It's media-bashing day at Gawker. (Oh, who are we kidding? Every day is media-bashing day at Gawker.) From the tempest in the dysfunctional teapot department: the definitive story on Jayson Blair by Newsweek's Seth Mnookin. (Still to go: the 60 Minutes special, the Barbara Walters interview, the made-for-TV movie...) This week we learn that Jayson was a cokehead. Oh, wait. That was last week. Nevermind. This week, we learn that Jayson's been spending time at an inpatient hospital. No, actually, that was last week, too; I just couldn't confirm it. I'm not sure what's left. I seem to remember an editor at the NYT jumping out of a building last year and that got two, three paragraphs max, of coverage, which seems a little absurd to me. Now I suppose we're waiting for the inevitable analysis-of-the-coverage-of-the-coverage-of-the-coverage of the Jayson Blair crisis. I'm not sure I have enough outrage to last that long.
Times bomb [Newsweek]
[Disclosure: I just turned in an article for the NYT and they did a very flattering profile of Gawker yesterday, despite the neverending Jayson Blair jokes and moose analogies.]