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Gawker will miss Weiner

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

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...

Tuesday Link Dump: Has 4Chan hobbled Gawker?

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....

News biz tail-spinning toward a public option

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,...

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

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....

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

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...