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New York Times Hacked By Syrian Electronic Army, Publishes Adorably Defensive Article About It

A little after 3pm on Tuesday afternoon, the New York Times website stopped working. This wasn't like a couple weeks ago when the Times' website went down and everyone lost their shit. That was just a technical glitch. The Times' chief information officer Marc Frons told... er... the Times, this out ... More >>

Elliott Stein, 1928 - 2012

By Nick Pinkerton Elliott Stein, a longtime contributor to The Village Voice, as well as

Mike Bloomberg Gets Driven To His Subway Stop -- Just Like The Rest Of Us

New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg last week promised that he would join the riff-raff by taking the subway to work this morning in an apparent attempt to prove that the city is getting back to normal following last week's hurricane.The billionaire mayor's playing the "common man" is adorable, and a ... More >>

Publishers Fight Back Against Schoolbook Piracy

Textbook torrents

Winners of the James Beard Foundation's Book, Broadcast and Journalism Awards

The winners of the James Beard Foundation's media awards were announced last night (the glitzy chef awards will be presented tonight and you can follow along here, if you like). Congratulations to all of the winners!

The Good Old Days of Epic, Expensive Lunches at the Financial Times

Want to take a quick break from our live May Day coverage? The Financial Times looks back at its long-standing column, Lunch with the FT. It's a fun look at the golden days of the celebrity interview. FT journalists drank cocktails at hotel bars with celebrities (who weren't even promoting a proje ... More >>

Thomas Keller Will Serve You Cornflakes, If You Really Must Insist

​"I don't think the question is, "Is the customer always right?" but rather, "Do you want to make your customer happy?" The paramount goal is to make the customer happy. So if a customer comes into my restaurant and wants cornflakes, is it right for him to eat cornflakes at The French Laundry? ... More >>

David Mamet is Crazy About Sarah Palin

​David Mamet (who, lest we forget, is no longer a brain-dead liberal), is a big fan of prolific emailerSarah Palin. "I am crazy about her," he told the Financial Times over lunch. "Would she make a good candidate for president? I don't know but she seems to have succeeded at everything she put ... More >>

Food Trucks Get Their Own Book; Mickey D's CEO Defends Ronald McDonald

​Sbarro, which recently announced it might file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, is now considering a sale instead. [Nation's Restaurant News] Prague is getting on the foodie bandwagon, as it gears up for the Prague Food Festival, which will feature cuisines from around the world. [NY Times] A new ... More >>

Anonymous Under Investigation For Potential Attacks in Support of Bradley Manning

​The hacker/activist collective Anonymous, known most recently for their fervent support of WikiLeaks and movements in the Middle East, are under some sort of vague investigation by United States authorities because of murmurs that they're planning to disrupt the military jailers holding Pfc. ... More >>

Anonymous Hackers to Aaron Barr: Snitches Get Online Stitches

​The anarchic and amorphous hacker group Anonymous unleashed its online fury Sunday on Aaron Barr, a computer security expert with plans to tell the FBI everything he's gathered about the group. They took over his Twitter, covered it with racial slurs, published his social security number and ... More >>

Could Imagining Food Help You Eat Less?; The Colonel Invades Africa

​Researchers have been studying the use of mental imagery to help reduce appetite. So, imagining food might actually help you eat less of it. [BusinessWeek] Hong Kong's newest food craze is called "New York style" cuisine. It refers to restaurants owned or run by chefs who come from New York. ... More >>

Fiji Water to Pull Out of Fiji; Bees in Red Hook Caught Red-Bodied

​Fiji Water is shutting down its operations on the island due to a tax hike imposed by Fiji's government. The company is owned by billionaire investors Lynda Resnick and Stewart Resnick, who also own POM Wonderful. [Wall Street Journal] Burger King's monthlong "King of the Road" bus tour has ... More >>

Press Clips: Scattered Showers of Media Men

​The New York Observer's man-tastic new look! Big ups to Bill O'Reilly. Breitbart wants us all to die, or something. Hugo-a-go-go at the Times Magazine. Pissy paywall battles, angry clowns, the Lloyd Grove Orgy, and more! Press Clips, Day 17, Lunch Edition, right here.

Annie Leibovitz: Struggling Artist

Annie Leibovitz​Despite being one of the most famous and well-recognized photographers of our time, Annie Leibovitz continues to struggle as a financially viable artist, according to a huge feature in the Financial Times. The paper uses Leibovitz as a microcosm of the divide between "specialis ... More >>

WSJ Weekend Launches With Eye on the Times

​On Saturday, the Wall Street Journal released its first issue of the revamped weekend paper, WSJ Weekend, with the hope of competing directly with the New York Times. One difference is that if you Google "WSJ Weekend" the first result reads "The Wall Street Journal Weekend Edition" and if you ... More >>

North Korea Would Like To Pay Its Debt to Czech Republic in Ginseng

As good as gold?​Everything is totally fine in North Korea! It's just that, well, about that US$10 million dollar debt they owe to the Czech Republic...they'd like to repay at least part of it in ginseng.

Bret Easton Ellis Thinks He Looks Like Robert Pattinson & Mel Gibson, 'Gets' Celebrity Interviews

​Celebrity interviews exist on a strange spectrum of self-awareness. From enigmatic to overshare-y, it's all for publicity, leaving it as the readers' job -- should they care at all about something as trivial as celebrity journalism -- to deduce where the subject's quest to create a character ... More >>

Enjoy Free NY Post While You Can: Murdoch Plans to Charge

​News Corp boss Rupert Murdoch tells the Financial Times that "we intend to charge for all our news websites," presumably including the New York Post -- and that "If we're successful, we'll be followed by all media." Murdoch already charges for some content at the Wall Street Journal. News Cor ... More >>

Cuomo May Seek Giveback of $4B Merrill Lynch Bonuses

The saga of the $4 billion in bonuses paid to collapsed Merrill Lynch just got funnier for everyone except the people who received the money. Having subpoenaed ousted Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain (and the head of Bank of America, which took the firm over) about the bonuses, AG Andrew Cuomo is said t ... More >>

Daily Flog: Deregulate. Spread fear. Deregulate. Spread fear.

Daily Flog: Doom day -- Election shakes, global bombings, massive firings

Daily Flog: California, here we go; crisis also sweeps through Asia

Daily Flog: White House on its knees, the rest of us on our backs, Wall Street zipping up

Daily Flog: Panic spreads to McCain; White House meeting will solve everything; the world sneers

Daily Flog: Race colored; Wall Street red-faced; Bloomberg white-knighted; future black

Daily Flog: In NYC, the end of the houses that Ruth and ruthlessness built

Daily Flog: The Dow of panic; stocks and bondage; U.S. snatches gold

Daily Flog: Remembering the 9/11, Bush disasters; waiting for Lehman's final collapse

Daily Flog: Lennon killer gets laid regularly and Edwards doesn't, Russia rips Georgia, China rips U.S., Con Ed rips us off

China's Blood-Splattered Olympics

The butcher of Tibet, and America's sporting president

Justice Department's Black Site

The administration censors internal probe of lawbreaking by the Oval Office and the NSA

Text Book

Perplexed Pakistanis in a rudeboy debut

Letters

Crude Manipulation

In Katrina's wake, the supposed oil shortage and suspicious gas price hikes

An Ally From Hell

CIA's close relationship with Sudan's government enables genocide there to continue

The Big Chill

EZT shuts down, courts lag behind, WMG gets desperate

The CIA's Kidnapping Ring

U.S. ally Uzbekistan teaches interrogators how to boil suspected terrorists to death

Morning Report 4/5/05
The Wolf's at the Door

Morning Report 3/31/05
Me Am Robin Hood

Worse Than Ashcroft

Bush's new attorney general helped write the Patriot Act and supported torture

What Did Bush Know?

The inside story of the official manual on how to torture without being prosecuted

Torture Trail

Bush's lawyers conclude the torture of prisoners is justified in war on terrorism

Horoscope

Sites You Need

Where to Find the Best War Reporting

Smear for Smear

Enron Pits 'Times,' 'Salon' Against Freelancer

Sites Unseen

Possible Link Between Al Qaeda and Far-Right Racists

Are We Dead Yet?

Media Industry Hit by Rolling Layoffs

Dancer From the Dance

Mark Morris makes his statement onstage