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Well, this is about it, isn’t it kids? This is an actual celebrity tabloid site “story” (SlashGossip): Jessica Simpson Farts at Important Business Meeting.

What are all the satirists going to do now that they are unnecessary?

This is truly what is called niche publishing.

Girls and Corpses. This is an actual print magazine (and probably better than Esquire!)

And it totally reminds me to renew my subscription to Modern Drunkard.

Oh hey, here’s the exemplification of why people often hate bloggers without really knowing any of them.

For a long time now, Gawker has been playing with various forms of ad content. It did it’s blood vampire blog thing and Gizmodo did a full advertorial “Gawker Luxury Gift Guide” thing over the holidays that was barely identifiable as advertising. And then it began inserting ads that looked like blog posts; though these inclusions always clearly labeled “advertisement”and the color coded to distinguish them from other editorial posts. Fleshbot was the only one that used the same colors, until now.

An ad for Nokia (below) finally breaks the color barrier, with its “advertisement” tag colored the same as all of the other surrounding editorial content. Tricky, Nick, tricky.

The Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps teaser trailer is online and sure enough, a Mac makes it into the film.

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Left: Media prophet-of-the-times brands self with specific uniform.

Right: Media prophet-of-the-times brands self with specific uniform.

“I didn’t take on health-care because it was good politics.”

 - Barack Obama, State of the Union Address, Jan. 27. 2010

How fucking depressing is that? Keep on “protecting marriage,” America.

The opportunity to enact health-care reform is quietly slipping away. Demonstrating just how unimportant it now is to many Americans is a poll running in the Daily Citizen, the paper of record for a small, blue-collar town in Wisconsin of about 15,000. The paper’s online poll asks:

“If you were given five minutes with President Obama, which of these topics do you feel would be the most important to discuss?”

The results are grim for health-care, with over 70% of respondents choosing jobs or economy.

Obama is clearly listening to this as messages from the White House shift to banks, middle-class health and job creation and away from health-care. With the new senate, the White House’s new agenda and Democrats scared if midterms, its becoming harder and harder to imagine legislators having the stones to push through any kind of reform anytime soon. Shame. So close.

RELATED: The above poll is what a paper servicing a town of 15,000 considers editorially respectable. This is a paper that is basically a bunch of barely-news meant to deliver the latest supermarket coupons on 25 cents off beets and a list of all the local recent dead. But compare its editorial decision to that of a global “professional news” organization like CNN, whose current poll is below.

CNN: Out-journalismed by two guys in a small room in small-town Wisconsin.