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    Hearst Is Amazingly Not Broke

    Computer Zombies Pity Television Zombies

    Give Reporters the Most Luxurious Airline Seats or Give Them Death

    Glenn Beck Survives

    Time Inc. Layoffs Hit People, Essence

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    Image of LoveHandles LoveHandles
    11/11/09

    In reply to Hearst Is Amazingly Not Broke
    With less staffers, perhaps Current TV will have less of a chance of getting it's staff embroiled in international nuclear affairs? #media
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    Image of TheBusinessGuy TheBusinessGuy
    11/11/09

    In reply to Hearst Is Amazingly Not Broke
    With Drew Schutte, Conde has a smart, web-savvy guy running digital--finally. Let's hope that he, like Hearst, has a war chest. Let's also note that Conde Digital is not at 4TS and that, as surely as the luncheon seating plan, is a measure of status. #media
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    Image of Magister Magister
    11/11/09

    In reply to Hearst Is Amazingly Not Broke
    The Ombudsman wrote a Sesame Street piece about a Sesame Street piece. Unfortunately, nobody who was offended will ever hear of it. #media
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    Image of abettertomorrow abettertomorrow
    11/10/09

    In reply to Computer Zombies Pity Television Zombies
    Re the CJR review - who is telling journalists that it's appropriate to start sentences with "But ...". It's the sleaziest construction out there. ---- "We don't support a journalist bailout. But, in some scenarios, like the one today, journalists need government support."

    So now you've got plausible deniability - "we stated VERY CLEARLY that we don't support government bailouts for journalists" - and, an argument for that very thing.

    The NYT uses this little trick all the time, in what are meant to be straight news articles. "Statistics do show that welfare reform was effective in some ways. But, says Green, it is really a failed program." So annoying...
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    Image of Trulymadlyme Trulymadlyme
    11/10/09

    In reply to Computer Zombies Pity Television Zombies
    And I thought this post was going to be about how much Televisionwithoutpity sucks lately. Boo. #media
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    Image of onebadclam onebadclam
    11/09/09

    In reply to Give Reporters the Most Luxurious Airline Seats or Give Them Death
    Business Class to Switzerland? Oh, the humanity! As someone who spent years flying coach in and out of Cincinatti and Indianapolis may I hear them cry me a river? And not the "good" coach, either. The seats in the back, next to bathroom and galley, that don't recline. #media
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    11/09/09

    @onebadclam: The problem was they were on the plane to write about the first-class seats. It was the reason for the flight. #media
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    11/09/09

    @Pesti-Esti: Still, give me that assignment with Business Class seats and I'll give you 2K words by end of day Tuesday. #media
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    11/09/09

    @Pesti-Esti: So? I've written about some of the world's greatest jewels and I didn't even get Swarovski keepsakes! #media
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    11/09/09

    @raincoaster: I honestly don't know why they had to fly them anywhere. Couldn't they have written about the seats on the ground? Set up an extra one in your New York office and reporters can come by and see it. My point is only that, if you are going to fly a bunch of journalists to Switzerland so they can experience these wonderful new seats, it makes no sense to not let them sit in the seats. #media
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    11/10/09

    @Pesti-Esti: Airlines are incredibly greedy, though. If they thought they had the slightest chance of selling those seats, they'd have pushed the reporters back to the cargo hold, I'm sure. My father was an airline mechanic, and changing the seats around is a big, BIG deal. Very expensive. They couldn't just bolt them to a few rows of business class. And no airline on Earth is going to give away first class seats when it thinks it can sell them, not only because they're greedy but also because first class passengers kick up a HELLUVA stink when they realize they can't get a seat in first class. #media
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    Image of Richard Petty Bourgeoisie Richard Petty Bourgeoisie
    11/09/09

    In reply to Give Reporters the Most Luxurious Airline Seats or Give Them Death
    I'm traveling to China soon. I can't wait to read Car & Driver & Bicyclist Pinned Under Fender. #media
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    11/09/09

    @Richard Petty Bourgeoisie: And I look forward to reading Dissident Bride's Top 10 ways to make conjugal visits a honeymoon to remember. #media
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    Image of GZAthegenius GZAthegenius
    11/05/09

    In reply to Glenn Beck Survives
    Tania Beck looks like Wayne Gretzky.
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    Image of BlinkyMcChuck BlinkyMcChuck
    11/05/09

    In reply to Glenn Beck Survives
    A lot of companies are using the economy as a reason to fire people even if they're doing well, which of course, is bad for the economy on the whole. They're awful. #media
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    11/05/09

    In reply to Glenn Beck Survives
    Essence has actually increased their sales but the man gives them no love.
    Glenn and his wife Tania must not read much or visit many websites. The sympathy and well wishes were for the rest of his organs that are still stuck in that cocksucker's ( in the best of ways) body #media
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    Image of AzureTexan AzureTexan
    11/05/09

    In reply to Glenn Beck Survives
    Definition of a moral dilemma:

    You're the chief surgeon, and you've got the scalpel in hand. You've sworn allegiance to the Hippocratic Oath, but Glenn Beck is just lying there, gassed into a drooling stupor.

    What do you do? #media
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    Image of adiam7 adiam7
    11/05/09

    @AzureTexan: Hippocrates never had to deal with these assholes. Do no harm is so vague anyway #media
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    Image of TheBusinessGuy TheBusinessGuy
    11/05/09

    @AzureTexan: Screw the oath! First, do harm! Of course, his ass surgery was less successful: they couldn't remove his head from it. #media
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    Image of AzureTexan AzureTexan
    11/05/09

    @TheBusinessGuy: @adiam7: Methinks we should start our own med school! #media
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    11/05/09

    @AzureTexan: Well, all Jewish males, including yours truly, are doctors. At least on an amateur basis. #media
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    Image of topsy topsy
    11/06/09

    @adiam7: Do no harm to who? To Beck or to humanity?
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    Image of adiam7 adiam7
    11/06/09

    @topsy: That is the question? To save him or to save the world? Hippocrates should have considered this dilemma, its not like ancient Greece was full of saints, just gods. #media
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    11/06/09

    @AzureTexan: A Blue Texan, anytime! Our med school should offer some free service to those without medical insurance, what are they called again oh yeah tea-baggers #media
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    11/06/09

    @TheBusinessGuy: It must include Eritrean women cause my mother sure as fuck thinks she is a doctor. Of course whatever the ailment fat is the cause and some herbal concoction involving ginger and aloe vera will cure it. #media
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    Image of AzureTexan AzureTexan
    11/06/09

    @adiam7: Our med school should also have really, really good barbecue. #media
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    11/06/09

    @TheBusinessGuy: Yeah, don't forget that Moe Syzslak had pretty nice little side gig as an amateur surgeon. #media
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    11/06/09

    @adiam7: Gee, with my Jewish grandmother, fat was the cure. #media
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    11/06/09

    @TheBusinessGuy: My grandmother is a big advocate of eating and being a solid size 10, nothing under nothing above. My mother will tell you that fat and sugar are behind all medical problems, including cancer and brain tumors. #media
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    11/06/09

    @AzureTexan: This sounds like a kick ass school #media
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    11/06/09

    @adiam7: It's starting to sound pretty sweet, isn't it. All we need now are a few large textbooks, a couple of used stethoscopes and 24,558 cases of Shiner Bock, and we're all set! #media
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    Image of mfnher mfnher
    11/05/09

    In reply to Glenn Beck Survives
    [www.theonion.com]

    This pretty much sums it up... #media
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    Image of Gekko1 Gekko1
    11/05/09

    In reply to Glenn Beck Survives
    Beck loves himself so much its surprising he let the infected appendix go. #media
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    Image of NotChoinski NotChoinski
    11/05/09

    @Gekko1: Are you sure the appendix didn't attempt to rid itself of Beck? #media
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    Image of Maryscary Maryscary
    11/05/09

    @NotChoinski: Perhaps his other organs will follow suit. #media
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    11/05/09

    @Maryscary: Not the spleen, I bet. #media
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    11/05/09

    @NotChoinski: Strange enough, doctors were dumbfounded when they had Beck on the operating table and could not find a backbone.

    Guess the appendix followed suit. #media
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    Image of Cunning_Linguist Cunning_Linguist
    11/05/09

    @NotChoinski: Perhaps the appendix was trying to unionize the rest of Beck's internal organs. Beck found out and aborted that thing like a Wal-Mart executive. #media
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    Image of AndPreciousLittleofThat AndPreciousLittleofThat
    11/05/09

    In reply to Glenn Beck Survives
    Dear Glenn,

    We don't actually hate you, and we don't want you to die. Truth is, we need you. Without the mutual rim jobs you and Bill and Rush give each other, what would Democrats have to mock?

    You're singlehandedly keeping the shitty-conspiracy-books-sold-at-airline-... business alive, and you've helped rescue some of the twentieth century's true crackpots from the dustbin of history.

    So no, Glenn, we don't want you to die on the operating table. We want you to die broke, alone, and crying in a puddle of your own excrement AFTER we keep the White House in 2012. 'Til then, keep on blabbering! #media
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    Image of elinorwhyme elinorwhyme
    11/04/09

    In reply to Time Inc. Layoffs Hit People, Essence
    The Evening Standard ran a piece today about how glossy magazines like Vogue and Tatler are still going strong in the UK. "Compared to the calamitous situation in the United States..."
    [tinyurl.com]

    I share because I care. #media
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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    11/05/09

    @elinorwhyme: Their newspapers are still doing well, too. #media
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    11/05/09

    @raincoaster: Well the Evening Standard just became a free paper, which on the one hand feels wrong, but on the other hand has in just a few weeks stamped out the other free afternoon papers, thank god. #media
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