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journalismism
NYT Blog Tries to Unpublish 'One of the Best Kept Secrets in Brooklyn.' Fails.
Yesterday, the New York Times' blog about the Fort Greene neighborhood published a post on a "secret underground climbing gym" in Brooklyn. Today, they took the post down. For a preposterous reason! Now it's getting way more attention. More »
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Media Crack
Bill Keller's Had Enough of Your 'Jokes.' Jerk
In your famous Friday media column: exclusive thoughts from Steven Brill on the future of paid online newspapers, Rebecca Dana gets a new job, newspapers die and thrive, and Bill Keller will never be on the Daily Show again. More »
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Comment by lawyergay: On first sight, that Rebecca Dana headcut looked like a still from Norwegian supergroup A-Ha's "Take On Me" video. more » | Other threads
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print is dead
Turning Out the Lights in Edison
In 2008 the New York Times shut down its printing facility in Edison, New Jersey, laying off hundreds in the process. A reader wrote in tonight saying that the building is right now in the process of being demolished. More »
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Comment by Cool Frood: I drive past this every day. The place was available for lease by CBRE for a long time. Looks... more » | Other threads
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media
Would You Pay $5 a Month to Read the New York Times Online?
At long last, the New York Times may have figured out how to make money off its website: by charging for it. More »
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Comment by Baroness: I already subscribe to the printed edition, but I suppose I might. I do believe in the Times... 4 Responses | Other threads
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Media Crack
Nick Kristof Is an Honest Man
In your commendable Thursday media column: Nick Kristof is the perfect columnist except for his writing, the NYT acknowledges its photo scandal, USA Today teaches us how to write a story that adds up to zero, and Lenny Dykstra's bankrupt. More »
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Comment by Pinekatz: If I was a high school teacher, I would take Mr. Kristof's weekend piece and make it part of my... more » | Other threads
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newspaper wars
Rupert Murdoch's UK Papers in Huge Phone Hacking Scandal
British authorities are launching an investigation into allegations that Rupert Murdoch's UK newspapers paid more than $1.5 million in hush money to try to cover up the fact that they were illegally hacking into cell phones in pursuit of stories. More »
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Comment by skahammer: What exactly does "cellphone hacking" involve, anyway? Can't you pick up cellphone transmissions with shortwave radios and the like? 2 Responses | Other threads
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fashion
Agyness Deyn Is, Like, So Very Bored Right Now
Agyness Deyn is, like, such a rebel. She's a model who is so unmodel-y. She, like, hates fashion! And she, like, lives in East Village and wears Converse sneakers and quirky hats and smoke Parliaments. She's, like, so unique!
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Comment by MisterHippity: The writer's name is Cintra Wilson. Here's her picture ... her appearance kind of goes with the writing style, no? 17 Responses | Other threads
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scandals
More NYT Photoshop Fakery Found
Photo District News has found evidence of digital manipulation in three more of the 'Ruins of the Second Gilded Age' photos published by the New York Times Magazine last weekend. It's starting to look like a *real* scandal. More »
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Comment by Borromeo: Leaves, clouds and hair will always reveal a lazy photo retoucher. 3 Responses | Other threads
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trendwatch
Tag-Teaming in the Meat Room: Butcher Lust Becomes Frenzy
Hipster farmers are pussies. Yuppie foodies are embarrassing half-men. But butchers—so fucking hot, OMG. All the blood. All the meat. All the editing in the world can't conceal NYT reporter Kim Severson's butcher lust: More »
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Comment by BookishLookish: I dated a butcher once. He turned out to be a feeder. In six months I gained twelve pounds. 3 Responses | Other threads
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journalismism
New York Times Happy to Consider Story as Long as They Don't Have to Pay Expenses
Hobo broadsheet the New York Times, last seen telling its reporters that text messages are too expensive, has found another way to save precious nickels: getting freelancers to pay their own reporting expenses. With virtual panhandling! More »
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Comment by malden: Why doesn't she just collect soda bottles and get the 5ยข deposit back. Or even better see if she can... 1 Responses | Other threads
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mythbusting
There Must Be a Metaphor in NYT Photoshop Scandal
Last weekend the New York Times Magazine published a beautiful set of photos of abandoned buildings and such, as a chronicle of the end of the gilded age. Now they've pulled them for probably being Photoshopped. Fakery! More »
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Comment by markscottmusic: I thought something was up when I saw this in print on Sunday. I didn't think it was a flip... 1 Responses | Other threads
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probing journalism
Modern Porn Shunning Compelling Narratives, Shockingly
We don't know about you, but we're pretty fed up with porn that insults our freaking intelligence! You just can't get epic storylines in jerk-films anymore. Where are the three-dimensional characters? The witty zingers? The New York Times investigates! More » -
scandal
Small Town Newspaper Intern Canned For Plagiarizing New York Times
An intern at the Colorado Springs Gazette has been fired for lifting passages from the New York Times and placing them in stories she wrote for the newspaper. More »
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Comment by jorel845: Amazing how your digital footprint doesn't quite expire in equal measures. She definitely can write, but the underwear bit is pathetic.... 7 Responses | Other threads
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sad
New York Times Cannot Afford Text Messaging
America's Paper of Record cannot afford to have its reporters sending text messages or calling 411 on their company phones. What a pitiful state of affairs. More »
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Comment by Mount_Prion: Is there honestly a reason to 411 in the era of Google? 3 Responses | Other threads
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sarah palin
Palin's Resignation is a Sad Day For Ross Douthat
Ross Douthat, the New York Times op-ed conservative who does a better job of pretending to be reasonable than Bill Kristol did, is kind of sad about this Palin thing. Because it means the death of the American Dream. More »
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By PareeneComment by Richard Lawson: Good riddance to bad rubbish. It's so fun watching the staunch few that still cling to Family Values Republicanism slowly realize... 4 Responses | Other threads
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newspaper wars
Washington Post Screwed Up Bad, Reports New York Times Over and Over
The Washington Post did a terrible thing, the New York Times reports. "Why is the WP so morally bankrupt?" the NYT wonders. The Post has issued a laughably weak apology for being a cheater loser paper, reports the NYT! More »
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Comment by I Love New Jersey: What are they doing turning into the Daily News and Post? 1 Responses | Other threads
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web video
Are TV Networks Screwing Themselves By Putting Their Shows Online?
The Times' Brian Stelter notes today that thanks to television networks placing shows on the internet, more people are watching video on the web for longer periods of time, leading to an explosion of original content created outside of Hollywood. More » -
water sports
The New York Times Would Like Your Children To Stop Pissing On Trees, Please
When a kid pisses on a tree in Manhattan, who hears it? The New York Times, of course! And they're out to take the little bastard to task. More »
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By Foster KamerComment by Foster Kamer: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I misspelled a lede. It's a pre-holiday day! Backoff. 1 Responses | Other threads
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the rich
Graydon Carter Wields a Pink Pencil When Filling Out His Seating Chart
Caricature-coiffed Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter co-owns two restaurants where Manhattan's most insufferable douchebags go to get their "look at me" on. Each day these establishments field "thousands" of table requests and Graydon alone decides where the arses will park. More »
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Comment by BookishLookish: My dinner date with an ex-boyfriend who became a famous actor is coming up. We share the same July birthday,... 5 Responses | Other threads
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reunions
David Rohde Returns to the New York Times Newsroom
The New York Times' David Rohde, who spent seven months as a hostage to a Taliban warlord in Afghanistan, has just returned to the paper's newsroom. More »
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By John CookComment by are friends electric?: But the important thing is that he's got a Gary Sinese thing going on. And I could get down with... 1 Responses | Other threads
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gossip roundup
Meghan McCain Always Gets What She Wants And She Wants Hillary Duff
Meghan McCain demands the "really hot" Hillary Duff to play her in the movie about her life, Lindsay Lohan is paid big bucks to party, Farrah is laid to rest, Michael Jackson's photographer speaks and Courtney Love suffers from malnutrition. More »
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Comment by bmoreDLJ: Well, we all know who's playing her dad...although he'll have to lose the Canadianian accent: 14 Responses | Other threads
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high society
New York Times Lavishes Praise on Lady Married to Its Third Largest Shareholder
Lisa Falcone is the bubbly, money-flinging wife of billionaire hedge funder Philip Falcone—who owns 20% of the New York Times. Lisa enjoys the simple things, like her $50 million mansion's basement apartment. She's a role model for young billionheiresses! More »
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Comment by depardoo: Judging from that get-up, she is obviously not valued for her taste. 15 Responses | Other threads
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Media Crack
Still a Few More Years Before the Total Collapse of the NYT
In your sad Monday media column: the New York Times will limp along a little longer, Iran locks up journalists while they're engrossed in Twitter, Tim Rutten is predictable, and the television industry loses a couple billion, no biggie. More »
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Comment by kneetoe: Well, good news about the VJ job, anyway. God was I awful. 1 Responses | Other threads
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public relations
How Censorship Finally Helped Wikipedia's Co-Founder
Jimmy Wales had an image problem. After bending his online encyclopedia's rules for a lover and, allegedly, for a benefactor, the Wikipedia co-founder faced rebuke and embarrassment. Then the New York Times made him a hero. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Charax: I don't think that Times link links to what you think it links to. 1 Responses | Other threads
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mark sanford
Maureen Dowd Needs to Brush Up on Her Hollywood Classics
Maureen Dowd fired up her patented pop-culture-meets-political-sideshow engine again yesterday to explore the resonances between The Holiday, the 2006 Cameron Diaz movie that Dowd thinks Mark Sanford recommended via e-mail to his Argentinian paramour, and Sanford's life. Wrong Holiday, MoDo. More »
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By John CookComment by MisterHippity: This just happens to be my favorite movie ever. If Sanford really was referring this film, he's an even bigger bigger... 6 Responses | Other threads
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progress
BREAKING: Some Straight Men are Friendly with Gay Men!
For all of you people who are always complaining about how the "good" news rarely gets reported, here's a little ray of sunshine courtesy of the New York Times—-Some straight men are actually accepting of the gays! Amazing! More »
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Comment by GregSamsa: Stevie Wonder sang 'Ebony and Ivory,' not Michael Jackson... I realize all darkies look alike, but damn. They don't all... 8 Responses | Other threads
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By PareeneComment by DahlELama: I only have two questions left about the whole thing before I complete ignore any- and everything written about his... 17 Responses | Other threads
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media
Was the Times' Alessandra Stanley Too Hard on Farrah Fawcett?
We've received many emails tonight from readers taking issue with an Alessandra Stanley piece in the Times on Farrah Fawcett. Maybe it's the lede—"She really tried. And for a sex symbol that alone can be like an accomplishment." More »
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Comment by BookishLookish: Some women are just extremely uncomfortable appreciating that some women have more beauty than talent, while others are blessed with... 5 Responses | Other threads
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cellulite
New York Times Investigation Reveals The Ass You'll Never Have
Last year women spent almost $50 million on worthless products that failed to get rid of cellulite. Stop the madness! Must the New York Times plaster an entire Styles page with a naked bottom to get you to listen? Yes. More »
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Comment by BookishLookish: The only cure for cellulite is pink lightbulbs. Or keeping your partner/s so crazy in love with you that they... 7 Responses | Other threads
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internal memos
New York Times Celebrates Its Continued Existence
New York Times Co. chairman Arthur Sulzberger Jr. and CEO Janet Robinson sent out a self-congratulatory memo this morning. Among their accomplishments: the New York Times still exists, despite Michael Hirschorn's prediction that it might not. Hirschorn tells us: "Speaking as 'one writer,' I'm genuinely happy to be proven wrong." Also, employees have lost a lot of their pay and benefits and they're raising newsstand and subscription prices. Go team! (via Nieman Lab and the Awl) More »
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Comment by Joe Mitchell's Secret: What's with the duo's overuse of the term "secular?" I guess it's a very kind way of saying print has... more » | Other threads
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Media Crack
Is Les Moonves Being Adequately Compensated For Losing $11.7 Billion?
In your ever-gray Wednesday media column: Les Moonves can barely afford a dozen new million-dollar condos, The Daily Beast folds on freelance contracts, layoffs at MTV and TruTV, and the New York Times Co. is sick of your rumormongering. More »
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Comment by SultanaEleusis: That Les Moonves painting is missing a few pancakes. more » | Other threads
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america's governor
Rudy Addresses Albany
Albany is such a joke, the Post photoshopped everyone as scary clowns and the Times handed over its op-ed page to the funniest/scariest clown of all, Rudy Giuliani. More »
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By PareeneComment by allyzay: can't the other half just get a new gavel? 3 Responses | Other threads
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breakthroughs
Tentative Settlement Reached in Times vs. Globe Deathmatch
After months of jostling between the New York Times and the largest union representing employees of the Boston Globe, the two sides reached a tentative settlement around 11Ppm last night, perhaps paving the way for the Globe to be sold. More » -
mysteries
What Was the Real Reason for the NYT David Rohde Kidnapping News Blackout?
Did the New York Times want to keep reporter David Rohde's kidnapping in Afghanistan quiet because they feared for his safety, or because they didn't want to drive up his ransom price? Rohde himself has suggested the latter. More »
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By John CookComment by cynyc: You kept quiet on the story because you felt a life was in danger. If they had told you (or... 5 Responses | Other threads
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mysteries
Apple: Den of Secrets
It looks as though Apple did a good job angering the New York Times with the news that Steve Jobs recently underwent a liver transplant. The paper's Tuesday edition dedicates two pieces to Apple's renowned penchant for shadiness. More »
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Comment by ChillbearLatrigue: "It's not that difficult to imagine Apple doing the same thing when Jobs eventually dies..." Don't you mean "if Jobs eventually... 11 Responses | Other threads
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Media Crack
It's Fish Wrapper, Not Weed Wrapper
In your maudlin Monday media column: Magazines fail at drug-smuggling, sad layoffs at Videogum and Boston Magazine, newspaper reporters in Canada may strike(!), the NYT pokes the WaPo, and an update on the Milwaukee journalist-cop affair scandal. More »
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Comment by lindsayism: I don't know what bugs me more: losing my job, or that horrifying '70s-Mom-haircut photo from 2001. 13 Responses | Other threads
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look at this guy
Which Fashion Editors Has Katie Lee Joel's Fashion Designer Friend Slept With?
Boys, meet Yigal Azrouel. He will be seducing your wife now. The Israeli-born fashion designer has been linked to Katie Lee Joel—is this why she's divorcing hubby William?—and also, apparently, editors at W and the New York Times. More »
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Comment by Pope John Peeps II: Wow. What do all these comments say about the ladies? Pretty much exactly what every man ever knows already. 34 Responses | Other threads
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new york times
Bill Keller's Grand Media Tour
You simply cannot turn on your television these days without seeing New York Times editor Bill Keller expounding on something, or explaining something, or being made fun of. He is ubiquitous! More »
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Comment by nellicat: Would some of you journalist types please sound in about the "keeping secret the kidnapping of a NYT reporter" issue?... 3 Responses | Other threads
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thespians
Terrified Anne Hathaway Tackles Scary Shakespeare
Many Hollywood stars have come to New York thinking they could conquer the New York stage and many of them have failed miserably. Now here comes Anne Hathaway in her "first major theatrical production," playing Viola in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. More »
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