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more about #mediacrack more comments → sweetpickles: Do magazines think people want to wait for their regurgitated content on a monthly basis again? No. They do not. Silly magazines. You're going to have... more » momof3wildkids: From the looks of the picture, Martha Stewart is in bed with something other than the State Dept. With that stick, it is no wonder she doesn't need a... more » TheBusinessGuy: Naturally the horrible murders in the Philippines dwarfs anything else in this post--the enormity of the evil is staggering. But to deal with what my... more » OliversArmy: I just pulled a chicken from the the freezer for dinner tomorrow night. Every year friends and I raise chickens in the summer. And then in the fall,... more » If_I_Had_a_Poodle: Verlyn Klinkenborg must have photos of the entire NYT board and barnyard animals. more » Juancho: In celebration, Steve Inskeep left a naughty messge as Carl's outgoing message on his answering machine. more » snugbug: Did anyone else get the "Pimmel über Berlin" (Penis over Berlin) pun? It riffs on "Der Himmel über Berlin" (The Heaven over Berlin) title of that fa... more » BunnySkull: Now why doesn't the NYT do a Murdoch mural like that on the side of their building? These German are taking us to school on how a real editorial feud... more » senatormayer: That's what trying to conquer the world does to a country. You wind up with cocks on the sides of buildings. more » Richard Petty Bourgeoisie: Also, read between the lines on the GMA item: The staffers are concerned about the show's basketball team as much as anything else. more » Richard Petty Bourgeoisie: Right, because cobras have hoods, just like European wieners. more » manchops: You wanna save Sports Illustrated? GET RID OF TERRY MCDONNELL. The guy sat at Esquire watching circulation fall through the floor, his only real talen... more » lionel-mandrake: Pat Kiernan is a god among men. More Pat Kiernan news please. more » A Message To Rudy: Finally, she will get paid for SPECIFICALLY being funny and nonsensical, instead of being paid inadvertantly for the same thing. more » AzureTexan: Re: Suzanne Sena/The Onion: One wonders if she's an area woman. more » -
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Martha Stewart Caught in Bed With Big Government
In your cheery Wednesday media column: our nemesis Martha Stewart's magazine implicated in decoration-for-prestige scheme, iTunes for magazines is coming, your weekly layoff roundup, and the Search Engine Media Wars heat up. More » -
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Time Inc's Pre-Thanksgiving Layoffs
In your trepidatious Tuesday media column: we hear the Time Inc. layoffs hit Fortune (and others?) today, BusinessWeek speaks robot language, Dave Eggers will not stop saving print, and a horrible massacre of journalists in the Philippines. More » -
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Carl Kasell Escapes NPR News Gig Alive
In your merciful Monday media column: Carl Kasell gets to sleep in now, more rumored AP layoffs, crazy "old media" types eschew pointless media beef, and Verlyn Klinkenborg defended like a doe, a deer, a female deer, shut up, Verlyn. More » -
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German Newspaper Feud Gets Penis-y
In your ferocious Friday media column: Newspaper wars in Germany are of another breed, another high school paper censored for dumb reasons, more on the BusinessWeek layoffs, and George Stephanopoulos' fluff chops questioned. More » -
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Rumors: Staff Shuffles at New York Post, Sports Illustrated
In your foreboding Thursday media column: Rumors of veterans departing their jobs far and wide, Anthony Kennedy's story weakens, newspapers and magazines lose huge money, and Jon Fine's media gig disappears. More » -
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Fox News Anchor Gets Real Job With The Onion
In your wistful Wednesday media column: Fox News anchor moves up in the world, layoffs loom at Time Inc. and BusinessWeek, people still say they read newspapers, and Pat Kiernan has a contest, for you. More » -
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Moonie Newspaper Editor Shockingly Forced to Attend Moonie Wedding
In your well-regarded Tuesday media column: A Washington Times editor reaches his breaking point, the NY Daily News makes a bizarre investment, Lou Dobbs has a terrifying new career option, and magazines are now pointless. More » -
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Ken Auletta Is Not Funny
In our meritorious Monday media column: Judd Apatow questions Ken Auletta's wit, a reporter tries to pretend he is not a vicious murderer, Americans are cheap bastards when it comes to news, and all you need to know about Playboy. More » -
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Early Favorite For Time Person of the Year: Something Stupid
In your flippant Friday media column: everyone's very excited about Time's "Person of the Year," as always, Playboy may be sold, fashion magazines stay positive, and CNN decides to waste less money. More » -
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Tips For Banging Hot College Sluts Is Landmark of Journalistic Freedom
In your misogynist Thursday media column: a college man uses journalism to ensure every woman on campus hates him, the Hartford Courant is counterproductive, Stephen A. Smith is BACK, and Katie Couric makes a listicle. More » -
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Hearst Is Amazingly Not Broke
In your woebegone Wednesday media column: Hearst gets money, layoffs at Current TV, Conde Nast gets internet religion, and Sesame Street characters are the swing votes in Fox News' war for righteousness. More » -
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Computer Zombies Pity Television Zombies
In your typical Tuesday media column: Americans are zombie slaves to various screens, journalists will compromise for money like everyone else in the world, Indymedia tells the Justice Department to fuck off, and your comically mean reporter of the day. More » -
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Give Reporters the Most Luxurious Airline Seats or Give Them Death
In your meritocratic Monday media column: Reporters suffer injustices unseen since Pol Pot's darkest days, The Week guarantees goodness, Esquire has a gizmo thingamajig that will save magazines, and Conde Nast gives up on America, finally. More » -
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Glenn Beck Survives
In your thumping Thursday media column: Glenn Beck does not die on the operating table, more rumor-details on the Essence layoffs, Fortune and SI get hacked, and a dying newspaper goes glossy, for unknown reasons.
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Time Inc. Layoffs Hit People, Essence
In your completely laid-off Wednesday media column: details on more Time Inc. layoffs and buyouts at People and Essence, Fortune Small Business folds, and various ways that magazine publishers are terrorists. More » -
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Now Everybody Talk about Terrible Washington Post Stories
In your alluring Tuesday media column: An emerging catalogue of WaPo Styles fuckery, Russia has this whole "journalism" thing nailed, nothing about The Onion is funny except the actual words, and "Twenty ten" means you're gay. More » -
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Crumbling Newspaper in Crumbling City Crumbling Ethically
In your malicious Monday media column: the Detroit newspaper situation grows more depressing, Mika Brzezinski is one honest lady, Denver Post sportswriters have no opinion on these "sports," and Howard Kurtz is still the King of Boring Conventional Wisdom. More » -
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BBC to Less Generously Overpay its Managers, With Public Money
In your finally Friday media column: BBC execs must struggle by on $150k, Michael Wolff looks in the mirror and compliments himself, rumors of office closures at Newsweek, and more on the Time Inc. layoffs. More » -
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Mean Reporter Undermines Birmingham Olympic Bid
In your thinly-spread Thursday media column: A vicious backbiting war amongst Birmingham's press corps, David Remnick still has money to spend, Germany looks to screw bloggers, and Bernie Kerik: Journalistic Hero. More » -
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George Stephanopoulos' New Career Path
In your spirited Wednesday media column: George Stephanopoulos should listen to his kids, Conde Nast forswears frequency cuts, France has a wacky newspaper scheme, and we have the menu for GQ's dinner tonight. More »
