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	<title><![CDATA[Gawking Ourselves to Death]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-almond/gawking-ourselves-to-deat_b_68820.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>Until a few weeks ago, I'd never paid much attention to <a href="http://gawker.com/">Gawker</a>. I had a vague sense that they were a gossip website that had something to do with New York. Then my editor sent me a link to a post they wrote about me. As it turned out, they'd been <a href="http://gawker.com/news/pomposity/steve-almonds-new-book-will-change-the-world-300474.php">talking shit about me</a> for a while.</p>

<p> No surprise there.</p>

<p> What surprised me was that my editor seemed positively thrilled at the idea that I'd made Gawker's...</p>]]></abstract>
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	<date_published>2008-03-28T02:47:00-04:00</date_published>
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