Gawker

Posts Tagged “

Phoning It In

”
the gray zayde

'Times' Bill Carter Has Dimples, Amnesia

As we mentioned earlier, Fox News anchor Shephard Smith is raking it in, to the tune of $7 million per year in a recently-inked deal with his network. According to today's story from New York Times media reporter Bill Carter, "Mr. Smith would be making more than anyone at CNN—if reports of $5 million for Anderson Cooper and $6 million for Lou Dobbs are accurate." Did Carter forget that in 2002, the Timesran a piece in 2002 about CNN talkshow host Larry King's potential $14 million salary? Perhaps. Harder to believe is that he forgot the piece the Times did way back in 1998 about King's earnings, which the paper reported at $7 million. He wrote it himself!

3:50 PM on Mon Nov 19 2007
By Maggie
530 views, 9 comments

Latest by jbk: Woooh, drinks on Shep next time he drops by the Cock! more »

Roger Stone, who so totally did not make that obscenity-laden phone call to Governor Spitzer's father, reviews Frost/Nixon, the play he wasn't actually at during the time the call was made. His verdict? "I highly recommend the play to Governor Elliot Spitzer because it underlines the dangers hubris and the inexerable web a public official tangles himself in when he tells a lie. Since the play has closed I hope the Governor can catch a revival." You cannot make this stuff up. Also, watch your ass, Ben Brantley. [Room 8]

6 comments

phoning it in

Male 'Times' Columnist Discovers Housework

This week, Michael Winerip's New York Times Parenting column focuses on a wild phenomenon. It turns out that when you work at home, sometimes you actually have to, like, take care of the house! Crazy. (Seriously, this guy makes their online-life columnist Michelle Slatalla look like Frank Rich.) You remember Winerip; he's the Times writer exiled to the lonely Regionals section, where he can safely muse about the fact that his kids aren't getting into Harvard from his comfortable Long Island perch. More »

12:20 PM on Mon Aug 27 2007
By Doree Shafrir
4,139 views, 30 comments

Latest by TheLorax: Fuck it, classicists correct the reference if necessary, but here's the Lysistrata for our times: women stipulate a) no reproduction and b) no cohabitation until you XYs stop fucking treating us like your fucking unpaid fucking servants. There more »

our celebrities

Julia Allison Has Little Personal Experience With Cheap Dates

Let's check in and see how Julia Allison's new gig as Time Out dating columnist is going. Maybe she's dropping dirty secrets about media figure she's semi-seeing or offending us by suggesting that women should whore themselves out for shoes. Or! Maybe she's ... getting so lazy that she's calling in Neel Shah and his College Humor compatriots to pinch-hit. Oh, Julia. Already? More »

5:30 PM on Tue Jun 12 2007
By Emily Gould
6,291 views, 19 comments

Will Paris Hilton appear in person in court this morning, or will she be allowed to speak to judge solely via her bedazzled phone-device? Developing. Also, devolving. [TMZ]

4 comments