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The Laziest Journalists on Twitter

Reporters everywhere are in love with “crowdsourcing,” in which sources magically come to then, saving the reporters several backbreaking telephone calls. But some correspondents have gotten embarrassingly addicted to this journalistic crack cocaine. And it’s time for a intervention.

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The Laziest Journalists on Twitter

Julia Allison’s Secret, Staggeringly Heartbreaking Boyfriend

Julia Allison has broken up with her unlikely boyfriend, Christopher “Toph” Eggers. Yes, that Eggers: the younger brother of author Dave Eggers written about in Eggers’ breakthrough memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius . It was an odd pairing, the shameless blog-and-video fameball, with a contributor to the famed Eggers line of elaborately precious and self-consciously-old-fashioned written products.

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Julia Allison’s Secret, Staggeringly Heartbreaking Boyfriend