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really
Come On
Mediaite henchperson Rachel Sklar: "No one is paying me to tweet this out from my personal Twitter. I just happen to like this sponsored post. [LINK]." For fuck's sake.
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Comment by RachelSklar: Oh, for fuck's sake, indeed. Remember when you interviewed me for PR Week, Hamilton? You know, when you worked there?... 2 Responses | Other threads
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dan abrams
Where Were You When Mediaite Launched?
At around 1:30am Eastern time, Dan Abrams' Mediaite, his "Huffington Post meets Gawker" website, went live. We've been trying to take a look at it, but it keeps going down. Ah, growing pains! More »
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Comment by RachelSklar: Hi Cajun, thanks for the interview. Did you fall asleep after I wrote you and said I was booting up... 6 Responses | Other threads
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Beef!
Media Catfight: Rachel Sklar vs. Jeff Jarvis
Former Huffington Post media reporter and Dan Abrams' henchwoman Rachel Sklar is pissed at her friend, blogger-journalist Jeff Jarvis. Jarvis posted a now-infamous email of hers to his blog and absolutely lit her up in the process. Sklar fired back. More »
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By Foster KamerComment by ninety_nine: Fun fact: my screen name comes from the fact that you can't make through 10 minutes of argument with someone... 7 Responses | Other threads
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media jobs
Dan Abrams Is Looking For Fresh Meat
Dan Abrams is soon launching Mediaite, his very own "Drudge meets Huffington Post," which he'll certainly use to promote clients of his endlessly shady PR firm. He's now looking for contributors who, like him, have no qualms about selling out. More » -
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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 » -
wtf
Video Media Strangeness: Rachel Sklar, David Carr, Diet Coke, In A Bar.
Not entirely sure what to make of this: The Daily Beast just posted video of Rachel Sklar and David Carr (henceforth known as SklarCarr) talking. It's weird. Especially when Carr notes that the New York Times doesn't need saving. More »
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By Foster KamerComment by Peter Feld: I''m sorry Rachel. "I love his jam"???? 6 Responses | Other threads
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media reporting
Sharon Waxman Ate Breakfast At Balthazar And Lived To Tell The Tale
For all the media fetishists in the house: Sharon Waxman wrote an excruciatingly facepalm-worthy report about what eating breakfast at NYC media-commissary Balthazar is like. Please go back to LA, and don't take my soft-boiled eggs with you. [HuffPo]
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By Foster KamerComment by raincoaster: Are there bistros that are other than "French-style" bistros? Like, I dunno, Breakaway Former Soviet Republic-style bistros? 2 Responses | Other threads
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journalismism
Holocaust Museum Attack Is an Excellent Media Opportunity For Deranged Racists
Why would a right-wing extremist shoot up the Holocaust Museum? To get the message out. And it's working—news networks are turning to neo-Nazi John de Nugent for background on James von Brunn. He's thrilled about the publicity. More »
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By John CookComment by Little Green Frog: Would someone care to explain to me "White Heritage Safety Zones"? I really, really don't want to Google that. I'm... 9 Responses | Other threads
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team party crash
Reluctance and Distaste at The Webutante Ball
Last night, the country's media-tech-social scene collided in something called The Webutante Ball. Instead of forging an alternate universe in a Big Bang-esque explosion, it thankfully existed for one evening atop the Empire Hotel. We braved it for you.
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By Foster KamerComment by Videodrew: I don't understand why Andrew and I are in every single Gawker publicity photo together. (Re: Last week's Bloodcopy party.)... 5 Responses | Other threads
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team party crash
The Gossip Gangs of New York
Page Six gossip Paula Froelich's first novel is concerned with a certain set of New York ladies in crisis, Mercury in Retrograde (she may be among them, as a "composite"). So surely other "composites" were in attendance at her book party last night.
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team party crash
Smiling Through the Mediaocalypse
Who are these kids, exactly? Rachelle Hruska's not-a-nightlife-blog blog, Guest of a Guest, kicked off "summer" and a new season of Hamptons coverage with an apocalyptically cloudy rooftop tequila drinking thing on Sunday.
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Comment by Mount_Prion: I want to marry Rachel Sklar. Well, her breasts anyway. 7 Responses | Other threads
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nerd prom
It Was Totally OK To Enjoy the Correspondents' Dinner This Year
It is an annual tradition dating back to a couple years ago: go to the White House Correspondents Dinner and then shit all over it the following Monday. But this year, everyone had fun!
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By PareeneComment by Gawkchalk: Why in the hell was Wanda Sykes hosting. You would think they could get someone better. Was Kathy Griffin not available? 7 Responses | Other threads
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awards
Perverse Journalism Prize Loves You, Your Worst Enemy
The Si Newhouse School's journalism awards are next month, and the mood at the ceremony could quickly get uncomfortable. Starting with Arianna Huffington getting a Lifetime Achivement award that last went to her bitter nemesis. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by if_i_only_had_a_heart: russert was a suckup party host who wrote that he considered conversations off the record unless otherwise stated -- a... 8 Responses | Other threads
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twitterati
The Twitterati Are Left Crying in Istanbul
Anyone have a handkerchief? What? Oh, nothing in particular — just the tearjerking phenomenon of seemingly intelligent people like Jake Tapper, Rachel Sklar, and Paul Carr spending so much time sharing so little on Twitter: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by mimigoliath: I can sympathize with Drew - I mourned the loss of Zack from "Bones" last year from May until about... more » | Other threads
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skills
If you watch this closely, you'll catch a glimpse of Rachel Sklar's ear-wiggling record. Breathtaking.
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twitterati
Oh, So, You Twitter? Bully for You!
The future's so bright for Twitterer Matt Cooper, he had to adjust his shades. Things looked darker for bullied gadget reviewer David Pogue, while CBS's Natali Del Conte got unwelcome stares at Starbucks. Today's tweets: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by iplaudius: David, you are obligated friend him for the sole purpose of having sex with his wife/daughter. 3 Responses | Other threads
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twitterati
The Twitterati Destroy the News
Credulous bloggers think Twitter will make more money than newspapers! That's a low bar. In the meantime, the media's Twitter addicts from the New York Times to ReadWriteWeb prove how value-free the status-updating service is: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Sproing: I have had an unreasonable crush on Queen Noir for about fiftenn years. 3 Responses | Other threads
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twitterati
The Twitterati Launder Their Woes
Not a good day for the Twitterati! Dan Abrams found himself stalked by a coworker. Perma-perky PR person Brooke Hammerling got bummed out. And an underling of Tina Brown faced up to an unwelcome chore: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by ian spiegelman: I thought I already told all of you media folk to shut the fuck up. There's nothing more disgusting than... 4 Responses | Other threads
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twitterati
Twitterin' In the Rain
Today in Twitter: Demi and Ashton love Los Angeles, Los Angeles loves Rachel Sklar, Jess Coen's vagina loves Drew Barrymore, and Brian Stelter loves Trenton (and technology). Happy Friday. More »
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Comment by cherie_chapstick: Dear Richard, You can do sooooooo much better than this. You can. You know it. You are an excellent writer. And... 1 Responses | Other threads
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panic at the google
Momentary Google Search Weirdness Sends Shockwaves Through Blogging Community
New York, NY—"This site may harm your computer." That was the chilling message with which internet users were greeted for nearly twenty minutes this morning when they searched Google.com [GOOG]. Widespread panic ensued. More »
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By Joshua SteinComment by joefry: What are we supposed to do in a crisis like this? Use "Ask Jeeves?" Come on! 4 Responses | Other threads
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twitterati
Everyone's Atwitter About Tomorrow
Look, everyone's a little excited about the inauguration. Here's a snapshot of a media elite which just won't shut up, in 140 characters or less: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by DevilsAvocado: Well, hello, 'fuck a vacuum'. You are now officially appointed as the chief officer of exasperation in my coterie of... 4 Responses | Other threads
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fameballs
The Last Hurrah of Microcelebrity
Rex Sorgatz knew an account of his bed-hopping among New York bloggers would ignite controversy; he's the internet infamy expert. But why did he play along with protocelebrity now so worthless?
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By Ryan TateComment by TheHonJudgeSmails: That is the most annoying article I have ever read. And I've read Jezebel articles before. I know from... 18 Responses | Other threads
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twitterati
We Read Twitter So You Don't Have To
Twitter is supposed to save journalism 140 characters at a time. Media people love it, and we love media people, so let's take a look at what the Twitterati have to say for themselves. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by jbsacks: If rachelsklar knew what she was talking about, she'd use dictionary.com instead. Who wants to type a fuckin' dash into... 5 Responses | Other threads
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dan abrams
Dan Abrams Tries To Explain Away Obvious Conflicts Of Interest. Fails.
Former MSNBC guy Dan Abrams seems to have noticed that his plan to start a PR firm made up of actively employed members of the media who will sell their consulting services to corporate clients is causing some uproar among people who believe that it would be a blatant conflict of interest for any journalist to be part of it. Which should include you, and anyone else who doesn't think members of the media should take outside pay for PR work. Abrams and his cohort in the project, former HuffPo media critic Rachel Sklar, offered long defenses of the idea to Daily Intel. Let's do some critical analysis, shall we? More »
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Comment by Richard Lawson: Dan Abrams looks like the prep villain in an 80's B comedy. 9 Responses | Other threads
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dan abrams
Dan Abrams' Ring Of Media Informants
Last year the SEC and New York attorney general's office opened investigations related to a novel business: a company that hired as "consultants" moonlighting workers with access to proprietary information of interest to hedge funds. Ethical questions will also be asked about the network of insider media consultants Dan Abrams has assembled after Rachel Maddow took the Elle Macpherson-dater's MSNBC slot. With advisors like former Us Weekly editor Bonnie Fuller, ex-Huffington Post writer Rachel Sklar and Lockhart Steele, once of Gawker Media, Abrams Research is meant to be simply a "mock jury of bloggers, TV personalities and newspaper or magazine editors," the Wall Street Journal reports. But it could get so much more thorny than that. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by abbe diaz: Bold! So like, once a upon a time, these peoples were called "publicists" and/or "PR managers," yes? And being at the... 2 Responses | Other threads
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saturday night live
Meet 'SNL's' New Arianna Huffington
This is Michaela Watkins, and she's apparently the newest addition to the cast of Saturday Night Live, the ancient sketch comedy show that is relevant again because a) you can watch just the funny bits online and b) there was apparently a presidential election this year. (Ok fine and c) they have a good cast and it seems less terrible in its current incarnation than it did the last time everyone talked about how they were watching it again.) In the attached clip, Watkins is doing her audition bit: a pretty great impression of noted blog-runner and grudge-holder and Internet Doyenne Arianna Huffington! Hooray, making fun of Arianna Huffington will soon hit the mainstream! Click to watch. More »
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By PareeneComment by ineffable.me: Alright ladies. I shall be watching on Saturday. Way to not call me Lorne :( 8 Responses | Other threads
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rachel sklar
Rachel Sklar Leaving Huffington Post
To hear present and former Huffington Post employees tell it, the liberal website owes its ridiculously high turnover mainly to founder Arianna Huffington's tendency to use staffers to perform menial personal chores, to an internal culture of nasty screaming and name-calling and to a generally chaotic management structure, such as it is, subservient to Arianna's rapidly-changing whims. But Rachel Sklar managed to last a jaw-dropping two-and-a-half years at HuffPo, a rare achievement that saw her become one of the site's highest-profile editors and a frequent cable-TV talking head. Why would management, as our tipster claims, push Sklar out? Read between the lines in the memo after the jump. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by WickedWitchoftheWest loves dough.: Aaron, just want to introduce myself. I am new around these parts, and obviously something of an insomniac. Your posts... 5 Responses | Other threads
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journalismism
Desperate Denver Journos Just Reporting on Each Other
There's no news in Denver. At least, no news that couldn't be reported by watching it on C-Span from the comfort of home. So what to do? Report on what all your fellow journalists are doing! So far, the single greatest example of this is HuffPo's constant reportage from their own "HuffPost Oasis" in Denver. At left, an unretouched screengrab from their front page today. The Oasis is remarkably popular with journalists, considering that we have no idea what goes on there but we don't think it involves free booze. Wait, maybe we do know what's going on there! "'I feel relaxed!' said a particularly refreshed Eric Alterman as he stepped away from a complimentary facial for a minute. 'I'll tell you this—everyone should add facials to their lives.'" Oh, wow.
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By PareeneComment by Colonel Mustard: 'I'll tell you this-everyone should add facials to their lives.' How do you think Chace Crawford stays looking so youthful? 7 Responses | Other threads
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The Most Important 32 Seconds Of Coverage You Will See This Convention
This morning distinguished political commentators Ana Marie Cox, Rachel Sklar and Glynnis MacNichol filed a slumber party-themed video dispatch from the Democratic National Convention in Denver. At the risk of crushing you with intellectual heft I had the video department cut it down to its thirty-two most totally totally crucial seconds. I cannot overstate how much you like need to watch this like right now. And because I was forced to cut some of its meatier moments I have distilled the main arguments after the jump.* More »
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By MoeComment by Steverino Begins: I think I'm reaching a tipping point for tolerance of my generation and new media in general. Okay, we get... 19 Responses | Other threads
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Wyatt Cenac
Daily Show Correspondent Finds Three Secret Siblings Through MySpace
Rachel Sklar of the Huffington Post has delivered some extraordinary news about comedian and Daily Show correspondent Wyatt Cenac, albeit at the end of a long post about an event from improv troupe Upright Citizens Brigade. It seems Cenac, who has an "I'll friend anyone" policy on MySpace and Facebook, learned through the social networking applications that he has "a family I never knew about." He explained at the improv event that, quite sensibly, he decided he didn't really believe the news after receiving a tip about his long-lost sister through one of his profiles. But now he's quite thoroughly convinced: More »
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By Ryan TateComment by sparkiepop: He is the best Daily Show correspondent EVER! Seriously - his bits are AWESOME! more » | Other threads
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microcelebrity
Rex Sorgatz's Posse
Spiky-haired meme-promoter Rex Sorgatz of Fimoculous has established himself as the media's favorite expert on microcelebrity. So he ought to know better. More »
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By Nick DentonComment by theidlesthand: I've watched Rex cry in the closet. In fairness though, it was his going away party and he was drunkenly... more » | Other threads
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canada
Canada Is Amazing!
Canadians! Did you know they get their own day? It's true! And it's today! We've been celebrating all day by ragging on Canadian Malcolm Gladwell for no good reason and also extending more publicity to creepy scumbag Canadian Dimitri the Lover! It turns out the FreeCreditReport.com guy is also Canadian! But French Canadian so he probably doesn't even want to be Canadian. Go celebrate the nation that oppresses his people by watching that video where not knowing his credit rating made him marry that total bitch and take on her stupid girl debt (probably incurred by shoe-buying and driving poorly). [HuffPo] -
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By Ryan TateComment by MartyPants: @Tammany_Fall: I swear - SWEAR - that when Jen was dating Vince Vaughn they did the same thing (visited Casa... more » | Other threads
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videuhoh
Journalists Stuck On Airplane, Chaos Ensues
Our intrepid video fella Richard Blakeley was on a plane full of journalists headed to a Thrillist press event in Las Vegas over the weekend when disaster struck. Due to the crazypants thunderstorms barreling through the region, the plane had to make an unscheduled stop in Rochester, NY. Naturally Blakeley whipped out his camera and filmed the madness, capturing a veritable who's who of journalist types, from the Post's Justin Rocket Silverman, to Julia Allison from Star magazine (hiding coyly from the camera), to The Huffington Post's Rachel Sklar, as they coped with the ordeal. The most important thing we can learn from this video? I'mInLikeWithYou.com's Charles Forman pees sitting down. Clip is above. More » -
The Emily Chronicles
The Last Word On That Emily Gould Story?
It's a long holiday weekend, so perhaps by Tuesday there'll be nothing left to say about former Gawker editor Emily Gould's extensive New York Times Magazine cover story about sleeping with people and blogging about it and having panic attacks on bathroom floors? No? Well, in any case, The Huffington Post's Rachel Sklar, a Canadian, provides a tasty summary of the essay and the ensuing media cluster-fuck. "This was an extended blog post, an overlong 'Modern Love' essay, 7,937 words that did not venture beyond the author's own experience; for some perspective, the NYT's investigative expose on the Pentagon's purported ties to on-air military analysts had 7,486). And for what?"
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sex and violence
Blood-Thirsty Pundits Demand Violent End to Primaries
MSNBC pundit Keith Olbermann on how to deal with Hillary Clinton's never-ending campaign: "Right. Somebody who can take her into a room and only he comes out." Ok! As HuffPo's Rachel Sklar points out, that means he would like someone to beat her up. Metaphorically! Also, sexistly! Well, it's maybe debatable. Like that New Republic cover. Clearly stupid, but scale of 1-10, how vile? We won't wade in! We will say, though, that it's not even the worst of recent cable news comments. More »
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By PareeneComment by MadamButterfloozy: @VirusWithShoes: Hey, you stole my thought! I'm figuratively beating you up for that. more » | Other threads
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patriotism
Pundit Lapels Shockingly Bare
Doesn't anyone wear flag pins anymore? HuffPo's Rachel Sklar, who carries an actual maple leaf pinned to a beaver pelt with her at all times, pitted the cable news network talking heads against each other in a brutal MS Paint collage battle, and discovered that while people get all up-in-arms about Barack Obama not wearing his little American flag pin, no one else does anymore either. Except Brit Hume, Neil Cavuto, Karl Rove, and Lou Dobbs. The last defenders of patriotism! Everyone else in America is too bitter.
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By PareeneComment by famousauthor: I wish those pundits you named would stick their flag pins through the end of their noses. It ought... more » | Other threads
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mistakes
CNN Launches A Comedy News Show
You know the Colbert Report, and how it's really successful? And how other forms of news are less popular and some are dying? CNN noticed that too! So their Headline News channel will soon be airing Not Just Another Cable News Show, a weekly program with a light take on hard news using memorable gaffes from the past week. Time.com Washington editor Ana Marie Cox, of Wonkette fame, and noted Canadian/Huffington Post contributor Rachel Sklar will be commenters. The show, whose concept is stolen from the first segment of the Daily Show and whose title is stolen from the Wayans brothers, begins April 5. [AP] -
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Huffington Post Bloggers Asleep On The Job
Unlike many bloggers, Huffington Post editors Rachel Sklar and Katherine Thompson don't work from home, in their pajamas, while drinking, at least not in the following office video, which shows the bloggers collapsed on a conference room desk and apparently snoozing on the job. So site co-founder Arianna Huffington and the rest of management must be working them to exhaustion. At Christmastime, no less! Those who still think writing for the internet is somehow glamorous should watch the brief clip, in which bloggers resemble nothing so much as cable repair dudes: More » -
canadians
11 More Canadians Who Control The Media
Thanks to New York's secretive and shadowy Canadian Cabal for their fast and servicy response to our story on how they control the media! Canadian media critic Rachel Sklar jumped into action, quickly posting her exhaustive list of all the Canadians she could think of. More than 70! Some of them are dead (Peter Jennings?), others of them not quite bigwigs (Rachel Marsden?), but we did forget some important ones. Like Dahlia Lithwick and Laurie Hibberd! Canadians are better even then Jews at knowing each and every member of their relentlessly polite tribe, but even Ms. Sklar leaves some unmentioned. Much thanks, then, to tipsters who supplied the following names: More »
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By PareeneComment by ThorFromValhalla: John Roberts at CBS. Naomi Klein. Paul Anka. Alanis Morrissette, Celine Dion, Avril Lavigne (what's with all the divas?). And... more » | Other threads
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