By Foster Kamer 8/16/12 4:35pm

BETTER KNOW A COMMENTS SECTION

DRUDGE REPORT

Some People Still Dislike The New York Times

Yesterday, we wrote an innocent item about lightning striking The New York Times building the day after the company’s new CEO was announced. It was our own fun little way of checking in on the narrative of the Times‘s new leadership, just a little honey to make the media news medicine of recent bureaucratic shifts at the Times go down easier (not that the drama at the top of the Times really even needs that).

Somehow, it ended up on the Drudge Report. As is wont to happen whenever one gets ordained with a link from Matt Drudge, an influx of viewers came shooting our way. As did, of course, some new commenters.  Read More

By Foster Kamer 4/16/12 1:14pm

COMMENTER HALL OF FAME

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New York Times Top Brass Trolled by Former Editor Armed with Embarrassing Anecdote

On Friday afternoon, prompted by a survey in which journalism was ranked among the worst jobs in the country, New York Times media reporter David Carr asked a question: How do America’s journalists feel about their jobs? Carr opened the question up to commenters, who cut a pretty wide swath of opinions. One commenter, however, stood out above the rest, giving less an answer than a hilariously trolling story about a particularly high-ranking Timesman’s ascent.

But this wasn’t just any ordinary commenting troll. Read More