The Schmear
Morning Links: Martha Stewart has the Biggest House in CastleVille
Martha Stewart is hosting an Easter Egg hunt inside Zynga’s social game CastleVille. (Also did you guys catch her live-tweeting her dentist’s appointment the other day?) [VentureBeat]
Oprah boosts OWN ratings by putting herself on it. Duh. [Reuters] Read More
Morning Links: If Only Journalism Paid Like Opposition Research
New York Times and Politico report that a rival campaign leaked them the plans for Mitt Romney’s summer home. [Huffington Post]
Rupert Murdoch is preparing to “hit back hard” against enemies libeling him, according to Twitter. [Guardian] Read More
Morning Links: Times Public Editor is Team Rachael and Gwyneth
Arthur Brisbane sided with Gwyneth Paltrow and Rachael Ray in the disagreement over the Julia Moskin’s “I Was a Cookbook Ghostwriter” story, concluding it was “misleading.” Look at how worked up he got:
I do know who Rachael Ray is because I’ve seen her on TV and on the covers of some of her 18 books. What always struck me about her was her overwhelmingly buoyant personality, always on display as she whips things up in her kitchen on the tube. The Rachael Ray who called me last week, though, was a very unhappy, annoyed Rachael Ray. The object of her upset: The New York Times. [NYT]
Former White House Correspondents Association president Helen Thomas was denied a table at the WHCA dinner next month. She wanted to celebrate the 50th anniversary of women being invited, which she secured. [Huffington Post] Read More
Morning Links: Girls Robs Journalist of Critical Faculties
Emily Nussbaum on Girls: “When a TV critic reports on a new show, it’s okay to say the series is promising, even the next big thing, but ideally, one shouldn’t go native. One should probably also talk in the third person. In this case, however, I’ll have to make an exception. Because from the moment I saw the pilot of Girls (which airs on April 15), I was a goner, a convert.” By the end of the piece Ms. Nussbaum and Lena Dunham are shopping for nail stickers. [NY Mag]
#Komen, #Kony2012, #TrayvonMartin… do people actually care or are they just trying to appear well informed before their friends and followers? [NY Times] Read More
Morning Links: TV Layoffs, Tidbit Journalism, Gender at GQ
After Chuck Todd railed against “tidbit journalism,” DC media types explain why the Etch a Sketch story is important. [Fishbowl DC]
Bloomberg TV laid off 30 in “overdue” strategic repositioning. [WSJ]
CNN laid off some employees as well, will start acquiring the documentaries they would have produced. [TV Newser] Read More
Morning Links: While Oprah Shakes up OWN, Gayle Parties With Cory Booker
SNL Kagan says Oprah Winfrey’s OWN lost $107 million last year. This month the network laid off 30 people, brought in a new COO/CFO from Discovery, and canceled Rosie O’Donnell’s show, which we were really looking forward to. [Bloomberg]
Gayle King went to the Hunger Games premiere with Newark Mayor Cory Booker. We hope this means they’re dating, but then, what an awful date. [NY Post] Read More
Morning Links: Self-Plagiarism is Plagiarism Too
Baltimore Sun columnist admits to recycling old columns. [Poynter]
Gallagher’s paper collectibles re-opened! [WWD]
Lay offs, but also openings, at LA Times. [LA Observed] Read More
Morning Links: Times Conservative Wunderkind or Prudish Whit Stillman Character?
From New York magazine’s 140 Minutes With Ross Douthat: “We live in an era where the sexual—” Douthat begins, before a slinky waitress interrupts: “Are you guys okay?” “Yes,” Douthat shoots back, then pivots. “Where the sexual revolution happened, where liberals have won across a variety of fronts, and it’s important to see places where some form of corrective would be useful. The attitudes that you get in New York Magazine’s ‘Sex Diaries’ are only going to work for people with large amounts of social capital.” [NY Mag] Read More
