The Oscars are long, and although people across the world watch it, even the attendees are bored to tears. (Did you see George Clooney?) If you missed Hollywood’s biggest night of self-adoration all year, here’s a handy crib sheet for the most notable moment’s from last night’s show.
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The 9 top Oscar moments, in case you missed it
A woman named Angie Jackson created an inevitable firestorm of controversy this week when she decided to live-tweet her medical abortion.
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Is liveblogging your abortion enlightened or exhibitionistic?
Gawker became the kind of media news it tends to report on today, with the announcement of the acquisition of CityFile and subsequent replacement of Editor in Chief Gabriel Snyder. Explained in two memos, posted below, the ouster seems to have come as a surprise to Snyder, who has been with Gawker Media for eighteen months. While the reaction he expressed was public and thusly tamed, is new media really doomed to partnerships as short as Snyder seems to think
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Gawker makes first acquisition, ousts EIC
Whole Foods is supposedly a great company to be employed with . Unless you’re a big fat fatty , in which case Whole Foods would like to remind you that you’re less valuable to them than your thin co-workers.
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Whole Foods blatantly discriminates against staff “of size”
A controversial new spread in V Magazine ’s “size issue” is being hotly debated all over the internet, due to the lack of airbrushing and skimpy clothes featured in the shots.
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V Mag plus size spread divides readers, is fashion ready for bigger models?
New York, NY (CNS) – Demi Moore’s hip has just been chunked off. The 47-year-old slender star’s latest magazine cover photo has gotten the attention of observant readers after it appears a photo editor exaggeratedly airbrushed her picture. At first glance, Mrs.
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Demi Moore’s W Magazine Photo Cover Center of Airbrushing Controversy
You may think the orange guy with the many popped collars is just a douchebag, but that’s a ridicucrunkulous way of looking at it. [ FunnyorDie via Jezebel ] Related posts: The Ultimate Douchebag Video: Guido Beach, mating season Paris Hilton Gets Presidential with Martin Sheen
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“We are douchebags” PSA
A new media campaign retaliating against ESPN for scandal related subterfuge got some old media attention today. Deadspin, a Gawker media blog, gets oodles of sports and sportscaster news related tips and rumors in their inbox. Back at the beginning of September, Deadspin’s editor AJ Daulerio contacted ESPN for confirmation of the rumors swirling around Steve Philips regarding the unhinged intern (Brooke Hundley) that Philips totally turned out to be tapping.
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NYT subtly frowns on Deadspin’s ESPN horndog dossier shenanigans
Was it TMI or a welcome, candid look into women’s workplace issues? Penelope Trunk, of The Brazen Careerist , tweeted to her now-19,000 followers during a work function that she was currently miscarrying. Like, that second.
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Going too far? Penelope Trunk’s miscarriage tweet divides social media types
The pre-show buzz had focused on the highly anticipated tribute to the late Michael Jackson, but West’s disruption stole the spotlight.
A giddy Swift was in the midst of her acceptance speech for Best Female Video when the often-mercurial West rushed onstage, grabbed her microphone and let loose an outburst on behalf of singer Beyonce Knowles, who had lost out in that category.
But audiences who stayed tuned until the end of the broadcast were treated to a touching bookend: Knowles, the night’s top winner, invited Swift onstage and gave the teen singer her moment in the spotlight.
Kayne West Disrupts Taylor Swift MTV Music Video Awards 2009
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