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more about #interns more comments → raincoaster: I went to see the Lippizzan Stallions last summer, and got crap on my facebook page from someone who decried the "cruelty" of their restricted lives. ... more » krismry: If Peta really is protecting cats to death, which is a sort of misleading header, then that would reveal their secret ultimate agenda finally to stop ... more » pmarble: How about this: have your lawyer send a threatening letter pointing out that there is no law against letting a cat outside and that if the cat was tak... more » Lydia Jenkins Netzer: Speaking of lawyers: On a later occasion my dog got out of our fenced yard, and the interns took my dog out of my front yard and called animal control... more » Btwbfdimho: PETA: Please Eliminate Thy Animal. #peta more » Sharon Covington: As much as I enjoy hating on PeTA, putting the cat to sleep was not the correct solution here - so while the interns are a bunch of rude busybodies, t... more » iplaudius: King Solomon arrived moments too late to ask who wanted which half of the cat. Sobbing, Netzer said, “I would’ve wanted the ass. Cat anuse... more » comrade tacky: So, Ms. Netzer brings in what is, by all accounts, a perfectly healthy animal to the vet, and asks to have it euthanized, because of some interns? Wh... more » pumpkinsoup: This reminds me of when my sister-in-law came to visit. She was so angered by the sight of our neighbor's cat sauntering down the sidewalk that she wa... more » City_Dater: Hoity is now haunting the PETA intern house, leaving spectral cat poo everywhere. Ms. Netzer should have simply bought a dart gun and put a few PETA ... more » HurtsSoGood: Confining a cat indoors is about the cruelest thing I can imagine short of subjecting it to a vegetarian diet. Cats like to prowl. They like to kill... more » Lymed: Or she could have tried going to the police or even suing her neighbors for nuisance. One scary letter from a lawyer may have been enough to get them... more » Richard Petty Bourgeoisie: I empathize with Ms. Netzer. When I read that more than 70 percent of all prostate cancers are diagnosed in men over the age of 65, I shot my Grandpa... more » squeakel: I can't believe there are still people who think a shelter or death is the only option for an unwanted animal. In the age of Craigslist it's not usua... more » norwegianlabrat: i honestly think i'd rather put my beloved cat to sleep instead of giving him to a local shelter or PETA, where god knows what may happen. these PETA ... more » -
#kittykitty
PETA Protects Cat to Death
Pity poor Lydia Netzer, who lived next door to the PETA intern house outside DC. Pity Lydia Netzer's cat even more. The PETA interns finally good-intentioned it to death. More » -
#sexwars
How Not To Bone Your Interns
Attention media bosses: The summer has ended and your intern guard has changed. But maybe there's one apprentice you'd like to keep, hmmm, providing regular "feedback" to? Jessica Wakeman has been that intern, and she has some tips. More » -
#beeshaffer
Anna Wintour's Daughter Is a Poor Theater Hobo
Bee Shaffer is the daughter of Anna Wintour, Queen of All America. Despite that fact she cannot "find" a "job," allegedly? It's because she keeps it too real, yall. More » -
#fashion
The Only Qualification for Teen Vogue Interns
Teen Vogue is cannily taking advantage of the widespread yearning to work in fashion by publishing a new "Handbook" which says—we're paraphrasing—"You will fail. Fashion sucks." But the NYT digs up one solitary useful piece of advice.
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#mediacrack
Blogger Has Sex
In your picturesque Thursday media column: Journalism used as a tool to obtain sexual satisfaction, WaPo libelously ponders libel, the homeless intern speaks words of hope, and FAIR is cutting writers' pay. More » -
#makingit
Homelessness Now an Edge in Elle Internships
A homeless woman has landed a (coveted?) four-month internship with Elle magazine, proving that unemployed journalists need only fall a *little* farther to get "back in the game."
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#jobs
Gawker Is Seeking Video Interns
Do you like to watch TV? Would like to watch TV for us instead of your Twitter account? (The pay is the same, btw.) Well, lucky you: the Gawker Video team is looking for fall interns. Details after the jump. More » -
#jobs
Won't You Be Michael Chertoff's Unpaid Intern?
Surely you've sat around in the midst of your recessionary squalor and thought, "Gee, I'd really love an unpaid internship at the consulting/lobbying firm started by the former head of Homeland Security under President Bush." Well, today's your lucky day! More » -
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#recessionomics
Stand Up For the Chicago Brokeolympics
The Way We Live Now: Standing. There are so many unpaid interns, we can't even find seats for them all. It's good practice. The 2016 Chicago Olympics' hot new sports are "Standing on the unemployment line" and "Standing there, drunk." More » -
#famine
Wretched Interns Desperately Compete for Life-Sustaining Snack Cakes
Things have gotten so bad that unpaid corporate interns are literally starving. Across America, interns are desperately prostituting their fresh young smiling faces in return for a single box of Little Debbie muffins, so they may live another day. More » -
#sadnews
Cheating Senator Has No Interns Anymore
John Ensign revealed that he had an affair with a married former staffer (her husband, another former staffer, tried to extort Ensign because of his shitty mortgage and Ensign got him two jobs)), and then all his interns quit. More » -
#mediaite
Unlaunched Media Blog Has Facebook Sibling Intern. (Plus: A Preview!)
An addition to the Celebrity Media Intern Class of '09: Arielle Zuckerberg, the kid sister of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. She's indentured herself to Dan Abrams-affiliated media blog Mediaite.com. It hasn't launched yet, but we have an exclusive preview! More » -
#cronyism
Celeb Media Interns '09: Qualified
A new summer has blossomed (technically), and with it a new crop of celebrity media interns, riding their family names into coffee-fetching and fact-checking gigs that should rightfully go to miserable, debt-wracked, overqualified J-school graduates. This year's celeb intern class: More » -
#mediacrack
Build An Entire Magazine, Get
In your total ripoff Tuesday media column: the worst media internship offer in at least a couple days, flackery invades the media (moreso), and a J-school student would rather not help solve a murder: More »NothingCredit -
#celebukids
Theo Spielberg, Student, Joins New York, as Intern
Celebrity spawn news! New York magazine has used a fair and impartial process to hire new interns, and one of them happens to be Steven Spielberg's son! Allow him to introduce himself [UPDATED below]:
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#charity
The $13,000 HuffPo Intern Speaks
Last week we identified Luisa from Rio as the probable lucky future journalist who's the $13,000 high bidder on a (priceless) Huffington Post internship in a charity auction. Then she emailed us! Meet her:
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#updates
Vapid Fauxcialites Victim of Vapid Feud?
It's New York City's most vacuous feud, maybe! Chuckleworthy fauxcialites Adrien Field and Alexandra Alexis deny they placed a "ridiculously bombastic" internship ad. Is a rival self-worshiping socialgay out to get them [UPDATED]? More » -
#jobsinhell
Vapid Fauxcialites Seek Huge Sucker for 'Internship'
Not only are there no real entry-level media jobs; even internship opportunities have come to this: "Do you watch The City, read Gawker and know the names of people like Julia Allison and Kristian Laliberté?" More » -
#recessionomics
The Death of the Entry Level Job
2009 is a terrible time to be young, if you're the type of young person who wants a job in the media, as opposed to the drug distribution industry. The "entry level" is...closed.
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#jobs
Worst Media Internship Ever Welcomes New Depression
Attention, unemployed young media people: according to what we fear may be a real Craigslist job posting, you may be able to make up to $10 working for a publishing company! If you're not "bitchy." More »
