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Former Gawker editor AJ Daulerio at the Hulk Hogan trial. In a mumbling video deposition, former Gawker editor AJ Daulerio was asked if there was any situation where he would deem a celebrity sex tape not newsworthy. “If they were a child,” Mr. Daulerio responded. “Under what age?” Mr. Daulerio was asked. “Four,” he said…
paging_filter Hulk Hogan knows a thing or two about calling in a ringer. Thirty years ago, at the very first WrestleMania in Madison Square Garden, Hogan called on his friend (and major TV star) Mr. T to help him defeat “Rowdy” Roddy Piper and Paul Orndorff in the main event. Now, he is calling on…
The most important news of the day in New York City, according to America’s oldest continuously published daily newspaper: A homeless woman with a lot of shopping carts who hangs out in Hell’s Kitchen. Good to know! http://tktk.gawker.com/the-new-york-p… This is not the first time the New York Post has mocked a person who sleeps outside…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Thirty-six-plus hours of televised debates in the 2016 presidential campaign have brought us Marco Rubio’s robotic moment, Donald Trump’s jaw-dropping sexual innuendo, Bernie Sanders’ dismissal of Hillary Clinton’s “damn emails” and Clinton’s denunciation of Sanders for an “artful smear.” Oh, and we’ve heard about issues, too. Is it all too much? Trump,…
Fifteen of the 16 negative stories on the Bernie Sanders campaign that the Washington Post ran over a 16-hour period. In what has to be some kind of record, the Washington Post ran 16 negative stories on Bernie Sanders in 16 hours, between roughly 10:20 PM EST Sunday, March 6, to 3:54 PM EST Monday,…
A Female Journalist Dared to Ask Peyton Manning a Serious Question and She Was Called a “Cunt” and “Bitch” For It On Monday, Super Bowl-winning quarterback Peyton Manning held a PRESS conference to tell everyone what everyone already knew – that he was retiring after 18 years in the NFL. At the PRESS event was…
Meerkat—the live video-streaming app that was the buzz of SXSW last year—is admitting defeat against rival Periscope. Recode reported yesterday (March 4) that the startup is changing direction to become a video social network where “everyone is always live.” “It was a fucking hard decision to say, ‘It’s not going to work, thank you everyone…
Illustration: AP Something really dramatic is happening to our media landscape, the public sphere, and our journalism industry, almost without us noticing and certainly without the level of public examination and debate it deserves. Our news ecosystem has changed more dramatically in the past five years than perhaps at any time in the past five…
AddThis Button Begin By Julie DiCaro– (CBS) If you want proof that women remain second-class citizens in the world of sports media, look no further than the revelations emerging from the Erin Andrews trial. In July 2009, a video of a naked and unsuspecting Andrews walking around her hotel room was posted online and quickly…
Questions surround USA Today columnist’s account of airplane “hacking” incident A technology journalist who recently published a column for USA Today claiming to be the victim of a computer intrusion during a recent American Airlines flight was likely not hacked because of a security flaw or lapse involving the plane’s on-board wireless Internet service, according…