In your mordant Friday media column: Judith Miller critiques someone else's journalism, the Occupy Wall Street Journal is coming, the NYO begs for a raise, Slate redesigns, and Jill Abramson wants questions from you.
We are uncouth. As is most of America. We are not highly literate; we are middlebrow and low-minded. But still. Do not try to trick us into reading shitty poems with an enticing title. We do not like that.
It's center-left policy wonk musical chairs: New York magazine just poached columnist Jonathan Chait from The New Republic—which hired Tim Noah, recently laid off from Slate, to replace him. What will Chait's sex diary read like? Stay tuned!
In your most-beautiful-day-of-the-year Tuesday media column: Don Lemon's for sale, The Politico will not stop succeeding, Tina Brown will not stop showing out, Slate spinoff suggested, and Mediaite locates America's most meaningless story.
Slate editor David Plotz explores a crucial technological puzzle in an article today: What happens when you befriend hundreds of strangers on Facebook, then lie to them and say it's your birthday? Turns out they wish you happy birthday, which proves the internet is destroying us all.
In your prudent Wednesday media column: Garden & Gun is so hot right now, a bad magazine folds, Bill Simmons is grumpy, a big traffic month for The Atlantic and Slate, and Vivian Schiller gets a new job.
Did you know that men sometimes lactate? It's true! Men have a low level of lactation-inducing hormone prolactin, and sometimes weird medical flukes make them secrete "milky fluids" from their superfluous nipples.
In your soggy Thursday media column: a rumored bid for Variety, Penthouse's owner has a cheap IPO, Erin Burnett's going to CNN, Slate's editor likes Slate, and a Reader's Digest recipe kerfuffle.
In your trenchant Thursday media column: Glenn Beck apologizes for something, Slate in Palin Cunt scandal, AOL execs make way for Arianna, Yahoo grabs a Politico writer, and a Katie Couric career check-in.
Slate, a website perpetually stuck in the interrogative case, provides an artfully useless Explainer column: Q: "Is there a reason so many murderers use their middle names?" A: "It seems to be a coincidence." Jared Lee Loughner's language conspiracy: disproved.
In your bloviating Wednesday media column: Lou Dobbs gets a new show, Tribune Co prepares for bonus season, Business Insider backtracks on a listicle, and Slate is—or is it?
Slate's prudish advice columnist Dear Prudence received a question from a woman dating a man with a tiny, tiny penis. Prudence's response today focuses on love and relationships, but skimps on the sex. We'll get down to the itty-bitty nitty-gritty.
In your cooling Tuesday media column: the Daily Beast-Newsweek fallout shakeout, the hero of the Enron story moves to Slate, Lou Dobbs reveals widespread stupidity, HuffPo's investigative demise confirmed.
Facebook investor Peter Thiel is planning to give college students $100,000 each to drop out and launch startups. The editor of Slate is pretty disgusted with the concept. This idea will destroy "white boys" and "middle class values!"
There goes the premise of that new George Clooney flick and dozens of other awesome movies. The super sexy full-time assassin is a myth: Assassins are usually regular crooks who do murder-for-hire on the side, or government agents. Borrrrrring. [Slate]
In your ardent Friday media column: Christiane Amanpour has a sit-down job, the NYT wedding listings are now searchable, The Big Money folds, and Tribune Co.'s peerless execs would like lots of money, please.
Are soccer games too fast-paced for you? Here's a video that distills the best moments from the World Cup in super slow motion. If this is still too fast, you should probably just give up and watch some curling.
A tipster thought an image of William Shatner over the headline 'How the Chinese Explain the Rash of Horrific Knife Attacks on Schoolchildren' might be the best contrarian Slate piece ever. But it seems it was just a mistake.
Hey, Did you guys know there's a French version of Slate at www.Slate.fr There totally is! Our French is rusty so we cannot really read the stories on the site. But we can make up our own!
And cheaper, too. Say you have some life-altering product that needs advertising to get off the ground, using Google TV Ads, you can buy TV ad space whenever/wherever you want. Slate tested it out, and the results were surprising.
