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    Image of johnny_carsick johnny_carsick
    10:22 AM

    In reply to Ashley Dupre Cannot Stop Talking to Tabloids About Prostitution
    More lift, less separation.

    And enough with the Myspace-style shots, lady. Urryone knows that shit is ovah.
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    Image of Tammany_Fall Tammany_Fall
    10:01 AM

    In reply to Ashley Dupre Cannot Stop Talking to Tabloids About Prostitution
    That hairline hurts me from here.
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    Image of resipsaloquacious resipsaloquacious
    09:59 AM

    In reply to Ashley Dupre Cannot Stop Talking to Tabloids About Prostitution
    "And I was the hooker?"

    Well, I sure hope you were not banging Gov. Gold Toe for free?
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    Image of Brad Brown Brad Brown
    09:57 AM

    In reply to Ashley Dupre Cannot Stop Talking to Tabloids About Prostitution
    Please photoshop some bangs and shoulder-length hair. I never realized how mannish she was until seeing that photo. Beauty may be just a light switch away, but I'm going to need a bigger dimmer switch.
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    Image of freedc freedc
    10:25 AM

    @Brad Brown: Don't be snarky, she's pretty. But for real, she could fix her brows a bit. She needs to stop drawing in/growing her eyebrows so far on her nose.
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    09:11 AM

    In reply to Why Celebrity Op-Eds Suck
    Are you suggesting that writing is a craft and a skill that requires effort and practice? This is an interesting topic. I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
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    Image of MrInBetween MrInBetween
    08:59 AM

    In reply to Why Celebrity Op-Eds Suck
    Sean Penn is emultating Hemingway. Try again, nitwit.
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    08:41 AM

    In reply to Why Celebrity Op-Eds Suck
    what happened to:

    *celebrities are dumb
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    Image of marin79 marin79
    09:02 AM

    @Pope John Peeps II: Ha! Though, I actually think Franco is intelligent (esp relative to the rest of the bunch). Just takes himself far too seriously with that article & perhaps, as Ravi notes, suffered from bad editing.
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    09:17 AM

    @marin79: Franco is simply NOT stupid. He's a person of regular intelligence. Which in celebrity parlance means he's a genius unparalleled in human history. But by no means should he start to think he's particularly smart. His writing is also horribly, horribly undergrad-ish.

    I think it's more honest without an editor. I think an editor would have balked at editing this, knowing that if this person is going to play on his celebrity to get an article out there, the only way to even that out karmically is to let his writing speak for him, and show the world what he's about. Writing speaks loudly.
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    Image of Mike Jahn Mike Jahn
    09:21 AM

    @Pope John Peeps II: More to the point recently, what happened to "cocktail waitresses are dumb?"
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    Image of PaisleyPajamas PaisleyPajamas
    09:28 AM

    @Pope John Peeps II: Yes, you make an excellent point--let them show their asses via their diatribes de célébrité in all their fascinating shortcomings. It just boosts the work--the hard work--of true journalistic experts up a notch.
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    Image of braak: You are, as usual, completely correct. braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
    09:34 AM

    @PaisleyPajamas: Oh, if only there were more than just a handful of Gawker commenters who could tell the difference between "good journalism" and "celebrity wankerage."
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    Image of marin79 marin79
    09:35 AM

    @Pope John Peeps II: I never implied that he was a genius. If you consider what "regular intelligence" actually is for this country, I'd say he's above average even though his writing is undergrad-ish. That doesn't mean that I believe he deserves to being doing op-eds in the WSJ, but let's not forget - they also employ PEGGY NOONAN! How high of a bar is it really?
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    Edited by marin79 at 12/04/09 9:37 AM marin79 was starred marin79 was unstarred
    Image of marin79 marin79
    09:41 AM

    @Pope John Peeps II: And if you want a good laugh - check out unedited Franco writing in the UCLA Literary Journal:

    [www2.humnet.ucla.edu]
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    Image of PaisleyPajamas PaisleyPajamas
    10:09 AM

    @marin79: Oh-my-freakin-gawd. I'm crying. I'm crying because James Franco is going to have a Master's from effing Columbia, and I never will.

    He gets extra goober points for his use of "hillock."
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    Image of Island of Misfit Toys Island of Misfit Toys
    12/03/09

    In reply to National Geographic Adventure Folds
    This is the first magazine death that upset me.
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    Image of Magister Magister
    12/03/09

    In reply to National Geographic Adventure Folds
    The wife and I were subscribing to NatGeo Adventure up until a couple of months ago. Sorry for any part, I may have played in its demise.

    PS) We still get the main mag and the Kids, so don't blame me if other units are having problems.
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    Edited by Magister at 12/03/09 2:42 PM Magister was starred Magister was unstarred
    Image of miss_msry miss_msry
    12/03/09

    In reply to National Geographic Adventure Folds
    Shiite, I subscribed just YESTERDAY to NatGeo Adventure as a Christmas present for my nephew. Now I have to get online and find something else just as cheap.

    Are the powers at Belo out of their minds?
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    Edited by miss_msry at 12/03/09 2:11 PM miss_msry was starred miss_msry was unstarred
    Image of TheBusinessGuy TheBusinessGuy
    12/03/09

    In reply to National Geographic Adventure Folds
    Re: The Dallas Morning News. Turning over edit to sales is the breaking of the seventh seal, right? And I say this as a business guy.
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    Image of Atilla the Bun Atilla the Bun
    12/03/09

    @TheBusinessGuy: DMN is owned by the evil overload Belo Corporation, which has always seemed to filter its right-wing affiliations through the content of the paper. This is just another nail in its coffin of suck.
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    Image of TheBusinessGuy TheBusinessGuy
    12/03/09

    @Atilla the Bun: Well, as much as I dislike the right wing, they have the inalienable right to be stupid in their printed opinions, and of course even supposedly objective content will have a slant or a tinge--that's just the way the world works. But knocking down the church/state wall? Ugly!
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    Image of Tremonius Tremonius
    12/03/09

    @TheBusinessGuy: I was raised with the Morning News as the regional Big City paper, and it has ever blended sections into one monolith. The news other places might carry stories of how Ross Perot is embarrassed that his EDS could not account for a million in services paid for by the feds, but the Op-Ed of the Morning News was all about a Black mother accepting a fifty dollar welfare payment to which she was apparently not entitled. Also, you'd see no even-handed review of the Oil Depletion Allowance, and over in sports, a writer was railing against Carlos and Smith years after they'd lifted their hands in Mexico City. It was Faux Noise in print, and I wonder why Rupert never bothered to acquire it.
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    Image of Atilla the Bun Atilla the Bun
    12/03/09

    @TheBusinessGuy: The problem is that because of the easing of FCC restrictions that used to strictly limit the number of newspapers and broadcast stations that an entity could own, Belo now controls a large amount of news content, much of which purports to be objective and simply isn't. Belo has the right to do this, certainly, but I also have the right to say it makes for sucky "journalism." This latest bit of news is just more of the same.
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    Image of TheBusinessGuy TheBusinessGuy
    12/03/09

    @Atilla the Bun: Point taken, and I grieve to remember that those rules were eased by the Clinton administration, and the late Ted Kennedy, to his shame, further eased restrictions on ownership for the foreign-born Rupert.
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    Image of TheBusinessGuy TheBusinessGuy
    12/03/09

    @Tremonius: I take your word for it. I'd always heard that the Star-Telegram was a more enlightened paper. True?
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    Image of Spaghetti Cat Spaghetti Cat
    12/03/09

    @TheBusinessGuy: It is- and as a working (for the moment) journalist- this is the kind of thing that both nauseates and scares the shit out of me.

    Aside from the "favors for favors" ickiness associated with a policy move of this sort, what really makes my skin crawl is the thought of having to work hand in hand with sales staff.

    If the ones at my pub are any indication of the norm- these people are fucking retards with no scruples whose only concern is their commission. Not a good alliance for anyone who wishes to keep integrity in their newsroom.
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    Image of TheBusinessGuy TheBusinessGuy
    12/03/09

    @Spaghetti Cat: As a sales guy and publisher, I thank you.
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    Image of paxcincinnatus paxcincinnatus
    12/03/09

    In reply to National Geographic Adventure Folds
    You know, I've always been ambivalent toward Town & Country. . . but now that their showing some skin - now I am totally on board.
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    Image of Mike Jahn Mike Jahn
    12/03/09

    In reply to Tiger Woods Admits Cheating, No-One Knows What Will Happen in Afghanistan
    This is one of those occassional instances where things really WERE better in the sixties, when everyone was "balling" everyone else and no one expected otherwise.
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    Image of AndPreciousLittleofThat AndPreciousLittleofThat
    12/03/09

    In reply to Tiger Woods Admits Cheating, No-One Knows What Will Happen in Afghanistan
    I love you guys, but shouldn't those two headlines be switched?
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    Image of AzureTexan AzureTexan
    12/03/09

    In reply to Tiger Woods Admits Cheating, No-One Knows What Will Happen in Afghanistan
    In a convenient dovetail of today's news, Elin Woods has volunteered her husband, Tiger, for infantry duty in the savage deserts of Afghanistan.
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