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    Image of BullfightsOnAcid BullfightsOnAcid
    07/06/09

    In reply to Walt Whitman Sells Out
    This is just like when Andy Warhol appeared on The Love Boat.
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    Image of kathotdog kathotdog
    07/06/09

    In reply to Walt Whitman Sells Out
    I sure do miss the Walt Whitman Service Area on the New Jersey Turnpike.
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    Image of CaptainFantastic CaptainFantastic
    07/06/09

    @kathotdog: Could other travelers stop there too?
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    Image of Mama Penguino Mama Penguino
    07/06/09

    In reply to Walt Whitman Sells Out
    In Whitman's defense, he did wait until Jim Morrison had already sold out.
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    Image of Banjo-Sea Kitten Banjo-Sea Kitten
    07/06/09

    In reply to Walt Whitman Sells Out
    My pants are large/and contain multitudes
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    Image of MrInBetween MrInBetween
    07/02/09

    In reply to Washington Post Mistakenly Tells Truth About 'Sponsored' Media Events
    "Salon" is a wobbly euphemism for "Chicken Ranch."
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    Image of lawyergay lawyergay
    07/02/09

    In reply to Washington Post Mistakenly Tells Truth About 'Sponsored' Media Events
    First they fired Froomkin and now they're selling--let's just be honest--favorable coverage in their newspaper to insurance and pharmaceutical companies on the eve of the big health care reform debate?


    What's next? Somali pirates driving the delivery trucks? A Lydon Larouche column?

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    Image of Perhaps Not Perhaps Not
    07/02/09

    In reply to Washington Post Mistakenly Tells Truth About 'Sponsored' Media Events
    It went out before the email list was properly vetted, that's for damn sure.
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    Image of depardoo depardoo
    07/02/09

    In reply to Washington Post Mistakenly Tells Truth About 'Sponsored' Media Events
    Just tucking into lunch when I saw that picture of Rove cutting a rug. I promptly puked into my wastebasket.
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    Image of Steverino Begins Steverino Begins
    05/28/09

    In reply to Vice Sells Out Un-Ironically
    Part of reading and enjoying Vice is learning to put up with all its weird self-contradictions and hypocrisies. It's kind of like hanging around with an addict in that way.
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    Image of fileunder fileunder
    05/28/09

    In reply to Vice Sells Out Un-Ironically
    The Salt Lake City PD should consider running mugshot Wanted ads in Vice.
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    Image of NoelleBlue NoelleBlue
    05/28/09

    In reply to Vice Sells Out Un-Ironically
    I find the backlash against Bloodcopy fascinating, I really do. Gawker has always danced the dance of the devil, attempting to be an interesting and unique blog with distinct voices while also being PROFITABLE. And they've always played with hypocrisy... seriously, the burn-baby-burn attitude towards print is eternal, and obviously enjoyable to the readers who seem to now be pissed off that Gawker is attempting to find a way to stay solvent in a new age. And the editorial staff truly does seem separated from ad games like 'Bloodcopy'... hell, I'm seeing little signs that they're not overly impressed themselves.


    Or perhaps they're just sick of the whining. Understandably.


    Why is it so important that blogs be seen as the scrappy, independent outsider?


    If this, and Twitter's new show, is pissing people off, I would recommend those people get off the interwebs somewhere about now, or adjust. Because the future? This is it.


    (however - counter-argument! - it does make posts like this a bit more blatant than usual in their hypocrisy, a bit of 'hi, here's my glass house! I haz painted target!'... if there was some nudge-nudge-wink-wink in it's coverage, I think amusement would be higher, indignation lower. This is a pretty scathing snippet of a similar issue to what you're now dealing with, Mr. Nolan, what with all blow-jobbin' and whippets.)

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    Image of Cheap Shot Cheap Shot
    05/28/09

    In reply to Vice Sells Out Un-Ironically
    I think Vice basically branded American Apparel and had something to do with their ads. See the parallel?
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    Image of Hamilton Nolan Hamilton Nolan
    05/28/09

    In reply to Vice Sells Out Un-Ironically
    1. This is Vice. They are the voice of the cool rebellious youth blah blah. That's relevant.


    2. No matter where you are, you can't have your editorial staff work on AD CAMPAIGNS and still claim they're independent.


    3. Direct all complaints about "Blood Copy" to nick@gawker.com. We, the Gawker editorial staff, don't have anything to do with it, because we are "independent" in the traditional sense.

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    Image of Nick Douglas Nick Douglas
    05/28/09

    @Hamilton Nolan: Is "voice of the cool rebellious youth blah blah" above or below "rage of the creative underclass" on the advertiser wishlist?
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    Image of shostakobitch shostakobitch
    05/28/09

    @Hamilton Nolan: so what you're really saying is that you're a streetcarnage fan?
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    Image of Nick Douglas Nick Douglas
    05/28/09

    In reply to Vice Sells Out Un-Ironically
    Oh and Hamilton, can you maybe break down the impenetrable barrier between you and Gawker ad sales, and ask them about the story of Gizmodo's "Trek Yourself" ad?
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    Image of Nick Douglas Nick Douglas
    05/28/09

    In reply to Vice Sells Out Un-Ironically
    Guys, you are totally missing the rockin' party on the BloodCopy blog!
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    Nick Douglas was starred Nick Douglas was unstarred
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