IRRELIVENT" inspirational messages: More »
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Comment by Triborough: I thought it was this guy who used to be on MacGuyver. 2 Responses | Other threads
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lee abrams
Is This The Most Infuriating Newspaper Executive In America?
Each time Sam Zell's Tribune Company lays off journalists, puts a title on the block and bemoans the economics of news publishing, his ebullient new innovation czar ups the change rhetoric. Lee Abrams' latest memo, after a visit to Zell's Los Angeles Times, takes incoherent optimism to the level of prose poetry. "BE the city...in 2008. Look forward. Combine Passion with character and muscle. Operate with a sense of swagger that YOU are the city...on today's terms. ...and getting in sync with the speed of 2008 with fast, medium and deep options... and STIMULATING THE EYE."
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Hopeless Optimism
"Tribune will be an oasis of creativity," says Lee Abrams, Innovation Director of the Tribune Co., the only person who believes journalism has a future. [via I Want Media] -
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Lee Abrams Is Going To Transform The Internet
Lee Abrams, cool older guy/Tribune Co.'s innovation director is back with another edition of "We Can Take Back The News Cycle," a.k.a. the Tribune Co. internal memo. Among his suggestions: a spoof edition of the Chicago Red Eye for April Fools'. Denigrating a free daily is funny any time of year! He also has great analogies about the internet: "There's the Internet. That's space travel. No limits." And here I thought space travel might actually be fun. How about stats? "MOST VIEWED: I think this can be expanded for the stat hungry public. Most Viewed...good. How about for the week, month, year...how about comparing most viewed to National, International etc...Maybe breaking it out by most viewed by local area." Um, that's familiar. To quote my grandmother, quoting someone else, "We mock what we are to be." [via Romenesko] -
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Radical New Tribune Co Exec: "NEWS & INFORMATION IS THE NEW ROCK N ROLL."
Who is Lee Abrams? Lee Abrams is the hippest 55 year-old you've never met. Lee Abrams is unafraid to use capitalization for emphasis. Lee Abrams believes in the power of inspirational quotes. Lee Abrams is a former XM executive who was recently named "innovation director" at Tribune Co. (who is coincidentally "a longtime friend of Sam Zell deputy Randy Michaels"). And if you work for the Tribune Co., you're in luck because you just got the coolest boss eva. More »
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