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Oh, You Wacky Serious Journalists
And with another year and a dozen more committee members — or, at least, with the resources of our Times — the paper also could have recommended that puppies be considered adorable, apple pies delicious, and Hitler a very, very bad man. More »
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We're Just Too Fucking Highbrow
It's a good day today at Broadway and Leonard — although, we suppose, they're pretty much all good days down there. The boys of CollegeHumor.com — you know, that quartet of 20-somethings you read about in The New Yorker back in January, the guys who from their $10,000/month Tribeca loft run a website you've never seen but your younger brother seems to find diverting — today signed a movie contract. It's not for any specific project yet; it's just a development deal, says Variety, "aiming to find feature projects reflecting the college experience along the lines of 1978's hit comedy 'National Lampoon's Animal House.'" More »
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Brooklynite Mag to be Read on Shady, Tree-Lined Street
We could excuse our failure to quickly address the launch issue of The Brooklynite magazine as a result of our typical derision reserved for the domesticated borough from which it hails, but we won't. Rather, we'll just honestly confess to not knowing about the free magazine (though our ignorance has something to do with the fact that the publication hails from a domesticated borough we often deride). More »
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Suddenly, We Understand Why the 'NY Press' is Fading Away
From left to right: Hijinks! Hilarity! Craziness!It's Tijuana like you've never seen it before, flush with journalism's unbuttoned blue collar. Courtesy of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies Convention, the Animal House of alt-weekly culture. More »
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So a Rabbi, a Priest, and a Minister Walk Into a Bar
It's like an age-old Japanese koan, except neither age-old nor Japanese: If you publish a blog that's mostly humor, but Google News doesn't label you as satire, are you actually funny? More »
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'Double Super Secret Background' Conversation Finally, Formally Revealed
As we speak (write?), Time reporter Matt Cooper — after months of litigation, ungranted petitions for certiorari, threats in all directions, a fight inside Norm Pearlstine's head, a dramatic farewell to his son, an equally dramatic (or perhaps not) release from his source, Judy Miller's incarceration, and Newsweek's revelation of an email to his boss — is finally testifying before special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald's grand jury. More »
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Reader Mail: The Gays Love Matt Taibbi Edition
We live to serve, and so we're thrilled to have the chance to help reader Gordon, who emailed this request last night: More »
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'Life & Style' Continues to Destroy Newsstand Sanity
Despite whatever fallacies you may have been forced to endure during your youth, we're happy to announce that cheaters do, in fact, win. (Those of you who went to boarding school probably already knew this.) We're not quite so happy, however, to announce that the new maxim of victorious cheaters extends to Bauer Publishing's glossy toilet paper, Life & Style: More »
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'Life & Style' Perfects the Art of Bullshit
Celebrity weeklies do the funniest things. Just ask Bonnie Fuller, who famously took heat for a Star cover that changed Demi Moore's dress to a lovely shade of white, so as to compliment a rumor that the actress would be marrying Ashton Kutcher. Leave it to Life & Style, however, to raise the bar by releasing a cover in which 3/4 of the images are actual Photoshop cut-and-paste jobs. After the jump, a quick lesson from the entrails of tabloid photojournalism, in easy-to-digest, charticle form. More »
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Contributions to the (Nonexistent) 'Onion' Strike Fund
We can't say we were blown away with the union slogans y'all submitted for the not-actually-striking writers at The Onion. There are several potential reasons for this, we realized. First, you are not Onion writers, and, thus, are less funny than they are. Second, strikes are not inherently funny. And third, and perhaps most significant, it's not a real strike, and our gullibility did not inspire you to deliver your best work. More »
Cheap Shots with the Gastineau Girls
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Pick a joke, any joke. We prefer the subtle "well-groomed pet" route.
New York Dog [via Goldenfiddle]
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Pick a joke, any joke. We prefer the subtle "well-groomed pet" route.
New York Dog [via Goldenfiddle]
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Tabloid Studies 101: Lessons in Cultural Relevancy, Part II
Yeah, well, a new Hummer could drive right through a hurricane while eating that bomb for breakfast. No contest, dude. More »
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'60 Minutes' = 'GMA' + 'O'Reilly' + 2.5 'Larry King's
Folio: funnyman Dylan Stableford — and we're pretty sure there's also a Bront hero with that name — takes a hard look in the new issue at the messy business of product placements. He's not saying that mags accept payments for placements in their editorial (sorry, BusinessWeek). But all bets are off, he says, when it comes to which products editors will push on TV, where an editor will often mention products from a company with which her magazine has a "relationship." More »
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Political Cartoonist, Meet Satire
Political cartoonists are a special breed. They must bring to work every day a delicate mix of elegant artistry, clever wordplay, gimlet-eyed observation, genuine insight, biting satire, and a refined appreciation for the absurd. More »
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An Ironic Strike?
The problem with deadpan humor is that you never know whether to take seemingly serious stuff seriously. To wit, this note on the top of The Onion's website: More »
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You Take Subscribers Where You Can Get 'Em
At first we thought this was our favorite thing in the current New York Review of Books: More »
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Tabloid Studies 101: Lessons in Cultural Relevancy
Good morning, class! Please sit down and take a moment to look at the above image, which compares the front pages from today's editions of our city's two beloved rags. You'll note that the individual covers are completely distinct from one another, free of overlapping coverage. This is nothing short of monumentous: By managing to make themselves mutually exclusive, the papers have finally articulated our an implicit, socio-cultural divide. For tonight's homework assignment, figure out which side you're really on. More »
