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WWD Gossip Re-Emerges As Jeopardy! Contestant

Greg Lindsay comes across as an uptight guy. But that doesn't stop him from appearing on television again and again. Indeed, he's the poster boy for go-getters who try on every form of media until they find one that fits best. The former WWD gossip columnist and author of a book about sleeping in airports landed a "memorable" appearance on Martha Stewart's TV show earlier this year. And last night, he was a contestant on Jeopardy! The secret to his publicity, he advised a youngster long ago, is to remember "it's all about the brand called you." And how! Click to watch the clip of Lindsay's, um, uphill battle. And we'll let former Deadspinner Will Leitch finish the story of watching the show with Greg himself: More »

12:24 PM on Tue Sep 9 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
2,407 views, 17 comments

Latest by Honore_Balsac: Shutup, Rachel. more »

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You Run Down Jill Abramson, You Pay The Price

  • New York Times managing editor Jill Abramson is suing the driver that ran her down and his employers too. [P6]
  • According to the ad department, the New York Observer is "New York City's newest real estate read." How thrilling. [WWD]
  • The Boston Herald, which now owes $2 million in libel damages, asks court to reconsider its lost appeal over confusing testimony. Also: Confusing article! [Boston Herald]
  • New York's semi-annual New York Look fashion supplement photo-thing will be "nothing like" the Times T-thing. [WWD]
  • Conrad Black's investor relations guy warned him that a $3 million Park Avenue apartment at corporate expense would seem inappropriate. [LAT]
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    9:56 AM on Tue May 22 2007
    By Choire
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    Latest by Pope John Peeps II: The fucking Conrad Black trial media coverage is one of the biggest goddamn crocks of shit in the history of more »

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    Conrad Black Even Swears Like Nixon

  • In an interview with the Guardian, Conrad Black calls his fraud trial "bullshit" and announces that he's at war with the U.S. government. The paper also has an excerpt from Black's forthcoming biography of Richard Nixon, which praises the former president's "surpassing dignity." Read into that what you will. [Guardian]
  • Fashion mag ad pages sales: Count Vogue, W, Cosmopolitan, Elle, Marie Claire, Lucky, Men's Health, Men's Journal, and (maybe) Details and Teen Vogue as winners. Your losers: Esquire, InStyle, Seventeen, Cosmogirl, and Maxim. [WWD]
  • San Francisco Chronicle to cut 100 jobs, or 25% of the staff. [WSJ]
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    10:20 AM on Mon May 21 2007
    By abalk2
    1,063 views, 2 comments

    Latest by Clevertrousers: I thought only Canadians still cared about Black. more »

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    Tiny Dynamine

  • Lockhart Steele: Elizabeth Spiers invented the Internet. [MarketWatch]
  • British magazine publisher Emap in play? [WSJ]
  • It's Ron Burkle vs. Kent Brownridge in the battle for Dennis Publishing's titty mags. [AdAge]
  • Is Village Voice Media slowly selling itself off? [SF Gate]
  • CollegeHumor's Ricky Van Veen: Sophomoric, rich, and one fine looking man. Seriously, we've met the dude, and we would totally do him. [BW]
  • Don Imus wants to get back on the air. Why not, this is America. We all deserve third acts. [NYP]
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    8:50 AM on Fri May 18 2007
    By abalk2
    747 views, 12 comments

    Latest by Cheap Shot: Is that Elizabeth Spiers or Rachel Dratch? more »

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    Will You Buy Tunes From Amazon?

  • Amazon to open digital music store that will only sell DRM-free music—so copy away, as often as you like! Our heroes! Suck it, iTunes. [LAT]
  • Should Conrad Black get off at his fraud trial, expect his "hellish vengeance." [The First Post]
  • Charlie Gibson to stick around at ABC News for a while; new "NBC Nightly News" producer hopes it's not for that long. [NYT]
  • Dow Jones board to wait and see what the Bancroft family wants to do about Rupert Murdoch's bid for the company. [WSJ]
  • The 50-year-old bimonthly American Heritage suspends publication; just like your mom, however, it still has a website. [NYT]
  • "Live plus three" is the new digi-mobile-webby-pod-demand Nielsen viewership measurement weirdness. [NYT]
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    9:54 AM on Thu May 17 2007
    By abalk2
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    Is Ron Burkle Playing Supermarket Sweep?

  • Will Ron Burkle make a play for AMI? Will he bid on Dennis Publishing? And would he merge his recently-acquired Primedia Enthusiast titles with those companies, particularly for AMI's distribution arm? And will he admit to (allegedly!) owning Radar? [WWD]
  • Forbes.com staffers leaving "page-view sweatshop" in droves. Sounds about right; though, you know, from inside our page-view sweatshop it doesn't look so bad. [NYO]
  • The results of that New York Times memorabilia auction. [NYO]
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    9:55 AM on Wed May 16 2007
    By abalk2
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    Ron Burkle Into Rough Trade Mags

  • Ron Burkle buys the Primedia Enthusiast Group (Hot Rod, Practical Horseman, Motorcycle Cruiser, Dressage Today, Lowrider Arte) for a staggering $1.18 billion. [NYP]
  • Thomson buys Reuters for $17.2 billion. [Reuters]
  • Richard Branson's Virgin Media losing long fight against Murdochian U.K. cable market ownership. [Guardian]
  • Conrad Black's Lady-wife stripped their apartment of its light fixtures before new owners moved in. [NYP]
  • Jack Shafer explains the Monday crap newspaper-filler to you. [Slate]
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    10:15 AM on Tue May 15 2007
    By abalk2
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    Matt Drudge Was Poked By Mitt Romney

  • We are all tools of the 2008 campaigns' opposition research punks. (Yay! Gawker will so do your laundry, bring it on!) Also, Matt Drudge Hearts Mitt Romney. (Mini-Mitt Guide: Likes abortions, loves death penalties, no longer supports the gay marriages.) [Salon]
  • More shock jocks fired! CBS radio just won't stand for any more of your casual entertainment racism. What will America do? [NYDN]
  • Someone made poor Katie Couric talk to the Times' TV-Biz jerkface Bill Carter for some damage control about her rotten ratings. How long will she seek the guidance of Matthew Hiltzik? [NYT]
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    9:54 AM on Mon May 14 2007
    By Choire
    605 views, 3 comments

    Latest by NYCF: And when Mitt Romney says "Who`s your Daddy?" it`s not meant to be rhetorical. more »

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    Ari Emanuel And Chris Albrecht Are Now Friends.

  • Google will only buy your company if it hosts "user-generated" content—so newspapers are out, as Google could only buy their "tool-generated content" (we made that phrase up! Oh har!) and then only "own" it. Funny company plan, to only buy amateurism and ephemera. [Reuters]
  • Umm, apparently there is "controversy" over former HBO chief Chris Albrecht's firing? Agent and liberal Ari Emanuel jumps to his defense: "Chris Albrecht is my friend." His only good point—if Sheila Nevins, HBO doc queen, is a representative example, the company doesn't let every woman get treated like garbage. [Variety]
  • Speaking of HuffPo (QUERY! Is HuffPo the International House of Have Axe To Grind?), Jonathan Alter lays into Radar about some minutia involving him paying for Mike Gravel's entourage's lunch or something. [HuffPo]
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    9:49 AM on Fri May 11 2007
    By Choire
    873 views, 8 comments

    Latest by Mike Barthel: Why do I bore you with this? Only to reinforce the point to be careful of believing everything you read. Thanks, more »

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    Everybody Talks About The Weather, But CNN Covers The Hell Out Of It

  • Harry McCracken, who resigned as EIC of PC World in a dispute with the mag's CEO, has been reinstated. The CEO has been reassigned. [Wired]
  • The prosecution's key witness in Conrad Black fraud trial? Somewhat duplicitous. [NYP]
  • CNN is giving Matt Drudge a run for his money in the area of obsessive weather coverage. [TVNewser]
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    10:30 AM on Thu May 10 2007
    By abalk2
    524 views, 3 comments

    Latest by NOLAchica: Having lived in Florida and Louisiana, I'm pretty sure God hates us, too. more »