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Dead Chimp Cartoon Spawns Second Employee Lawsuit Claiming Racism at the <em>New York Post</em>

Dead Chimp Cartoon Spawns Second Employee Lawsuit Claiming Racism at the New York Post #racism #newyorkpost

Rush Sets Wedding Date!

Rush Sets Wedding Date! #rumormonger #rushlimbaugh

The Hidden Subtext of Christmas Specials

The Hidden Subtext of Christmas Specials #seasonsgreetings #christmas

Let's Fight About a Gay-Sex Videogame This Christmas Season

Let's Fight About a Gay-Sex Videogame This Christmas Season #culturewars #videogames

The Equation for When to Quit Watching a TV Show

The Equation for When to Quit Watching a TV Show #fuzzymath #desperatehousewive

Thanksgiving Horror Stories: The Results Are In

Thanksgiving Horror Stories: The Results Are In #thanksgivingofhorr #thanksgiving

Climate Email Scandal: Scientists Engaged in a Conspiracy of Science

Climate Email Scandal: Scientists Engaged in a Conspiracy of Science #globalwarming #scandal

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    Alec Baldwin Says All His Movies Suck, Forgets He's Supposed to Be Promoting One

    This doesn't bode well for the forthcoming Baldwin-Streep-Martin rom-com. Baldwin the Elder says his film career has been "a complete failure" and he's quitting in 2012. More »
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    'Highest Paid Man on Wall Street' Ignites Culture War at Kid's Prep School

    Hugh "Skip" McGee III has a rumored $25 million salary at Barclays, and he finds lefties and lesbians just sickening. In an epic letter to the board of his son's school, he implores the "silent majority" to strike back. More »
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  • #traderoundup

    Comcast, NBC Will Combine to Form Unstoppable Voltron of Entertainment

    Are you ready to be entertained by a behemoth? General Electric is on the brink of selling NBC Universal to Comcast—a deal that will create one of the nation's largest entertainment companies and make everyone the same everywhere. More »
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  • #racism

    Dead Chimp Cartoon Spawns Second Employee Lawsuit Claiming Racism at the New York Post

    Earlier this month former editor Sandra Guzman sued the New York Post for being an alleged hellhole of racism and sexism. Today, a recently fired reporter filed a lawsuit claiming he was "banned" from the newsroom for being black. More »
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  • #cornponeopinions

    O'Reilly Pardons Fox Commentator Mike Huckabee For Commuting Suspected Cop Killer's Sentence

    The Washington State cop killer should be a slam dunk of rage for Bill O'Reilly: A governor commutes a criminal's sentence, then the guy goes and kills four cops. Except that governor was fellow Fox commentator Mike Huckabee. More »
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  • #twitterati

    Discussing the Blow-Jobby Part of Journalism

    Sarah Silverman compared her feelings to quicksand; Rob Thomas compared President Obama to President Bush; and a newspaper staffer likened the story process to oral sex. The Twitterati turned up the contrast. More »
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  • #printisdead

    The Heeb Magazine Deathwatch Starts Now (Updated)

    A tipster informs us that Heeb—the favorite rag of Holocaust-mocking hipster Jews everywhere—is going kaput. Details? Email us. Update: Other tipsters paint a picture of a Heeb on the brink. If hasn't died yet, it probably will soon. More »
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  • #requestforinformation

    Get Ready for Blogger Shameless Tuesday (And Help Us, Too)

    Starting tomorrow, new FTC regulations require bloggers to disclose when they accept cash or freebies for posts. Appropriately enough, fameball queen Julia Allison is leading this coming wave of embarrassing confessionals, with a disclosure about her insides. More »
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  • #picoftheday

    Winter Wondering Land

    [Members of the media brave the snow and gather outside Roman Polanski's chalet in Gstaad, Switzerland, waiting for the director to be placed under house arrest in the building. Image via Getty]
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  • #franchises

    Hollywood Holds Breath as Bourne Series Suddenly Imperiled

    When a franchise dies, all of Hollywood sheds a tear. But when a franchise dies prematurely, while it still has years of cash to give, Hollywood goes to battle stations. And tonight, Hollywood stands on the brink. More »
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  • #oldnews

    Tourists Go to the Same Broadway Shows Year After Year

    The good news: tourists poured a truckload of cash into Broadway over Thanksgiving weekend. The sad news: the shows that did best were tired gems like Wicked and The Lion King and shows based on movies. Original musicals are doomed. More »
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  • #rumormonger

    Rush Sets Wedding Date!

    Congrats to Rush Limbaugh! We hear he's finally set a date get married for a fourth time—appropriately enough, it is the Fourth of July! More »
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  • #opencaption

    Two Wild and Crazy Wheels

    [Steve Martin gets on his bike and takes a big adventure through Central Park today. Image via Bauer-Griffin]
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  • #pullquote

    Countess LuAnn de Lesseps —

    the Real Housewife of New York answering Daily Intel's question, "If you were to try to teach a lesson from" White House party crashers and Real Housewives of D.C. aspirants Michaele and Tareq Salahi, "what would it be?"
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  • #socialnetworks

    Facebook Still Cleaning Up Its Redesign Mess

    Someone in France stumbled across an apparent new version of Facebook with a simplified interface. It looks like the social network is still fixing the information overload introduced by its disastrous redesign. More »
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  • #polls

    Outrage-Off: Breitbart vs. Birthers

    Lib bigots are faking climate change and electing a British monkey to the presidency. Only outrageous crypto-conservative statements in the media can save us. Time for your daily outrage-off! Today: Andrew Breitbart vs. Birthers. Vote in the outrage poll below! More »
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    By Hamilton Nolan
  • #kreepiekats

    Kreepie Kats in "I Got Tryptophan Stuck Up My Weiner and It Ain't Leaving Til the Break of Dawn

    In honor of our nation's most sacred holiday, Cyber Monday, here is an installment of Jim Behrle's Kreepie Kats that we did not put up last week.
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  • #seasonsgreetings

    The Hidden Subtext of Christmas Specials

    You think that the animated holiday specials we all grew up with were just teaching you about Santa and presents and winter wonderlands? You're wrong! They were sending you hidden signals both excellent and devious. Here is the ugly truth. More »
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  • #thejaylenoexperiment

    Is It Time to Cancel Those Leno Obituaries?

    It's certainly not a best-case scenario, but in the face of all fears, the end of Jay Leno's ratings free fall doesn't seem bad. At last there are signs the NBC's Jay Leno experiment may have turned a corner. More »
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  • #clipjob

    Gawker.TV: The Five Best Videos Ever of the Day

    Today at Gawker.TV, The Sun spoofs Apple commercials, Kelly Cutrone drops the F-Bomb on morning television, a concert-goer finds his seat by way of everyone in the audience, and we choose the best Price Is Right flip-outs of all time. More »
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  • #greatmagazinedieoff

    Giant Magazine Folds (Officially)

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  • #culturewars

    Let's Fight About a Gay-Sex Videogame This Christmas Season

    Dragon Age: Origins has taken the terribly awkward genre of videogame dialog and melded it with gay romance and, also gay sex scenes. Who, in these United States, could possibly object to foisting this content on teenaged boys? More »
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    Kelly Kutrone, the best part of The City, debuts her Bravo reality show February 1.

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  • #advertising

    Fruit-Laden Railcar Engenders Concern For Indigents

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  • #sigh

    Supreme Court Gives White House Another Chance to Block Torture Pics

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  • #journalismism

    Left-Wing Blogs Now Get to Die of Boredom Waiting for the President to Say Something

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  • #recessiomomics

    Making It Rain With Trickle-Down Economics

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  • #fuzzymath

    The Equation for When to Quit Watching a TV Show

    Even the best television shows run out of creative juice if they stay on the air long enough. But, when is the right time to give up hope a show will improve and abandon it forever? Finally, a handy calculation! More »
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  • #thetribe

    On Details, "Hot Jewish Girls," And Sloppy, Knee-Jerk Misogyny

    Reading Details' "The Rise of the Hot Jewish Girl" should probably offend me as a woman and a Jew, but it's as a journalist that I'm most offended. Still, could Details be more misogynistic than Maxim? There's strong evidence. [Jezebel]
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  • #sellingmovies

    Hollywood's Feel Bad Movie Season Is Upon Us

    Each winter, with the coming of awards season, the colors of America's multi-plexes turn from bright pastels to dismal browns and grays as Hollywood strains for gravitas with their takes on the most depressing topics of the day. More »
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  • #journalismism

    When Georgia O'Keeffe Loved the New York Times

    The Way It Was: An interesting look at the friendship between New York Times reporter Edith Evans Asbury and artist Georgia O'Keeffe—friendship eventually destroyed by reporting on O'Keeffe's private life. This is why hardcore reporters have no friends. [NYT]
    01:33 PM
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    By Hamilton Nolan
  • #crime

    YouTube Beatings Migrate Down to Middle School

    Time was, vicious YouTube beatings didn't start until high school. But police just arrested two San Francisco-area middle-school girls, 12 and 14, after finding video of them beating a classmate they lured to an open field. They face felony charges.
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  • #mediacrack

    'Twitter' Is Word of Sexless Year

    In your maverick Monday media column: A word is preposterously declared to be The Top, Jim Lehrer takes it slow and steady, the Mike Penner vs. Christine Daniels question, and you are invited to a Hooker Pub. More »
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  • #coverlies

    December Allure: For The Martian On Your Holiday Shopping List

    If you've got a green-skinned friend with limited understanding of earthling manners, a copy of December's Allure may be just the gift for her. [Jezebel]
    01:00 PM
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    By Anna N.
  • #daddyissues

    What Is Lachlan Murdoch Building in There?

    Is Lachlan Murdoch gearing up for an Oedipal struggle with the media-titan father who cut him out of the family business and exiled him to Australia? And if not, then why on earth is he buying the Hollywood Reporter? More »
    12:58 PM
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    By John Cook
  • #thanksgivingofhorrors

    Thanksgiving Horror Stories: The Results Are In

    Thanks to all of our lovely, scarred, dysfunctional, boozy, bad-cooking readers, we were more full of Thanksgiving Horror Stories than a Macy's parade balloon is full of helium. We selected the best (or is it worst?) and crowned a winner. More »
    12:46 PM
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  • #buses

    Palin Not Actually Taking Tacky Bus on Tacky Book Tour

    Amazing investigative reporting by the great Joe McGinniss: Sarah Palin says she is conducting her book tour from a bus, but she is actually just hopping on a rented Gulfstream to get from suburban shithole mall to suburban shithole mall. More »
    12:45 PM
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    By Pareene
  • #globalwarming

    Climate Email Scandal: Scientists Engaged in a Conspiracy of Science

    Climate change is real and man-made. Period, end of story. But recently, some emails have leaked that conclusively prove that climate scientists... are really pissed off that a well-funded industry exists that subverts and denies their work. More »
    12:28 PM
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    By Pareene
  • #danger

    "Bagel-related injuries are exceeded only by chicken, potato, apple and onion injuries." Knowledge is power.

    12:05 PM
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  • #disasters

    The Sad, Premature Death of the TechCrunch Tablet

    Last month, Popular Mechanics named TechCrunch's CrunchPad 'Product of the Year." The unreleased tablet computer was, of course, promptly beset by delays, infighting and a legal dispute. Now it's been aborted by its parent. More »
    12:02 PM
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    By Ryan Tate
  • #flackery

    Media Relations Guru Jim Sinkinson Hates Free Speech (Updated)

    We feel it is important for PR professionals to be aware—for the record—that the owner of the PR-centric media guide Bulldog Reporter is an odious free speech-hater and enemy of journalism. [Update: Letter from Sinkinson added below]. More »
    11:34 AM
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