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Monday, June 1, 2009
Small Screen

Is Jon And Kate Plus Eight The Future Of Journalism?

2:30AM Foster Kamer | Are you sick of reality “stars” Jon and Kate Gosselin? Probably. But that’s not going to stop the media from writing about them, since they apparently just discovered the story, and in a room in Minnesota, some news types are wringing their hands over missing it for so long. More »
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Tuesday, April 14, 2009
People

Oh, Scarlett, We Were Talking About Your Tits

4:31AM Richard Lawson | Scarlett Johansson’s assistant wrote about the media’s dangerous weight obsession in the Huffington Post today, and it sounds like she didn’t like a post of ours. But that wasn’t the weight we were talking about. More »
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Saturday, March 22, 2008

Alarmed Celebrity News Trendspotter Nikki Finke Puts the ‘AP’ in ‘Apocalypse’

9:27AM Defamer Hollywood | We’re stocking up on bottled water and canned goods around Defamer HQ today, where even our shameless pop-culture pathologies can’t process devastating reports that the venerable Associated Press is launching a standalone entertainment news organisation. The equally tormented Nikki Finke, whose giddiness at yesterday’s fall of PageSix.com was mitigated only slightly by the firings it would require, crashed back to Earth today with an internal memo clearly foreshadowing — via a Q&A with new “Director of Entertainment Content” Daniel Becker — the violent demise of newsgathering as we know it: More »
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