Alex Pareene
Alex Pareene
Alex Pareene is editor of the online news magazine Gawker...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
absolutely clue fears novel people reported reporting stoke
'Flash mobs' are reported on extensively because they're novel and can be used to stoke fears of young people and the Internet. The media, of course, have absolutely no clue what they're reporting on.
competing dinner house inspires represents twisted white
Every year, the White House Correspondents' Dinner inspires two competing varieties of coverage: celebrity-obsessed fawning and angry tirades about how it represents everything twisted about our broken democracy. It doesn't, really.
almost business desires groups interests primarily responsive solely
American politicians are responsive almost solely to the interests and desires of their rich constituents and interest groups that primarily represent big business.
along business costs litigation price violations wall
For CNBC, and for Wall Street, billion-dollar fines for violations of the law are just part of the price of doing business, along with litigation costs and 'compliance.'
good liberal senators states street wall
There's no good reason that reliably liberal states should be electing senators as friendly to Wall Street as Cory Booker.
defined errors interest lack owned responsibility taking total york
As long as Rupert Murdoch has owned it, the 'New York Post' has been defined by its shamelessness and total lack of interest in taking responsibility for its worst errors and poor judgment.
applause camera less organized state structured union written
The State of the Union is less written than it is designed, structured and organized around applause prompts and camera cues.
fantasy house people west
The thing with 'The West Wing' is that the fantasy was legitimately better than the reality - these were smarter, better people than their real-life counterparts, working together at a better White House than the one we had.
actual cares fine issue strongly
Rush Holt would be a fine senator. He's an actual physicist, which is neat. He cares very strongly about global warming, which is probably the single most pressing issue of our era.
assault benefit crop cut dared forever insurance medicare poorest programs spending strictly
Programs aimed strictly at the poorest Americans are always and forever under assault from a Republican Party that still has not dared to cut spending on programs - like Medicare and crop insurance - that also benefit the rich.
academics explosive likes mostly rush
The Right likes to think that intellectuals and academics like Allan Bloom and Dinesh D'Souza spurred the explosive growth of movement conservatism in the 1980s and 1990s, when it was actually mostly Rush Limbaugh.
alone flights people shuttle takes washington
Do you know who takes weekday shuttle flights between Washington and New York? People who think they are too important for the train, let alone the bus.
channel cnn currently disasters horrible mortal people thousands wars watch
CNN will always be the channel people turn on when wars and horrible disasters happen. The 'trick' is getting people to also want to watch it when there aren't hundreds or thousands of people somewhere in the world currently in mortal peril.
channel cnn core fox goes people problem rise since sought watch
CNN's problem goes to its very core and to the identity it's sought ever since the rise of Fox News, on its right: CNN is the channel for people who don't want to watch the other channels! That's a stupid strategy.