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We Still Love Simon Dumenco - Posted July 10, 2009
Media columnist for Advertising Age Simon Dumenco, who once won our affections by calling Huffington Post a "media plantation" penned a farcical satire of Sarah Palin and her future as a CNN star. Dumenco writes: WASILLA, ALASKA (Feb. 18, 2010) -- Once again shocking the media establishment, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin... [FishBowlLA]

Employed And Unemployed Alike Swap Swag At ASSME Bash - Posted June 25, 2009
Just as we were about to leave ASSME's Swag-a-Thon -- a charity event/blowout hosted by the organization representing the "sh*tcanned media elite" -- we heard the unmistakable voice of New York Times media columnist David Carr. There had been some confusion over whether Carr would come -- something about being lost... [FishBowlNY]

Friday's RTCA Dinner Wrap Up|Meredith Titles Show Ad Growth In July|Gawker's Denton Says He's Not Bored|NYT's Pogue Takes Heat For Speaker's Fee|Dumenco Continues Anti-HuffPo Campaign - Posted June 22, 2009
FishbowlDC: Coverage of the Radio & Television Correspondent's Association Dinner, including reviews of keynote speaker John Hodgman. minOnline: Four of the top five magazines showing ad sales growth in July are Meredith titles: Fitness, Family Circle, Ladies' Home Journal and More. Flex rounded out the top five. Washington Post: Howard Kurtz interviews Gawker's... [FishBowlNY]

WaPo.com's Roberts Leaves For Beliefnet|La Russa Sues Twitter|Allure Launches E-commerce Site|Media Critics Dumeno And Carr Chat|SNAP Gets A New Name - Posted June 5, 2009
FishbowlDC: WaPo.com's managing editor Ju-Don Roberts has resigned to head up News Corp.'s Beliefnet.com. WebNewser: St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa sued Twitter. minonline: Allure has launched Allure Virtual Store in the hopes of adding e-commerce revenues to online ad dollars. AdAge: Simon Dumenco interviewed New York Times columnist David Carr about his... [FishBowlNY]

WaPo.com's Roberts Leaves For Beliefnet|La Russa Sues Twitter|Allure Launches E-commerce Site|Media Critics Dumenco And Carr Chat|SNAP Gets A New Name - Posted June 5, 2009
FishbowlDC: WaPo.com's managing editor Ju-Don Roberts has resigned to head up News Corp.'s Beliefnet.com. WebNewser: St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa sued Twitter. minonline: Allure has launched Allure Virtual Store in the hopes of adding e-commerce revenues to online ad dollars. AdAge: Simon Dumenco interviewed New York Times columnist David Carr about his... [FishBowlNY]

A New Award On The Block - Posted June 3, 2009
Advertising Age's Simon Dumenco expressed his distaste for the Mirror Awards and Arianna Huffington earlier this week, but we think he would have a hard time finding fault in this new journalism award. Starting in July, the Sidney Hillman Foundation will present "The Sidney," an award honoring socially-conscious journalism, every month. The... [FishBowlNY]

Simon Dumenco Takes on Huffpo...Again - Posted June 1, 2009
Ad Age media columnist, Simon Dumenco pulls no punches when it comes to Huffpo. He once called the site a 'media plantation.' A line we quote at cocktail parties all the time...unless they're thrown at Arianna's house. Ahem. Dumenco's latest takes exception to Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications given... [FishBowlLA]

Mirror Awards Take Heat For Honoring Huffington - Posted June 1, 2009
Advertising Age's Simon Dumenco is outraged that Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications is awarding Arianna Huffington its Fred Dressler Lifetime Achievement Award at next week's Mirror Awards, and not just because AdAge has never won a Mirror prize. Dumenco is upset because, to him, Huffington represents all that... [FishBowlNY]

Morning Reading List, 01.06.09 - Posted January 6, 2009
Good morning Washington. Got a blind item, interesting link, funny note, comment, birthday, anniversary or anything of the sort for Morning Reading List? Drop us a line or let us know in the tips box below. We've got your morning mix of media Muesli after the jump...... [FishBowlDC]

Morning Reading List, 10.07.08 - Posted October 7, 2008
Good morning Washington. Got a blind item, interesting link, funny note, comment, birthday, anniversary or anything of the sort for Morning Reading List? Drop us a line or let us know in the tips box below. We've got your morning mix of media Muesli after the jump...... [FishBowlDC]

The Daily Beast Launches - Posted October 6, 2008
Tina Brown's The Daily Beast is up and open for business. She answers questions here. The site is named after the paper in Evelyn Waugh's novel Scoop. And it's not to be confused with the magazine Matt Taibbi started The Buffalo Beast. We emailed The Daily Beast to ask if they are... [FishBowlLA]

Icahn and Microsoft Fail to Charm Yahoo, Again - Posted July 14, 2008
It's back off-again. Over the week-end Yahoo rejected Carl Icahn and Microsoft's "take it or leave it" proposal, which required Yahoo to sell its search business to Microsoft, throw out its board and management, and hand control of the rest of the company to Carl Icahn. Not surprisingly even... [FishBowlNY]

Morning Reading List, 09.25.07 - Posted September 25, 2007
Good morning Washington. You think Jon Stewart could totally take Tucker Carlson in a fist fight. CBSNews.com's Matthew Felling -- fresh back from his stint on "Morning Joe" -- is hosting today's "Kojo Nnamdi Show" on WAMU 88.5FM from noon to two. "Printing poll on Iraqi deaths would be irresponsible" Keith St. Clair,... [FishBowlDC]

79 Short Essays Gets Very Short Listed, But They Still Want Michael Bierut to be the Capital of Lebanon - Posted September 12, 2007
We were jazzed to see one of our favorite books skyrocket to the top of the VSL charts. But even here, in this online world founded by peeps who we assume actually know and like the Man With the Most Chronically Misspelled Name in Design---Kurt Andersen, Simon Dumenco, Emily Oberman, and... [UnBeige]

Joshua Ferris Is the Upton Sinclair of Advertising - Posted March 6, 2007
Then We Came to the End is a new novel by Joshua Ferris that's currently making waves with ad and design folk for presenting an unflattering yet brilliant mirror in which to see ourselves. The main character works as a copywriter in a Chicago ad agency just after the dot-com collapse... [UnBeige]

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