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The Future of Journalism, Solved

Posted on January 11, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

A survey out today reveals that newspapers are still doing most of the original reporting that websites (like this one) rely on. But they’re still losing money, readers and relevance

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Lessons from the Holocaust Faux-Memoirist’s Book Contract, By the Numbers

Posted on January 8, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Herman Rosenblat is the Holocaust survivor whose Oprah-endorsed story of meeting his wife while in a concentration camp turned out to be fake . When his publisher found out, they demanded their advance back. We’ve got the documents.

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There Are Officially Too Damn Many Ebook Readers

Posted on January 7, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

A couple years back, we condemned digital photo frames as the spam of CES—this year, in the wake of the Christmas of Kindle, every company has its own ebook reader. And that’s a bad thing.

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Kourtney Kardashian Says Being A Mom Is ‘Indescribable’

Posted on December 29, 2009 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

‘I love that I now have my own little family,’ she tells Life & Style of Mason Dash Disick. By Jocelyn Vena Scott Disick, baby Mason Dash Disick and Kourtney Kardashian in Life & Style Weekly Photo: Life & Style/Bauer Publishing Kourtney Kardashian sat down with Life & Style magazine to talk about her son, Mason Dash Disick , and gushed about having a family of her own with boyfriend Scott Disick. The “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” star, who announced she was pregnant over the summer , posed with her son, then eight days old, and said she couldn’t be more excited about the new addition to the Kardashian clan.

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Idiot Inks Boffo Book Deal

Posted on December 7, 2009 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Oh, good, Jonah Goldberg just got a million dollars to write another book. Hooray for the publishing industry! Jonah Goldberg—who has a career of any kind solely because his mother told Linda Tripp to secretly tape conversations with a lady who gave the president a blow job, and who is generally considered to be one of the most intellectually lazy pundits of any political persuasion of all time—writes about The Simpsons for The National Review Online

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Lil Wayne’s Legal Troubles: A Timeline

Posted on October 22, 2009 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

MC’s plea deal Monday caps one of several cases.

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RZA Wants In On Raekwon, Ghostface, Method Man’s Joint Album

Posted on October 20, 2009 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Plus: Gucci Mane releases his three-tape series The Cold War , in Mixtape Daily. By Shaheem Reid, with additional reporting by Rahman Dukes RZA Photo: Shareif Ziyadat/ Getty Images Our top section is called “Don’t Sleep,” and that’s a motto that Gucci Mane has lived by for the past two years.

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Deflated: Balloon Boy’s the Story of Our Ugly, Sorry Era

Posted on October 18, 2009 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Richard Heene has spoken out after Sheriff Jim Aldernan’s press conference. He’s currently “seeking counsel” and got teary as he told the AP that “this thing has become so convoluted.” He’s pretty on point in that regard

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Anka Gets 50% of Publishing Rights

Posted on October 12, 2009 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Filed under: Celebrity Justice , Music , Michael Jackson , Exclusives Michael Jackson’s estate just got a partner it didn’t bank on — because we’ve just learned Paul Anka is now a 50% partner in the publishing rights to “This Is It.”Anka will get other profits as well, but the publishing rights are usually the big … Permalink

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Vera Baker

Posted on September 22, 2009 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

POLITICS BUZZ : A new book picks up on the old rumor about a relationship Barack Obama may have had with an aide during his 2004 Senate campaign. Other affair rumors that didn't seem to pick up much traction: Sarah Palin affair rumors , John McCain's alleged affair with Amy Lumet

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