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CBS Ripping a Page From ABC’s Magazine (Takeover)

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Just when you thought it was safe to turn off the TV and open a magazine, CBS announced it will be taking out 20 pages in next week's People to promote their new fall line-up. Not only is this an unholy synergy of print and television, but it's already been done before. Watch out ABC: […]

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WSJ. Is Here. Let The Schatshow Begin. [Journalismism]

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The Wall Street Journal’s new glossy quarterly “Modern Wealth “-themed grab for the pocketbooks of the plutocracy-in-waiting is here!!!! And…would you believe that model’s “dress” was “designed” by Roland Mouret? Huh. I can think of some Project Runway rejects who might have done it better for cheap?? But, whatever, it’s a fine cover, so let’s get down to “business”: as we’ve discussed previously, this magazine is a naked appeal to modern wealthy Journal readers to finally take their ad pages home and leave them toiletside. But don’t get it twisted! “The eschatological angst that characterizes much of the newspaper industry does not define Dow Jones,” said new managing editor Robert Thomson at a press conference this morning.* Meanwhile, silver-dollar-shaped scones and “flights” of three different types of juice (Juice?) were served and Thomson talked lots of schat on their New York Times counterpart T.

Oooooh, how snug indeed, that synergistic Commieloving capitalist News Corp embrace! Nah, for real though: Thomson has a right to be legitimately stoked that his newspaper is just now getting into the “read it at home and peruse it in your leisure hours” business because unlike his pals over at the Times he doesn’t have to now endure the wrenching financial fallout of non fetish-inclined old people finally discovering Craigslist. But next time you give a press conference, bro, maybe remember that you’re talking to the press, as in the “broke-ass former journalists who have to blog this now because yes, that is what it’s come to for most of us” and that a lot of them are past the point of “schatenfraude.”

*Ha ha ha, you like how we juxtaposed those two sentences? Anyway, “eschatalogical” may be a little internerdy at this point, but it’s still a twelve-Euro word in my book, Bob! (Side note: love what you’ve done with the bloggy digressions over there, Bercovici!)

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Worst.Date.Ever.

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Remember that date you went on a few years ago? You know, the blind date your now ex-friend set up? The one where Queen Muffintop showed up and refused to talk about anything but her horse (Mr. Big Lips) the entire meal? We know you’ve been trying to forget. But trust me, you’re going to want to pull up those old memories.

In honor of the premiere of My Best Friend’s Girl (in theatres September 19), we’re looking for the worst date story ever. Wind up on a date with someone who constantly uses the royal ‘we’? Send it in. Black out in a cab because of your date’s farts? Send it in. Have dinner with a girl who apologized to her food for eating it? Definitely send it in. If your story is the worst, you’ll win $500 to make it all worthwhile. Good luck!

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Can Time Out New York Pay Its Bills? [Rumormonger]

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Last year, Time Out New York had aspirations of building up its online event listings into a sort of Craigslist of North American listings. The magazine invested in its website in pursuit of this, but the project never completely panned out. But according to some tipsters, that might just be the start of TONY’s problems. Could the stalwart around-town manual be in (*dramatic pause*) life-threatening financial trouble?

The rumor’s not a complete surprise—we were reporting last year that some freelancers were having trouble getting paid by TONY. Our tipsters, though, say that’s just a symptom of more serious money problems for publisher Allison Tocci and company:

Middle management has been instructed to reduce operating cost by whatever means necessary. They owe so much money across all their major vendors that it’s just a matter of time before something bad happens — vendors have already stared black listing TONY from doing business with them, because of their delinquent account practices.

TONY has seriously hurt themselves in the eyes of many vendors by not been more proactive towards reducing their ever-increasing debt.

Last year’s investment in the website may have sucked away cash that could have been used to pay down debts, our tipster says, and some freelancers haven’t been paid “in months.” From another tipster:

Time Out NY is in such a critical financial quagmire that insiders speculate that it won’t make it to the end of the year. Vendors and some freelancers have not been paid for two years, and that’s probably a conservative number. Some of those vendors, including paper suppliers and printers, are ready to stop doing business with TONY until they pay up the hundreds of thousand that they are owed.

Whatever the case, there’s certainly some animosity against management and their financial decisions over the past year or two. Any of you had trouble getting paid, or know more about TONY’s situation? Email us.

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Winfrey Family Ruined By $155,000 Clothing Store Debt [Money]

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Packing their bindles, cutting the fingers off their gloves, and can-opener-ing the tops of their top hats, the family of humble talk show host Oprah Winfrey is desperately heading for the boxcars, which they’ll ride to the sweet misty mysterious hills of West Virginia to live as vagabond hill-hobos until their whimsical, harmonica-tuned, moonshine-soaked deaths. Yes the family is in financial ruin, as evidenced by their being sued by a Wisconsin clothing store over an unpaid $155,000 debt run up by Winfrey’s mother, Vernita Lee. She was supposed to pay in $2000 increments, but she didn’t for some reason. Why this is remotely news—because surely Winfrey could take off one of her sensible loafers and shake out that much in Sacagaweas and settle this unseemly matter right away—is kind of beyond us, but at least it’s not politics!

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Alec Baldwin is a Wet Blanket of Success

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Either Ian Parker was giving Alex Baldwin a really long back-handed compliment, or the 8,500 words he used to describe his interview with the actor is an accurate description of how depressing it is to be a Baldwin. Baldwin, 50, has had a long career in films, is currently winning awards for his role of […]

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“Hi Levi! So I’ve Been Talking Jobs…How Does Undersecretary Of The Department Of ‘Was Your Vagina Drunk?’ Sound?” [Open Caption]

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Levi Johnston just arrived in Minneapolis. I feel like this image conjures 13 jokes you can make employing the lyrics of “Come Together” alone but you guys have at it. Image via the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.

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Bloomberg’d

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First, Bloomberg runs Steve Jobs obituary, even though the man is still alive. Then, Bloomberg claims Sarah Palin was arrested for drunk driving, when it was actually her husband with the DUI. And soon, Bloomberg will claim Michael Bloomberg is buying the New York Times. Following the trend, they will be wrong.Permalink |1 comment |Add […]

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Rex Sorgatz Grows His Microcelebrity One B-Roll at a Time [Fameballs]

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Rexie! The nerdy Midwestern micro-celebrity “expert” and blogger who allegedly makes Tumblr girls (and the HuffPo’s Rachel Sklar) weak in the knees has inexplicably grabbed yet another bit of micro-fame—he’s in some b-roll for the local news in St. Paul, outside the Daily Show. What does the voice-over say about him? Just wait. (Bonus footage: the redhead is former Wonkette editor Anna Marie Cox.)