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videuhoh
Mayor Pissed That Disabled Reporter Can't Fix Electronics Glitch Faster
They say corporate dysfunction starts at the top, and we're starting to think the nasty culture at Bloomberg LLC is no exception. Look at how the company's founder humiliated a wheelchair-bound reporter today. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by shavethatsoulpatch: Well I'm glad he supports marriage equality - I didn't know this, as I don't live in NYC - but... 12 Responses | Other threads
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megalomaniacs
Bloomberg Butcher Throws Limo Tantrum, Spy Claims (UPDATED)
When Norman Pearlstine arrived at Bloomberg last year, it was hoped he'd cleanse the toxic management culture of tyrannical boss Matthew Winkler. Instead, Pearlstine promptly hired, a tipster claims, a screaming nightmare. UPDATE: Bloomberg denies. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by raincoaster: But Andy Lack IS a screamer. This is true. 1 Responses | Other threads
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megalomaniacs
President Messiah's iPod gift to queen was loaded with his own speeches. Presumptuous, still.
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maniacs
'Branding' Hustler Peter Arnell Packs Pistol, Drops Names, Destroys Employees
You may not know Peter Arnell, but you know his work. The crazy Pepsi-is-the-center-of-the-universe logo design! The awful failure of the new Tropicana design! But what's the man himself like? Massively insecure, of course: More »
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Comment by Dickdogfood: He eats 20 oranges a day and yet he still managed to completely screw up the Tropicana account? 8 Responses | Other threads
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megalomaniacs
Blago Declares Self the 'Anti-Nixon,' Promptly Acts Like Nixon
Like the Richard Nixon groupie he is, Rod Blagojevich quickly broke his promise to Rachel Maddow to become the "anti-Nixon." Instead he broke court rules and dodged questions, on national television. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by SidAndFinancy: I'll just go ahead and say it: he's growing on me in the way I couldn't help but get a... 2 Responses | Other threads
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journalismism
The Rise of Authoritarian Media
A Russian oligarch and former KGB agent is trying to buy London's Evening Standard. The paper is just the latest traditional journalism institution to cozy up to autocracy. Take CNN. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by somedayarealrainwillcome: Ha, he's just trying to recreate Russia in the 90's. All major oligarchs in Russia used to either own or... more » | Other threads
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moguls
Employees Spit On Newspaper CEO's Grave
As it turns out, "burn in hell you heartless beast" was not actually the worst thing said about late Journal-Register Co. CEO Robert Jelenic by bitter former employees. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by accomodatingasian: Robert Jelenic really was a world-class douchebag. 2 Responses | Other threads
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anna wintour
Anna Wintour Said Replaced By French Counterpart
The Waverly Inn was crawling with Condé Nast insiders earlier tonight, some of whom had been waiting as long as 20 years for the appetizer: The hot, delicious rumor that Si Newhouse was meeting in Paris with Carine Roitfeld to work out the final details of the French Vogue editor's move to New York, where she is expected to take over flagship Vogue from Anna Wintour immediately after New Year's. It did not go unnoticed when Condé Nast overlord Newhouse departed early for his annual three-week December vacation in Vienna; it turns out he needed time for his meeting with uptight Wintour's chic Parisian counterpart.
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By Ryan TateComment by Steverino Begins: Jacqueline Follet? Wintour is frantically ordering the DWP DVD to find out how to solve this. 9 Responses | Other threads
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anna wintour
Is Anna Wintour Ready to Retire?
Before Devil Wears Prada was filmed, before Project Runway made its reality television debut, before fashion grew beyond even the prominent role she had envisioned for it, Anna Wintour was compared in the Times to George W. Bush. It was one of Maureen Dowd's absurdly tortured analogies, but one of the rare ones that today sounds less ridiculous: If Page Six's source is to be believed, the Vogue editor is, like Bush, about to step away from the monster she's created, leaving to a more glamorous successor the job of revival. There is plenty to be done:
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By Ryan TateComment by YasmineHarpie: They desperately need fresh blood at Vogue. My copies just sit there in a pile while I devour the British... 6 Responses | Other threads
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tim robbins
Tim Robbins Disenfranchised Himself
You may recall that Tim Robbins "flipped out" at poll workers on election day, accusing them of abridging his "freedom to vote" by offering him a provisional ballot and then politely asking him to please leave the voting area since his name was not on their list. The actor had been voting at the polling place for 15 years, you see, and was used to being totally VIPed. The incident was clearly part of a conspiracy by New York City bureaucrats against rich white Hollywood liberals, so staff at the Times and at City Hall were immediately assigned to parallel investigations. The conclusion: Tim Robbins is confused and possibly senile. Reports the Times: More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Aaron Altman: Mr. Robbins should have gone to vote at the Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library, at 40 West 20th... 8 Responses | Other threads
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fred smith
FedEx CEO Says Most People Lazy Wealth Stealers
Though they may lavish Wall Street Journal reporters with leaks and other scoops, American corporate executives tend to keep their names out of the newspaper's editorial pages. Overt support for the opinion section's relentlessly right-wing politics carries too much risk of customer blowback. But FedEx founder and CEO Fred Smith will tolerate no such sissiness. A former George W. Bush fraternity brother, Smith was named as a possible Bush defense secretary and has become involved with John McCain's presidential run. Fair enough. But Smith has to figure many customers might take it personally when tells the Journal opinion section "a majority of the population" is unproductive and greedy: More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Peoplefamiliarwith: Fred Smith is correct that some elements in the economy are more prodcutive than others. Mr. Smith is one of... 18 Responses | Other threads
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shouting heads
Child O'Reilly Remarkably Similar To Real O'Reilly
It's no surprise that Fox News shouting head Bill O'Reilly, with his frequent temper tantrums and one-note commentary, can be accurately impersonated by a child. What is startling is that a kid could do it so well. "The Lil O'Reilly Factor" sets itself apart from lesser YouTube parodies by being fast, funny, well-written and executed without any verbal stumbles. Take the audio track down a couple of octaves and, with your eyes closed, you could mistake this video for the real thing. Adult online humorists should take note. And O'Reilly, if he's smart, will start scouting for Lil' Keith Olbermann, which could be just as devastating. [via Soup Cans]
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By Ryan TateComment by navidine: Bill O'Reilly finally did what the liberal media won't do, called these liars to task, with film where they said... 4 Responses | Other threads
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rupert murdoch
Softer Murdoch Eyes Times
It should really come as no surprise that News Corporation Chairman Rupert Murdoch wants to be respected by the limo liberals who (officially) disdain his politics and tactics. That's why he paid so dearly for the Wall Street Journal, and was proud for having done so, right? But no one really thought age and young wife Wendi Deng would gentrify Murdoch's barbarian soul to such an extent that he now spins fantasies about buying the Times from one side of his mouth while betraying his conservative shock troops at Fox News Channel out of the other. Murdoch's brash past is becoming an embarrassment to him as his portfolio becomes more respectable, at least according to Michael Wolff, who excerpted his sanctioned Murdoch biography in the October Vanity Fair. And yet the Aussie can't help but revert to his old ways, like when he told Wolff that Muslims are, as a group, inbred: More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Private Hangnail: ...he was propounding the genetic theory that the basic problem of the Muslim people was that they married their cousins.... 3 Responses | Other threads
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fox news channel
Fox News Flacks: O Hai, Sorry 'Bout Da Smears!
How does Fox News' vicious PR department respond to charges it smeared a Times reporter as a drug addict, blamed a pregnant Wall Street Journal reporter's hormones for unfavorable coverage, and that chief Irena Briganti blackballed, bullied and threatened virtually all the reporters she came into contact with? By distributing to TV critics a button with pictures of kittens and hearts, reading "Hugs & Kittens from Fox News Media Relations." Ha ha, get it? It's funny because reporters who can't take Fox's hardball PR tactics are babies who expect to be coddled. Instead, they will be devoured by Fox News chief Roger Ailes, with kittens and human hearts as the appetizer. [TVNewser] (Image via TVNewser) -
mario lopez
Shirtless Actors Wrestle Over Underwear
Mario Lopez, right, was a big star on TV's Saved By The Bell and doesn't like sharing the stage with his younger Chorus Line co-star Nick Adams, left. And what Lopez especially doesn't like is when Adams' biceps take the attention away from his bicepts. So Lopez refused to wear a long-sleeved sweater, as called for in the script, preferring instead a tight t-shirt to show off his "guns." And he had Adams outfitted with a baggy hoodie and relegated to the back in the opening dance routine. But now Lopez is finally getting his comeuppance, just as any decent dramatic plotline would dictate. It seems a men's underwear company, once smitten with Lopez, has switched its attention to Nick. Writes Page Six: More »
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By Ryan TateComment by onebadclam: @rod townsend: D'Oh! I must read the whole thread before posting. more » | Other threads
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working 'with' the press
The Clintons' Media Enemies List
Hillary and Bill Clinton keep — oh, sorry, their "aide" keeps — a big ole list of everyone who has done them wrong, including allies who are perceived to have defected to the Obama camp. Many of their supporters and associates also have lists of the "ingrates," "traitors" and "enemies" who wronged the former president and his wife. Are there any media people on this list? Are you kidding? They are "charter members," because if there is anyone Hillary and Bill hate, it is the press. (Chelsea too, probably.) Some names: More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Tattertotter: I hope you're right, Don Miguel. People may love Barack, but do they understand why they love him? Do they... more » | Other threads
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megalomaniacs
Insane Clinton Dead-Enders Celebrate Glorious Puerto Rico Victory
Hillary Clinton's suicide cult followers trailed her all the way to Puerto Rico, where they celebrated the Democratic presidential candidate's two-to-one victory over Barack Obama by, once again, wearing stickers on their foreheads, this time at a rally/brainwashing session in San Juan. Only 10 percent of eligible Puerto Ricans bothered to show up at the polls, because they know pandering, disingenuous gringos when they see them . Clinton is, as predicted, using the victory as proof that she won the popular vote in the Democratic primary, an assertion that requires the counting of Clinton's dubious victories in Florida and Michigan. After the jump, a video in which two crazed Clinton cultists scream about the Democratic National Committee's decision to seat only half of the improperly elected delegates from those states. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Mediahohoho: @Fishman: I used to think the same about Vietnam myself. Believe me, I'm no fan of Kennedy or Johnson, or... more » | Other threads
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megalomaniacs
Suicide Cult Phase Reached By Clinton Campaign
Hillary Clinton squeaked by with 23,000 votes in Indiana. The Democratic presidential candidate ran out of money. Supposedly she has canceled public appearances the next few days. Matt Drudge and Tim Russert say it's over. Who is still standing behind Clinton, chanting "Yes she can?" Crazy dead-ender cult people like the ones in the picture above, with goddamned stickers on their foreheads. After the jump, Gawker videographer Richard Blakeley (who spotted the stickers) imagines the conversation that led to this awful visual: More »
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By Ryan TateComment by IndeediDid: Chelsea totally looks like she's pissed at her dad like, "Don't you dare think about touching me!" more » | Other threads
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megalomaniacs
How To Spend $75,000 Trying To Embarrass A Times Reporter
Mike Ovitz just testified about how he hired private eye Anthony Pellicano, on trial on federal racketeering and wiretap charges, to obtain "embarrassing or otherwise useful information about the New York Times journalists and their sources," according to the Times. The former Hollywood mogul said he paid Pellicano $75,000, which did not get him information about the reporters, but did net him a fetching nickname, "Gaspar," some dirt on his rivals and, if reporter Anita Busch's hotly-contested testimony is any indication, some serious cloak and dagger directed at the reporters: More » -
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You Can Only Have Five Friends, Says Harvey Weinstein
It emerged in court papers that movie mogul Harvey Weinstein once said to NBC CEO Jeff Zucker, "You can only have in your life five true friends and I consider you one of my five friends. And I'm telling you, I will not embarrass you." Weinstein, of course, did go on to embarass Zucker by selling his show to another network, according to NBC's suit. But what's with this "five true friends" thing? More »
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By Ryan TateComment by StabbyFerosh: How to be a huge douche, in five easy steps. more » | Other threads
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megalomaniacs
Fidel Castro Resigns, No Confirmation From Perez Hilton Yet
Fidel Castro has "resigned" as the ruler of Cuba, but he hasn't been seen in public for 19 months, so don't believe anything you read in the mainstream media until brave Perez Hilton explains to you how this means Castro is even more dead. (In the attached picture, Castro is shown holding a book published about a month after Perez's groundbreaking scoop that he was dead, click through for a larger picture.) UPDATE: At 6:30 AM, Perez confirmed that "Castro Steps Down!!!!!!!" Approximately 10 seconds later, his site receives the first in a long, ongoing series of comments along the lines of this one, number 42: "How can he step down if he's dead???? Perez what's going on?? Please bring us op to date!!"
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By Ryan TateComment by ShoplifterOfTheWorld: Well, obviously that is a silicon Muppet that can speak Spanish. @Moimeme: Thanks Moimeme, I shall be your sober buddy.... more » | Other threads
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megalomaniacs
Typhoid Bloomberg Can't Even Get Endorsed Properly
It should not have been a big deal when an academic journal at Stanford repeatedly suggested Michael Bloomberg would be a good education president, and it definitely should not have turned into an embarrassing little scandal. But a scandal is exactly what has ensued, because the mayor's sad inability to publicly acknowledge his misguided presidential ambition has left everyone terrified of offering him the slightest encouragement. The article included the ridiculous picture at left and said "many people think [Bloomberg] should be president" and that if he ran, "Americans might have a renewed opportunity to ponder the state of American education." In the chaotic aftermath of the Bloomberg-friendly piece, a journal board member resigned, the author acknowledged "we barely see a blip" in education after six years under Bloomberg and none of the three board members contacted by the Sun think Bloomberg should run for president. In other words, no one wants to be responsible for having encouraged him. [NY Sun]
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By Ryan TateComment by harveywallbangers: Leave Bloomy alone. He donated millions of his own money to NYC Education. Even if he does want to run... more » | Other threads
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