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milestones
Happy Counting Day! The time is currently 12:34:56 on 7/8/09.
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explanations
We Just Can't Quit Mark Sanford
A reader passed along a quote from Mark Sanford she ran across in an April edition of Time: "I think the fatal flaw of a lot of people in politics is that they want to be loved." Ha! [Time]
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Comment by Airvault: Politician's first fatal flaw: wants to be loved. Second fatal flaw: porcelain veneers. 2 Responses | Other threads
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Gross Nepotism
Time Magazine Staffing Assignments To Sloppy Seconds From People
There're legions of uber-qualified writers who aren't employed right now due to the Sad State of Media. Funny, then, that Time Inc. hired a once-shitcanned People bureau chief accused of bad staff practices (nepotism, intern bedding) at their flagship, Time. More »
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By Foster KamerComment by raincoaster: I thought nepotism was a Time mandate? more » | Other threads
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Save It For The Kids
Time's Commemorative Michael Jackson Issue To Hit Stands Monday
Another iconic cover: Time's special edition issue to commiserate the death of Michael Jackson arrives Monday. They lined up an absurd amount of tributes; the last time Time published a "special" edition between issues was right after 9/11. [Chartini]
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By Foster KamerComment by Mama Penguino: Remember the big Elvis stamp photo debate? A dollar says we'll be having the same discussion eventually wherein we attempt... 9 Responses | Other threads
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feuds
Do We Need a Restraining Order Against Josh Quittner?
We never imagined Josh Quittner would burn a previous Valleywag editor in effigy, but after seeing the video he's posted on Time.com, we wonder if we might need a restraining order. More » -
iran
Neda, The Face of a Revolution
Unless you tuned out completely over the weekend you've seen the haunting video of a young woman named Neda dying on a Tehran street after being shot in the heart. She is now the immortal face of a revolutionary movement.
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Comment by ihatetwitter: She died for nothing. They talk about freedom and liberty but it's all still radical Islam with either side in... 41 Responses | Other threads
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magazines
Time Puts Twitter on Cover, at Vanguard of American Economy
What could Time magazine possibly have to say about Twitter that hasn't been said in a thousand prior magazine and newspaper articles, and on Oprah? That it drives the American economy. In fact, Twitter is the new GM! More »
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By Ryan TateComment by El Matardillo: Twitter consumes massive amounts of capital and doesn't make a dime, so I've no doubt it's the vanguard of the... 2 Responses | Other threads
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torture
When Will Obama Release the Cookie Photos
An FBI interrogator told Time some of the deep, dark secrets of his trade. Will the liberal media threaten our national security by revealing the secrets of our interrogations to terrorists at large? How did we soften up Abu Jandal, the former chief bodyguard of Osama bin-Laden himself? More »
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By PareeneComment by Mymoustache: I heard an interview with an FBI interrogator who said that the CIA contractors wanted to use torture instead of... 4 Responses | Other threads
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Media Crack
Hefner Selling Playboy to Support Barbie Addiction
In your practically-weekend Friday media column: Playboy could be yours, Michael Kinsley wants to fight newsweeklies, a new type of journalism that will fail, and the police department will run your local paper OR ELSE: More »
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Comment by Tremonius: I hear the tRump will buy up Playboy based upon a nudge-nudge misunderstanding about the Chief sleeping with all the... 5 Responses | Other threads
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twitterati
The Twitterati Stay Up All Night Cursing Their Honda
Don't take an iPhone to a movie screening, don't Twitter when you should be making coffee, don't buy a 2002 Honda, and don't be Meghan McCain. This and more we learned from Twitter today! More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by PrettyNotPretty: "Can't you just take a vacation tonight mr. insomnia?" Can't you just take a motherfucking Ambien and a shot of bourbon... 1 Responses | Other threads
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twitterati
The Power Goes Out on the Twitterati
Picture Martha Stewart sitting in the dark, unable to get anything accomplished. It's like the perfect metaphor for how Twitter fails to illuminate the lives of media people! More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by allyzay: there is literally nothing more horrible on the entire internet, and i'm including the entire internet, even cumonherface.com and danny... 5 Responses | Other threads
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royalty
First Lady To Attend One of New York's Many Jimmy Fallon-Hosted Events
Hooray! Michelle Obama's coming to New York! Hooray! She is going to attend the Time 100 Party, which is kind of lame, but still. More »
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By PareeneComment by JQ: What are kids wearing Colombian hats doing at a Cinco de Mayo celebration? 6 Responses | Other threads
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Media Crack
Oh Just Let 4Chan Run The News
In your hacked Wednesday media column: Rachel Maddow's less fascinating, 4Chan's smarter than Time, online news fails, and newspaper layoffs reported not in newspapers: More »
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Comment by Paul_Is_Drunk: 4chan "hacked" Time's poll? No, they overwhelmed it with simple automated programs. Anyone with a large, unruly userbase could have... 6 Responses | Other threads
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Media Crack
Esquire Really *****d The *******s
In your overblownTuesday media column: Time is a biter, Michael Wolff is an exaggerator, Portfolio is a fantasist, Newsweek is stank, and Esquire is an [expletive deleted]: More »
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Comment by BookishLookish: Nice job, Esquire. You were once the classy arbiters of masculine taste, and now you've gotten yourself down to the... 3 Responses | Other threads
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twitterati
Methed-Out Twitterati Marry Evan Williams in Corpus Christi
The advent of Oprah has not changed the inanity of Twitter. Today, Bonnie Fuller met someone supercute, Karen Tumulty landed in the wrong spot, and Alex Blagg recommended meth! More » -
Media Crack
Opportunity Arises to Get the Hell Out of Boston
In your springy Friday media column: a maybe-savior for the Boston Globe, traumatized journalists are everywhere, Newsweek bites HuffPo, and more! More »
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twitterati
Diamond-Encrusted Somali Pirates Overcharge the Twitterati
Why gripe in your cubicle when you can "cc:" the entire Internet? That's what a Daily Show producer, a Chicago Tribune columnist, and a Time critic did on Twitter: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by The Tipping Pint: I prefer to think of hedge funders as our country's pirates. more » | Other threads
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twitterati
The Twitterati Drive Across the Yellow Lines of Our Minds
Twitter is so fresh and so now! It's where rumors get debunked and celebrities break up! And yet media people like James Poniewozik, Caroline McCarthy, and Bonnie Fuller make it just as banal as ever: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Gaytheist: Banal: Tweets. More Banal: Blogging about tweets. Most banal: Commenting about blog post about tweets. 2 Responses | Other threads
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too insidery
Time's Report of Our Demise Is Overrated
Oh, look. Time has one of those annoying click-here-25-times-to-see-the-best-of-something lists and evidently they don't like us very much. What did we do to fall out of the newsweekly's favor? More »
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Comment by Zorica: But the economic downturn and the near-collapse of Wall Street has made Gawker's snarky worldview seem not only cruel but... 9 Responses | Other threads
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y2k
America Travels Back in Time
There's no War on Terror! John McCain is a maverick! Hooray: 2000 is back! September 11th never happened. More »
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By PareeneComment by ADismalScience: I like it, frankly. Obama's administration hasn't detailed a plan for what is to be done with the legitimately scummy people... 8 Responses | Other threads
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magazines
Time Nears Completion of Every Possible Obama Cover Variation
Historic: Time has published its 15th Barack Obama cover. Gazing upon this outpouring of unadulterated Baracknophilia, one can only wonder if there are any new ways left of showing this man on a magazine cover. More »
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Comment by Private Hangnail: An overhead shot of Obama doing a split, staring up at the camera, smiling, with sparklers in either hand. 7 Responses | Other threads
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rumormonger
Time Survivors Rage At Jet-Setting Editor
Time's international editor Michael Elliott is an up-and-comer, second only to U.S. editor Rich Stengel at the magazine. But leading an iron-fisted gutting of global editions made him bitter enemies. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by ifstone: "the Economist, which contains as much viewpoint as news" That's a dilettante's understanding. The Economist runs "leaders" (editorials) at the front... 2 Responses | Other threads
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fashion
Anna Wintour's Princess Leia Dress: Time's Worst Outfit of the Year
Anna Wintour's sequined, seahorse-looking Karl Lagerfeld dress was controversial back when the Vogue ruler wore it to the Costume Institute gala in May. Time's final verdict is another slap to the embattled editor. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by mmstk101: I think Anna needs a "no" person. This person can follow her around and say useful things like: no,... 2 Responses | Other threads
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great magazine die-off
Time Canada Is Folding
The rumor we heard yesterday has been confirmed: Time Canada, which has been around more than 65 years, is folding at the end of the year. [Masthead Online] -
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Time Canada Folding?
Time Europe was gutted last month, and now a tipster tells us that Time Canada is folding completely after its year-end issue. If you know any more, email us. -
journalismism
Coked-Out Mumbai Terrorist Story Too Good To Ignore
Nearly 200 people died in the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, but amid economic chaos and a presidential transition, the story is bound to soon fall off the front pages of American newspapers. How to keep readers interested? By helping them somehow relate to a despicable band of terrorists born in a foreign land and fervently devoted to an unfamiliar religion. Preferably in a way that simultaneously makes the perpetrators seem even more crazed an awful. Enter wild allegations of cocaine and LSD use, via the British press! More »
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By Ryan TateComment by CaptainFantastic: If my experiences were typical in any way, taking LSD would not aid in producing an elite commando squad. 4 Responses | Other threads
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barack obama
Obama Crap Making Insane Millions For Media
Amid pandemic media bloodletting and global financial meltdown, it's nice to finally find a silver lining: All those silly Barack Obama trinkets are making insane amounts of money for media companies and providing precious little stimulus to the economy. The Times estimated roughly $200 million sold so far, including more than $15 million in commemorative issues and books from People and Time, somewhere around $1.5 million for the online store set up by the New york Times Company and $700,000 for the Los Angeles Times. Commemorative plates and coins, meanwhile have become ubiquitous enough that Lewis Black ranted about them on the Daily Show (clip after the jump). The downside? More »
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By Ryan TateComment by MisterHippity: Sure, the Obama stuff people are selling so far is worthless crap, I agree. But just wait until my new product,... 8 Responses | Other threads
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time
Time Europe Layoffs: The Backlash Builds
More on yesterday's gutting of Time's European bureau: threats are involved! We hear that Time Inc. stuffed suits told the Time London office "that if news and details of the layoffs were leaked, they might have their severance reduced." Whoever made that threat is an asshole, and one whose threat failed to accomplish its purpose. So there. We also hear the company is "axing the London art, imaging, and copy-editing departments," and firing two staffers in the photo department. And all of this is causing staffers to be pissed—predictably—at Time editor Richard Stengel [UPDATE: and more clarity on the layoffs below]: More »
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Comment by Catfish_Jones: On the plus side, "Felix Dennis' Poetry Quarterly" is launching out of offices in Kensington next week and hiring. Just kidding... 1 Responses | Other threads
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dead trees
Obama Saves Newsweeklies, Too!
"By late yesterday, Time, which published more than 100,000 extra copies, had already gone back to press, while Newsweek, which also added 100,000 to its print run, was very close to doing the same." [Post] -
blogging for dollars
Hotshot political blogger's covert funding
Ana Marie Cox, the original Wonkette blogger, left our cozy Gawker family two years ago for a big gig with Time. A regular on TV and in wonky political magazines I don't read, Cox has been blogging for Time from John McCain's plane. But now Ana Marie is in trouble: Turns out her $1,000-a-day expenses on McCain's plane weren't fully covered by Time. Cox was making ends meet with paychecks from Radar, a pseudoinfluential New York magazine. Radar goes out of business every couple of years to stay trendy. Last week, the mag dutifully shut down for a third time. Cox, despite a "mid-six-figures" book deal in the works, was reduced to pleading for donations on her personal blog. There's a big lesson here, and I think it's: Owen, I want my travel paid in advance.
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By Paul BoutinComment by drinkwater: Never pay for travel on your own dime, no matter how much they tell you that you will be reimbursed.... 2 Responses | Other threads
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time
'Time' Pretending Obama Won't Be Person of the Year
Assuming Barack Obama pulls this thing off next week, we imagine we're due for a deluge of media gushing over our First Black President. No, seriously, it'll make the last two years look like a dress rehearsal. And it will all lead to a glorious crescendo of treacly nonsense by January, when Obama, secret socialist muslim god willing, is sworn in. So. That really makes it all the more ridiculous that Time editor Richard Stengel has taken to the YouTubes to ask "you" who should be named the Time Person of the Year. Every sitting President has received the dubious honor, with Bush II, Reagan, Carter, Clinton, and others all getting it the years of their elections. And they were all old white guys. So go ahead and email "NOBAMA" to Stengel and see how far it gets you if Barack wins Colorado and Nevada next week. A scant two years after naming YOU Person of the Year, Time is now just jerking YOUR chain.
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By PareeneComment by Morales_Verguenza: Shouldn't Person of the Year really be Axelrod? (or Bill Ayers) 6 Responses | Other threads
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reviews you can't use
Harvard Guy Gives Orgasmic Review to Other Harvard Guy
Since we're such big fans of Time book critic Lev Grossman, this week's review of John Updike's latest book troubles us that much more. Updike apparently has images of Grossman tearing through The Da Vinci Code somewhere, because we can't think of any other reason to toss Philip Roth aside so quickly and embrace John Updike so completely as he does in his review of their latest efforts. The adulation becomes unbearable starting now. More »
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Comment by Pope John Peeps II: So um.. reviewers like Updike, therefore the reviewers are wrong and it must be because they all went to Harvard? Is... 7 Responses | Other threads
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joe klein
Joe Klein Banned From McCain Plane
John McCain's presidential campaign won't let Time columnist Joe Klein aboard its campaign plane because, according to an official statement, " we don't allow Daily Kos diarists on board either." Translation: More »
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By Ryan TateComment by wholenuther: I wouldn't let a terrorist on my plane either! Terrorist (Tear-ist) n. someone who disagrees with me, generally members of a... 2 Responses | Other threads
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politics
Internet declares Biden triumphant in debate
West Virginia held on until the end, but Time's interactive map has finally declared Joe Biden the unanimous winner of tonight's Vice-Presidential debate. I haven't been this excited since Ron Paul swept the primaries.
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By Paul BoutinComment by WilliamMarkFelt: @Drinkwater Wow Drinkwater, the best minds in America should be reading Valleywag, because apparently you're the only one who knows... 5 Responses | Other threads
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great moments in journalism
Time copies Wired's real-time editing experiment
The hot trend in publishing these days is "transparency" — letting readers watch the media sausage being made. Why leave the tedious back-and-forth between writers and editors unpublished, when so much cleverness goes into telling colleagues how they've done it all wrong? Wired is doing it now with a feature, still in the works, on screenwriter Charlie Kaufman. We don't think the editors of Time intended to follow Wired's footsteps, but they did. A Q&A with Dr. Sam Parnia, an expert on death, was published on Time.com and distributed on Yahoo News with editors' comments attached. It asks, "What Happens When We Die?" But it doesn't address the more important question: What happens when we merely wish we could?
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By Owen ThomasComment by friendslikeJimRome: as if Time has any editors left...that's a note from MJ's mother. more » | Other threads
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this thing looks like that thing
The Backhanded Art of the Unflattering Cover
Hey, Julia Allison's on the cover of once-important lifestyle rag Wired! Ms. Allison, who's moved beyond the "dating columnist/celeb talking head" thing to become a noted dater-of-rich-nerds, is the subject of yet another of those interminable stories about becoming Internet Famous in Three Easy Steps. We haven't read the piece, except that we already did in a different magazine like a month ago. More importantly: editors and contributors who perhaps have some doubt as to your value as a cover model may undermine the honor with unflattering photoshop work and coverlines. ("Even if you're nobody," eh?) Just ask right-wing comedienne Ann Coulter. And consider yourself warned.
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By PareeneComment by Pussy Galore: Damn, she looks old and haggard in that photo -- much like the SATC episode. more » | Other threads
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4chan
O Hai I Can Haz Memes? Click For AWESOME Video!!!11!!
The Wall Street Journal would like to inform you about 4chan.org, a "website" that starts "memes" such as "LOLCats," which is "humorous images of cats with loud text beneath them in a fake language," and the "Rick Roll," an "online bait-and-switch" that sends you to "the music video of Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up," a hit song from 1988." The Wall Street Journal, by the way, is a "newspaper." And formerly anonymous 4chan founder Christopher Poole was on a self-revealing spree, because the same day, Time magazine ran a 4chan story as well. It's a LOL-MSM-MEME unto itself! More »
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Comment by american_scumbag: I think memes are slightly causing de-evolution. Pretty soon we'll all be laughing at the Oscar-winning film Ass. But not my... more » | Other threads
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50 Best Websites 2008
How Time's 50 best websites make money (if they do)
Why is Microsoft so panicked over Google-Yahoo? Time's list of 50 best websites provides an anecdotal answer. Of the 50, 18 rely on Google ads for their income. Only one, UrbanDictionary.com, uses Microsoft ads. Yahoo doesn't fare much better — only brokering impressions for Rate My Professors and its own site on the list, Yahoo Answers. Below, find Time's entire list and how each site apparently makes its money (if it does at all — seven are run by volunteers). More »
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