August 2010
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July 2010
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He’s like the Rick Sanchez of The Atlantic. Jeffrey Goldberg recently called Zabar’s a “mecca” of Lox, which is the kind of funny thing meant to piss off sensitive readers. What you’re not supposed to do is get huffy when sensitive readers get pissed off, otherwise you demonstrate your total inability to “get it,” which Goldberg simply never does (though...
Shits and Giggles, How To: #487
Every now and then I like to drop by Jezebel with something like this.
Journalism 101, How TMZ Got The Exclusive on... →
Watch carefully, Journalism majors. This is how you do it.
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Anatomy of an Error: Why Nobody Got Fired From the... →
As for Rupert Murdoch’s calls to Col Allan before and after the story ran that Rubenstein adamantly denied? Again, from our source: “That did happen. Absolutely.”
Rather than suggest the incredible notion that a reporter here was lied to by a publicist, let’s put it like this: Howard Rubenstein is one of the most successful flacks in the history of New York City, and...
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The New York Post's Newsroom: On Edge and Under... →
So:
The New York Post reported an incorrect story. Took it down after they were corrected. Blamed it on their source and a hospital who wouldn’t comment. And now are waiting to see who gets fired.
Why?
Because apparently Rupert Murdoch supposedly issued a congratulations to Post EIC Col Allan on the story two days before it blew up in their face. And now, apparently, he’s raging....
Moses/Jobs
“By the way, what have you done that’s so great? Do you create anything, or just criticize others’ work and belittle their motivations?”
- Steve Jobs
‘‘Those who can, build. Those who can’t, criticize.”
- Robert Moses
I keep going back to Jobs’ conversation with Ryan Tate. It fascinates me. I made it there again tonight. Sure: In some...
Last Laughs: Dave Weigel Re-Hired by Washington... →
No doubt those who tried to dismantle Weigel’s career could find themselves facepalm-ing this afternoon as they might have inadvertently helped land him a more comfortable, higher-paying gig, where he’ll likely have more freedom than he ever did at the Post to write whatever he wants. You can almost taste the disappointment coming out of original Journolist email publisher (Fishbowl DC...
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Jersey Shore's Guido Effect on the New York Stock... →
Your GTL index is brilliant. On a day when the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed more or less flat, the GTL stocks you picked outperformed the markets. In some cases dramatically. Let’s start with the G: the fitness product company Nautilus is up 7.91% for the day. Energizer is up 9.9%. Even the giant consumer products company, Procter & Gamble outperformed, with a...
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nycthe:
I feel like Nick Denton is the Shepard Fairey of new media. Unless you’re going to tell me about the time you were at his loft and everyone shoved bananas up their asses and lit them on fire (with the accompanying slide show, of course), I really don’t give a shit.
Okay, fine. One time I got shitfaced and threw a bunch of Nick’s marbles down his stairs. I was in the aftermath of...
BlogBeat: The New Yorker is Working on a Profile... →
Quite frankly, unless he starts offering a “Stabbing Bonus” for writers whose posts results in them being stabbed (by unique visitors only, though), there’s never going to be a perfect news “peg” for a Nick Denton profile. Careful, though: the last time The New Yorker profiled a blogging powerhouse, it was Tad Friend taking on Deadline Hollywood’s Nikki Finke,...
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The Village Voice Finally Makes Journolist! →
Hey, guys, listen: I like conservative bloggers! Andrew Sullivan counts, right? Dave Weigel used to count, no? We can be friends! Just get your facts straight: I was never on Journolist, and when you do things like this, it reinforces the idea that the majority of fringe conservative bloggers are conspiratorial half-breeds trying to perpetrate inane conspiracy theories without a clue as to what...
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“I didn’t want them to grow up in SoHo or TriBeCa in a ghetto of people who,...”
– - The Stories of One Brooklyn Block, NYT, July 23, 2010, Stacey Abramson.
Even though she’s probably somehow related to Jill, this NYT piece on one of the most beautiful blocks in New York is still pretty great. But this quote: On one hand, yes. You get it. On the other, well….still,...
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WatchBill Withers - Lean On Me
For, it won’t be long, ‘Til I’m gonna…
The perfect jam for today’s weather. Related: the “Stevie Wonder” Pandora station is, in a word, magical. Do it.
The Village Voice Remembers Daniel Schorr →
I will admit, I got a little teary reading and writing about Schorr. This guy was The Real McCoy. If you don’t have time for my little aside at the Voice, at least do yourself a favor and read the NPR obit.
Name the Bad Idea.
This is no better (or worse) than putting a Holocaust memorial in Vegas, somewhere between the Treasure Island and The Mirage, so as soon as you’re done learning the obscure stories about the various, horrific ways children were killed by Nazis, you can step outside to be sandwiched between a T & A pirate battle and a volcano that shoots fire every 45 minutes, and both places have...
The Tucker Carlson Journolist-Disclosure Email... →
The Daily Caller columnist Myra Adams noted in a recent post about The Daily Caller’s coverage of Journolist, “Now thanks to The Daily Caller, truth has come from darkness.” Except for the parts Carlson is okay with keeping out of the light, like his own site’s involvement?
I emailed Carlson to ask him about this. The following was our on-record exchange, in full....
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On the Extent to Which We're Responsible
Intern Annie wrote this lede on her latest post, which I didn’t see until it was up on the site, the title of which is Hey, Everyone: Guess What, Girls Masturbate:
I wholeheartedly endorse Mary Elizabeth Williams’ article in Salon today, “Why teen girls need more vibrators.”
It is followed by three contentions:
Exhibit A: Women have masturbated in movies (simulated...
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5 Questions with W+K, The Ad Agency Behind the Old... →
5. How do they do the thing where Isaiah ends up in jeans at the end of the “SWAN DIVE” ad? Because that is magical. Do not do the thing where you don’t tell us because it’s magical. We want answers.
On Dennis Kneale, Bulimia and Michael's: Why We... →
What Kneale is attempting to do here is induce bulimia in a news cycle by reaching his finger in its mouth, “pulling the trigger,” and thus managing to get the story to come back up, only half-digested. But all it really does it make anyone with their head on straight want to puke on everything.
It’s the kind of shameless thing only a reporter who is not just willing, but...
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acontinuation asked: *This is going to be a multi-parter so bare with me.
1) I really enjoy your work over at The Village Voice. Seriously, keep it up.
2) Why does/did Abram Sauer hate you so much?
3) Do you hate the New York Times or do you just find them incredibly annoying with their never-ending insistence on slamming blogs?
alright i'm done.
1) I really enjoy your work over at The Village Voice. Seriously, keep it up.
2) Why does/did Abram Sauer hate you so much?
3) Do you hate the New York Times or do you just find them incredibly annoying with their never-ending insistence on slamming blogs?
alright i'm done.
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The New York Times Will Never Burnout of Blogger... →
“Sometimes one sees writers just standing before it, like early hominids in front of a monolith,” said Nick Denton, Gawker Media’s founder.
Oh, come on, Nick. Tell us what you really think. Unfortunately, NYT writer Jeremy W. Peters chose to note things like the looming figurative and literal “big board” presence of pageview targets and the pace of the work (Four to...
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Presenting: The Mel Gibson Crossword Puzzle... →
…If you’re the first one to fill out and email the answers (or a scanned copy of the crossword) to us…
We will buy you any Mel Gibson DVD of your choice (up to a $24.99 value, because I’m sorry, but nobody really needs the Director’s Cut ofApocalypto, or whatever) and send it to you. May I recommend Maverick?
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Breaking: Gawker is Being Attacked by 4Chan →
As Joe predicted, here we go……
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This Blog Is The Shit: Runnin' Scared Takes Home... →
Not that you didn’t already know, dear reader, but as the young people would say, “game recognize game,” because we have just been officially told we are what the young people would call
“Off-the-chain.”
“The ‘Ish.”
“The Bomb.”
“The Dopeness.”
“ILL.”
“Sick.”
As today, Runnin’ Scared...
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Terry Gross: Nasty Girl of NPR Burned by... →
Yes, this post does, in fact, end with the Pretty Ricky YouTube video of those guys humping their couches.
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Apple to Give Out Free Phone-Condoms for Impotent... →
Jobs: “We are just a band of people working our asses off to surprise and delight people. We are human.”
Well, except when you’re being a superhuman dick. Maybe you should get a chill-case to chill the antannae of your arrogance, Steve Jobs!
But more importantly, maybe people should not become “fanboys” of consumer products to the point where they purchase...
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Breaking: Village Voice Offices Currently Being... →
Sometimes, news happens right before your very eyes! Or even outside your building! To you! We have received word that there are “four guys” outside handing fliers out in front of the Village Voice offices. Even more, they are protesting the (for the record: unionized) Village Voice for union-busting! What gives? Apparently, these people are not happy with the people we use to ...
Well-Known Hipster Astronaut-Wizard "Douche"... →
No, really.
MoMA to Yoko Ono Regarding Soprano: STFU PLZ →
I’m sorry, but if I had Yoko Oko screeching unpronounceable alphanumeric characters behind me all day, I’d call OSHA and ask about my rights. Even before I talked to the Observer. Either way, that’s when they turned down Yoko’s yammering. Which resulted in the best kicker in recent Observer-MoMA coverage history…
Bros Icing Bros: Dear New York Media, Smirnoff... →
A few months later, however, and if anything’s evident, it’s that this was all The Media’s fault. Realize: the New York Times was covering a binge-drinking game. If there was ever a time to accuse institutions like this one of forcing something terrible on the public, now would be a surefire time to land a shot square where we deserve it. And apparently, even Diageo knows it.
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Social Network Trailer: Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg... →
Update: Like clockwork, Rachelle Hruska — proprietor of NYC-based social scene site Guest of a Guest, a venture funded by perpetual anti-Facebook litigants Cameron and Tyler WInklevoss, two shiny olympic rowers who claim theft on Zuckerberg’s part for the original Facebook idea (who are also characters in the movie) — has expressed her anticipation for the film. In other...
