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    Image of Nick Denton Nick Denton
    10/27/09

    In reply to New York Times Fires Freelancer for Misunderstanding Ethics Rules That the New York Times Also Misunderstood
    How about a little background? Justin Rocket Silverman, Karion's favorite New York journalist, also nearly got fired last year -- after he went on the Thrillist ride.
    [www.portfolio.com] #mikealbo
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    Image of John Cook John Cook
    10/27/09

    In reply to New York Times Fires Freelancer for Misunderstanding Ethics Rules That the New York Times Also Misunderstood
    Bercovici strikes again: His reporting got Sarah Polonsky canned from Page Six for similar reasons a few years ago.

    [gawker.com] #mikealbo
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    Image of Seeräuber Jenny Seeräuber Jenny
    10/27/09

    In reply to New York Times Fires Freelancer for Misunderstanding Ethics Rules That the New York Times Also Misunderstood
    Now, if the junket had been to Berlin [gawker.com] , I might have understood. (I think this was my favorite Underminer piece).
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    10/27/09

    In reply to New York Times Fires Freelancer for Misunderstanding Ethics Rules That the New York Times Also Misunderstood
    Too bad. Mike Albo was so much better than the woman who thinks that fat people ain't got no right to live, much less shop. I thought The Underminer pieces were screamingly funny.

    Albo, Balk, Choire-rhymes-with-story, I'm feeling nostalgic.

    It wasn't the best exercise of judgment, of course, but this only confirms to me that it's a whole lot easier to be "pure" if you're wealthy.

    I hope he lands on his feet.
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    Image of TheBusinessGuy TheBusinessGuy
    10/27/09

    In reply to New York Times Fires Freelancer for Misunderstanding Ethics Rules That the New York Times Also Misunderstood
    Yeah, he shouldn't have taken the junket. But gifts are delivered at the Christmas season to writers at some of our best-loved publications, and no one says boo. #mikealbo
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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    10/27/09

    In reply to Sign of Depressing Times: Media People Pushed Toward Customer Service Jobs
    At LAST! A home for all those new Journalism grads. #strugglingwriters
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    Image of marginalizer marginalizer
    10/26/09

    In reply to New York Times Fires Freelancer for Misunderstanding Ethics Rules That the New York Times Also Misunderstood
    I just re-read Emily Gould's post from back in 2007 about Albo livin' the dream as a freelance writer.

    [gawker.com]

    Then I read his tweet:

    "in case there is any confusion: im a freelance writer. i have 486 dollars in my bank account. i have no health insurance. i owe my parents $"

    Who can't in the Manhattan media universe commiserate with that statement?

    Should he have gone on the junket? Hell no. But I still feel bad for the poor guy. The whole thing just causes my head to reel. I hope Gawker, Daily Finance, or The Awl offers him a job so he can get some health insurance and pay his parents back. #mikealbo
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    10/26/09

    In reply to New York Times Fires Freelancer for Misunderstanding Ethics Rules That the New York Times Also Misunderstood
    "You totally crossed the line between what is ethical and what is garbage!"

    "It’s hard not to cross it; they keep moving the little sucker, don’t they?"

    -- Broadcast News #mikealbo
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    Image of howdybeep (runs with monkey wrenches) howdybeep (runs with monkey wrenches)
    10/26/09

    In reply to Sign of Depressing Times: Media People Pushed Toward Customer Service Jobs
    My "media" job is shifting to a commission-based salary structure in 2010. I am prepared to starve. #strugglingwriters
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    Image of New Gonzo Drifter New Gonzo Drifter
    10/26/09

    In reply to Sign of Depressing Times: Media People Pushed Toward Customer Service Jobs
    MediaBistro has been a bastion of business-style, admin-goon jobs for a long time now. I feel like the site helps contribute to the McWorld-ization of the media industry as a whole, unlike JournalismJobs, which seems to maintain some modicum of integrity. True print jobs are rarely, if ever, advertised on MB.

    Christ, has anyone seen Mediaite's generic attempt at a 'Jobs' page ... all it does is search already-listed jobs from other sites.

    The decline of job hunting continues unabated. #strugglingwriters
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    Image of GlasgowRose GlasgowRose
    10/26/09

    @NewGonzo: Also on MediaBistro: PR = "The Most Valuable Journalism Training That One Can Get"

    [www.mediabistro.com] #strugglingwriters
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    10/26/09

    @GlasgowRose: Right. MB has pretty much married up PR and journalism ... like being a PR bi**h pitching advertorial content is "valuable."

    The only halfway decent thing MB has is their blog network deal-io and, sometimes, their News Feed Updates. #strugglingwriters
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    Image of TheBusinessGuy TheBusinessGuy
    10/27/09

    @NewGonzo: So business people don't have role in the magazine world? We're getting laid off, too, you know. #strugglingwriters
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    Image of TheBusinessGuy TheBusinessGuy
    10/27/09

    @TheBusinessGuy: I meant "a role," of course. Evidently I don't have a role as a proofreader. #strugglingwriters
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    Image of elinorwhyme elinorwhyme
    10/26/09

    In reply to New York Times Fires Freelancer for Misunderstanding Ethics Rules That the New York Times Also Misunderstood
    So many things. For sure the NY Times wasn't going to do anything about it until it made the blogs and other press. Secondly, it's way over the top to cut his column about shopping when he took a travel junket. Also it's not exactly in the same realm as making facts up about WMDs in Iraq. Lastly, I am sure that for every Mike Albo there are 15 freelancers who contribute to the Times who have taken press trips, junkets, comp rates, free dinners and what have you, either for other pubs or because they are frickin' freelancers who work for themselves and want to keep up. #mikealbo
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    Image of BlinkyMcChuck BlinkyMcChuck
    10/26/09

    In reply to New York Times Fires Freelancer for Misunderstanding Ethics Rules That the New York Times Also Misunderstood
    Also without sacrificing one of the only good things left to read in the paper. Oh well. #mikealbo
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    Image of Baroness Baroness
    10/26/09

    In reply to New York Times Fires Freelancer for Misunderstanding Ethics Rules That the New York Times Also Misunderstood
    I feel bad for him, liked his column. And didn't ever make the connection that he was The Underminer here, back in yore. Which was damned funny.

    It's hard enough to be a writer anywhere. I don't begrudge him some junket. I didn't know he did travel writing, the technicality which seems the convenient excuse for his firing. I'd hardly expect he'd be slavering over JetBlue as a result, anyway.

    Now Cintra Wilson is unstoppable, alas. #mikealbo
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    Image of MyrtleWilloughby MyrtleWilloughby
    10/26/09

    @Baroness: I loved Mike Albo's column. It looked like the Style section was moving from their old slogan: "A rehash of fashions from three years ago - now on the Upper East Side!" to a new age of "Smart writing about dumb stuff." Albo's writing about shopping was so sharp I was hoping they'd give him a weekly column. This is hella bunz.
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    Image of Baroness Baroness
    10/26/09

    @MyrtleWilloughby: "Smart writing about dumb stuff." Yes, his columns had a glorious sense of the absurd about some of the snooty and expensive shops he checked out, told you what it was like as a shopper off the street with great humour. Aw, I really will miss his columns now. #mikealbo
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    Image of MyrtleWilloughby MyrtleWilloughby
    10/26/09

    @Baroness: The man could sum up the human condition by trying on seersucker pants. Those fools! #mikealbo
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    Image of procrastination_state procrastination_state
    10/26/09

    In reply to New York Times Fires Freelancer for Misunderstanding Ethics Rules That the New York Times Also Misunderstood
    How is this different than David Pogue? It's a double standard applied to someone with very little power to fight back, or even present their case.
    But the Times wouldn't have cared if it hadn't been publicized.

    [www.nytpick.com] #mikealbo
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    Image of iplaudius iplaudius
    10/26/09

    In reply to New York Times Fires Freelancer for Misunderstanding Ethics Rules That the New York Times Also Misunderstood
    They’re just using this as an excuse to cost-cut/downsize. ONE MAN AT A TIME. #mikealbo
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