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 Dwoskin. Hmm, sounds fun.
– The New York Times seems to need to find a better word to describe a trend-eccentric, young city dweller other than hipster. The newspaper has used the word a mere 250 times in the past year. Ironically, a hipster would have moved onto the next trend by now, rather than repeating the same thing over, and over again.
– Longtime Kansas City Star sports columnist Jason Whitlock will no longer write for the newspaper. He’s worked for the KC publication since 1994, and won a The Scripps Howard Foundation award for commentary in 2008. Whitlock will continue to write for FoxSports.com while also pursuing other opportunities.
– I Can Not Purchaze Pet Holdings, at least that’s what the Associate Press has said. The wire service was in talks to buy the parent of various websites, including the FAIL Blog and I Canz Have Cheeseburger. The Los Angeles Times Mark Milian reported, “The Associated Press finally axed the project on concerns over ‘journalistic integrity,’ Pet Holdings Chief Ben Huh said in an interview Monday.” It took months to figure that out?
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