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Ashton Kutcher Will Destroy Newspaper Over Sex Slavery Article
Adrian Chen · 07/01/11 03:51PM
Famous Twitter user Ashton Kutcher is extremely upset at the Village Voice. The paper wrote a cover story making fun of him and bashing his anti-sex trafficking efforts. Now he will make sure no company advertises in the paper or on its site, ever.
Google Plus Swears It's More Trustworthy Than Facebook
Ryan Tate · 06/28/11 03:04PMGoogle Plus understands you're nervous, baby. That Facebook, he cheated on you, embarrassed you, and keeps promising to change. But you can trust Google Plus. He's different. Really! Dump Facebook and tell all your friends about your new, richer social network.
Bristol Palin Takes a Jab at Meghan McCain in Fox News Interview
Matt Cherette · 06/28/11 01:43AMLast week, we got a glimpse of the Meghan McCain-bashing included in Bristol Palin's forthcoming memoir.
Facebook Twins Will Continue Their Endless Legal Fight
Adrian Chen · 06/24/11 10:52AMThe Facebook Twins Finally Surrender
Ryan Tate · 06/22/11 06:32PMRoger Ebert: 'I Was Probably Too Quick to Tweet' About Jackass Star's Death
Maureen O'Connor · 06/21/11 02:04PM
Following Bam Margera's outrage over a Roger Ebert tweet about Jackass star Ryan Dunn's death ("friends don't let jackasses drink and drive") Ebert has taken to his blog.
Bristol Palin Trash Talks Meghan McCain
Maureen O'Connor · 06/21/11 12:24PMAn Outraged Bam Margera Responds to Roger Ebert's Mean Tweet About Ryan Dunn
Seth Abramovitch · 06/21/11 01:30AM
So Roger Ebert went and posted that stupid tweet this morning about Ryan Dunn's death, "Friends don't let jackasses drink and drive," which he is still standing behind, but really, just shut up Roger Ebert? Nothing was conclusive at the time of the tweet, friends and fans were still in mortal shock over the awful news, and if I wanted lectures about the perils of drunk driving, which I do not, I wouldn't seek them out from a movie critic? That tweet just summed up everything that's annoying about Twitter to me. People wanting to be heard, me not wanting to hear them. (And stop contributing New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest entries, already! You got your framed trophy and bragging rights. How much validation of one's pithiness can one man possibly need?)
Michael Wolff's Analysis of NYT: They're Ugly
Hamilton Nolan · 06/13/11 02:18PMInside the Huffington Post-AOL Civil War
Ryan Tate · 06/10/11 02:25PMCadbury Apologizes for 'Racist' Naomi Campbell Ad, Naomi Campbell Not Having It
Brian Moylan · 06/03/11 05:09PM
Today chocolate manufacturer Cadbury released a statement apologizing for an ad that associated notorious supermodel Naomi Campbell with a chocolate bar. Campbell called the ad "racist" and said she planned to sue. Well, the apology is out of the way, but Campbell still isn't happy.
Shep Smith Calls Bill Keller 'Not Nice'
Hamilton Nolan · 06/03/11 03:00PMVampire Woman to Lady Gaga: 'Let's Not Do Things Half-Assed'
Seth Abramovitch · 06/02/11 02:47AM
Body-modification superstar Mariajosé Cristerna enjoyed a surge of popularity recently when photos of the "Vampire Woman of Mexico," as she is better known, went cross-platform viral — popping up on everything from supermarket tabloids to Fox News and The Huffington Post.
Google Honcho Admits 'I Screwed Up' Against Facebook
Ryan Tate · 06/01/11 01:53PMAnderson Cooper Calls Tweeter a 'Moron' Over Photoshopped Photos
Brian Moylan · 05/24/11 04:13PM
Anderson Cooper has been tweeting pictures from the tornado wreckage in Joplin, Missouri. But then he took some time out to call another Twitter user a "moron." What got Andy's parka in a bunch?
Tina Brown Gives Exact Date That She Will Be Wrong
Hamilton Nolan · 05/17/11 01:57PMGene Simmons on His Anonymous Foes
Adrian Chen · 05/15/11 03:05PMJon Stewart and Bill O'Reilly Will Debate Endless 'Common' Controversy
Jim Newell · 05/13/11 02:47PM
Jon Stewart has accepted Bill O'Reilly's offer to debate the terrible scandal about rapper Common reading a poem at the White House. It will air on Monday. This story will be in the news for three more days.
Jim Cramer Still Steamed About Jon Stewart Being Mean to Him
Hamilton Nolan · 05/13/11 10:46AM
Manic stock-picking rodeo clown Jim Cramer is a study in lost popularity. When the stock market was roaring, he was funny and loveable; when the economy collapsed, he became a villain, a cartoonish symbol of America's idiocy and excess.