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How Steve Jobs Turned CNBC Into Apple Touts [Public Relations]
newVideoPlayer("CNBC_iPhone_gawker.flv", 475, 376);A year and a half ago, CNBC's Jim Goldman dished outsidery snark about Apple's supposedly botched iPhone launch. Now, the network's Silicon Valley bureau chief is drinking the Apple Kool-Aid. What happened? Goldman's change of tune is a classic cautionary tale. Reporters trade favorable coverage for access to products and executives all the time. ...

Liberal Media Won't Help Poor Ann Coulter Plug Her Book [Bias]
Ann Coulter has a new book out called GLORBAHLF: LIBERAL TERROR DEATH and she was going to go sell this book on Today but then NBC woke up and remembered that its not 2002. These terrible people like Ann became scary powerful slander-dragons back in the 1990s, because of the end of the fairness doctrine, and then Bill Clinton only won a plurality of the vote and there was a large segment of the po...

Meg Whitman Now More Retired From EBay Than Ever [Politics]
The famously frumpy former CEO of eBay, Meg Whitman, is veering closer to entering California's governor 2010 race, quitting the boards of Procter & Gamble, eBay, and Dreamworks Animation SKG. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican, can't run again because of California's term-limits laws, which means the 2010 race to replace the Governator is wide open on both sides — the only kind of scenario...

Presidential Inauguration To Be Trinket Show [Usa]
Are you going to the Obamanauguration? I'll be there! But only to get a good deal on "coins, stamps, jewelry and even a small handbag" directly from QVC: The televisiomatic gew-gaw purveyor is packing up its production trucks and knick-knack vans and whatnot and heading for the big city—of Washington! They'll be live on the scene for the inauguration, even doing interviews with average peopl...

The Mystery Of Madoff's Million-Dollar Mittens [Bernie Madoff]
Bernie Madoff is still at large. Prosecutors are trying to get the financier, accused of running a $50 billion Ponzi scheme, thrown in jail for mailing valuables to his brother. Including mittens! Billions of dollars of investors' lost money are at issue. And yet it's the minutest and most human of details that make the story a gripping saga. Why was Madoff mailing mittens? We don't know, but it h...

The Internet: Good For Reading [Literature]
Victoria Blake told NPR today that she started her own publishing company when she realized she was just wasting her free time reading Gawker. Have trashy websites like ours killed literature? Au contraire, yall! Clay Shirky—a professional smart man—tells CJR that hey, it's all reading. Why not embrace the internet? It seems to me, in fact, from the historical record, that the idea of ...

Al Franken Only Months Of Legal Challenges Away From Proving Nate Silver Right [Politics]
Al Franken was just certified the winner of the Minnesota Senate recount! Of course that race will still never ever be decided, Nate Silver be damned. Modern-day number-genius predicting-guy Nate Silver said way back in early December that Franken would eventually win the recount by 22 votes, and then later in the month he revised that to 40 votes. But Al Franken is about to win by 225 votes! He h...

Anne Hathaway Offers Insightful Critique Of Morning News Shows [Open Caption]
[Funny screenshots! Actress Anne Hathaway on the Today show this morning; images (another is after the jump) via INF] ...

Friendly Reporter With Small Vocabulary Finds Home At Fox Biz [Liz Claman]
Nobody watches Fox Business Network, but that doesn't stop them from landing the best business journalists in the game. Like Liz Claman, who split from CNBC because they used too many fancy "business" words: Claman says she avoids business jargon in an effort to appeal to the average investor, sometimes using what is dubbed the Fox Business Translator. "At CNBC it was a game of who can be the sma...

Boy, 6, And Girl, 5, Attempt African Elopement [Cutesy]
You know what's always cute? Kids doing crazy adult stuff. Like these German tykes who wanted to get married in Africa. We smell a movie deal. This past New Year's Eve, 6-year-old Mika decided that he wanted to tie the knot with his ladyfriend, 5-year-old Anna-Bell, so much that he'd run away to Africa with her if he had to. Well, OK, it wasn't quite so dramatic. Mostly they're funny little kids w...

Eyes On The Prize [Advertising]
Ad Creep installment #563: "Crotchvertising," to sell garish watches. The only shocking thing here is that Dov Charney is not involved somehow. [Trendhunter] ...

Happy First Day Of The Obama Administration [History]
This is it! January 5, 2009: the beginning of the Obama presidency. He is on TV fixing the economy, making tough decisions, being presidential, and the inauguration is just a formality now. Even though we only have "one president at a time," according to Obama (last month), today that President unofficially becomes him. Why today? Well it's the first Monday of new year, after Christmas Vacation, a...

Could A Bad Real Estate Deal Sink The New York Observer? [Speculation]
The commercial real estate market is tanking. Jared Kushner, the owner of the New York Observer, is invested up to his neck in that market. Is it time to start jumping to conclusions? Maybe so! Kushner Companies' prize property is 666 Fifth Avenue, which they bought in 2007 for $1.8 billion. That's not a great thing to be holding in your portfolio, in the current economic climate. Particularly whe...

Clinton Chief Of Staff To Head CIA [Spooks]
Oh no! Another Clintonite will ruin Barack Obama's change forever! Clinton Chief-of-Staff Leon Panetta will be your new CIA director. Panetta advised Obama on various transition hiring decisions, so he probably Cheney-d his way into this plum gig. He was a Captain in the Army, and he kept enforcing the Civil Rights and Voting Rights acts as Nixon's Civil Rights czar even though Nixon didn't really...

How Will The World Keep Turning? [Important News]
Georgina Sparks returns to Gossip Girl. Plus a spoiler! [EW] ...

CNBC Asks If Steve Jobs Has PMS [VideUhOh]
newVideoPlayer("/DennisKnealePMS.flv", 506, 423,""); Having softpedaled rumors of Steve Jobs's failing health, CNBC is falling over itself to catch up to the story — with embarrassing results. In an intro to a segment, Power Lunch anchor Dennis Kneale, the BlackBerry-deprived crybaby, asks if Jobs had cancelled his keynote speech at tomorrow's Macworld Expo because of "PMS," alluding to the...

Benoit Denizet-Lewis Cannily Combines Sex, Addiction [Trendwatch]
Former Gawker hottie Benoit Denizet-Lewis is still riding the addiction train to literary success! The America Anonymous author and unveiler of Down Low culture is writing about his sex addiction, luckily for pervs like you: Where better than a god damn "Modern Love" column to let it all loose? He drove 130 miles to hook up with guys he met online—two nights in a row! He couldn't quit the ch...

Why Facebook Won't Bring Peace To The Middle East [Censorship]
Facebook, which claims its goal is to let users share their lives. has been accused of censoring posts about the fighting in Gaza. So much for Mark Zuckerberg's dreams of breaking down global barriers. Last March, at the SXSW Interactive Web conference, Zuckerberg spoke at length about how the connections Middle Eastern youth make on Facebook could lead them away from religious extremism. It's a t...

Bill Richardson Withdraws From Cabinet With Sad Blurry Press Conference [Scandal]
newVideoPlayer("/sketchy_conf_Richardon.flv", 506, 423,""); Bill Richardson was going to be our new commerce secretary, but now he's not going to be that thing, because of some ongoing investigation back in New Mexico. He just had a press conference and for some reason the only network that played it live was MSNBC, and they appeared to have snuck in a pinhole camera and hidden it in someone's la...

Glossy Book Of Lies Will Save Bush Legacy [Book Club]
The White House has released an awesome book called "Highlights of Accomplishment and Results" from "The Administration of President George W. Bush." Let's page through it! This presumably final report of the Bush legacy project, which brought Bush superstars Karl Rove and Karen Hughes back to the White House, is a 50-page book (warning: pdf) detailing every misleading argument you will hear comin...

Meredith Vieira Is The Grim Reaper Of Marriage [VideUhOh]
Just months after making Matt Lauer cry inside about his divorce, Meredith Vieira proclaims a tourist couple's 30-year marriage over on the Today show. Click to watch the mean lady who causes all divorce. newVideoPlayer("/Anniversary_Today.flv", 506, 423,""); ...

Obamas Offer Up Kiddie Pics To Paparazzi Gods [Public Relations]
To head off child-stalking paparazzi, the Obamas released three photos of their All-American kids getting ready for school today! They need a better photographer—but they still won't stop the PAPS. Click to go "AW." ...

Nips Ahoy! [Open Caption]
[Sloppy singer Lily Allen vacationing in St. Bart's in a see-through something; maybe NSFW?; image via INF] MisterHippity's new line beats the original, "I See London, I See France, While You See My Underpants." ...

Manohla Dargis' Campaign To Convince Us She Really Gets Synecdoche, New York [Pretension]
Did you see Synecdoche, New York? Was the Charlie Kaufman film weird and brilliant, or just too wannabe-weird and unfathomable? The New York Times' Manohla Dargis is heavily in the former camp. Like, heavily. First there was her glowing review, which praised the film, about a theatre director directing a piece of theatre about his life spent directing theatre, for being weird and, well, unfathomab...

Twitter Hacking Epidemic Claims Britney Spears, Barack Obama [Hackers]
Whats going on with Twitter? First Fox News gets hacked, then Britney Spears. Is no one safe from this epidemic? Well, yes, in fact — everyone who doesn't click on crazy emails that claim to be from Twitter but aren't. Twitter is the latest target of a "phishing" campaign — an attempt by hackers to gather usernames and passwords through deceptive means. Typically, the victim receives a...

Fox News Twitter Hacked By Bill O'Reilly [Hackers]
This is currently the lead post on the official Fox News Twitter page. Hackers are cool again. ...

Jett Travolta Story Shows Off RadarOnline's Gossip-Laundering Skills [Gossip]
RadarOnline.com was bought by National Enquirer publisher AMI in October, and Enquirer editor David Perel was put in charge of it. And thanks to Jett Travolta's death, the site is now a great gossip reputation-launderer. Think about it: RadarOnline is run by the Enquirer staff. It is the Enquirer. That's how it got its scoops on the death of Travolta's son in the first place—the rescue worke...

What To Expect From Laura Bush's Memoir [Books]
Made-of-wood First Lady Laura Bush has finally sold her memoirs! Scribner bought them for an undisclosed sum—probably close to $10 million. What will we see in this thrilling volume of history in action? Well, just last week a bunch of publishing hot shots told the New Yorker that the book is unlikely to reveal anything good. Laura lived up to her robotic image in personal meetings: â€œWe qu...

Has Katie Holmes Only Spent $43,000 While Living In New York? [Recessionomics]
Katie Holmes is infusing many, many dollars into the New York economy. We're sure of that. But just how much, exactly? Is she saving New York? If the low current estimates are right, no. While the rest of the city puts on fingerless gloves and takes up homemade banjos, the Dawson's Creek actress and mother of Tom Cruise's 11th grade science project has been in the city (performing in the overbeari...

Spy Founder Joins Twitter [Omg]
Kurt Andersen, who invented "snark" in 1986, is now "microblogging" at Twitter, the official web service of imagined pithiness. Andersen cofounded Spy with the amusing-looking Graydon Carter, where they invented making fun of celebrities and the media, and then they both sold out, except Kurt still has cred because he just writes a column for New York, he doesn't edit a glossy celebrity magazine. ...

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