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Jason Reitman Diagrams the Modern State of Junket Journalism
Media can stare at itself all it likes, but it takes sitting across the table from today's news monster to really see what journalism has become. In a fascinating diagram, director Jason Reitman has pretty much broken it down. More » -
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Oprah Ruins KISS' Final Shot at Glory
Did you know that in KISS's epic career, they've never had an album reach the No. 1 on the Billboard chart? After they released their record last week, that final prize seemed at hand. Then Oprah ruined everything. More » -
#graphs
Pretty Graph Chart Shows Print Journalism's Ugly Downfall
Mint.com, way to promote your product! The free online money management program put together a wonderful, well-designed chart to show you how well they design things like charts. Their morbidly glee-tinted topic: the death of newspapers. More » -
#deals
Twitter's Journey to $1 Billion
Twitter is poised to close a $50 million funding round that values the microblogging startup at a staggering $1 billion, according to TechCrunch and AllThingsD. Since closing its last venture round in February, then, the startup's value has grown fourfold. More » -
#charts
The Very, Very Important Words of Deborah Solomon
Deboroah Solomon's Seth MacFarlane interview for her NY Times Magazine "Questions With..." column was a landmark not only of hostility toward a subject, but she has chosen that readers would rather hear what she has to say than her subjects. More » -
#classwar
Your Tax Dollars at Work
The St. Regis Monarch Beach, the rich-people hotel that AIG executives partied at after getting all their bailout money, couldn't pay its bills and so now a bailed-out Citigroup owns it. And it's losing money. Your money. More » -
#privateequity
The Quick Gutting of Peter Thiel's Clarium Capital
The June numbers are in, and Peter Thiel's hedge fund is looking puny, having shrunk to just $1.5 billion in assets, from $7.8 billion in June 2008. Placed in an historical context, the PayPal co-founder's fund looks even worse. More » -
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#bensilverman
Why Does Ben Silverman Still Have a Job?: The Bill Carter NYT Profile Edition
Times TV reporter Bill Carter's profile on NBC co-chairman and Executive Bong Smoker Ben Silverman ran today. To put it lightly: Carter takes Silverman by the collar, beats him, and stuffs him in a locker. More » -
#media
Print's Worst Late Payment Offenders, Round Two
We asked. You answered. Now it's time for the second installment of the fun thing where we reveal the Media's Worst Late Payment Offenders! Plus: a success story! More » -
#thanksgiving
Socialites Give Thanks Just Like Us
What are "50 New York Socials" thankful for this holiday? Guest of a Guest talked to people who are supposed to be the city's tastemakers, movers, and shakers—yet aside from a few things, like not having to mix with the proles on the subway and utter fearlessness of God, their lists sound just like your Aunt Martha's: family, friends and being able to afford weed and champagne. We've broken their predictibility into a pie chart, proving that there truly is no randomness in the universe. Click for it. More » -
#newyorktimes
How Much Did You Pay For Your Times 'Obama' Issue?
Rember how Obama's election was the greatest thing to happen to the newspaper industry in a decade? People lined up across New York City to buy copies of the New York Times proclaiming his victory! And the smart ones put those copies right on Ebay. This chart shows the average of the five highest prices paid on Ebay each day for that November 5 issue of the NYT. One early seller fetched $400; today you can have your pick for less than $30. Oh, the metaphor. -
#television
The Most Conservative and Most Liberal Shows On TV
The Gossip Girl kids have gotten political. Two of them at least, Penn Badgley who plays Dan and his off-screen ladylove Blake Lively, who plays his on-screen ladylove Serena. They're appearing in a MoveOn.org anti-McCain ad in which regular kids—including these two soap stars at that Hannah girl from that American Teenager documentary—condescend to their McCain-voting parents as if they were about to drink or take doobies. Har har. So Gossip Girl is a bit liberal, but it's not the only politicized show on the air. No indeed there are others, subtly (or not so) spouting rhetoric from both sides of the aisle. Our Photoshop expert Steve Dressler has created a simple chart that we'll explain after the jump. More » -
#pagesix
Page Six's Favorite Restaurant
Page Six is not just a gossip column; it's the ultimate favor trading tool. Boss Richard Johnson can (within reason) make the in-crowd believe that a particular restaurant is a great place to see and be seen—whether true or not. We took a look back through all of Page Six's coverage for the first six months of this year, and put together the chart you see above, tracking the most-mentioned restaurants. It conforms to one's mental list of New York hot spots, with one exception: Cipriani, whose 21 mentions (for three locations) took the top spot. Now, Cipriani is prestigious in its own musty old way, but it hardly fits in with the rest of the list, which is full of buzz-worthy celebrity nightspots and the odd mogul hangout. Favor trading illustrated? Below are some of the more press release-like Cipriani "gossip" items P6 saw fit to print this year; judge for yourself: More »
