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Insane Harvard Law Professor Promises MP3 Justice
Harvard Law Professor Charles Nesson has humiliated Village Voice plagiarists, conducted frightening YouTubes in his Second Life persona, and successfully litigated on behalf of Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers. He's found another person to bring justice to in Joel Tenenbaum, a Boston University student who is being sued by the RIAA for downloading seven songs as a teen. In doing so, he'll file a lawsuit that directly challenges the RIAA's ability to willy-nilly sue anyone it likes. Does this crazy-ass lawyer have a chance of succeeding? More »
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Comment by surlybastard: It was sort of funny to see him rip that pipsqueak Nick Sylvester, but frankly, who cares? Is Gawker... 1 Responses | Other threads
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Toast Of White Rap Critics Hit With Bottle By Unimpressed Londoners
Lil Wayne is the tattooed, drugged-out New Orleans rapper who, for some reason, causes spasms of hero worship among white internet rap critics. The extent of the enthusiasm for him has always been a total mystery to me, but it's almost comical watching rap nerds try to outdo each other with their verbose online praise for Wayne, who would certainly rather be drinking vast quantities of Robitussin and liquor than reading their bullshit. Anyways, he got booed off the stage at his recent concert in London, and then showered with bottles on his way out, for good measure. Guess the crowd didn't read all the right blogs before they went to the show. After the jump, two recent examples of internerd Wayne worship, and the video of his ill-fated exit in London. I must admit I find this highly enjoyable. More »
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Comment by famousauthor: Being tattooed and drugged out and from New Orleans is like "Three strikes and you're a star." Just ask... more » | Other threads
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Lower East Sucks! (or, How the MSM and the 'Gosphere Report the Same Story)
Sunday Styles has a semi-anti-semitic-seeming profile today of one Sion Misrahi, who parlayed the family bargain men's store into Lower East Side real-estate moguldom, thereby transforming the old neighborhood from ethnic enclave to liminal hipster space to liminal yuppie space to crappy modernist condo wasteland. The Times throws bones to both the Post and Time Out for being earlier to the Lower East Side No Longer Cool party, but conspicuously fails to mention the above post from Riff Market, personal blog of brigand/hero Nick Sylvester, apparently written by fellow music kritik Chris Ott as a parody of some whiny chick named ultragrrl. Whatever! The point is "i fucking hate the lower east side," from a post dated way back to May 9. New Media Revolution! Yes, those are the Sprouse Twins. More »
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By jliuComment by alanpartridge: Nick Sylvester is now a writer for The Daily Show! He writes on the website. Is it possible for a... more » | Other threads
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Fake Writer Lectures Future Lawyers on Art and Artifice
Life is way to short, particularly ours, but Idolator points you to a lecture given at Harvard School of Law by wunderkind fabulizer Nick Sylvester. We didn't even get as far through the video as the Idolators did, but, you know, we are sort of honored to be part of his personal Power Point presentation. More » -
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Nick Sylvester Finds Food, Shelter at 'Pitchfork'
Our overly hip siblings at Idolator have it on good authority that our old friend Nick Sylvester — the former Voice scribe who admitted to fabricating quotes for a front-page article — has returned to his old, old gig at the temple of indie superiority, Pitchfork. Apparently Sylvester slipped back in a few weeks ago and has been editing some reviews, though you won't see his name on the masthead: More » -
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Nick Sylvester Continues Picking Up the Pieces
Well, look who turned back up on Pitchfork's masthead. We know, we know; that whole taking-a-stand-for- journalistic-integrity thing gets boring real fast, don't it?More » -
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'Phoenix' Takes Pity on Nick Sylvester
So you were once a Harvard wunderkind, a spritely hipster with real talent, but then you blew your decent gig at a major alt-weekly by fabricating, of all things, the details in your cover story. You got canned, your editor resigned, and your name became synonymous with journalistic jackassery. For such a young guy, you fucked up pretty badly. More » -
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Nick Sylvester to Talk About the Town?
It's Friday and it's been a long week, so why not pass along an out-of-the-blue and entirely implausible rumor that just showed up in the inbox? A tipster passes along some speculation about our old friend Nick Sylvester: More » -
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Sylvestergate: Steve Lookner's Epilogue
Buried down towards the bottom of the Letters in this week's Village Voice: More » -
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Remainders: 'Cargo' Swag Is Already Retro
• The publication and paychecks have moved on to a better place, Cargo's moderately crappy swag lives on. [601am] More » -
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Today in Entirely Unverified, Completely Speculative, Quite Likely Untrue Media Rumors
Some amusing but probably baseless emails we've received lately:
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Gawker's Week in Review: We're Still Totally Loathsome
• Because God is inexplicably protecting Maer Roshan, Radar still looms over us. Well, kind of. Maybe not. Maybe so, with Jesse Jackson's son in the mix. And whether or not the mag that Maer built comes alive, it sure is fun to speculate and send Roshan into a secretive frenzy. More » -
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Today's Rumors: 'Voice' Cans Sylvester, Ridgeway?
We just got word that rock-writing wunderkind Nick Sylvester, who fabricated part of a recent Village Voice cover story but inexplicably was not fired when his boss was, has finally been fired. We don't have hard-and-fast confirmation on this, but we know a letter was recently drafted by acting editor Ward Harkavy breaking the news to young Sylvester, and rumor is the letter has been delivered. We're also hearing that Voice vet James Ridgeway, the political and investigative for the paper, has been let go, too. Got any info on this? Let us know. Updates as we get confirmation or details.
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By JesseComment by Sweet Toof 69: I don't know if any of you read many other of Sylvester's stories, but some of them seemed too good... more » | Other threads
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Breaking: 'Village Voice' Axes Doug Simmons; Nick Sylvester Hangs On
Acting editor-in-chief Doug Simmons has been fired from the Village Voice, according to several sources at the paper. Word is that Mike Lacey, the editorial top dog of Village Voice Media, made the announcement at the troubled alt-weekly's 3 p.m. editorial meeting today. Simmons, the paper's managing editor until editor-in-chief Dan Forst resigned soon after the New Times deal closed in January, assinged and edited last week's now-retracted cover story, "Do You Wanna Kiss Me?," by Nick Sylvester. Sylvester subsequently admitted the piece contained a fabricated final scene. More »
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By JesseComment by the earl grey: that's well & good, but the Voice recently re-designed its on-line classifieds to a jumbled 'bulletin board' format- far less... more » | Other threads
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Clearly We Do Not Speak 'Village Voice'
Even at the magic kingdom that is the Village Voice, where "making shit up to publish in the paper" doesn't also mean "fired," we figured that "suspended" would at least mean "won't have a byline in the very next issue." More » -
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Sylvestergate: Once More Into the Final Scene
OK, so yesterday we posted the original, as-printed, not-fucked-with version of the manufactured final scene to Nick Sylvester's now-retracted "Do You Wanna Kiss Me" Voice cover story. And that original version cited "Steve Lookner, DC, and Vali, three TV writers who had flown in from L.A. for the weekend." (Later, that became "Steve Lucien, DC, and Vic" in the online version, before it was removed.) All parties now agree that the trip Sylvester described did not happen, but a question remains. Who are those three? More » -
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Sylvestergate: The Original, Unedited, Unexpurgated, Unredacted Final Section
You already know all about the cat-and-mouse of finding the now-retracted Nick Sylvester Village Voice piece. And you already know how we feel about a newspaper — a newspaper! — that tries to scrub inconvenient truths from the historical record. But the funny thing about the disappearing act is that the print issue remained on stands the whole fucking time. So while Simmons and his cronies were busy removing all signs of Sylvester's malfeasance from any website that hosted it, you could still pick up the damned thing on street corners throughout the city.
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Remainders: Not Many Nick Sylvester Fans Out There
• A very special collection of letters to the editor regarding the Village Voice's grounded houseboy Nick Sylvester. Dismay isn't quite the word to cover public sentiment. [VV] More »
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By JessicaComment by the cornballer: oh, come on. he's no james frey. he's still a very talented writer and a nice guy. more » | Other threads
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Media Bubble: And If You Think You Understand His Book, He Miswrote
• Penguin wins auction for Alan Greenspan memoir with an offer believed to be nearly $9 million. Obligatory question: Irrationally exuberant? [NYP] More » -
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Finding the Lost Nick Sylvester Cover Story
We've had quite a few people asking us where to access Nick Sylvester's now-notorious cover story from last week's Voice, especially since the Google cache of the article has been scrubbed. Like manna from heaven, a kind reader points us to a message board which has posted the article. We've reprinted it in full after the jump. In case you're wondering, the fabricated portion of the article comes near the end, beginning with the following paragraph:
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Today in Sylvestergate
• The Google cache version of Nick Sylvester's partially fabricated cover story on the effect of Neil Strauss' The Game has been wiped squeaky clean. If you know any remaining online outlets still carrying the article, do tell. More »
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By JessicaComment by the earl grey: tell us nick's sister's 'famous model' name & I'll tell if/how famous she is. more » | Other threads
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Gawker's Week in Review: Putting Nick Sylvester on Suicide Watch
• The Village Voice gets its very own hipster-Blair, in the form of young Nick Sylvester, who fabricated parts of his cover story. Upon being caught, he fainted outside of editor Doug Simmons' office, only to find himself suspended upon regaining consciousness. Meanwhile, freelancers bitch about the possibilty of the story being a stolen pitch and Sylvester loses his indie cred by being asked to resign from his haute music-reviewing gig at Pitchfork. More » -
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Sylvestergate: Yet More Nick News
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Sylvestergate: Today in Nick News
• Pitchfork, the indier-than-thou music site, fired admitted Voice fabricator Sylvester yesterday; his name disappeared from the site's masthead. Somewhere, halfway through a harangue about the reprehensible journalistic standards of online media as compared to traditional news outlets, a retired newspaper editor spontaneously explodes. More » -
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Sylvestergate Subplot: Did the 'Voice' Steal the Pitch?
Most of us have identically "original" ideas. This is why TV networks, for example, will generally require that you sign a release before you pitch them a show. It's not that the TV execs want to steal your idea; it's that they don't want to get sued if they have someone else's version of your idea already in development. That said, let's consider the case of Dolly, the Truth About Cocks and Dolls blogger, who says acting Voice editor Doug Simmons stole her pitch — about New Yorker men and women playing The Game — and instead gave it to hotshot young Nick Sylvester. Simmons, talking to Gawker yesterday afternoon, denied the charge, saying this week's now-retracted cover story was Sylvester's idea, not his, and that he couldn't find any record of Dolly's pitch. As a public service, then, we're pleased to now provide that record. More » -
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Breaking: Doug Simmons Is Still the Acting 'Voice' Editor
"I'm still here, and in good standing," Doug Simmons, the beleaguered acting editor-in-chief of the Village Voice, told Gawker by phone just a few minutes ago. Then he laughed. "Well, maybe not in such good standing."
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By JesseComment by Steven I. Weiss: I approached Doug Simmons some time in '03 for comment on a story I was doing about the impact of... more » | Other threads
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village voice
Get Yer Retracted 'Voice' Cover Story Here!
For the moment we'll ignore the Village Voice's repugnance in attempting to remove all traces of Nick Sylvester's at least partially fabricated cover story from its website. (Whether you like it or not, guys, you published the flawed work, and it's part of the historical record, and while of course you should attach an explanatory and corrective note, it's deeply disgusting to watch a newspaper — a newspaper! — try to throw inconvenient facts down the memory hole.) Instead we're treating it as a cat-and-mouse game. More »
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By JesseComment by RandomHookup: Well, they can always blame it on a projection error. more » | Other threads
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The 'Voice' Is Even More Fucked Up Than Usual
Here's what we know: This week's Voice had a cover story by hotshot young Nick Sylvester reporting that men around New York are using Neil Strauss's The Game, about pickup artists and their techniques, and that women are increasingly aware of this and outsmarting their would-be seducers. We know said cover story has been removed from the Voice website. We know that the Voice's acting editor-in-chief Doug Simmons, to whom we were referred when we called because the paper's PR director has left the company, hasn't returned our message. And we're reliably informed that the newsroom — such as it is anymore — knows some sort of big shit is going down but isn't being told what. More »
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