"The Sunday Times inadvertently ran an article at the weekend that plagiarised ... a list, '100 Reasons You're Still Single,' that appeared is US pop culture Radar magazine last September." [Media Guardian]
- Otherwise levelheaded Owen Wilson and scientologist Will Smith are being "driv[en] ... crazy" by Men's Vogue, which totally promised them the cover. [Daily News]
- Omar from The Wire can't get his posse into his own premiere party, even after he starts whistling "Farmer in the Dell." [NYP]
- At CNBC, Erin Burnett's bosses make it known she can discreetly accept jet rides from plutocrats like Maria, but not so much with the actual published list of demands for sugar daddies. [NYP]
Time Warner has taken a stake in Gaia Online, which mints money turning pretend buildings, make-believe cash, virtual avatars and very real advertising into a -- wait for it -- online hangout for teenagers. It joins Disney, Viacom and Sony in eagerly plowing fresh capital into Gaia's room full of functional computers instead of into hiring a bunch of whiny entitled writers.
The best part for Time Warner is that the computers and robots inside them have readily agreed to rent dystopian Warner Bros. flicks like the Matrix and Batman Returns to the impressionable youths for $2 a pop. Also, none of them have grown strike beards or ever will, unless necessary to hunt down and kill John Connor.
Time's World View [Post]
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In 2007 the Los Angeles Times won a Pulitzer Prize, Risser Prize and SPJ award for some serious regional reporting about ocean pollution and migrant workers and uranium mining. So what sorts of stories did latimes.com readers actually click on that year? A sex-change journal, Paris Hilton in jail, something about Kelly Clarkson and lots of national news. Obviously readers want a site "heavy on local news and politcs"
an ingenious LA Times editor concludes. Riiight. The sorts of stories they should be running instead, after the jump.
Top 2007 headlines on latimes.com (click to visit):

The new mom has signed on as a spokeswoman for Pampers' "One Pack = One Vaccine" program, a global initiative...

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E! Online - Top Stories | 10 Jan 2008 | 5:25 am

The hospital at the center of the Quaid twin medical mixup has just gotten its wrist slapped.
The California Department of Public Health has issued a 20-page deficiency report detailing the...

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E! Online - Top Stories | 10 Jan 2008 | 2:40 am

There's a bureaucratic bump on Jessica Sierra's cross-country road to recovery.
The erstwhile "American Idol" contestant, who was sentenced this week in Florida to a year at...

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E! Online - Top Stories | 10 Jan 2008 | 1:47 am

The state of New York has decided that volunteering to die in exchange for Uma Thurman's devotion is not a chargeable offense.
A Manhattan judge on Wednesday dismissed a felony charge...

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E! Online - Top Stories | 10 Jan 2008 | 12:16 am
A woman says Lohan's driving traumatized her and cost her thousands of dollars.

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ABC News: Entertainment | 9 Jan 2008 | 11:57 pm
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