The framers of the Constitution gave the President power to select his own Cabinet, and now, in the wake of such a historic election, the New York Times has decided to give it all back to the people. Above, proof that the common man should never be allowed to select the President's Cabinet; after the colon: do it yourself politics.
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Posted 23 days ago
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Police in Florida are claiming that election blogger Carol Burger, a frequent contributor to the SoHo bright-room Huffington Post, stabbed her ex-wife 222 times with a Phillips head screwdriver, dumped the body, and reported the woman missing before finally committing suicide on Friday. Lt. Gary Chapman, spokesman and head of the local police's major crimes squad, said that "the process of killing [Burger's ex-wife] was pretty lengthy... [Burger] obviously was out of her mind." The Huffington Post has not offered comment, nor any answer to the corelation between the blogger's actions and HuffPo's penchant for violently chopping up quotes to make inaccurate and incendiary headlines.
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Posted 36 days ago
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Not that it matters, but Men's Vogue is returning to the fatuous folds of its mother publication and scaling back to two issues a year. Given how infrequently men's fashion changes and how little Patrick Dempsey has left to say about being McDreamy, the loss of the extra eight issues probably won't effect anybody except the 40-or-so strong editorial staff, who's work will fall upon the staff of regular old Vogue. This is more likely than not a preamble to the magazine's complete demise, since the quality of an overworked editorial staff--who's priorities will sensibly lie with the master magazine--can't possibly help sales.
This news comes as part of print's reverse-bailout package, to which Conde Nast is now contributing 5% of its budget to the abyss. Portfolio staff were called into a meeting today, presumably with the doors thoroughly locked behind them and zip-lines for quick exits by the people in charge of the meeting, who will no doubt be delivering some sort of damning news to their staff, who will then attempt said bosses with dozens of "Obama '08" pins or, perhaps, Phillies penants. The worst news about Conde Nast's 5% cutbacks will undoubtedly be the number of over-qualified media hacks entering an already constricted job market.
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Posted 36 days ago
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After rumors of wall-to-wall layoffs, Radar has confirmed that they are folding and have let their staff go. While the print magazine will go softly into that goodnight, the publication's website has been bought by AMI, owner of several fine tabloids. In a press release issued today, AMI announced that they would be forming a company--appropriately called Radar Online--with the intention of making it an around-the-clock celebrity news destination. AMI and partner Integrity Multimedia Company discussed the new Radar Online's eventual in-house collection of staff writers, editors, photographers, and so on, but it remains to be seen how many of those employees currently working on Radar's online presence will be brought on-board the new venture.
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Posted 42 days ago
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It hasn't been a good week for the New York Times. First, a letter containing a "white, granular substance" was sent to the editor of the editorial page, which subsequently shut down the entire lobby and forced a few employees into decontamination as a precaution.
Then the Times announced that another white substance was being sent to the editorial page, this time in the form of U2 frontman Bono. Starting next year, Ireland's most bespectacled man will write six to ten pieces for the Times editorial page for the price of free, presumably since it amounts to free advertising for the charitable musician. This, of course, led to hints about bringing Queens guitarist and Doctor of Astrophysics Brian May back to the Grey Lady's pool of opinions, but nothing has been confirmed as yet.
Financially, the Times is expected to cut its dividends, which have increased over the last few years as revenue has steadily decreased. However, the possible downgrade in dividends may force shareholders--like the family of Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr., who has been publisher and chairman for the Times for over fifteen years now--to abandon the debt-stricken newspaper of record as a lost cause, leaving it vulnerable to a buyout.
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Posted 42 days ago
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