<![CDATA[The AP Editor Who Gabs About Britney's Looming Bucket-Kick - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA[The AP Editor Who Gabs About Britney's Looming Bucket-Kick - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA[The AP Editor Who Gabs About Britney's Looming Bucket-Kick]]> Actually, I got no beef with Mr. Washington.

At least Britney has given me music I can work out to.

Paris has given me nothing -- just like her granddaddy is giving her! NOTHING!!!!!!!

There, I feel better.

chuchobaby

]]> <![CDATA[The AP Editor Who Gabs About Britney's Looming Bucket-Kick]]> Hey,

I guess you can't take the "public access" out of me--I was doing public access pieces at the University of Michigan in 1981. Regarding the "height issue" I agree that Jesse Washington is fair game but I don't think you should pick on him because he's abnormally tall. However, Randy Newman is a "bleep."

DSSimonVlogViews

]]> <![CDATA[The AP Editor Who Gabs About Britney's Looming Bucket-Kick]]> @AndIAmTellingYou:

Exactly. It may seem morbid, but it's a necessary part of the business, and every mainstream outlet does it. Or at least they should.

DaeSu

]]> <![CDATA[The AP Editor Who Gabs About Britney's Looming Bucket-Kick]]> What can an obituary teach us about Briney Spears that we don't already know? I've seen her vadge more often than I've seen my penis. And I pee...a lot.

Contempty

]]> <![CDATA[The AP Editor Who Gabs About Britney's Looming Bucket-Kick]]> Ha! I ride the train with that interviewer every day. Well, not *with* him, but you know... he's on my line. Seems like a nice enough guy.

lellolicious

]]> <![CDATA[The AP Editor Who Gabs About Britney's Looming Bucket-Kick]]> As jr. reporter, I was on the night shift when news about Diana broke. We had to scrap the mag. Later we made a list of all the celeb obits we needed, and while it seemed like a macabre death list, it's just part of the breaking news business.

AndIAmTellingYou

]]> <![CDATA[The AP Editor Who Gabs About Britney's Looming Bucket-Kick]]> In a past life as a newspaper journalist, I penned my share of advance obits, usually for famous folks over 65, or some celebrities in poor health. Sometimes I lobbied, to little avail, for advances on those with prodigious substance abuse problems, regardless of age. But I know for a fact at least one prominent newspaper that had Chris Farley's obit written a good six months before he died. Sometimes it just pays to be prepared, and I always preferred to have something ready in the can rather getting a call from some breathless editor on a Saturday night.

DaeSu

]]> <![CDATA[The AP Editor Who Gabs About Britney's Looming Bucket-Kick]]> "If we put it out, you can bet the house on it that it really happened."

Makes me feel better about an incident a decade ago, when I accidentally sent Ralph Bellamy's obit on the AP wire even though he was very much alive. So I was right and the really pissed off Ralph was wrong. Fancy that.

Truculent

]]> <![CDATA[The AP Editor Who Gabs About Britney's Looming Bucket-Kick]]> Why wouldn't the interviewer ask the man to sit? It looks like that scene in "Lord of the Rings" where the hobbits talk to the giant trees.

Ricky Roma

]]> <![CDATA[The AP Editor Who Gabs About Britney's Looming Bucket-Kick]]> SCIENTOLOGIST

mathnet

]]> <![CDATA[The AP Editor Who Gabs About Britney's Looming Bucket-Kick]]> Yes but will he give me good bang for my house if I bet a buck?

Tammany_Fall

]]> <![CDATA[The AP Editor Who Gabs About Britney's Looming Bucket-Kick]]> hobgobliny
oh maggie, you really do have a way...

the supergoddess

]]> <![CDATA[The AP Editor Who Gabs About Britney's Looming Bucket-Kick]]> "People are very interested in images these days..." AP-- the tip of the spear for new media.

rojac

]]> <![CDATA[The AP Editor Who Gabs About Britney's Looming Bucket-Kick]]> wait! holy crap, Brit is dead?

IndianSlipper

]]> <![CDATA[The AP Editor Who Gabs About Britney's Looming Bucket-Kick]]> I don't go out on a limb very often, but that interviewer was born for Public Access.

KarenUhOh

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