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    11/28/09

    In reply to Derek Jeter: Sportsman of the Year
    Uh... Is Gawker scooping Deadspin? Weird.
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    11/28/09

    In reply to Derek Jeter: Sportsman of the Year
    This is a disgrace. A sad moment for a once meaningful award. No, Usain Bolt, I'm not sure how much further you were supposed to bend time and space. Sorry. Maybe if you were carried to a championship by the wealthiest team in your sport by a significant margin, they would've had something for you.
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    11/27/09

    In reply to Ousted Forbes Employees Rumored To Be Shopping a Tell-All
    DIS GUY.
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    11/27/09

    In reply to Derek Jeter: Sportsman of the Year
    "Sportsman of the Year" rumors? How weird. Also, Derek Jeter, whoever and whatever he does, does not have a pleasing face.
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    11/24/09

    In reply to Time Inc's Pre-Thanksgiving Layoffs
    Let's hope the SI/Fortune PTB don't follow their HBO brethren's example and have the HR head do a victory lap w/her VP showing off new mink coats purchased with their bonuses.
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    11/24/09

    In reply to Time Inc's Pre-Thanksgiving Layoffs
    At least one print outlet is being "resurrected." From TPM - "Staff of the Southern Voice, a gay weekly in Atlanta and one of the handful of publications shut down abruptly by parent company Window Media last week, have received a $12,000 matching grant to start a new publication. "

    Anyway, thought some good news would be in order...

    [tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com]

    #Tips
    #The Gays
    #Thingswelike
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    Image of TheBusinessGuy TheBusinessGuy
    11/24/09

    In reply to Time Inc's Pre-Thanksgiving Layoffs
    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 mind can wrap itself around, does anyone else remember when companies--even magazine companies--had sufficient humanity to wait until after the holidays to do layoffs? Now the objective is just to get 'em off the expense side before the new budget kicks in. I always wonder how the executioner executives can watch or read A Christmas Carol unironically.
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    11/24/09

    @TheBusinessGuy: I would argue that it is still before the holidays. After what date would you no longer lay people off? November 1? Labor Day? Yeah, laying someone off on December 15 is kinda prickish, but lets get a handle on extending the holidays t0 over 15% of the year.

    On the bright side, at least they were laid off before they did their shopping. In a way, it's probably better than being laid off on January 10. Not that being laid off anytime doesn't suck.
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    11/24/09

    @Pesti-Esti: I think laying someone off two days before Thanksgiving is dickish. What should be the cutoff? In the old days, it was usually November 1.

    #tips
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    11/24/09

    @TheBusinessGuy: Fortune laid me off a couple of weeks before my wife gave birth, so I wouldn't go looking for a lot of humanity there.
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    11/24/09

    @TheBusinessGuy: +1111111111111
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    11/24/09

    @Mediahohoho: Sadz
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    Image of TheBusinessGuy TheBusinessGuy
    11/24/09

    @Mediahohoho: Yeah, that is awful. Anytime a company refers to its employees as "our family," I reach for my pistol.

    #tips
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    Image of manchops manchops
    11/19/09

    In reply to Rumors: Staff Shuffles at New York Post, Sports Illustrated
    You wanna save Sports Illustrated? GET RID OF TERRY MCDONNELL. The guy sat at Esquire watching circulation fall through the floor, his only real talent being to spend ungodly sums of money on basically nothing and for that he ends up being promoted to SI? I swear to god, the best way to save every magazine out there? Bag the over-paid, over-spending captian of the ship and keep everyone else's jobs.
    Tossing McDonnell is perhaps the best example of how this would save the industry.
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    Image of Molly Friedman Molly Friedman
    11/19/09

    @manchops: Terry actually "sat at Esquire" doing just the opposite: publishing dozens of literary icons, many of whom are now in the canon thanks in part to Terry's faith in them. Talese, Mailer, McInerney, Salinger, Hunter S. Thompson, Joan Didion, Cormac McCarthy...are you kidding me?

    Under Terry's editorship, Esquire was an ASME finalist SEVEN times. Just try comparing Esquire's (well-documented recently by DiGiacomo in VF) pathetic fiction to the work Terry accomplished back then.

    @Immaculate:
    1) Jann promoted Terry because he earned that ME position.
    2) "Personal habits"? You're actually chastising someone who worked at Rolling Stone under Wenner in the early 80s for having fun?
    3) Jann and Terry, to this day, are close friends. If Terry stole anything from Jann, it was a series of classic Hunter S. Thompson anecdotes due to the fact that HST adored Terry and wasn't so fond of Jann.
    4) Nick writes his own novels. Terry is (and will proudly admit it) an editor, not a writer. And an effing legendary one, who works seven days a week, has completely revived si.com (who do you think oversaw the CNN partnership?), and most importantly, a gentleman.

    Jealousy doesn't justify idiotic, ignorant bashing of someone you clearly know nothing about.
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    Image of ms_priestypants ms_priestypants
    11/10/09

    In reply to Faux-Anthrax Terrorists Gunning For Vulnerable Media Agencies?
    And it is apparently late 2001 all over again. What is going on? #terror
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    11/09/09

    In reply to AOL Layoffs Tomorrow to Kick Off Depressing Holiday Season?
    At least when I got laid off, the Southern Baptist prick delayed from Good Friday (because the Judge hadn't signed off on the closure of a major metro newspaper actually making money and the firing of nearly 1,900 people) to the Monday after Easter. Did I mention he was and still is a rich prick? #aol
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    11/09/09

    In reply to AOL Layoffs Tomorrow to Kick Off Depressing Holiday Season?
    How is AOL still even in business? Are there that many grandmas out there that don't understand the interweb? #aol
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    11/09/09

    @fuckingoldman:

    Yep. #aol
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    11/10/09

    @fuckingoldman: tmz.com #aol
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    11/09/09

    In reply to San Francisco Braces for Gen. Tom Cruise to Move In (And Perhaps Lead Scientology Offensive)
    I don't know why, but I find the idea of Larry Ellison as a Scientologist to be absolutely delicious. #tomcruise
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    11/09/09

    In reply to San Francisco Braces for Gen. Tom Cruise to Move In (And Perhaps Lead Scientology Offensive)
    Why on earth would Tom Cruise be interested in moving to SF? I mean, economically, geographically or culturally . . . what of SF could possibly be of interest to Mr. Cruise?

    I just don't see it. #tomcruise
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    11/09/09

    @resipsaloquacious: He wants to be closer to his real posse. Conflicted much?
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    11/09/09

    @resipsaloquacious: It certainly wouldn't be for the boys, that's for dead certain. #tomcruise
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    11/09/09

    @nostateleftbehind001: @tmp00:

    Bert Fields will be contacting both of you -- shortly. #tomcruise
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    11/06/09

    In reply to Another Google Heir Is Born: Larry Page's Son
    Congratulations to the proud parents!
    Now their life will never be the same. #larrypage
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    11/05/09

    In reply to Glenn Beck Survives
    Tania Beck looks like Wayne Gretzky.
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