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08/04/09
This brings to mind the phone call that Joe Kennedy (the old one, not the shot-down one or the dumb one) made to Jack Paar after Paar launched a feud with Walter Winchell on the Tonight Show. "Don't talk about Winchell," Joe urged Jack. "He's almost gone. Nobody reads him any more. You're bringing him back from the dead when you make those cracks about him. Don't do that. Don't let people start talking about him again."
I mean, a paper published by a chick who's got makeup and a do like a Sarah Lawrence junior at a Tom Tom Club gig in 1983? That makes Winchell in 1960 look hip. (OK, she's got an excuse for looking like somebody at a Tom Tom Club show, her aunt's in the band. But at least she could look like she's at one of their shows in 2009.)
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08/03/09
"What nobody will say publicly, for fear of being called a racist, is that he is notorious, especially among many of his colleagues (black and white) at Harvard, for being short-tempered and arrogant."
And look at that. Gawker proved that fear to be well founded.
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05/17/09
Re: Denton
Exploits his employees? Yes.
Cheats the government? No.
Nick is simply doing what a vast amount of companies do in the current labor market. Is it right? Of course not. But it isn't illegal.
Smithhimself truly believes that treating others badly will return negativity to your life in a variety of unexpected ways. As John once sang: "Instant Karma's gonna get you..." Well, yes, it does happen.
05/17/09
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05/16/09
The country is at 9% unemployment? People are losing their homes? Hey! What's going on in the Hamptons?
It was maddening. It literally almost made me vomit a couple times for the few weeks I still worked here after the crash--with our money-padded overlord insisting that The Sunday Times was still remotely relevant.
The Sunday Times is, and has been for at least twenty years, for slack-jawed private school legacies who don't need to work, and who can't write. Kick those fucker in the ass every chance you ever get.
(And predict that your new overlord will turn on you if you're not a milky sheep, because it's what he does. He reads the Sunday Times Religiously, and agrees with it.)
If he ever moves you to full time, keep notes. You'll have a solid labor case against the Brit Frankenstein and his pet boy.
Best, always,
Ian
05/16/09
The Hamptons stories are relegated to the Fashion & Style section, correct? And that section is supported largely by luxury ads. It makes sense to print stories about the tedious travails of the tawdry rich in a section that tries to sell stuff to them to maintain its own existence.
All that depressing unemployment, foreclosure, and homelessness stuff gets printed where it actually belongs: in the front section.
This just seems like a lot of self-righteous fury for nothing.
05/16/09
It is by and large a newspaper by the rich, of the rich, and for the rich. Research who actually writes for them: mostly educated at eastern seaboard private schools; mostly had their student loans paid off by their parents, if they ever took any out in the first place.
Ever wonder why so-called "New York" magazine only reports on Manhattan and some parts of Brooklyn? Senior editors from Choat and Andover with trust funds that would choke a hippo. I dare Adam Moss to deny it.
The rest of the writers have to come to places like this, where a Brit millionaire steals their money because he doesn't want to pay payroll tax or SSI or unemployment insurance on his fulltime employees. So he calls them "Independent Contractors" despite the fact that they work 40+ hours a week, are expected to attend mandatory staff meetings, and can be called in at a moment's notice by the managing editor to work weekends (for which there is no overtime) if a story breaks.
So this isn't self-righteous fury. This is righteous fury. The mainstream press has been sold to rich babies who watch each other's backs. The rest has been sold to scummy opportunists of the sort who run this site in total opposition to state and federal law.
But at least one of these diseases can be stopped. Lawson, Tate, Nolan, Pareene... How long will you put up with it? You like working full-time with no benefits? Do you enjoy paying your own payroll tax every year even though you are full-time employees? You like the possibility that Nick, or, worse, that sham "editor" Gabriel, will up and fire you for no reason? And then you won't even get unemployment? Nick Denied Sheila's claim--why would he treat you differently?
Oh, but YOU won't get fired, right? Because Nick likes you. Ask yourself: Has Nick ever liked anyone? His entire business is based on cheating his employees out of benefits and cheating the state and federal government out of taxes.
If any of you are curious about how you might seek some equity from this criminal, and from the helpers who have been cooking his books for four months, at least, just email me. I have a list of lawyers who would love to talk to you.
Hi Nick!
05/16/09
Anyway: these people are your people! They miss you. And I can't seem to get 'em to read shit! Any tips would be appreciated, and I assure you, it's my pocket you're lining, not Denton's. He ain't making nothin' off me right now.
05/16/09
But if you -- a professional journalist apparently posting under his own name -- really mean to be on this road you're traveling, then you need, need, need legal advice...urgently, no substitutes. Hope you're on very good terms with at least one name from that list of lawyers you mentioned.
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05/09/09
HOWEVER. You are welcome to sponsor ME.
05/08/09
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05/08/09
-That slide show was a parade of douche bags.
-Armie Hammer? Really? That's what you named him?
-Don't buy Hearst stock, they can't even afford bras for their daughters.
05/08/09
And wasn't Lapo found in semi-flagrante delicto with a tranny? Let's not make him out as a young innocent trying to make his mark in the world, shall we?