There goes our future...
Mash-Ups: We are loving the mash-ups of rap songs and children’s programs. Some combinations: Spongebob and Eminem, Family Guy and Akon, Barney and Soulja Boy, etc. Pretty hysterical.
Kanye West: Forget music. Kanye is switching gears (or industries) and looking for an internship in the fashion world. Something tells us he won’t like getting coffee for the higher-ups, but we’ll let him figure that out all on his own.
Viacom: Laid off a whopping 850 people today at MTV, Nickelodeon, VH1, Comedy Central and other subsidiaries. Not a good day.
MTV: Holy crap! Long-time correspondent John Norris is supposedly one of the fired employees! What is the world coming to?!
NBC: And the ax continues to fall. 500 employees cut.
Eliot Spitzer: Don’t count the former gov down and out. He’s been hired by Slate to write a column on goverment regulation. To all wondering, this does not include prostitution.
The Daily Beast: Great piece on why Gwyneth Paltrow’s new site (which goes by the oh-so-attractive name GOOP) is a big mistake.
Bratz: Victory for Barbie collections everywhere! A judge has ordered production on Bratz dolls to cease immediately (and for stores to send back their stock!) since the (ugly) dolls were conceived by a dude who worked for Mattel at the time. Ah, sweet revenge!
Sundance: No less than 3 journalism/media films in the mix. We’re dying to see The September Issue, which follows Anna Wintour and the production of Vogue’s September issue.
Chicago Magazine: Has a really interesting article on Amy Jacobson, the news reporter fired for “misconduct” when she tried to interview Craig Steib, whose wife remains missing.
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