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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    12/16/09

    In reply to The Gasoline Bill Keller Threw on the WSJ vs. NYT Fire
    Nicely done. Fuck the NYT. They pawned off their legacy a long time ago.
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    12/16/09

    In reply to The Gasoline Bill Keller Threw on the WSJ vs. NYT Fire
    Meanwhile, displaced citizens of China were overheard to say, "Whatever. Like winning some award we've never heard of is going to increase your circulation and save you from oblivion. Also, help us."
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    Image of Karlifornia Karlifornia
    12/16/09

    In reply to The Gasoline Bill Keller Threw on the WSJ vs. NYT Fire
    Three Gorges Dam is actually Joslyn James' Sioux name.
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    Image of GlasgowRose GlasgowRose
    12/11/09

    In reply to The Harvard Business Review Will Show Your Ass What a Party Really Looks Like
    At least HBR is hiring, big time. The down side -- the jobs are in Watertown, MA. And at HBR.
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    12/11/09

    In reply to The Harvard Business Review Will Show Your Ass What a Party Really Looks Like
    Are they serving espresso and methamphetamine over there now? Did you get this worked up over other redesigns? Change happens. Sheesh.
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    Image of Foster Kamer Foster Kamer
    12/11/09

    In reply to The Harvard Business Review Will Show Your Ass What a Party Really Looks Like
    I had to back up off of it and sit the front of book down/sidebars and graphics, yeah, I'm fucked up, now/But it ain't no stoppin/the Review's still poppin/Harvard's got columnists from the city of Cambridge/to serve me...
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    11/16/09

    In reply to Ivanka Trump Whining: The Sound of the Future
    Bla, bla, bla... you're missing the meat here: 10's of thousands of photos of the glamorous young Ivanka, but no one of her buttocks. Society demands a glimpse of Ivanka's buttocks.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    11/16/09

    In reply to Ivanka Trump Whining: The Sound of the Future
    Ron Rosenbaum, then Doree S., there's nothing left in there that is readable. Now it's a peach-colored piece of fluff, like Ivanka's ass. #ivankatrump
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    Image of Tchotchke Tchotchke
    11/16/09

    In reply to Ivanka Trump Whining: The Sound of the Future
    "My husband and I," Ivanka. #ivankatrump
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    Image of crotchety crotchety
    11/16/09

    @Tchotchke: "My husband and me" I think. #ivankatrump
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    11/16/09

    @Tchotchke: Nope, she's right. #ivankatrump
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    Image of DahlELama DahlELama
    11/16/09

    @crotchety: That sounds better, but I think that how she wrote it is sufficiently correct. Also, had the exact same thought about "late Jared." How tragic! Oh, wait... #ivankatrump
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    Image of Tchotchke Tchotchke
    11/16/09

    @DahlELama: Sigh. I stand corrected. Once again, trumped by a Trump. #ivankatrump
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    11/16/09

    @Tchotchke: To be fair, she probably employs a staff of 47 to proofread her Tweets. It's tough to compete with that. #ivankatrump
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    Image of FormerEnglishMajor FormerEnglishMajor
    11/16/09

    In reply to Ivanka Trump Whining: The Sound of the Future
    "it's that she and her husband seem to be totally enveloping the New York Observer in the Trump Brand".

    Hmmmm. Ivanka was brought up by TRUMP (tm), in the TRUMP TOWER (tm), stars in "The Apprentice" (tm), is a VP at the TRUMP ORGANIZATION (tm) - so her making the Observer part of the TRUMP (tm) brand is a surprise... how? #ivankatrump
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    11/09/09

    In reply to Former New York Observer Editor Peter Kaplan Tells Charlie Rose He's "Evangelical"
    Foster -- why can't you charge people for information (gathering it, assessing it, presenting it)? Am I missing something here? #peterkaplan
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    Image of Foster Kamer Foster Kamer
    11/09/09

    @Bunsy: Sure, you can. But if the person being charged is me - who can take it, repurpose it in my own language, and make it more profitable (the cost of paying for the NYT vs. the cost of reporting the NYT) - the value of the information drops dramatically, as quickly as I can make it my own. And I just don't think you can't protect the value of something like a huge scoop to justify what it costs to get it anymore. You've got to offer something else.
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    Image of skt.smth skt.smth
    11/09/09

    @Bunsy: Because eventually the information makes its way into the public space. In other words, if information has any value at all, that value pretty much disappears the instant it hits the air. The pay wall only works if you can control, in a very narrow way, the limits of the medium (in this case the internet). #peterkaplan
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    Image of ampersandparade ampersandparade
    11/08/09

    In reply to Former New York Observer Editor Peter Kaplan Tells Charlie Rose He's "Evangelical"
    I kind of love the quote about how it takes a single day to decipher whether a reporter is worth his or her weight. That really speaks to an intuitiveness amongst quality journalists, something that perhaps cannot be taught at school but merely refined (or alternately, stunted) by grooming.

    And Tina Brown is a lot [many things-er] than all of us, but that does not make her in any way something we should continue thinking about. #peterkaplan
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    Image of Foster Kamer Foster Kamer
    11/08/09

    @ampersandparade: True, on both points. But Tina Brown's going to be someone we're going to have to keep thinking about. The question remains: when (or if) Diller will tighten the purse-strings on her operation. #peterkaplan
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    11/08/09

    In reply to Former New York Observer Editor Peter Kaplan Tells Charlie Rose He's "Evangelical"
    Also, neither of these men are wearing pants. #peterkaplan
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    Image of paul7777 paul7777
    11/08/09

    @Foster Kamer: Evangelical pantslessness is more fun than Jazz Age broadsheet evangelism. #peterkaplan
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    Image of El_Gato El_Gato
    11/06/09

    In reply to Andrew Ross Sorkin Was a Finalist for the New York Observer Job
    Actually, what I heard from a close relative of Sorkin's -- I can't be more specific without blowing that person's identity -- is that one of Sorkin's ambitions is to go into finance and work for a private equity group. That's what this person told me about a year ago.
    Obviously a lot has happened since then, so his plans might've changed, or maybe that was just one of several things he was considering. But that's what this person told me. #newyorkobserver
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    Image of daveyjonesisdead daveyjonesisdead
    11/06/09

    In reply to Andrew Ross Sorkin Was a Finalist for the New York Observer Job
    Sorkin is a star. Too much so to go to the Observer, unless it were to be remade into a real newspaper, maybe focusing on real estate and finance (and the incestuous relationship between the two). But that would take an investment by Jared, which he doesn't need to do if his whole point is to promote his wife. #newyorkobserver
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