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10 of the Greatest New York Post Headlines of All Time
Capital New York reported today that New York Post writer V.A. Musetto was dropped from the paper, where he has worked in some capacity for 40 years. Musetto is best known for coining what might be the...
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The Best MTV VMA Brooklyn Shout-Outs: Twitter Edition
As you probably heard/read/watched/absorbed through osmosis, the MTV Video Music Awards took place in Brooklyn last night and oh! fun was had, you know?…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this...
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OMFG the New York Times Said "Fuck"!
The clean, objective hard-news voice is an art, one perfected in American newspapers like the Times, where it still clings to life. It eschews vulgarity, and that's fair, I guess; reporters and the...
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Here's Proof That the Media Elite Are Some of the Worst People In the World
Here are some things I learned from the New York magazine article"Media Elites Are Making Twitter Accounts for Their Babies:" [jump] 1) Lots of media elite name their children Harper.…[ Read more ][...
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The New York Post's Comment Section is Back! Ahhhhh!
A thorough redesign to The New York Post's website launched today, making it look like a swankier DNAinfo and also making it harder to find local news specifically by borough. So, great.…[ Read more ][...
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The Problem with the New York Times: A Tale of Two Papers
In case you missed it, in the last decade or two, the industry of print journalism has undergone revolutionary changes as people have turned more and more to their computers to get news instead of the...
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Why It's Important to See Disturbing and Graphic Images in the News
A couple of weeks ago, I came across what is probably the best use of Photoshop I've ever seen. New York Daily News photographer and editor, Marc A. Hermann searched the News's archives and found...
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Here Is a Thing That Really Pissed Me Off About BuzzFeed Today (And, Yes, It...
Hmm, so maybe I'm ultra-sensitive to this because earlier today I wrote about how important I think it is to use appropriate imagery when reporting on important news stories, i.e. the Westgate...
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Solange Knowles Totally Subtweeted Miley Cyrus
Ah, so. There was a lot of big news on twitter yesterday, what with the discovery that @horse_ebooks is run by BuzzFeed, and Bill Clinton and Bill Gates posing for a joint selfie and, well, I don't...
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So, Anyone In The Market For An Ayn Rand Tank Top?
Not that you shouldn't want a vaguely inspirational quote from the favorite author of every single person you should never, ever date emblazoned across your tits. It only costs $11.80, after all, and...
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Humans of New York Brings Out the Humanity In the Internet
Over the last couple of years, Humans Of New York has become the most followed photography blog on the Internet. Every new post garners thousands of likes in minutes and several spin-offs have been...
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The 3 Best Brooklyn Dates This Week
If you're single and hating it, leave it to your friends at The L to help. We've teamed up with the minds behind HowAboutWe to create Brooklyn Dating, a service that will (hopefully) help change online...
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Law & Order: SVU is About to Make a Lot of People Angry
If there were ever an appropriate time to quote Samuel Jackson's famous line from Jurassic Park, it would be now. Hold onto your butts.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Announcing the 11-Course All-Star Cookout Tasting Menu!
Taste Talks is proud to announce the complete All-Star Cookout Tasting Menu, available for one day only on Sunday, September 15 at East River State Park. Don't miss your chance to try this exclusive,...
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Win Tickets to See CHVRCHES on 9/20!
We're giving you the chance to see CHVRCHES on Sunday, September 22 at Terminal 5. They're playing with xxyyxx, tickets are $25 (and going fast!), but we'll get you there for free.…[ Read more ][...
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Lou Reed Being Used to Sell PS4s
The Playstation 4 gaming system recently hit shelves, and the ad promoting it, which debuted last month shortly before Lou Reed died, features one of the musician's most popular and best-loved songs....
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Why Haven't We Been Talking More About This Archie Comics 'Penis' Lawsuit?
Unclear how this story didn't immediately come to our attention when it started circulating earlier this week, but better late than never: the company behind Archie Comics has inspired one of the...
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Maybe Reporters Shouldn't Have Access to Police Reports
Early this month, the NYPD quietly changed decades of protocol: reporters would no longer be able to pop by their local precinct and peruse the crime reports, the fodder for the familiar blotters that...
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Armond White is Just a Red Herring
Notoriously contrarian film critic Armond White was dismissed from the New York Film Critics Circle yesterday, following a much-publicized ado at the group's annual awards ceremony in which White at...
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Bad Ads: Turbotax and The Stupid, Prattling Woman You Married
Lazy sexism in ads is almost a laughably old trope, even in a good chunk of the work being produced today—there is, quite literally, now an app for that. But, courtesy of TurboTax, here's another one...
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Is It Ever Ok to Walk Out of a Movie?
I can't remember ever walking out of a movie, press screening or otherwise, but I have the luxury of not seeing that many. Granted, as someone who edits a film section (among other things) and also...
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After Insane "Penis!" Lawsuit, Lena Dunham Set To Guest Write For Archie Comics
Can't say we really saw it coming, but unexpectedly, delightfully, Archie Comics has found itself in the news quite a bit as of late. First there was the lawsuit about the company's CEO allegedly...
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One of America's Best Worst-Journalists Has Died
The first time I picked up Joe McGinniss's Fatal Vision, I couldn't put it down. In one sitting, I read more than 100 pages of his gripping account of Jeffrey MacDonald, the doctor who survived a home...
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Who Cares If a Famous Person Dies?
When I was a teenager, my friends and I had a favorite prank: we'd tell people that Gary Sinise had died. Being the late 90s, he was well-known enough without being too well-known that most people...
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When Jon Stewart Lets You Down
The Daily Showdevoted its six-minute opening segment last night to Michael Grimm, the Republican congressmember who was recently indicted on 20 counts of fraud (and more!) in connection with a health...
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