1. Between Ezra Klein opining on how journalistic sourcing is little more than providing amplification for talking points and Matthew Yglesias fundamentally misunderstanding how people who aren’t in his media-wonk bubble consume their news, I’m starting to think that maybe that whole “term limits on punditry” idea that I came up with in the ’90s is one whose time has come. 

  2. WHY NOT JUST PUT “I LIKE IT UP THE REAR” ON THE ASS. SERIOUSLY.

    WHY NOT JUST PUT “I LIKE IT UP THE REAR” ON THE ASS. SERIOUSLY.

  3. No. 

    No. 

  4. CNN Buying Mashable For $Lots And Lots

    Because what the mainstream media really needed was more privileged-dudes-operating-under-the-guise-of-being-“geeks” perspective. 

    (Source: The New York Times)

  5. Dear fashion writers who want to write about music,

    The next time you’re going to write a gushing profile of an up-and-coming starlet that’s full of condescending comparisons to other musicians, you must—must—actually listen to the people in whose directions you are throwing shade between the assignment and your filing the piece. Because it’s really, really, really fucking clear as a bell when you’re operating off half-baked assumptions gleaned from nights out when you’re burning the way-past-midnight oil yet “curiously awake.”

    Also, just stop using Terry Richardson. For the love of God, talk about cliché.

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