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Advice For Journalists: Disaster Preparedness Edition

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Eat the Press, Choire Sicha, Natural Disasters, Japan Earthquake, Japan Earthquake 2011, Jon Stewart, Jack Shafer, Rick Sanchez, Video, Media News

Here's a reminder to reporters on the teevee: the terrible disaster that happened isn't happening to you, okay?

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Anderson Cooper, CNN Tell Interviewers: No "Personal Questions"

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Choire Sicha, Anderson Cooper, Cnn, Video, Media News

Choire Sicha, who recently interviewed Anderson Cooper for the Los Angeles Times, posted on his blog an interesting tidbit: he was barred by CNN from ...

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The New Radar Online Is Titanically Awful

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Choire Sicha, Radaronline, Radar Magazine, Radar Folds, Alex Balk, Media News

In two day's time, the site's new proprietors have put forth a product that truly fails to improve upon a blank laptop screen, thickly coated in whale turds.

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Hard To Kill, But Not Impossible: Finally, The End Of Radar

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Choire Sicha, Radar, Jon Koblin, Maer Roshan, Media News, Alex Balk, Radar Magazine, Radaronline, Amanda Knox, Eat the Press, Media News

This is a sad day for people who love magazines, and for people who love sharp everyday writing, and for people who love risk-takers and dream-havers. It's sad because Radar magazine -- and it's inestimable online arm, RadarOnline -- have folded.

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A Child's Garden Of Anti-Gay Hipster YouTubes

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Choire Sicha, California Gay Marriage, Proposition 8, Radar Magazine, Anti-Gay, Gay Marriage, Video, Politics News

Over at RADAR, Choire Sicha has collected a bounty of YouTube videos, all taking a position in favor of Proposition 8, and all featuring incoherent hipsters in an attempt to make legislating discrimination cool.

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New Guard At Gawker: Denton Takes The Helm (Plus New Sci-Fi Blog!)

Huffignton Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Choire Sicha, Gawker, Nick Denton, Emily Gould, Gawker Media, Joshua Stein, Gawker Managing Editor, Eat the Press, Media News

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss: On December 31, 2007, Gawker bid farewell to managing editor Choire Sicha, editor Emily Gould, and after hour...

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Self-Important n+1 Played Absolutely No Role in Resignation of Gawker Editors

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Choire Sicha, Gawker, N+1, Gawker Media, Emily Gould, Eat the Press, Media News

Today I received an email from someone at lit journal n+1 with a link to its just-published Gawker critique by Carla Blumenkranz. The subject line...

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Five Years In, Gawker Still Meting Out A "Manhattan Version Of Social Justice"

New York | Vanessa Grigoriadis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Choire Sicha, Nick Denton, Gawker, New York Media, Media News

At the risk of sounding like a wounded old-media journalist, let me share a story about my experience with the media-gossip blog Gawker.com, which I, ...

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