Saturday, July 18, 2009
People
Walter Cronkite Dead At 92
10:49AM Ryan Tate | Walter Cronkite, American journalist and archetypal anchorman, has passed away, his family tells the New York Times. He was 92. More »
People
Do These Men Deserve To Be The Highest Paid Comedians?
8:46AM Natasha VC | Do you feel that? Those are George Carlin’s acid tears falling from heaven. There are some mainstays on the millionaire funny-man list. But there is one depressing shocker. Can you guess who? More »
Online
Meet Perez Hilton’s Ghost
8:39AM Ryan Tate | Meet Barbara Lavandeira, or, as she’s known online, PerezHilton.com. She’s actually pretty normal, when not pretending to be her brother. More »
Online
How Much It Pays To Be A ‘Difficult’ Blogger Like Nikki Finke
7:23AM Natasha VC | We finally know how much aspiring Hollywood mogul Jay Penske has agreed to pay industry blogger Nikki Finke: according to the NYT’s David Carr: $US400,000 a year for the next eight years. Pretty good money, but not $US14 million. More »
Print
Onion Sale Announcement Monday?
6:43AM Ryan Tate | Earlier this week, we heard the Onion was in talks to sell to a large media company; now we’re told there’s some sort of announcement or internal meeting scheduled Monday in relation to the rumoured buyout. More »
Online
Slouching Toward A Coddled And Toothless Blogosphere
6:31AM Ryan Tate | Remember when blogs were going to be fiercely independent firebrands who, purified of old media insidery stench, would pull no punches against traditional power structures? So much for that. Today’s laptop media is shaping up to be nothing but lapdogs. More »
Online
Perez Hilton: In My Defense, I Don’t Actually Write That Crap
4:09AM Ryan Tate | It’s an open secret that Perez Hilton can’t be bothered to blog all day long anymore. But for some reason he’s never copped to using ghost writers. Until now. More »
People
Workaholics: A Love Story
4:03AM Richard Lawson | Awww, gross again. After getting the simply nauseating news that real estate heirs Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner are getting hitched, now we have to hear even more about it. The future Mrs. Kushner went and blabbed to Daily Intel. More »
Big Screen
2:51AM Richard Lawson | Here is a still from the actor’s upcoming film Prince of Persia, which is based on an old computer game. Not much to say here other than hey, here is a ridiculous thing. Reese, any comments? [via EW]
Jake Gyllenhaal Expertly Shaking Off Those Gay Rumors
2:51AM Richard Lawson | Here is a still from the actor’s upcoming film Prince of Persia, which is based on an old computer game. Not much to say here other than hey, here is a ridiculous thing. Reese, any comments? [via EW]
Flotsam & Jetsam
