Mediaite Editor Pretended to Be Donald Trump To Defraud Employees

For four years, the top editor of the manic media-news website Mediaite has worked and written under a fake name in order to conceal his criminal past, managing editor Jon Nicosia, whose real name is Zachary Hildreth, revealed on Saturday.
Straight Male Writer Is Tired of Hearing About Gay Marriage, the Poor Thing
In a piece that comes absurdly close in tone to Andy Borowitz's satirical "Scalia Furious He Has to Hear About Gay Couples All Week" post from yesterday, Mediaite's TV writer Joe Concha bitches at length about the amount of news coverage gay marriage (and people) have been taking up lately.
Mediaite Takes Weinergate Coverage to the Next Level
Anthony Weiner's alleged Twitter cock shot deserves plenty of media coverage. A popular and controversial politician maybe sent around pictures of his boner sheathed in gray boxer briefs—that's newsworthy (and funny!) And the story is rightfully being picked apart. With lots of weiner jokes, naturally. But other stuff…
Dan Abrams To Write Book On Female Superiority
Mediaite's chief bachelor Dan Abrams is writing a book about how women are superior to men. We know that trick, Dan.
Wall Street Journal: Money Over Prestige
In your evasive Thursday media column: the WSJ is becoming more like your little hometown paper, Mediaite doesn't justify itself to anyone, an alt-weekly judgment upheld, and Bill O'Reilly and Glenn Beck have a mystifying chat.
Never Forget: Dan Abrams Is a PR Man
Making money in online media is tough. So we wish success to all most who try. However! This sweet and friendly Dan Lyons profile of PR man Dan Abrams calls for some gentle clarification.
How Drunk Was the Tea Bagger Blogger Who Mocked Rogert Ebert's Cancer?
How drunk was Caleb Howe when he made fun of Rogert Ebert's cancer on Twitter? Probably really drunk. However, he does not reveal exactly how drunk in the bizarre pseudo-apology to Ebert which for some reason Mediaite ran tonight.
MSNBC Being Total Hardasses About 'Working for Competitor' Thing
In your intelligent Monday media column: David Shuster may be canned, Mediaite is numerically the most important thing on Twitter, Sharon Waxman vs. Michael Wolff, and the end of the Bobosphere.
Lady Gaga Penis Conspiracy Finally Debunked by Inevitably Insane Rachel Sklar?
What do Lady Gaga, Dan Abrams, Lady Gaga's Penis, and Rachel Sklar have in common with JFK? They're all out to shut down my Macarthur Grant-level work on the Lady Gaga Penis Conspiracy. Sklar claims to have done it.
"I Don't Get It Either," or "Sklardakah"
Mediaite's Rachel Sklar('s boobs): currently in Israel trying to secure Entebbe, or something.
Why Is Mediaite's Rachel Sklar Obsessed With Vaginas?
Nothing like a good dick joke, right? So says the hetero, who keeps going on about the Lady Gaga Penis Business. But Dan Abrams' henchwoman and Fearless Leader of Mediaite, Rachel Sklar, can't stop it with the vagina talk. Proof?
Things That Make You Facepalm
What's Barack Obama got in common with Megan Fox? Mediaite/Rachel Sklar knows. Sigh.
Reader's Digest—America's Soul—Going Bankrupt
In your sweltering Monday media column: Reader's Digest is going bankrupt, Ted Nugent loses his journalism gig because he is too hardcore, Dan Rather's madness debated, and Mediaite traffic numbers.
The Secret, Shameless Sleaze Of MSNBC's Richard Wolffe
Salon columnist Glenn Greenwald posted a scathing column about the armistice between GE and News Corp meant to end Bill O'Reilly and Keith Olbermann's fueding. It's a chilling read, and brings in a tangentially related player: Richard Wolffe.
