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Have you heard about the hawt new Afghanistan war journalism, Wikileaks? The Washington Post heard about it too, probably by checking Google News or whatever. And two unlucky reporters got the Sunday night job of writing about the “new approach” Wikileaks took to publicize the damning war documents — a “new approach” that completely passed [...]
Rolling Stone war journalist Michael Hastings was on Howard Kurtz’s Sunday chat show to talk about doing journalism for real, instead of just writing neo-con combat fantasies for the Washington Post op-ed pages. But what did CBS News’ battlefield babe Lara Logan think of Hastings for reporting what General Stanley McChrystal and his senior staff [...]
The media industry has fully recovered, as evidenced by this job listing seeking thirty (30!) journalists at the Atlantic Media Group. But Atlantic Media Group’s National Journal just got rid of thirty (30!) journalists through buyouts, so the net gain of Journalism Jobs is zero (0). Still, this is enough for a shitty trend column [...]
Ha ha ha, don’t know how we missed this earlier in the week, but a thriller novelist named Brad Thor has been publishing major major national security Scoops at Andrew Breitbart’s Big Government joke blog: “Late this afternoon Lt. Colonel Oliver North confirmed that Taliban leader and Osama bin Laden ally, Mullah Mohammed Omar has [...]
Famous college-testing company Kaplan is now racing to get rid of all its loser “print journalism” properties, with forgotten newsweekly Newsweek now officially being handed to some broker who will put it out of its misery. (Kaplan also owns the Washington Post, the struggling youth-blogging consortium and holding pen for insane old neo-cons.) But Newsweek [...]
CNN’s Experts have done it again: they have split another very difficult difference! You say the First Amendment says this, but I say free speech makes me sad sometimes! Who is more right? No one, duh! 50-50 FOREVER! PERFECT COMPLACENCY! EVERYBODY IS RIGHT AND WRONG ABOUT EVERYTHING, FA LA LA LA LA!
You know those “Kaplan special education” booklets or whatever that you buy for kids who aren’t doing too good with the book learnin’? Well, turns out that company also publishes a local newspaper, the Washington Post. The paper had recently fallen on very hard times, because its whole staff was basically made up of feeble [...]
NEW YORK TIMES NOT REALLY CUT OUT FOR LIVEBLOGGING: “Mr. Hoyer begins recognizing ‘little punk staffers,’ a reference to a derisive character made by Representative John Boehner, the minority last week …. ” Is this a known language? [NYT]
For weeks now, several hundred people who follow New York state politics have been very excited about a possible BOMBSHELL related to David Paterson, the wacky blind governor who used to do so much blow and bang all these gals at an uptown motel. Paterson only ended up as governor by mistake — Eliot Spitzer’s [...]
The New York Times is supposedly typey-typing its story that we already know will force David Paterson to resign before having any idea what’s in it. Why won’t David Paterson save the Times the trouble and just resign right now, for whatever?
Jesus, New York Times, if you would just quote the “something vulgar” rather than leave us all guessing, maybe the voters of Massachusetts would know whether Scott Brown is laughing about sodomy or rape or rape-sodomy or whatever.
It’s not New Year’s until the ball drops in Times Square on New Year’s Eve, and Christmas celebrations cannot begin until a woman knocks over the Pope on Christmas Eve. And so began another Feliz Navidad around the world, once the lady knocked down the Pope. Happy Holiday, CNN online editor stuck working on Christmas [...]
BECAUSE NEWSPAPER EDITORS ARE DUMB & LAZY: Your editor Juli Weiner once faked out an entire prosperous town with the simplest of pranks, all because of one little public-urination dual arrest. [The Awl]
