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    Comment by muckpond: mike tyson a ho? why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free in a dark... more » | Other threads

  • nicholas kristof

    Nick Kristof Picks His African Bride

    The op-ed page of today's Times no doubt brings heartbreak to some 3,799 college students nationwide; Nick Kristof's column carries the news that he has picked someone else to go on a free trip to Africa with him this summer. The lucky winner? 23-year-old Casey Parks, of Jackson, Miss. Casey, a graduate j-student at the University of Missouri, won Kristof over with her tale of a hardscrabble youth and a desire to see the world. She wrote: "I saw my mother skip meals. I saw my father pawn everything he loved. I saw our cars repossessed. I never saw France or London." (Or, apparently, the merits of parallelism.) Casey's full essay is available on Kristof's website, along with essays by the other 12 vanquished finalists, including our own precocious Henry the Intern. But the best part on Kristof's site is the video clip of him calling Casey with the big news. You'd think a man who can swashbuckler through Africa and buy sex slaves' freedom in a single bound wouldn't seem quite so profoundly awkward when tasked with making a simple phone call. More »
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    By Jesse

    Comment by Cookie Blickensderfer: That essay is HORRIBLY written. more » | Other threads

  • new york times

    Nick Kristof's Just Not That Into You

    Still holding out hope to win your dream trip through a malarial jungle with Nick Kristof? Bad news for you, then, kiddies. We're reliably informed that the Times has winnowed the list of applicants down to about 15 finalists, and those finalists have been notified and asked to send along academic transcripts. (You've got to be an enrolled student at an American university for the change to spend time on a bedbug-infested mattress with Nick and his chin dimple, alas.) So if you haven't heard from them, you're no longer in it. Sorry about that. More »
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  • michael kinsley

    Michael Kinsley Wants a Date With Tom Friedman

    You already know about the Times' "Win a Trip With Nick Kristof" contest. On Slate today, Michael Kinsley wonders why things should stop there, and he considers similar contests with other Times op-edsters. Fist, he cites Nick's pitch: More »
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  • media bubble

    Media Bubble: AMI Learns That Firing Employees Saves Money

    • Yesterday's American Media bloodletting will cut the mag publisher's workforce by 9 percent. [WWD] More »
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  • media bubble

    Media Bubble: Sudan, Fun for the Whole Family!

    Times happily runs advertising section from Sudan, whose leaders — as Times columnist Nick Kristof likes to point out — are encouraging genocide. [NYDN] More »
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    By Jesse

    Comment by Master P: Love that CJR takedown, though he left out Friedman's truly vomit-inducing series on Snark, in which, as I recall, you... more » | Other threads

  • nicholas kristof

    Win a Romantic Getaway With Nick Kristof!

    Think the only benefits of TimesSelect are Maureen Dowd's musings and a blog by that Frank Rich look-alike? Oh no. Not at all. Yesterday evening, TimesSelect members became the very first to learn about this incredibly exciting opportunity: More »
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    By Jesse

    Comment by People Paula: Damn, I thought it was going to be Win a Date with Nick Sylvester. more » | Other threads

  • media bubble

    Media Bubble: Mags, 'Journal' Love Celebs

    • Remember how Ad Age told us last week that when the biannual circ numbers came out they'd show the celeb weeklies way up and O, The Oprah Magazine way down? Well, they came out, and they did. [NYT] More »
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    By Jesse

    Comment by BMC: The Journal already has a Jessica Simpson stipple drawing. Believe it or not. more » | Other threads

  • media bubble

    Media Bubble: This Is CNN

    • Fighting back against Fox News, whose ratings dwarf CNN's, Jon Klein savors small victories. Which makes sense, because there ain't been a whole lot of big ones. [NYT] More »
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    By Jesse

    Comment by herzen: Condé Nast so successful that they're running out of ad space to sell? That's quite a story. Say, who owns... more » | Other threads

  • bill o'reilly

    Panhandling Pundits: Help Nick Help Bill Help Us All

    We like it when our op-edsters climb down from their inky pedestals and mix things up a bit. Which is why it's always a happy day at Gawker HQ when Nick Kristof decides to spend his 750 words taunting Bill O'Reilly about the Fox News blowhard's unwilling to bloviate about real problems instead of imagined ones. Kristof wants O'Reilly to travel to Darfur with him, and today's trash-talking is even more fun that the usual: More »
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    By Jesse

    Comment by CHFDigital: (deletes e-mail to Kristof after reading the last part) more » | Other threads