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Confirmed: Seymour Hersh Was Right About The Dick Cheney 'Death Squad' Thing
That dang Seymour Hersh. The New Yorker scribe is always running saying crazy things to scare the bejesus out of us and, unfortunately, he's always right. Just like when he mentioned that Dick Cheney was running a CIA "death squad." More »
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Comment by momof3wildkids: Other than the fact it was hidden from the Senate, what makes the 'surgical' strikes against Al Qaeda senior terrorists... 26 Responses | Other threads
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resignations
Sarah Palin Quit Because She Was Not Very Good At Her Job
Last week, we continued trying to figure out why Sarah Palin quit her job. We could think of a couple reasons! And today, the New York Times seems to throw its weight behind one of those reasons.
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By PareeneComment by MissNormaDesmond: The meme about her that I just can't get my mind around is that she was simultaneously competent to be... 8 Responses | Other threads
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monetizing
Bloggers Just Selling Out All Over the Place
Oh those damn bloggers! They're out there, and they're ruining everything. They're pushing things on their dumb blogs that they're being secretly compensated to shill for, things like Sea World. They must be destroyed! More »
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Comment by saythatscool: @TableNine: I feel betrayed and violated. Nothing can ever make up for the hurt I am feeling right now caused... 20 Responses | Other threads
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journalismism
NY Times Scribe Graphically Exposes Affair-Having Friend
So earlier we were innocently reading the Sunday New York Times, happily taking in your typical "Times writer has lunch with affair-having friend" Magazine article, when things got a little, uh, disgusting. More »
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Comment by raincoaster: And Sarah Vowell comes into this thing how? Or is it "Sarah Vowell-hating?" 3 Responses | Other threads
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outrage
WaPo Ombudsman Calls His Newspaper a Dirty Whore, Basically
Recently the Washington Post has taken a beating for attempting to sell access to its newsroom via fancy, elistist "salons." The New York Times has been positively giddy over it. Now the Post's ombudsman has spoken. More »
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Comment by MisterHippity: Can I be the Gawker Ombudsman? I have an idea for my first piece already ... 7 Responses | Other threads
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altarcations
These Weddings Have Been Certified By The Ministry Of Awesomely Spiritual Garages, Inc.
Get out your Nikes and Kool-Aid, and drink up: Phyllis Nefler's serving a tall, cool glass of a special weirdo religion version of the Weddings and Celebrations section of the Sunday NYT. Also, successful matchup by Samuel L. Jackson! More »
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By Phyllis NeflerComment by TedSez: Sigh... JDate is the crack of the Jewish single. You have a couple of good dates and one almost-made-it relationship,... 7 Responses | Other threads
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holy matrimony shit
The Secret Cultlike Rituals Behind NYT's Sunday "Weddings and Celebrations": Revealed!
Something incredible happened. The New York Times' ombudsman opened the lid on the Illuminati-esque processes behind a personal passion, the Sunday Styles' Weddings and Celebrations. Tell us: is there only upper-crust elitism at their core? And did he mention us?!
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By Foster KamerComment by momof3wildkids: I generally do not read the NYT because it generally caters to people such as Mr. Emrich. I have... 7 Responses | Other threads
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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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Comment by BadUncle: Does "our bad" appear in the A.P. Stylebook? 3 Responses | Other threads
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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 5¢ 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 » -
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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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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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