Doing its part to ensure that America's population of talented, unemployed writers and editors continues to grow, Yahoo shut down four of its entertainment websites yesterday: The Projector (movies), The Set (TV), The Amplifier (music), and The Famous (celebrity gossip). RIP, blogs and jobs.
The Huffington Post looked for suckers in a target-rich environment; Lindsay Robertson offered a shocking new David Paterson rumor; and Lindsay Lohan is frightened by Google. The Twitterati hated the players and the game.
If you read this week's Ethicist column, (A) I'm sorry, (B) here's your consolation.
Gothamist took aim, Felix Salmon took a swipe and Jason Linkins took stock. The Twitterati were on the receiving end.
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.
The Twitterati tried on new roles: A Salon correspondent got a science fiction lecture from the president; a Wired reporter reviewed an X-Ray and a doctor lamented the lack of strange women.
Tina Fey is a smart woman even dumb men like. But that kind of success comes with a price. Or rather, a point: the saturation point. Doree Shafrir, once of Gawker and now of the New York Observer, asked this morning: "Just curious ... ... when the Tina Fey backlash is gonna start. Because, you know, it's inevitable.…
Gawker intern/Black Table contributor Lindsay Robertson has now accumulated a healthy group of stalkers at Craig's List, thanks to her weekly Craig's List roundup. The people impersonating her are the creepiest. Lindsay, Lindsay, Lindsay! Everyone wants to be Lindsay! Just as well, though. Lindsay may soon be giving…
Matt Tobey and Clare Zulkey fill in for Lindsay Robertson (our new intern, incidentally) on this week's Craig's List roundup. This week: the "Pee Wee Herman on crack" look, millionaires seeking dates, couples seeking an extra "wife", and Mary Kay products.
The Week in Craig [BlackTable]
The Black Table's Lindsay Robertson reads Craig's Listso you don't have to. This week: "threesomes, the effect of bricks on penises" and "Jay Schultz." (There are 80 Jay Schultzes in New York, but the Craig's Listers are all sure they're talking about the same guy.)
The week in Craig [BlackTable.com]
Once again, Lindsay Robertson's weekly Craig's List roundup: "This week on the list, Dry Humping, scary poetry, Geek Love and introducing The Short Shorts Guy!"
The week in Craig [BlackTable.com]
This week, from The Black Table's Craig's List Correspondent, Lindsay Robertson: Stalking Tina Fey, douche wars, wave-size versus ocean-motion, and Jimmy Choos for sex.
The week in Craig [The Black Table]
It's the weekly Craig's List roundup from Lindsay Robertson! Topics du jour: Valentine's Day hangovers, protest sex, nonsensical yammering, the new yellow peril, and the Strokes.
The week in Craig [BlackTable]
Thanks to Lindsay Robertson, we may never have to do a Craig's List post again. This week: bad poetry, Valentine's Day come-ons, and more Williamsburg-centric hipster-vs-antihipster battles.
The week in Craig [BlackTable]
