frauds

Media Bubble: Kids Dig the Web

Jesse · 03/23/06 03:45PM

• Pew study says young people get their news mostly online. You don't say. [USAT]
• Finally, your chance to be a Times White House reporter. [Media Mob/NYO]
• That British fashion writer who sold How to Wear Black to S&S if apparently even more full of shit than we already knew; also, Joanne Lipman continues staffing up the TK-eventually Conde business mag. [WWD]
Boston Globe ad sales stink, and it's bringing down the whole Times Co. [NYP]

Get Yer Retracted 'Voice' Cover Story Here!

Jesse · 03/02/06 08:52AM

For the moment we'll ignore the Village Voice's repugnance in attempting to remove all traces of Nick Sylvester's at least partially fabricated cover story from its website. (Whether you like it or not, guys, you published the flawed work, and it's part of the historical record, and while of course you should attach an explanatory and corrective note, it's deeply disgusting to watch a newspaper — a newspaper! — try to throw inconvenient facts down the memory hole.) Instead we're treating it as a cat-and-mouse game.

JT LeRoy: Figment of Gus Van Sant's Imagination?

Pareene · 10/07/05 12:50PM

Next week's New York features a shocking expose of reclusive author JT LeRoy (NB: Like Michael Jackson and "king of pop," journalists are contractually obligated to preface mention of JT LeRoy with the phrase "reclusive author"): he might be a fraud: