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hacks
Happy Blogiversary to Mickey Kaus!
Slate ur-contrarian Mickey Kaus has been bloggin' away for 10 years now! He is most proud of a) thinking he invented various ancient quick-fix policy ideas and b) immigrant-hating. More »
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By PareeneComment by Foster Kamer: Commence Phyllis Nefler freakout in 3, 2... 4 Responses | Other threads
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Friday TAN
Eddie, Woody, & Michael: Do We Even Care About Geniuses Anymore?
Eddie Murphy, Woody Allen, Michael Jackson: All indisputable geniuses in the 80s. Hit-or-miss in the 90s. And, at least before the outpouring of adulation for Jackson today, you probably wouldn't want to trade reputations with any of them. More »
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By T.A.N.Comment by Nickyboy is now the bass player for VH. Suck it, Wolfie!!: Sweet damn... I forgot that Eddie was very funny many moons ago. 6 Responses | Other threads
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negropedia brown
Page 91: The Answer to the Case of the Undead Auto-Tune
Previously: Jay-Z was frustrated by Slate's Jody Rosen's analysis of his new single D.O.A. Is Jay just getting old? Or is Jody being thoughtless? Negropedia Brown investigated, and here's the solution to yesterday's Media Mystery! More »
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By T.A.N.Comment by jasonelias: The problem with Jay-Z's song is that it's boring, it would have been funnier if he used really bad auto... 4 Responses | Other threads
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negropedia brown
Negropedia Brown: The Case of the Undead Auto-Tune
Mr. and Mrs. Brown had one child. They called him TAN, but everyone else called him Negropedia. One day he opened a Blog Detective Agency to solve Media-Mysteries resulting from Ethnocultural-dissonance. Let's follow along, kids! More »
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By T.A.N.Comment by Kitten_Witawip: Wouldn't the death of auto-tune mean the death of Mrs. Z's career? 1 Responses | Other threads
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The Assimilator
Does Weed Have '5' On the Economy?
What could cure cancer, the economy, and put lovable handles on Michael Phelps? Hold that thought. On the bong I've got: Jason Mulgrew, Jeff Weiss, and Anonymous Hedgefund Dude. We are from the future. More »
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By T.A.N.Comment by kimberlydebarge: Nice article-- but I've never bought "hedgefund guy"'s argument. The only people who will grow their own weed are the... 3 Responses | Other threads
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economics
Labor Relations Expert Mickey Kaus on GM
On Friday, noted blogger Mickey Kaus decried the Obama administration's attempts to prolong the inevitable death of shitty car company GM. No one even wants their depressing cars, he noted! On Sunday, it's the fault of "unskilled workers making $28 an hour who have bankrupted their employers." More »
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By PareeneComment by bluebears: Why, how dare people who haven't attended Harvard undergrad and Law expect to be paid a living wage? You people... 17 Responses | Other threads
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The Assimilator
Can Double X Get Feminist Media On the Same Cycle of Hate?
Well, "hate" is a strong word; more like "pissed!" Or maybe, "PMS'd?" Hmm, probably best to let the ladies handle this, first up: Amanda Marcotte and Jill Filipovic with a more nuanced take than I. More »
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By T.A.N.Comment by Almostbanned: Jezebel is an awful site most of the time. They do occasionally have worthwhile stories and reporting, but even those... 16 Responses | Other threads
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WTAN
WTAN Is All Girls, Girls, Girls This Weekend
I got these feminist chicks, they got something to say. An interview with a porn star, whose last name is Grey. Content like this, most people would pay. Something something something, Happy Memorial Day! More »
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By T.A.N.Comment by BookishLookish: T.A.N.'s got something for the ladies! Happy mem day weekend to you and thank you for holding it down. Wow, it... 3 Responses | Other threads
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The Assimilator
In the Case of Dan Baum, Everyman, vs. the New Yorker: How Do You Plead?
Last week Dan Baum ate from the tree-of-temptation and tweeted blaspheme about the holiest of literary-institutions, The New Yorker. This weekend: Slate's Troy Patterson, Eric Easter of EbonyJet, and Emily of Emdashes pass judgment: More »
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By T.A.N.Comment by iplaudius: Cruel of you to begrudge Ms. Gordon the em-dash in setting her prose here. In HTML, type either of these... 3 Responses | Other threads
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Media Crack
Goodbye Playguy, Adios Honcho
In your countercultural Tuesday media column: Gay porn mags fold en masse, Chevron is evil as usual, Slate deems women capable of running their very own blog, and prison radio kicks ass: More »
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Comment by Nic Fit: My old neighbor posed for Honcho. He once proudly showed me the issue he was in, and I can tell... 15 Responses | Other threads
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eliot spitzer
Silda Spitzer Goes Out With a Blogger
Eliot Spitzer, the prostitute-hiring ex-governor of New York, has been seen in public with his wife, Silda, for the first time since he confessed to paying for sex with aspiring musician Ashley Dupré. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by DaveCrabtree: I'm sorry, but I just can't forgive Silda for apparently forgiving him. I know stuff like this happens in lots... 6 Responses | Other threads
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lolslate
Your Dead Kid Doesn't Impress Slate Columnist
Jack Shafer has had it with the weepy emails about how you lost Little Timmy forever to some overdose. He's a busy man. Save it for Cary Tennis. [via Nick Douglas]
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By Ryan TateComment by ArgusRun: I'm with Jack here. He's criticizing the media and law enforcement in a logical and well sourced way. Everytime he... 6 Responses | Other threads
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twitterati
Don't Tweet on My Shoes, I'm Headed for Atlantis
Today's sweetest tweets: CNET's Caroline McCarthy got ready to don a Snuggie. Valleywag alumna Megan McCarthy (no relation) dreamed of Atlantis. David Gregory of Meet the Press succumbed to Twitter peer pressure. And more! More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Arland Penchant: ummm...Pompeii actually exists? You can go and read the ancient graffitti in the brothel and everything. more » | Other threads
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journalismism
Slate Badmouths Its Own Suze Orman Takedown
Waitress turned self-appointed wealth expert Suze Orman is a terrible person, according to Slate's Big Money. That's because this evil financial sorceress recommends an investing strategy called "dollar-cost averaging." What? More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by BarnabasAmphidamas: Suze Orman is a financial goddess, who is not afraid to speak in plain language, challenge the white-male establishment... 6 Responses | Other threads
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huffpoors
Blogger Dreams of Terrifying Future of Well-Paid Bloggers
Mickey Kaus seems to think that the fact that HuffPo's unpaid contributors and underpaid staffers aren't unionized is proof that unions are Bad and Don't Work and are Bad for America. More »
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By PareeneComment by katastic: Oh, you can't scare me, I'm sticking to the union,I'm sticking to the union, I'm sticking to the union.Oh, you... 5 Responses | Other threads
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music
Billy Joel, 'Worst Pop Singer Ever'
Billy Joel will be dissed, forever, by various critics. Now we're told the singer is a whiny misogynist — and 'The Worst Pop Singer Ever' — by Ron Rosenbaum in Slate. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by televisionarie: I've fought with perfectly nice people over my abject hatred of Billy Joel. Billy Joel is like Forrest Gump in... 11 Responses | Other threads
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twitterati
Life Is Good for the Twitterati
The media live deeply ordinary lives. Okay, deeply ordinary lives in which their bosses buy them caviar. The Twitterati report in with a feast for the senses: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by contradicto: Today I had a diet greek salad for lunch. The "diet" part confused me because it was basically a gyro... 4 Responses | Other threads
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religion
Rick Warren's Sordid Road To Damascus
Here is a wonderful sentence drunk crank Christopher Hitchens wrote about huckster pop-pastor Rick Warren: More »
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By PareeneComment by Uncle_Billy_Slumming: I want a t-shirt that says: "Drunk Crank" 4 Responses | Other threads
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Love Guv
Spitzer Scammed By Madoff Too, Naturally
The foible-filled comeback of Eliot Spitzer continues! It turns out the luv guv—who does know about Wall Street—lost money to hedge fund scammer Bernie Madoff, like everyone else. And it's Slate's fault!: More »
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Comment by TheHonJudgeSmails: Put this sanctimonious prick in jail. Why isn't he being prosecuted with the fervor with which he himself prosecuted... 6 Responses | Other threads
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Love Guv
Eliot Spitzer Wanders Into Media Party, Thinking It Was Something Else
Slate columnist and randy ex-governor Eliot Spitzer showed up at a Slate party last night at—get ready for this, guys—Happy Ending, a former rub-'n-tug spot. Oh, you! Then he gave this soulful quote:
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Comment by scroll_lock: I will NEVER understand how his beautiful, educated, intelligent wife stayed with this horror instead of taking him for every... 7 Responses | Other threads
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eliot spitzer
Eliot Spitzer To Write Non-Sexual Column
Eliot Spitzer has a new job! John Koblin reports that starting tomorrow, the scandalized ex-guv is going to be writing a column for Slate called "The Best Policy." It will be about "the financial crisis and fixing financial markets and the economy generally," and will almost certainly be very informative (Spitzer was once a populist hero, remember!) and very boring. Because really, do you think Spitzer's going to run down his hooker stories (which is what everyone actually wants to hear) in Slate? He's saving that for the book. They should have gone after Ashley Dupre as a columnist instead. "THE SEX POLICY." It's a win-win. [NYO]
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Comment by GirlCat: Remember back in the olden days when it would take decades before a shamed public figure tried to rehabilitate his... 6 Responses | Other threads
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Slude
Rumor: Slate Spinoff For Guys?
[Update: We heard from Slate and they say there's no dude site in the works, though Slude is still an awesome name.] From a tipster: "Rumor is that Slate is spinning of another site, this one a counterpart to [new female-oriented spinoff] Double X, but for dudes. It is so far unnamed, but its codename around the office is Slude, and apparently they want Bryan Curtis to come back and run it." Bryan Curtiswas always writing for now-dead Play, so he should have time!is now keeping busy as a senior editor for Tina Brown's Daily Beast. Know more? Email us. -
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How Many Women Does It Take to Run Slate's Online Women's Magazine?
Slate has been planning their new ladyblog—sorry, "online magazine"—as a sort-of-but-not-really competitor to our sister site Jezebel. Gals all over town want to get in on the action—some the few media jobs left! Now we know the ladies who will lead it, according to Fishbowl NY. It will be a "triumvirate" of editors (that means three): Emily Bazelon, Meghan O'Rourke, and Hanna Rosin. Three eds? Bad idea. Their cycles are gonna sync up after spending that much time together, which means fighting and crying might derail the publishing process once a month. But seriously, a little more on the new editors' credentials: More »
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By SheilaComment by Sarcastro: Triumvirate. Hmm. So these three women are men? 6 Responses | Other threads
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media
The Future of Journalism Is In the Hands of Idiots
Jeff Jarvis, former TV Guide and People TV critic and founder of Entertainment Weekly, is now an internet expert. He was one of those guys who became internet-famous back when there were like six bloggers, all of whom were guys whom 9/11 turned into HAWKISH ACTION HEROES, and they all brayed about the Islamist Menace and felt quite proud of themselves for being former liberals who grew balls and for some reason none of them went away? (Another one of those guys is Nick Denton!) Anyway! Then he became an internet futurist, which means spending a lot of time gloating about the death of print and babbling about the future of media gallivanting around to conferences and "consulting" and just wasting everyone's time with obnoxious writing and simplistic evangelizing for a miserable digital future. Now he's in an immature fight with Ron Rosenbaum, who is much smarter than he is, if also old and blinkered, about THE FUTURE OF JOURNALISM. It's fucking bleak. More »
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By PareeneComment by BullfightsOnAcid: If listicles and tits are the model then would a listicle of tits be a super model? 3 Responses | Other threads
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magazines
Laid-Off Media Ladies, Get Your Claws Out: Slate's New Ladymag is Hiring!
With all the recent layoffs, it seems like there are no media jobs left in New York. So we bet every female in town under 35 is getting ready to pounce on Double X, Slate's forthcoming answer to successful ladyblog (and Gawker sibling) Jezebel. (Former Gawker Elizabeth Spiers is planning her own, "less urban" women's site.) But! Double X will be a magazine (a web magazine—because web-content can be called magazines if they feel like it), which will "spin off" from its pre-existing XX Factor blog. Here's the "we're hiring" memo, gals. (Hurry—we hear that interviews are already taking place!) More »
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By SheilaComment by Portmanteautally: Women over 35 aren't getting laid off? I feel so much safer now. Thanks! 2 Responses | Other threads
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election
Networks So Ready To Call This Election
Network news divisions got skittish about calling presidential elections following their colossally terrible performance in 2000. In case you forgot, they all called Florida for Al Gore, then uncalled it, then called it for Bush (following in the trustworthy footsteps of Fox News!), then uncalled the whole election. Their newfound prudence was rewarded in 2004 when leaked exit polls said John Kerry had the whole thing in the bag (oops). But this year the TV guys have their swagger back. Here's a CBS News executive telling the Times why California can suck it: More »
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By Ryan TateComment by get the buttah: "Networks So Ready To Call This Election" Me too!! So much so that I can't sleep!! Ack! 14 Responses | Other threads
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bias
Jack Shafer Voting For Nutcase
Did you wonder who your favorite Slate contributor is voting for? Good news: now you know! Michael Kinsley instituted the quadrennial endorsement list in 2000—go back and read how wrong all the Bush people were!—and it's been a beloved feature ever since, the two more times they've done it, because everyone cares how a Slate copy-editor is voting (spoiler alert: for Obama). There is one McCain vote, a half-hearted endorsement from the conservative editor and Slate lady-blog contributor Rachael Larimore. But there are fewer third-party votes and abstentions than in either of the two previous iterations of the feature, even in divided anyone-but-Bush 2004. Because, duh, people like Obama more than Kerry. But one man, press critic Jack Shafer, remains relentlessly devoted to his utterly wrong-headed principles. Shafer, once again, is voting for the Libertarians! More »
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By PareeneComment by Baroness: Libertarians are Republicans who have the good sense to be ashamed of the jackanapes dominating their party. They're... 8 Responses | Other threads
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sex trade
Virtual hookers to help us get laid off
Now that they've fired Melissa Gira Grant, I've got my first Sex Trade assignment! Owen told me to post about Slate's new clip on the escort business in Second Life. Easy: "This is Samantha Henning with Slate V. Now, some vices are socially acceptable. But prostitution, that's not one I was gonna try out in the real world." Back button. Next on Slate: More Sarah Palin sentence diagrams.
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By Paul BoutinComment by tawni: Sorry but for once Slate has no clue at all. She looked terrible and was never going to the correct... more » | Other threads
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slate
BREAKING: Permalinks for Slate blogger Mickey Kaus? After all these years? Sort of.
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blogging for dollars
All about those benjamins you aren't making by blogging
Want a fantastic formula for a bit of search-engine optimized cash? Drop a bunch of blogger names into a story, add a few five- and six-figured monthly income claims, et voilà! Readers just click, click, click on it, trying to answer the question of "Why can't I make that kind of scratch?" just by being "passionate" with some "thoughts" and "feelings" on the Internet. Slate's story on blogging for real money doesn't tell you how it's done so much as throw out a few names and figures of who does. "Do we get the blogs we deserve?" Slate contributor Michael Agger asks. Kick in for my retirement fund and you can find out: More »
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sex trade
What this week's news means for high-end escorts, take 8
The impending Depression Lite will be a boon to high-end sex workers, researcher Sudhir Venkatesh assures Slate readers. Venkatesh has made a name for himself in the post-Freakonomics, après-Spitzer era of hooker metrics, and the high end of the industry is his niche. Venkatesh actually does get that the sex trade is way more about moneyed escapism than anything else. But when he spins off onto the subject of "high-tech" hookers, he loses his credibility. More »
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tasteful, slate!
Uplifting Economic Indicator!
The "suicide index" is still very low compared to 1929 and with those farmers in India. Maybe money does buy diminishing marginal happiness? [Slate]
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By MoeComment by ADismalScience: The main difference between then and now? The shame is gone. 3 Responses | Other threads
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clips
Slate explores the strange and fascinating world of your cubicle
Someone should make a Bingo card for startup office videos. Slate's tour of Xobni in downtown San Francisco would cover most of the squares: More »
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By Paul BoutinComment by sample032: You can get Aeron chairs on the bay area craigslist for cheap. I don't need to explain where they... 2 Responses | Other threads
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journalismism
Chris Hitchens Submits To Torture Of Writing Something Nice About Obama
Today Chris Hitchens's Slate column praises Barack Obama. This is notable because the Hitch would seem to rather have his nuts waxed for a story and/or get waterboarded for a story than be caught praising any politician less unlikely than former Former Undersecretary Of Hobbesean Experimentation/Torture In The Iraq Doug Feith for a story. So over the past year Hitch has generally stuck to dissing Obama for tolerating supposed champions of the oppressed who live in fancy houses like Jeremiah Wright and Al Sharpton, for marrying someone who was not a good writer in college, for taking that fancy tour of Europe and for resorting to "tiresome demagoguery" in knocking John McCain for purporting to champion the oppressed while living in all those fancy houses, More »
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By MoeComment by wonky-tonk: Hitchens is ever-so-eager to back anyone who would drop large bombs on any Fundamentalist. I'm sure he would love to... 20 Responses | Other threads
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wall street journal
Business pubs get more stylish, social to appeal to Facebookers
The venerable Wall Street Journal has given up trying to age gracefully after being purchased by News Corp., and today the bandages will come off on a facelift that took six months to complete. The main difference will be that non-subscribers will get a more general-interest homepage full of links to free lifestyle content, while subscribers will have the page tailored to emphasize business news. But sixty percent of the site's traffic never sees the homepage, and pageviews-per-unique visit are actually falling. So bring on the social network! More » -
big money
Total Economic Meltdown Greets Slate Finance Site
Is it awful or wonderful that Slate launched its business website The Big Money the same day three large Wall Street institutions were in various stages of freefall? Characteristically, Slate takes the contrarian view: It's wonderful! Tons of news to cover! They'll "tap into people's... anxiety about the economy!" The joys of financial fearmongering aside, the implosion of financial services does tend to call into question how many more ads the site can sell to the likes of American Express. Also, two words: Portfolio magazine. Editor James Ledbetter (recently of CNNMoney.com) still isn't daunted: More »
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By Ryan TateComment by MrInBetween: Just what the world needs: Another tiresome financial news site. If they want eyeballs, they should rename the site, The BlInG... 1 Responses | Other threads
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piss tests
How Slate Writer Got Away With Pissing In Depends And Calling It A Story
Remember when Vice magazine forced that intern to make and eat twelve flavored popsicles from this own semen to see how long it would take him to puke? Well you can't just do that sort of thing at Slate. You need a news peg, and some sort of underlying cultural criticism and/or geopolitical argument, a few riffs on the cognitive science of stoking consumer desire, maybe a reference to The Pentagon Papers. And most importantly you need a guy like Justin Peters here. Justin is the 27-year-old editor of a "print journal of arcana, deadpannery, and cultural criticism, nominally dedicated to the examination and deconstruction of that which vulgarians dub 'the American Dream'" you have obviously never heard of. Today on the internet you will find this vulgarian reviewing adult diapers for Slate… More »
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By MoeComment by katastic: I mean, seriously. Incontinence is just sad, and sucks for those who suffer from it. How depressing. 2 Responses | Other threads
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foreign affairs
Is There Money In International News? (No.)
Ruh-roh, Kim Jong-Il is sick, what happens when he dies? Hell if we know!! And will we truly know tomorrow or whenever this guy gets back to the executive assistant charged with Explainer-ing it for Slate? Not really! As literary Tumblrer Keith Gessen pointed out while trying to make sense of the whole Ossetia mess, you know there's a redundant "inadequacy" to the international news in our dying newspapers when even bloggers with the attention spans of Piper Palin feel it. But isn't that because our dying newspapers have mostly killed their foreign bureaus because there's no money in it? More »
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By MoeComment by rosaluxembourgeoise: "*Yeah, it is a worse name than Federal National Mortgage Association, for sure, but maybe they will think of a... 3 Responses | Other threads
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slate
'Slate' Has a Funny Video About Kittens
With the possible exceptions of various sarcastic asides by John Dickerson and Jack Shafer, online journal of contrarianism Slate has run like one intentionally funny piece in its 100 year history—this examination of Chuck Klosterman jacket photos by Doree—so we're not entirely sure why they keep trying. Humor is not really your bag, Slate! Today we received an ominous email from Slate's indefatigable flack: "Slate V Spoofs Lolcats: Polcats—What if Barack and Hillary Wuz Kittehs?" It might go... a little something... like this: More »
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By PareeneComment by DoppleSeth: Actually two intentionally funny pieces in the history of Slate. The one you mentioned and Happy Birthdady, Jean-Claude Van... more » | Other threads
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journalismism
Slate Article Causes Copying Texas Alt-Weekly to Quit in a Huff
Remember the article from Slate music writer Jody Rosen, who stumbled upon a little alt-weekly in Texas, the Montgomery County Bulletin, who had stolen his Jimmy Buffet article? Rosen got obsessed, did some research, and found that one of the paper's few writers, Mark Williams, had pretty much plagiarized everything ever. Now, says the Houston Press, the Bulletin is up and quitting due to the scandal. "It's no longer a publication. I'm quitting. After this Slate article and this is the future of journalism in New York City. I don't want any part of it," said publisher Mike Ladyman. (It's hard to feel sorry for Ladyman; he didn't seem to give a rat's about the plagiarism issue when Rosen contacted him repeatedly.) Good job, Slate! (A fun quote from the non-media-savvy Ladyman after the jump, plus an angry letter from copycat writer Mark Williams.) More »
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