http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png http://gawker.com http://gawker.com This is an XML content feed. It is intended to be viewed in a newsreader or syndicated to another site. Wed, 09 Jul 2008 04:29:49 EDT Ryan Tate http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5023221&view=rss&microfeed=true Yet another climber has ascended the front of the Times building, and this one brought a banner. It's not clear what it's supposed to say — the Times' City Room blog appears to have the story... Wed, 09 Jul 2008 04:08:26 EDT Ryan Tate http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5023219&view=rss&microfeed=true Oh, this is exciting: Remember how Roone Arledge of ABC revolutionized TV sports by superimposing dramatic personal narratives onto matches, then revolutionized TV news with magazine shows like 20/20... Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:33:17 EDT Ryan Tate http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5023212&view=rss&microfeed=true "Unnatural... weird... a losing battle." Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:27:50 EDT Ryan Tate http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5023210&view=rss&microfeed=true The Times has a delightful story in this morning's paper on the ruses various celebrities use to evade reporters outside the main criminal courthouse in Manhattan. Actor Rip Torn, for example, once... Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:30:21 EDT Ryan Tate http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5023194&view=rss&microfeed=true "When I’m promoting a show for program for Discovery I turn into a giant media slut.'" [TV Decoder] Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:01:25 EDT Ryan Tate http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5023188&view=rss&microfeed=true John McCain used to totally love hanging out with reporters, back when he drove the Straight Talk Express, a giant party bus where the liberal press corps could smoke their hippie reefer weed and... Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:30:00 EDT Ryan Tate http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5023180&view=rss&microfeed=true Dennis Kneale joined his CNBC colleagues today in effusive praise of JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon. After Power Lunch host Bill Griffeth said Dimon was "very entertaining" at an FDIC event and "had a... Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:58:12 EDT Pareene http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5023130&view=rss&microfeed=true Keith Gessen cannot adopt the adorable foster cat we got him, because he is apparently leaving the country soon. So it's available! She's spayed, housetrained, about 6 months old, and v v friendly.... Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:42:00 EDT Richard http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5023123&view=rss&microfeed=true Joining the noble ranks of celebrity wordsmiths is MTV bisexual dating show star, MySpace pinup, and gay superhero Tila Tequila. Like Rita Dove before her, Tequila weaves together careful but jaunty... Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:39:54 EDT Hamilton Nolan http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5023122&view=rss&microfeed=true Esteemed angry ad blogger Copyranter says this new Ketel One ad just might be "The Most Annoying Ad Ever." That's tough, but its use of blatant trickery and time wasting as a marketing technique is... Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:24:56 EDT Pareene http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5023118&view=rss&microfeed=true Look, it's easy to make fun of Maureen Dowd. We do it all the time! Talk about nothing of substance, psychoanalyze pols, imply that male Democrats are effete and female politicians of all stripes are... Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:11:24 EDT Nick Denton http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5023114&view=rss&microfeed=true Lindsay Lohan's lesbian relationship is now so open that girlfriend Samantha Ronson has even put up a photo of the two kissing on her MySpace page. So why did it take so long for everybody to... Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:54:00 EDT Richard http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5023099&view=rss&microfeed=true Magazines. No one reads 'em. But they just keep getting printed out and piled up on coffee tables and on top of tied-up stacks of newspapers that will sit in the back mudroom waiting to be taken... Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:49:44 EDT Nick Denton http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5023096&view=rss&microfeed=true Hold for a second the vitriol that Roger Ailes usually inspires. The Fox News boss is worth watching—not so much for his abuse-inviting impersonation of a corpulent former Nixonite but as a financial... Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:49:25 EDT Hamilton Nolan http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5023042&view=rss&microfeed=true There's a huge exhibit at the New York Public Library right now called "The Real Men and Women of Madison Avenue," dedicated to the greatest examples of advertising ever. Funny that the public... Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:40:00 EDT Richard http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5023052&view=rss&microfeed=true The New York Times writes today about the big impact that New York teen soap Gossip Girl has had on the fashion industry. Sure no one really watches the damn thing, but somehow legions of girls,... Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:14:16 EDT Sheila http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5023084&view=rss&microfeed=true Today's e-mails keep getting weirder. This just in from PR bunny/ousted sex columnist Kelly Kreth, who went on a "media date" with Paul Janka before: "Paul Janka is going to be my official date to... Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:45:45 EDT Hamilton Nolan http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5023066&view=rss&microfeed=true Fox News has been hammered with a good deal of bad publicity this week, all stemming from David Carr's takedown of the network's PR operation in Monday's New York Times. One downside to FNC's... Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:38:01 EDT Pareene http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5023067&view=rss&microfeed=true Chris Matthews is actually incapable of conceiving of "regular people" who aren't him. Which is to say, aging white men with blue-collar backgrounds, probably from the eastern seaboard. The... Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:28:00 EDT Richard http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5023060&view=rss&microfeed=true newVideoPlayer("HillsvsHills.flv", 475, 376);The second season of BET's young people in Los Angeles reality soap Baldwin Hills premieres tonight with all the drama and romance you'd expect. Luckily... Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:14:18 EDT Pareene http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5023051&view=rss&microfeed=true Hillary Clinton aide Howard Wolfson is now a regular contributor to Fox News, but in his heart of hearts, he'd like to be a contributing editor at Spin. As we've mentioned, he regularly sends out... Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:56:42 EDT Sheila http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5023039&view=rss&microfeed=true The cost for early registration for the aforementioned Paul Janka "Rock Solid Game" dating seminar is $1,485, according to a tipster who thought about registering. "P.S.," Paul writes in an email to... Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:47:45 EDT Nick Denton http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5023035&view=rss&microfeed=true Among the more engaging features of Cityfile, the new directory of notables from media and business, are the lists. Obsessives can browse through New York celebrities who own Yorkies, for instance.... Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:23:00 EDT Richard http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5023029&view=rss&microfeed=true Bodies are beautiful, even if parts of them are missing. This is thesis for a new show called Britain's Missing Top Model, a competition series featuring contestants with disabilities, including... Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:14:54 EDT Hamilton Nolan http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5023028&view=rss&microfeed=true The advertising industry is too white! It's been an issue forever—see any episode of Mad Men for the historical perspective. Two years ago the NYC Commission on Human Rights decided to hold hearings... Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:06:16 EDT Sheila http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5023022&view=rss&microfeed=true Remember FIA and Formula 1 president Max Mosley's sex-video scandal, a five-hour tape enacting an elaborate S&M scenario with several women? Mosley—whose father was Facist leader Sir Oswald... Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:29:00 EDT Richard http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5023007&view=rss&microfeed=true Who is Madonna dating these days? Isn't she married to some failed British movie director? Or is she sleeping with that irksome baseball player? These are all very important, and understandable,... Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:44:22 EDT Hamilton Nolan http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5022962&view=rss&microfeed=true "The Irena Briganti that I know is funny, hard-working and always willing to help out a colleague-no matter how busy she is," wrote Fox Television flack Erica Keane yesterday, in response to our... Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:37:21 EDT Pareene http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5022986&view=rss&microfeed=true The image associated with this post is best viewed using a browser.Billionaire Bruce Wasserstein is under attack from communists! And they're taking the fight to the blogs! SEIU, the service industry... Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:31:00 EDT Richard http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5022976&view=rss&microfeed=true Prankster, actor, and all-around brave guy Sacha Baron Cohen has once again angered gullible Southerners. This time it was while filming his new movie Brüno: Delicious Journeys Through America for... Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:18:51 EDT Sheila http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5022971&view=rss&microfeed=true It was bound to happen. The NYT professed its love for the latest YouTube hit—Matt Harding's video, "Dancing," in which he videotapes himself dancing in locales around the world. (Harding... Tue, 08 Jul 2008 11:47:00 EDT Richard http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5022951&view=rss&microfeed=true Because the world has not yet suffered enough, a reality show about a hooker looking for love may soon be foisted upon us. When Ashley Alexandra Dupré was sadly diddling former New York governor... Tue, 08 Jul 2008 11:34:38 EDT Pareene http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5022948&view=rss&microfeed=true No wonder Lara Logan was so cranky on The Daily Show—she's preggers! Logan, the CBS war correspondent whose well-deserved promotion to CBS' chief foreign affairs correspondent was overshadowed... Tue, 08 Jul 2008 11:31:07 EDT Sheila http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5022943&view=rss&microfeed=true Whoever tries to tell you that "ummm, the market is a little crowded?" for your semi-obscure narrative nonfiction topic is lying! Galleycat notices the trend—sparked by NYT reporter Jennifer 8.... Tue, 08 Jul 2008 11:00:44 EDT Pareene http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5022930&view=rss&microfeed=true Howard Wolfson, the Hillary Clinton surrogate whose many television appearances were second in embarrassment only to Terry McAuliffe's, has a new job! The former communications director is taking his... Tue, 08 Jul 2008 10:29:12 EDT Hamilton Nolan http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5022886&view=rss&microfeed=true "I don't want to die. I love what I'm doing," said Viacom chief Sumner Redstone on CNBC yesterday. My, what a positive and also extremely sad quote! Coming from an old, old man like Redstone, it's... Tue, 08 Jul 2008 10:29:00 EDT Richard http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5022915&view=rss&microfeed=true Another great big drunken commenter meet-up is in the works. "Say It To My Face," the 2nd Gawker Commenters Ball, hosted by commenters thesupergoddess, BK_KT, CodePink, Phyllis Neffler, Unfun,... Tue, 08 Jul 2008 10:17:37 EDT Sheila http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5022904&view=rss&microfeed=true A while back, I signed up for creepy sexual compulsive/sexually aggressive dateaholic Paul Janka's e-mail list, which sends newsletters with tips on how to pick up hot chicks—or, more... Tue, 08 Jul 2008 10:17:00 EDT Richard http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5022906&view=rss&microfeed=true Lots of blind items for you today. A fashion designer suffering a disastrous face lift, an anchorwoman jeepin' out on the sly, a drunken rockstar, and some A list but C list but secretly B list or... Tue, 08 Jul 2008 09:42:46 EDT Pareene http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5022893&view=rss&microfeed=true Yesterday, the plane carrying presidential candidate Barack Obama was forced to make an unscheduled landing in St. Louis. The plane, an MD-80, experience pitch problems after an emergency slide in... Tue, 08 Jul 2008 09:22:43 EDT Hamilton Nolan http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5022879&view=rss&microfeed=true Let's imagine that you are the friendly consumer, and the internet, where you do your shopping, is a series of stores. Then imagine that all the people who want to sell you ads are spies, following...