Archive for the 'Tom Scocca' Category

Laziness To Take Time Off?

Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006

The New York Observer points out this morning that the trend of shocking (read: not real) trend stories might be running out of steam. This leaves the time honored tradition of journalists making the news in their own head and justifying it with three boilerplate quotes and one wiiiiiiiiiiild anecdote, well, less trendy.
So goodbye “The […]

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Three Stars of the Newscycle: 7.31.06

Monday, July 31st, 2006

Now THIS is a news day. The middle east continues to teeter on the edge of shit rattling chaos and that doesn’t even make the top 3. IN YOUR FACE dead children.
• Verizon offers a shitty iPod clone. Disaster lurks. Farts. Lurk.
• Count the headline puns Sugartits!
• Remember when I politely discussed the merits of […]

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Old Timer Fires Back, Blogger Very Polite

Thursday, July 27th, 2006

If you remember correctly, yesterday morning I poked fun at a story about YouTube written by one Tom Scocca for the New York Observer. If you one of The 15, you know that this kind of things happens, well, twice a day. More rare, is when the object of my ridicule reads what I wrote […]

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