The NYT Thinks Using Hipster is Hip While Kansas City Star Loses Whitlock, Plus Other News of the Day

– It must be a weird feeling to have a story you produce go viral. One day you are trying to find the right synonym to describe the subject to the next day reading your story on every website and seeing it on every television screen. Village Voice writer Elizabeth Dwoskin got the opportunity to watch this industry-wide obsession take place after writing a story about a banker fired for being too sexy. “I watched this unfold in real-time-a punch-drunk, surreal, I-don’t-want-to jinx-myself-but-I-don’t-think-this-will-ever-happen-to-me-again sort of experience- extremely pleasurable, and also slightly disturbing,” wrote

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