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more about #newyorktimes more comments → RandomLunatic: As long as I'm gonna see orange spiders and am allowed to make up crazy songs about robots on the fly, this sounds awesome. [Insert "wait. wut?" here.] more » If_I_Had_a_Poodle: This thread is making me hungry more » Glib and Bitchy: Medical marijuana is a budding field that resinates with many. Once you hash out the legalities and get your rolling papers in order, you can make a k... more » Airvault: Everytime I think of The Times and pot I can't help but consider the possibility of making a bong out of R.W. Apple. more » Matt Cherette: Ew, Michigan State. more » Helio: The video should have been labeled "Higher Learning" DUH! Speaking of Hogwarts, you don't think Nevil Longbottom has the word "bong" in his name for ... more » Mediahohoho: We love her because we don't know what she stands for. But it's what we believe in, that's for sure. more » If_I_Had_a_Poodle: Goddamn, Pareene. Nailed it. Maureen Dowd is a tired, weak, shatteringly insecure hack who hasn't had an original thought of her own in 20 years and ... more » Baroness: Douthat: "Both (Palin and Huckabee) came from lower-middle-class backgrounds, and joined a soft-edged social conservatism to a strong populist streak... more » Botswana Meat Commission FC: That video needs more Carl Monday. more » Spirit Fingers: I'm thinking if Obama started speaking and/or thinking like Sarah Palin, then he in fact would need a CAT scan, because he very clearly has had a stroke. more » OldManRiver: " I can't think of a policy right off the bat". Stolen from one of Palins' interviews. "I don't know half of the things that people ask me". God this ... more » Mediahohoho: I'm not sure why Palin is supposed to be brilliantly managing her book tour when the second day on it she pissed off a crowd of frozen Hoosiers by sco... more » BadUncle: I'd be happy if Obama would shoot Maureen Dowd from a helicopter. more » Botswana Meat Commission FC: I hate how they've turned that thing into a vehicle for angry white people. Also, I'm not a big fan of Harleys! more » -
#scrapingthebowl
How Much Weed Humor Can NYT Writers Roll Into a Cannibis College Profile?
After getting into Tulane, NYU, USC, Michigan State, an Ivy, a safety school, and whatever liberal arts school you threatened your Republican parents with actually attending, there's only one you really need to worry about: Cannabis College. Bongs away. More » -
#columnists
Maureen Dowd Thinks Obama Should Totally Act Like Sarah Palin
Maureen Dowd, this weekend: Obama should try to be "dynamic" like Sarah Palin, instead of all this "dithering" and bowing. Today, Ross Douthat writes a "reality-based" column on more or less the same topic! More » -
#altarcations
Scoring Sunday's Nuptials: Gawker Weddings Get All Gangsta
Awww yeeeah. Did you know people are rapping at weddings? You KNOW what this means. Phyllis Nefler's gonna throw down on some sick rhymes over Robert Woletz-produced beat of the NYT's Weddings & Celebrations. Let the beat build, Phyllis: More » -
#printisdead
The Fallacy Behind Efforts to Save 'Public Service Journalism'
Newspapers are dying, which means there will never be any more investigative journalism and politicians will screw whomever they want. But it's OK, because "innovative" new "partnerships" like the Chicago News Cooperative are here to produce real journalism. More » -
#movies
Documentary to Expose Twittering, Typing, Lunch Habits of NYT Media Reporters
The uniformly mustachioed Twitter addicts of the New York Times media desk are getting a documentary of their very own! Sounds pretty........interesting. Sorry, fell asleep there for a sec. More » -
#newspapers
Cops investigating union corruption raided the New York Times' printing plant this morning [NYT].
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#insults
Rupert Murdoch: David Paterson Is a Hapless Blind Illiterate
At the Wall Street Journal CEO Council yesterday, someone asked Rupert Murdoch why our political discourse is so angry and infantile. Murdoch's answer was, "Because David Paterson is blind and can't read braille." (The correct answer is "Rupert Murdoch.") More » -
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#journalismism
Dead Animal Helps Pan Book Decrying Animal Death
Yes, that was a real pig's head illustrating the New York Times' negative review of Jonathan Safran Foer's anti-meat-eating book, Gawker contributor Joshua David Stein has confirmed. The letters to the editor should be especially entertaining next Sunday. -
#clarifications
Michael Yon Walks Back His Accusation That David Rohde Was Ransomed
Independent warblogger Michael Yon created a minor furor earlier this month when he claimed, via Twitter, that the New York Times had "paid millions" to secure reporter David Rohde's release from the Taliban. Now he says he didn't mean ransom. More » -
#altarcations
Scoring Sunday's Nuptials: Gawker Weddings and Their First Wedding
If love is a battlefield, and weddings are your infantry missions, Phyllis Nefler is Sherman, burning up the NYT's Weddings & Celebrations. Well, she just earned her Downfall meme: we've found our first weddings trend. OOH-RAH, Matrimony Marines. More »ConspiracyTrend -
#scandal
Impressively Evil: Health Care Lobbyists Busted Writing Speeches For Congress. Literally.
Heath Care Industry Rule Number Four Thousand and Eighty: DC lobbyists are shady. And exactly how shady are the lobbyists of Washington DC who worked both sides of the health care debate? They ghostwrote speeches for politicians lining their pockets. More » -
#linguistics
The Gray Lady and Her Sad, Shared, Empty Bag of "Douche"
Where, exactly, are you supposed to start when the New York Times runs a Page One media piece on the word "douche"?
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#mediablackout
David Rohde: There Are More Kidnapped Journalists Still in Pakistan
David Rohde, the New York Times reporter who spent seven months in Taliban captivity, spoke out publicly for the first time last night at an International Center for Journalists Awards Ceremony and said other kidnapped reporters remain in Pakistan. More » -
#journalismism
David Pogue Gets Modest Title of 'Visionary'
David Pogue does not call himself a journalist; that much he made clear during the controversy over his positive New York Times pieces on Apple's buggy operating system and obfuscating CEO. So what is he, then? A "Visionary." (Updated) More » -
#newspapers
Blogger behind "Kenneth in the (212)," is a NYT News Service union-busting/layoff victim, "strangely unbitter."
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#layoffs
New York Times Co. Successfully Busting Its Own Union
With 100 buyoutlayoffs already assured by the end of the year, the New York Times is tossing in a bit more good news for employees: 25 additional layoffs, thanks to the magical economics of outsourcing. More » -
#fancythings
Manhattan Media Elite Bravely Stand Up to Private School Where All Their Kids Go
Yesterday, fancy media types got together at the New York Times building to remember recently deceased columnist William Safire. The small talk, naturally, centered on the expensive schools where fancy media types send their kids.
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#dandyism
I Love the 1890s
So it appears that fashion went directly from the 1990s to the 1890s in a single season. (We were in the 1990s last, right? I can never tell!) According to this Times fashion piece, Victorian style is hot hot hot: More » -
#journalismism
How New York Times Trend Stories Get Made: Glee Edition
All you do is take some element of popular culture, like a popular television show, and then ask, provocatively: Is society itself changing in response to this pop culture thing? Today: Glee makes chorus groups "cool" again. More »
