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Nikki Finke's Cut-and-Paste Method [How Things Work]
Nikki Finke OWNS the Oprah Winfrey story. She broke the news that Winfrey would leave the show three weeks ago. And she got the transcript of Oprah's announcement up on her site bright and early this morning. By stealing it. Finke posted embedded video of a small portion of Winfrey's remarks at 9:45 …
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Albany Foodie World Is All About Punching [Albany]
Steve Barnes (pictured), the Albany restaurant critic who was assaulted by a professional mixed martial arts fighter last year (probably) because of something he wrote, reports today: Albany restaurateurs are going to punch each other. John DeJohn, who owns four Albany eateries including the new Pe …
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Obama Joins Truman, Reagan, and Clinton In "Immediately Failed Presidencies" Club [Polls]
It is a good thing the American Constitution calls for instant run-off presidential elections the minute the "winner" dips below 50% approval, or else we would be stuck with the most unpopular president in American history for years to come. Thankfully Sarah Palin may now take her rightful place as …
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Gothic Girl [Open Caption]
[Taylor Momsen predictably wore black (but an unpredictably long skirt) at the The Cinema Society screening of The Twilight Saga: New Moon in New York last night. Image via Getty]
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Everything You Need to Know in Order to Watch James Franco on General Hospital [Hospital Visit]
Quick, get to a TV! General Hospital starts at 3pm and you don't want to miss a minute of Hollywood A-lister James Franco's historic role on the show. Here's a little bit of context so you won't be totally lost. On the ABC soap, Franco plays Franco (how meta!) an artist who has come to the fictional …
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Peanut Butter and Jelly Is the Body and Blood of Union-Busting Jesus [Recessionomics]
The Way We Live Now: Same as ever. Hard times have been around for years now! But nobody was paying attention. The Christians were fighting unions and the yuppies were building dream homes and everyone else? Peanut butter jelly time. Way back in 2005, when the liberal media would have had you believ …
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New York City Just Gives Up on Subway Service [Rants]
Did you hear the great news? The MTA will not raise fares! Or cut service! Wonderful! Except none of the headlines say "for just one year." Or "not counting the existing fare increase and de facto service cuts." The new $11 billion operating budget is actually just an ominous warning that in a year& …
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Four Ways Listicles Make Us Immortal, According to Umberto Eco [Journalismism]
Italian novelist Umberto Eco, the go-to intellectual for journalists worldwide, has deconstructed the human obsession with all things listy. The bottom line for editors: Your listicles help readers brush off a terrifying universe of infinite chaos. In this manner, the listicle is not a depressing in …
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Project Runway : Fashion Weak [Recaps]
Project Runway is all about vision and delusion. The vision to ask three designers to compete for a prize. The delusion their entries will look different. The vision to return January 14th, the delusion your audience will come back. That's right, last night during the disastrous season six finale, L …
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German Newspaper Feud Gets Penis-y [Media Crack]
In your ferocious Friday media column: Newspaper wars in Germany are of another breed, another high school paper censored for dumb reasons, more on the BusinessWeek layoffs, and George Stephanopoulos' fluff chops questioned. A "long-standing editorial feud" between a left-wing German paper and the r …
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Oprah to Fans: I'm Quitting My Show Because My Bones Told Me To [Resignations]
Here's a clip from Oprah Winfrey's on-air announcement that she's putting the Oprah Winfrey Show out to pasture: "Why walk away, and make next season the last? Here is the real reason: [T]wenty-five years feels right in my bones."
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Microsoft Let NSA Spooks 'Enhance' Windows 7 [Conspiracies]
A National Security Agency director just bragged to a Senate subcommittee about his agency's close "cooperation" with Microsoft to, err, "enhance" how Windows 7 guards a user's privacy. Doesn't that just make you feel all warm and fuzzy? The spooks at the NSA are, of course, notorious for their role …
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Regretsy Book to Be Not Quite as Good as Regretsy.com [Book Deals]
The heretofore anonymous founder of Regretsy, the blog that appropriately mocks your dumb arts-and-crafts projects, has been outed. Because she got a book deal! New blog-to-book trend: Saying right up front the book will be more paltry than the blog. Speakeasy reports that the Regretsy mastermind is …
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Twitter Transforms Chuck Todd and Howard Kurtz into Idiots [You Don't Say]
It's Obvious Day on Twitter: NBCer Chuck Todd wonders why Barack Obama can't secure the political support of the man he defeated in the 2008 election, and the Washington Post's Howard Kurtz predicts that Oprah Winfrey may go to cable. Balloon Juice's John Cole needs to stop reading Twitter—as …
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Rehabilitation Complete [Crime]
Breaking: The Hipster Grifter is free. Oh boy.
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The NBC-Bashing Jokes of 30 Rock : Green Week Is a Stupid Idea [30 Rocks]
The jokes at NBC's expense weren't very insidery this week, but as usual 30 Rock spent half the episode dissing their home network. Here's what happens when you make Tina & Co. play along with your dumb corporate green initiative. There's backlash of course. This week programs across the network are …
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Feeling Better About Fare Increases [Propaganda]
The MTA is cheering up New Yorkers by printing the word "optimism" on millions of Metrocards. *NOTE: "Optimism" should not be interpreted as applying to the state of the New York City transportation system itself. [NYT. Pic via]
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South Brooklyn's Supreme Court Justice [Sonia Sotomayor]
Stalked: Sonia Sotomayor at Po on Smith Street. Someone spot her at Bar Great Harry!
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Jude Law Will Hurl Oranges at Any Girl Watching Him Do Yoga [Violence]
Marble-eyed Englishman Jude Law made the mistake of moving into a condo right next door to an NYU dorm. What are you, Jude Law—dumb? Heh. He deals with female fans by throwing produce at them. Freshman NYU ladies come running to windows of their dorm every time Jude Law comes out on his balcon …
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Tina Fey — [Pullquote]
speaking at the Ad Council gala at the Waldorf Astoria on Wednesday, according to the New York Post's Page Six.
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