Number of comments: 12 A college humor magazine has written a satirical story on the subject of race, and they are refusing calls to take that story off their website, thereby bucking the important American college...
Number of comments: 7 After a harrowing touch-and-go period of silence marked by much prayer and stress ball-handling amongst the populace, the Hot Sexxxy Lesbian Teacher story has risen again! The new angle has nothing...
Number of comments: 42 The NY Daily News was shocked that its competitor would stoop to having Spitzer hooker Ashley Dupre as an advice columnist. But Cityfile points out the Daily News itself is cozy with Spitzer madam...
Number of comments: 26 The Way We Live Now: Like cheap, cheap bastards. Let's be honest. We can't afford to waste words. If we had to sum up "the new consumer" in three words, those words would be: cheap, cheap bastards....
Number of comments: 4 In your law-abiding Thursday media column: Martha Stewart shows kids how to do drugs, Mike Bloomberg explains the "new media," predictions for 2010, and Budget Travel is sold.
Martha Stewart, our...
Number of comments: 37 Fine, here: Jamie Jungers, the most desperate of the Tiger Woods love interests, is being repped by incompetent superflack (and Douche candidate) Ronn [sic] Torossian's 5WPR. We're told this was...
Number of comments: 16 If there's one thing America needs more of to solve its obesity crisis, it is flashing electronic doo-dads. And pricey customized gizmos. Combine these with exercise video games, and brother, you are...
Number of comments: 17 What is this we spy with our jaded eye? It is a new Mark Penn patented Microtrend column. We have not forgotten you, Mark Penn, you shady, shady character! Today, Mark Penn explains why god is dumb....
Number of comments: 78 What is just the latest thing that respected American political figurine Sarah Palin has done? She was spotted cavorting about on the beach in a visor with John McCain's name totally blacked out. Her...
Number of comments: 36 Andrea Peyser: "To say that elevating [Diane Sawyer to news anchor] is anything other than affirmative action is a fantasy...Yes, the long-ago aide to President Nixon is a WASP with a long on-air...
Number of comments: 41 Conde Nast's beautiful holiday gift this year: a $15 gift card to the Conde Nast cafeteria. Oh, you really shouldn't have!
Conde's 2005 staff present: a nice glass bowl.
Conde's 2006 staff...
Number of comments: 34 Yowza. About those New York Times layoffs everybody's been waiting to hear about: Daily Intel got a partial list of layoff victims, and some surprisingly big names are on it. Including the Seymour...
Number of comments: 73 Robe scientists have discovered the earliest known Snuggie/ Slanket ancestor: "The Bundler." Which is apparently just footie pajamas held on with rubber bands? "Deliciously sexy on her, smoothly...
Number of comments: 56 An 18-year-old in Texas was sentenced to eight years in prison with no possibility of parole for three graffiti charges and weed possession. Eight years. In prison. Here's the sentencing judge,...
Number of comments: 128 Yesterday we offered you 15 exquisite choices in our quest to find who, pray tell, is the douchiest douchebag of the past decade. Today: Some are removed; one is honorarily honored; a Kade-style...
Number of comments: 4 Breaking: Bill Keller responds to the WSJ's latest response to Keller's letter responding to the WSJ's award that was referenced in the WSJ's response to David Carr's column about the WSJ. Will they...
Number of comments: 73 It's a Christmas miracle: a tipster has forwarded us a historic May, 2007 internal staff email from our favorite public relations powerhouse, 5WPR. It seems someone (ladies) could not keep the poop...
Number of comments: 1 In your arctic Wednesday media column: the NYT freelancers grow restless, News Corp hands out Christmas bonuses, the Miami Herald is sad, fabulous corrections, and layoffs at TNR.
A couple of years...
Earlier this week, WSJ editor Robert Thomson took a shot at NYT editor Bill Keller over a letter Keller wrote to an awards committee last year regarding an award-winning WSJ story. Now, we've...
Number of comments: 82 Well well, if it isn't the Federal Trade Commission, deciding now—after all American children have already starred on 'The Biggest Loser'—that there should be some rules about marketing...
Number of comments: 63 To no one's surprise, it appears that Tiger Woods' wife is planning to divorce him. Sorry, golf fans momentarily distracted from your sedate sport by a wild sex scandal: this story is coming to its...
Number of comments: 25 Christmas seems to be the sexxxiest time of year! News-wise. It's because reporters—and readers—are even lazier than usual right now. Neither writing nor reacting to sex stories takes...
Number of comments: 11 Failed David Letterman extorter Joe Halderman was more than an inept criminal with an inept legal defense team; he was a severely paranoid inept criminal. He's just saying—who knows if...
Number of comments: 3 The Way We Live Now: Traumatized. Have you heard? Unemployment is traumatic. Also traumatic, according to recession scientists: Shitty vacations, being arrested for your big casino robbery, and...
Number of comments: 255 This has been the Decade of the Douchebag. There's no denying it. Though we've retired the term, we're bringing it back to identify the douche who was the douchiest. You get the chance to pick our...
Number of comments: 6 In your tricky Tuesday media column: Ski Resorts are the Stasi of Colorado journalism, the White House press corps exercises its shit-eating grin, The New Yorker cuts its fiction, and a dead magazine...
Number of comments: 15 Rupert Murdoch sent out his Holiday Greetings to his minions today. Fox News and Fox Business Network are mentioned by name, but the Wall Street Journal is not. Take that to heart, WSJ! The full dose...
Number of comments: 71 That darned New York Post—they are immoral! They had an advice column by Ashley Dupre—who had sex, for money, which is illegal! The Daily News just cannot remain quiet any longer! It has...
Number of comments: 7 Venerable old trade mag Editor & Publisher folded last week, cast aside as Nielsen sold off several magazines. But! We hear there's still hope for an E&P resurrection.
E&P is going to publish its...
Number of comments: 17 How academia should be: "'Hideous Gnosis,' a six-hour theory symposium on black-metal music" at a Williamsburg bar last weekend. Talks included "Perpetual Rot: Obsessive Cycles of Deterioration," on...
Number of comments: 287 Only when you see the list of most popular baby names do you realize that America is not just a bunch of chik'n-consuming Wal-Mart zombies, but rather one big elegant catalogue of Victorian Body Shop...
Number of comments: 20 Reggae star Buju Banton is in a very tenuous PR situation right now, with a Grammy nomination under fire from gay rights groups, but that did not stop Buju from trying to buy five god damn kilos of...
Number of comments: 6 The following memos went out to members of the Newspaper Guild, the union representing the New York Times newsroom. In the first memo, the Guild says it has successfully managed to make the NYT...
Number of comments: 83 We encourage anyone struggling with the definition of "Funky" to click to enlarge this vintage ad. HINT: Rhinestones, Tulip™ slick paints, and sparkling jackets all play a prominent role in The...
Number of comments: 99 The Way We Live Now: Well-coiffed. Hey, Citigroup's resurrecting itself and Exxon is balling again even though all your investments are clearly "bubbles," but the point is: Here, have a free haircut....
Number of comments: 22 Obama is collaborating with Tiger Woods' Muslim followers to screw America, for the homosexual movement. The only way to stop the outrage: Outrageous right wing wingnuttery. Today's contestants:...
Number of comments: 4 In your special wingnutty Monday media column: Andrew Revkin is leaving the NYT, NPR hires a foreigner, China demonstrates how to keep newspapers in line, and Martha Stewart's still scared of us, and...
Number of comments: 11 Fight! The Wall Street Journal enjoys newspaper feuds, remember? Which is the only sensible explanation for WSJ editor Robert Thomson's pugnacious statement that just went out regarding David Carr's...
Number of comments: 25 What about the children? A cursory examination of the "news" reveals the chilling truth which we have all dreaded for so long: There is no hope for you, kids. Just do what you want. Want to go to...
Number of comments: 107 Yet another reason to regret that college education: While unemployment nationwide began going down last month, guess which way unemployment among recent college grads moved? That's right: Up! Is...
Number of comments: 20 If there's one thing racist lesbian sanctity-of-love defender Andrea Peyser can't stand, it's nubile young female teachers caressing each other's heavenly bodies in a forbidden dance of lust. (Smoke...
Number of comments: 22 Thirty-three-year-old Solange Raulston, a.k.a. DJ Reverend Soul, was killed yesterday when she was sideswiped by a truck while she was riding her bike in Greenpoint, the New York Post reports. The...
Number of comments: 20 If you know some art directors, you know this sounds accurate. If you don't know any art directors, well, now you know they have small dicks. (Allegedly).[Copyranter. Click to enlarge]
Number of comments: 13 The Way We Live Now: Munching on an affordable breakfast as our most valuable national institutions crumble. Culture? Broke. Harvard? Broke? Big stores? No more. Might as well shoot em up, shoot em...
Number of comments: 82 Today's big news about Tiger Woods, besides 14 new hookers coming forward: His wife wants him to quit golf! According to a probably made-up UK tabloid story. But it raises the larger point: Why is...
Number of comments: 7 In your finally Friday media column: Harvard Business Review does coke off pregnant hookers like it's nothing, the NYO gets a deputy editor, E&P remembered, and Bill O'Reilly hates Law and Order....
Number of comments: 15 In the same way in which 98% of Americans ply their "Modern Warfare" online rather than joining the Army, we also refuse to work out without the warm, glowing distraction of a video game.
America's...
Number of comments: 17 Last month, two separate former New York Post employees filed lawsuits against the paper alleging that it was a hotbed of racism and discrimination. Now, another Post reporter has joined one of the...
Number of comments: 46 New Yorkers are prepared to face anything when they step into a public bathroom, except a crapper that cleans itself. That is too bizarre.
At the turn of the millennium, NYC installed two pay...
Number of comments: 21 You wouldn't know it by his calm, collected demeanor, but Gordon "You Donkey" Ramsay's restaurant empire is still facing significant financial troubles. We have a surefire plan to get you back on...
Number of comments: 2 The relevant passage from a memo sent out this afternoon by the union representing the New York Times newsroom:
"Management informed the Guild that it has accepted a total of 74 News-side employees...
Number of comments: 44 A tipster emailed the Vanity Fair customer service department this week because his magazine stopped being delivered. He received an alarming response!
Our customer service is closed due to an...
Number of comments: 28 The Way We Live Now: Old, broke, uneducated, and wishing we were in China. They have it good, over there. The Chinese. Arrrrgh.
You know who does not have it so good, these days? Old, poor, rural...
Number of comments: 41 The NYPD shot and killed a CD vendor in Times Square this morning who was not only scamming tourists, but also packing a Mac-10, for chrissake. The reaction of tourists: Awesome!
The 25 year-old...
Number of comments: 10 In your frigid Thursday media column: Editorial turnover at Ad Age, Mediaite invites people more famous and attractive than you to their soiree, journalists prepare to forage, and Sarah Palin's only...
Number of comments: 60 Oh shoot, unexpected setback: Steroids may not be 100% good, for your body. The outside of your body, yes, totally ripped bro. But inside, ripped in the bad sense, like "your kidney has a rip in it,...
Number of comments: 14 The New York Times buyouts are done, leaving only a round of layoffs to get up to 100 staff cuts before the year's end. In January, the paper will be a different place. A look at what was lost,...
Number of comments: 32 If you're an American, Burger King offers you The Subservient Chicken: Some dude in a chicken outfit who does what you say. If you're British, BK offers you The Subservient Shower Girl. Her turn-ons:...
Number of comments: 49 This hot sexxxy lesbian teacher story is rapidly evolving, and we aim to keep you, our 14 year-old audience, up-to-date with all the day's enticing developments. The latest: One teacher has been...
Number of comments: 44 John Koblin reports that Jennifer 8. Lee, New York Times Metro reporter, Twitter enthusiast, and master of the trend story, is taking a buyout. Shocking. Below, an internal staff memo that went out...
Number of comments: 54 "To the glory of Kathleen (Kay) Mandell: Who at age 32 was stricken by Lou Gehrig's disease that caused her muscles to waste away, one by one, until her throat paralysed and she choked to death while...
Number of comments: 10 Now tattoo shops are advertising by sticking stickers on mirrors in public bathrooms so when you get really drunk you can go in the bar bathroom and confirm that, yes, that tattoo would look dumb....
Number of comments: 99 Hot lesbian sex! Two hot sexxxy young lady teachers loved each other very much and they had some of the aforementioned hot lesbian sex right there in the schoolhouse, allegedly. There seems to be...
Number of comments: 25 The Way We Live Now: In prison. Although if we can hold on for a few more years of economic doom, the jail might crumble, from neglect! In the meantime: We stand in solidarity with our oppressed...
Number of comments: 5 In your miserable Wednesday media column: Luke Russert tries some politricks, the New York Times tells black people what to buy, Lachlan Murdoch sells out, Time Magazine is unafraid to take a bold...
Number of comments: 36 The Tracy Awards have been announced, honoring the worst crap of the year in advertising. We dare you to listen to this radio ad, winner of "Best use of a jingle to justify suicide," ten times, and...
Number of comments: 27 Terry Watanabe, a big wheel in the Asian party favor import business, lost nearly $127 million gambling in Vegas casinos in 2007. But he gave fantastic tips. Call it even?
The WSJ wins "What The...
Number of comments: 122 Everybody, gather round for the Jews vs. Hipsters fight! Williamsburg's most loathed subcultures in bike lane battle! Black hat vigilantes stalk sexxxy two-wheeled postgrads! Hero hipsters martyred...
Number of comments: 66 Incredible spiral blue alien UFO laser beam explosion photographed over Norway. SERIOUSLY. [Daily Mail, Gizmodo has a full gallery of photos, and there's a video after the jump.]
Number of comments: 4 Good news, near-suicidal media executives: Expert forecasters say ad spending will rise next year! Two caveats: Print media will still plummet. And, the expert forecasters barely have any idea what...
Number of comments: 36 Funny little thing that Tiger Woods would probably get a chuckle out of, if he wasn't in such a bad mood these days: The more we see Tiger's face on TV, the less we see him in TV commercials. Relief!...
Number of comments: 79 On one hand, Buju Banton is a raging homophobe. On the other hand, he's the best reggae artist working today. So, should he get a Grammy? If you think not, sign GLAAD's petition. But then click...
Number of comments: 24 Because no one will pay money for a "newspaper" any more, newspaper companies are selling other crap, out of desperation. They all sell wine, for example. Now there is a new "Wall Street Journal...
Number of comments: 22 The Way We Live Now: Doubling our money in six months, just you watch. House flipping is back! And not a moment too soon; pauper retirees have to raise money to pay for the subway fare hikes. Real...
Number of comments: 188 As if a Muslim president wasn't bad enough, now we have a Cablinasian golfer trying steal the white man's women. It's outrageous. The only solution is outrageously stupid pundit statements. Today:...
Number of comments: 43 In your tremendous Tuesday media column: Dan Abrams is trying to take us on, bloggers now just as glorious as grizzled war reporters, Conde needs a PR person, and the New York Times Co. continues...
Number of comments: 12 The NYC Housing Authority is spending $248 million to renovate two shitty Brooklyn housing projects, while "a developer recently spent...$152 million [building a] condominium tower nearby." Which is...
Number of comments: 125 You know what else is bullshit, besides juice cleanses? The idea that wearing some ugly Reeboks with a curvy sole will give you an Ass of Steel. Bullshit. Also, cookie diets? Bullshit.
With its...
Number of comments: 24 Today, four prestigious magazine publishers, and News Corp, officially announced their new "digital storefront" for magazines and stuff. Buy it and put it on your E-reader! Are you sick of E-readers...
Number of comments: 16 The Communist plot to destroy Christmas here—in America—by terrifying our children with reports of deadly poison residing upon the noses of beloved Zhu Zhu Pet "Mr. Squiggles" has been...
Number of comments: 3 We've updated our New York Times Buyout List this morning with tips we received on three more veteran staffers taking buyouts: A photo editor, a sports writer, and another business reporter. If you...
Number of comments: 13 One of the Chicago men charged in October with plotting to murder the guy who drew the controversial Danish Muhammad cartoon is now also charged with planning the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks....
Number of comments: 10 WaPo writer Anne Applebaum has emerged from her cocoon of Polish Secret Service agents to assure everyone that her car explosion yesterday was simple mechanical trouble, not an assassination attempt....
Number of comments: 23 The Way We Live Now: Getting our gumption back. Money? There's plenty of ways to make money. Money! Shoot. We're already back to building outlandish yachts. Pay me a respectable banker wage or I'm...
Number of comments: 9 Today was the deadline for New York Times staffers to take the buyout package that was offered to everyone in October, as the paper seeks to cut 100 newsroom positions this year. The names we know,...
Number of comments: 6 In your monstrous Monday media column: TWITTERTWITTERTWITTER, a German plan to save newspapers, the shockingly democratized Portfolio.com, and Chicago sports writer wars. TWITTERTWITTERTWITTER.
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Number of comments: 35 An ad for a body waxing business shows a hairless beaver. There's also a hairless kitty and a hairless cock. When did we stop trying? [Copyranter, who would also like to show you Mona Lisa's tits.]
Number of comments: 3 Dreary Washington Post media critic Howard "Conventional Wisdom In a Shirt" Kurtz has managed to write a profile of New York magazine that is clueless even by "Howard Kurtz explains NYC" standards....
