Word: gawkers
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...Which rocked the foundation of my identity. I'm a man who writes about himself for a living. A man who has never said no to an offer to appear on E!, who tried out for The Real World, who loves it when Gawker mocks him, who has a "Joel Stein" RSS feed tapped directly into his veins, who is writing about himself in the third person. I'm a man who called everyone he knows to brag about his low narcissism score. If I'm not a narcissist...
...tail on "The Feds," - one of the eight economic culprits scrawled on an oversized poster board alongside the boss caricature. A former hedge fund manager pins his thumbtack somewhere between "The Economy" and "Consumer Spending" while a few yards away, a laid off videographer for media gossip site Gawker tosses a telephone wrapped in electrical tape just shy of the 100-point mark, as designated by circle drawn with sidewalk chalk. Prizes are awarded, mostly in the form of gift certificates to local restaurants and bars - Goddard had advertised a month of free medical insurance, but found it difficult...
...million unique users that month, according to Nielsen - more than double what it attracted a year ago. It gets a million-plus comments from readers a month. A business newswire recently valued the site at more than $90 million. Only one independently held online-content company (Nick Denton's Gawker properties) is worth more...
...online outlets. If someone has a picture of Malia or Sasha having a bad hair day back in Illinois, Morgan says Splash would buy it. Likewise, if there's a story of alleged social climbing at a Sidwell Friends birthday party, it's a safe bet that gossip site Gawker and its ilk would run the story...
Bush, George W. •Gawker offers unsolicited advice to •Hooverness of •lack of preparedness of for war - "I didn't campaign and say, 'Please vote for me, I'll be able to handle an attack'" - is disingenuously acknowledged by •The Onion imagines bad things happening to •response of to question about what he wished he could do over includes no mention of taking August 6, 2001, warning of imminent terrorism more seriously •responsibility for collapse of economy on watch of is awkwardly placed by on "decisions that were made...over a decade or so, before...