For those of you who enjoy reading things on a tiny screen, we have good news: The New Yorker has launched an iPhone app.

According to the magazine, the app features “every story, every cartoon, every em dash, every illustration, and the new issue is available each Monday.” There are also video and music clips.

The New Yorker iPhone app is free this week, after that it is $5.99 per issue or $59.99 per year. Print, iPad and Kindle subscribers get it for free.

If you’re especially bored today, here is a video of Lena Dunham and others introducing the app.

Here’s a look at what FishbowlNY stories made the most buzz this week.

1. Viacom Takes Pro Gay Marriage Stance, July 27
2. Jonah Lehrer (left) Resigns From The New Yorker, July 30
3. The Daily Drops a Third of its Staff, July 31
4. Jonah Lehrer Might Have Been Addicted to Lying, July 31
5. WPIX Anchor Kaity Tong Takes Stand in Former Boss’ Age Discrimination Suit, July 26
6. WPIX Catches WNYW in Morning Race, July 27
7. WNYW Keeps Distance at 10 P.M., as Greg Kelly Marks One-Month, August 2

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In an interview with Salon, Jayson Blair says that Jonah Lehrer’s tale reminds him of his own. Blair gives some great insight, and as we read the interview, we couldn’t help but notice how often the themes of addiction came up in Blair’s answers.

We understand that these are Bair’s comments and not Leher’s, but below are some excerpts that made us wonder: Was Lehrer addicted to lying?

Often people come into the office seeking me out because of what I went through and what I did, and they say to me, ‘I’ve done this really bad thing and I don’t ever want to do it again.’ And they come back two weeks later and say, ‘I did it again. I can’t stop the cycle once it starts.’ There are fire walls in life, things you never want to do, lines you never want to cross, because once you cross that line it becomes easier to do it again.

Addiction is a cycle. It starts with some feeling — insecurity, loneliness, etc. — and then progresses into a behavior meant to silence that unpleasant feeling, even if that behavior is something that will make things worse. But it stops the “pain” briefly, just long enough to make a person consider doing it again.

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Well, the saga of Jonah Lehrer is officially over. The New York Times reports that Lehrer — who was busted recycling stories for his New Yorker blog — has resigned from the magazine after he was caught fabricating Bob Dylan quotes in a book he wrote. The latest accusations came from Tablet, the online magazine.

Add this to everything else, and you see that Lehrer has built quite the career (well, had built quite the career) out of being a liar.

Via the Times, a snippet of Lehrer’s statement:

The lies are over now. I understand the gravity of my position. I want to apologize to everyone I have let down, especially my editors and readers. I also owe a sincere apology to Mr. Moynihan [author of the Tablet article]. I will do my best to correct the record and ensure that my misquotations and mistakes are fixed. I have resigned my position as staff writer at The New Yorker.

Everyone who actually believes Lehrer when he says that “the lies are over now,” please congratulate yourself, because you’re a more optimistic person than us.

Remember the above New Yorker cartoon? It’s the same one from “The Cartoon,” one of the later episodes in Seinfeld. The New Yorker is featuring in its captioning contest this week, so get to work! Oh, and just in case you forgot, below is the exchange in which Jerry, Elaine and Kramer discuss their captions. Kramer’s was definitely the best.

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The New Yorker has acquired the satirical news site The Borowitz Report. The site, which is written by Andy Borowitz, is now housed at Newyorker.com. In announcing the move to the New Yorker, Borowitz says everything will stay the same, and that all topics are fair game, aside from one.

“David Remnick, the editor of The New Yorker, has assured me that I can write whatever I want as long as I don’t make fun of Malcolm Gladwell,” explains Borowitz.

Borowitz’s first column is up this morning. It’s about Mitt Romney releasing the first picture of his running mate. The choice? Rich Uncle Pennybags, from the game Monopoly.

Jonah Lehrer, formerly of Wired and recently hired by The New Yorker, is in serious trouble. Jim Romenesko pointed out that Lehrer lifted parts of a New Yorker piece from one he wrote for The Wall Street Journal, and the situation has snowballed since then. New York’s Daily Intel noted several other instances of Lehrer plagiarizing himself and now Edward Champion explains that Lehrer recycled material for his book, Imagine. Poynter also found that he lifted quotes from a story written by someone else:

An editor’s note at the foot of his excellent New Yorker piece on brainstorming says some Noam Chomsky quotes within it ‘were not made directly to Jonah Lehrer’ and that ‘Chomsky and his colleague were interviewed by Peter Dizikes for his article in the November/December issue of Technology Review.’ Gulp.

Gulp indeed. As of now, the only comment from the New Yorker is from its web editor, Nicholas Thompson, who called the plagiarizing “a mistake.” A slew of Lehrer’s posts on his “Frontal Cortex” blog also have editors notes tacked onto them. But how long until Lehrer gets the axe? He can’t possibly keep his job after all this, can he?

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Sometimes a magazine cover is just so perfect. Take the latest New Yorker, which sums up our feelings about Mayor Bloomberg’s idea to ban large soda sizes.

Owen Smith, the man behind the illustration, told The New Yorker, “When I heard about Bloomberg’s plan, on the national news, to make large sodas illegal, my mind immediately went to ‘Are people going to jail for this?’”

Here’s a look at what FishbowlNY stories made the most buzz this week.

1. YES Network’s Michael Kay (left) Goes to Blows on Twitter with College Student, June 7
2. Longtime Mets Announcers Howie Rose and Gary Cohen Bask in Franchise’s First No-Hitter, June 2
3. Sue Simmons Final Day at WNBC is June 15, June 4
4. Roger Ailes Cancels Paper Subscription Out of Spite, June 1
5. Gawker Changes Commenting System (Again), Commenters Go Crazy (Again), June 4
6. Jonah Lehrer Departs Wired for The New Yorker, June 5

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The New Yorker is quite pleased with its digital operations, and its editors aren’t shy about telling everyone. David Remnick, the magazine’s editor-in-chief, appeared on CBS This Morning and when the subject of paywalls came up, Remnick got testy. “Look, you cannot get these stories for free,” he explained. “I cannot give you everything on the Internet for free and make you think The New Yorker is something that comes out of the faucet.” Agreed!

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