Glaring Omissions: Learn to Spell Your Boss's Name
Glaring Omissions reproduces tips received from readers in the last week that weren't covered on Gawker, either by accident (rarely) or design (almost always). Feel free to remark on these items' relative worthiness for coverage and/or relative stupidity. And, as ever, we're open to suggestions for future posts either via email or in the comments below.
• "Please contact IAC abut posting regarding BARRY DILLAR. [sic] THIS IS IAC HR!"
• "See, I was watching the vid of the Saarsgaard Gyllenhaallss leaving for the hospital, and then there's this video down below where Jake takes out the trash, and it sure looks like Malcolm Gladwell, or at least that guy from LBTMcB's party, in the opening shot."
• "I went to high school with Sewell Chan (he was a few years older than me) and just got the Hunter College High School alumni newsletter. In it there's an obituary of Mollie Orshansky, the government statistician who came up with the official government measurement for poverty. She, too, was a Huner alum. And guess who's got the byline? That's right: Sewell Chan! He's a machine. Not content to publish 1.5 pieces a day, he's also pitching to our alumni newsletter. What the hell?"
• "Denis wasn't fired. He's fed up and resigning."
• "Maybe you can help this kid out ... as an aside, I hate that journalism students at NYU think it's ok to report by listserv. They do this all the freaking time. As if any of the students have any more of a clue than they do. Anyway, yeah. man crush: 'Fellow Students, My name is [redacted], and I'm in need of your help. I am writing a series of stories with a beat on masculinity- specifically the specifics and background behind the term "man crush." So here's where I need help. One of my articles has to be a profile piece. I was thinking either an gender expert (pref. male, published author)or a heterosexual male who has a really really serious man crush and doesn't mind shouting it to the world. Please e-mail me ASAP if you have any person or persons in mind. I'll greatly appreciate any help I can get. Thanks guys.'"
• "rodale: m murko to womens health from best life. best life pub tba."
• "not a word about all the layoffs at businessweek??"
• "Daily News so lame ... this is a whole week old."
• "Drudge just broke the name of the Congressional page involved in the Foley scandal, Jordan Edmunds. Some of my friends say that Drudge loves any scandal but he's a partisan scumbag — instead of digging into Foley and figuring out why he dropped his seat like a hot potato weeks before an election he's revealing the name of a (possible) victim. It's shameless, posting this kids name like that."
• "I was just on IMDb looking up Schindler's List. I was reading the "Trivia" section and came across this curious tidbit: 'Both Kevin Costner and Mel Gibson offered their services, but Steven Spielberg decided to go with less familiar names as the presence of a major star would be too distracting.' Mel Gibson in Schindler's List ... I don't even know where to start the sarcasm. Imagine if he had portrayed a Nazi on screen ... yiiikes ..."
• "Not to be a dick or anything, but shouldn't the ADL be more concerned that Sasha Baron Cohen's humor itself reinforces stereotypes about how Jews think the goyim are a just a bunch of gullible idiots?"