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more about #memos more comments → If_I_Had_a_Poodle: Eeerily close to a decade since AOL swallowed Time-Warner more » badasscat: There's a "You've got Mail!" joke in here somewhere. There always is. more » atlasspanked: You've got fail. more » garbanzo314: When did LAT become a viable competitor of CNN, which is 10x its traffic? Amusing that Stanton inserted this subliminal auto-back-pat. more » Uncle_Billy_Slumming: Universal praise my assfoot. Blech. more » gawkimo: Yeah, but this turning undocumented migrants into pariahs thing? Still has legs. more » Trai_Dep: The part I don't understand is where the eeeevil Kenyan gov't, gifted with the prescience to plant an extra-terrestrial, vat-raised alien clone, lo 40... more » Mediahohoho: This story was always dead. more » Uncle_Billy_Slumming: "it can't release a paper copy of the president's original birth certificate because they say the state government discarded the original document whe... more » MisterHippity: What about his faith certificate? You know, the one that proves he's not a Muslim. BARACK OBAMA, WHY WON'T YOU RELEASE YOUR FAITH CERTIFICATE???? more » SultanaEleusis: CNN used to be a place I went to to get the news. Now it seems like mostly a channel for right wing blowhards. Sounds kind of like Fox, in fact. Ho... more » Dickens_Ghost: It used to be that Americans could usually agree upon what reality was and perhaps what the country's issues, strengths, weaknesses or problems may ha... more » Mr. Bar: "Shut your Flan-hole, Dobbs!" more » Niko Bellic: Also, G.G. Liddy is dead. For all intents and purposes. more » Aaron Altman: Lou's fallback will now be to close his eyes, clasp his hands together and pray that a North Korean nuclear missile will strike Hawaii and wipe out ev... more » -
#holidaze
The Incredible Shrinking AOL
Just in time for Christmas, AOL is asking 2,500 of its workers to volunteer for buyouts starting Dec. 4 (layoffs come after) as the company separates from Time Warner and a shadow of its former online conglomerate self. More » -
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More Online Talent Departs the L.A. Times
The Los Angeles Times is losing its online managing editor to CNN.com, editor Russ Stanton confirmed in a staff email, reprinted below. The departure marks the further dismantling of a team that relaunched the site starting about five years ago. More » -
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Yahoo's CEO 'Wanted to Crawl Into a Hole and Eat Chocolate'
Carol Bartz's critics nearly put her into a chocolate-eating funk, the Yahoo CEO wrote in a recent memo. But now is no time for "staring at our navels... Get out of the sugar low." Maybe with some chocolate! Wait... [AllThingsD] -
#theend
CNN Boss Tells Lou Dobbs: Birther Story is 'Dead'
CNN president Jon Klein has had just about emotherfuckingnough of this "Birther" shit on his network. Klein sent out this email last night telling Lou Dobbs et al that "this story is dead." More » -
#modernandawkward
Yahoo's Cuddly Flack Sends Adorable Email
There's some kind of sick good cop/bad cop deal going down at Yahoo. CEO Carol Bartz swears, smacks down reporters and threatens "dropkicks." Her enforcer, meanwhile, has a Pomeranian named Clio and loves David Sedaris and peach cobbler ice cream. More » -
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AP Tells Reporters To Muzzle Facebook Friends
Someone sent us the Associated Press' guidelines for staff social networking and, in keeping with company tradition, they're on the paranoid side. You should probably read them, since basically everyone in the world must now follow them. More » -
#fromthemailbag
Bloomberg's Dubious Claim: Three Times Scoopier This Year
Bloomberg retains a reputation as the most brutal and authoritarian of the news wires, so it's no wonder the company's internal memos could pass for North Korean propaganda. Scoop production increased threefold, the glorious regime just reported! More » -
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Yahoo's New Top Flack: Cuddly and Awake
Yahoo's PR operation has been a disaster of late. Its former top flack maybe leaked an ex-employee's nasty performance evaluation; another was caught sleeping during a shareholder's meeting. So Yahoo spread word: its new guy is nice and conscious! More » -
#disabledpersons
The*Real* Idiot's Guide to Workplace Racism
We live in a racist world, but the Delaware Department of Transportation is doing something about it: issuing a hilarious memo! Who wrote this, some "retard" "homo" "typical white person?" Below, the best idiot guidelines: More » -
#exits
Boat-Loving Fast Company CEO Out of His Office
John Koten, the nautical-enthusiast CEO of Fast Company and Inc. publisher Mansueto Ventures, moved out of his office last week ... into a cubicle. The move has magazine workers "freaking out," a tipster tells us. More » -
#torture
Bush Officials Explain Why We Shouldn't Admit Torture: Because Then They'll Know We Torture!
Two disgraced Bush flunkies have written a Wall Street Journal op-ed attacking Barack Obama for releasing the torture memos. In doing so, they admit that what we did actually was torture. More » -
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NYPD Chief Offers Press Center in Lieu of Cop Shack
Yesterday we reported that the NYPD was booting the New York media out of One Police Plaza. Last night, commissioner Ray Kelly relented, telling papers they can have a filing center in the building. More » -
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Bad Boss's Get-Back-To-Work Email Sparks Online Revenge
When times are tough, bad bosses lash out. After John Soden III, a managing director at Thomas Weisel Partners in San Francisco, sent a hectoring email ordering employees into the office, his underlings struck back. More » -
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New School E-mail About Yesterday's Occupation
The New School has sent the student body a detailed account of yesterday's brouhaha, including allegations that some of the occupiers weren't students and that they looted the cafeteria cash register. More » -
#leaks
Fast Company CEO: 'Show Some Respect'
What thoughts keep magazines bosses up late at night? Late last night John Koten, the CEO of Fast Company publisher Mansueto Ventures, was wondering why his staff hasn't asked him about how great he is. More »
