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Gawker will miss Weiner

By | 06.16.11 | 10:11 am

America’s embattled hairless self-loving digital exhibitionist congressman, Anthony Weiner, will resign today. Taking nudie snaps of yourself and sending them to Twitter friends– undeniably pathetic but neither illegal nor corrupt– turns out is one of the rare breaches of ethics members of Congress will not tolerate. News gossip site Gawker has been the best source on the scandal and today Gawker writer Adrian Chen lets loose news of the pending resignation with an expert flurry of double entendres we’re not likely to see again for… at least another few months when the next ridiculous celebrity sex scandal breaks.

Gossip bloggers fix federal budget simply by reversing everything Bush

By | 11.15.10 | 9:56 am

The New York Times on Sunday ran a do-it-yourself federal budget piece, where readers could pick and choose to slash and save items from the nation’s basic spending and revenue columns to solve the politically unsolvable budget crisis. The…

Tuesday Link Dump: Has 4Chan hobbled Gawker?

By | 07.20.10 | 1:09 pm

Gawker called out 4Chan.org’s notorious /b/ message board for singling out an 11 year old YouTuber and posting her personal info on the web. The girl was eventually placed under police protection. The 4Chan users then declared war on…

News biz tail-spinning toward a public option

By | 03.15.10 | 9:53 am

A new Project for Excellence in Journalism Pew study confirms what we all know: Journalism is a labor-intensive skilled trade that no longer pays, at least the way it is set up today. Advertisers hate the web and understandably…

Leno guest, celebrity author, Fox News pundit Palin a voiceless victim of media

By | 03.03.10 | 8:55 am

Sarah Palin and Jay Leno on network television’s dynasty talk show last night commiserated on how they have been attacked by the media unfairly. Palin told Jay Leno on the Tonight Show in front of millions of viewers that she…

Upside-down Watergate: O’Keefe was always the break-in phone-tapper, not the journalist

By | 01.27.10 | 4:07 pm

No one knows what a journalist is anymore and maybe that’s good. But when thirty-one lawmakers on one side of the aisle in Congress decide to commend someone for “journalism,” then it’s abundantly clear the person being commended is…