In the last two days, we told you about layoffs at Forbes.com, Essence, Entertainment Weekly, and National Geographic, with a bonus false alert at Nylon thrown in for good measure. And the sad fact is that these are just the ones we could get around to doing. All these media layoffs are like a band-aid being pulled off verrrrryyyy slowly, and—unfortunately for the laid-off—each progressive wave of cuts makes us want to tune out the pain even more.
This is the saddest thing of all. When good people get laid off they deserve to elicit some shock; they deserve to be remembered, and talked about, and reminisced upon. They deserve for the people who cover their demise to go into detail about who they were, and what they've done in their careers, and the big stories they broke, and how they changed things, and who they knew, and where they might go from here. They deserve commenters to bemoan their departure and joke about their good lines and reassure them that they'll be missed.
But we have to face reality here: it ain't gonna happen. The media now is like a city with a high murder rate, where people get shot dead with such mind-numbing regularity that it gets harder and harder to summon the appropriate amount of outrage for their doom. We all still imagine that when our time comes, there will be a collective pause amongst our peers, and everyone will silently cross themselves and wonder how it could happen to such a talented person. But realistically, we'll be just another number. The best you can do now is say your little blanket agnostic prayer at night for all these assorted victims, then keep your head down and hope that you can ride out the downturn until good days come back again.
On that note, here's some more layoff news we didn't get to today:
- TheStreet.com shut its San Francisco office.
- Those Forbes layoffs were confirmed.
- Time Inc. cut 8-10 editorial jobs at InStyle.
- Tribune Co. went ahead with its long-expected "consolidation" of its DC news operations, cutting 20 positions in the process.
- Every other newspaper in American continues to lay people off too.
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Since we don't condone violence around here, we are not going to call this the most awesome story of the day. We'll just tell you this: CNBC 
Do you ever get the feeling that you're only just now starting to be an "adult" with their "shit together"? It's only very recently that I no longer have to think, "Gotta wait til next Wednesday to buy new shampoo" and stopped drinking abandoned beers at bars. Then, someone your own age who didn't spend a few years fucking off mentions their intern. Wait, you have an intern? Yeah, it's like a doorman for your job. Like Mandy Stadtmiller needs one—she's the Post columnist whose tales of dating woe (and an insufferable lug nicknamed Super Preppy) made us LOL at (and not with) her all last year. Haha, she's getting her intern via Craigslist, though, so cancel that order of Oh-God-what-am-I-doing-with-my-life. (You can't get your casual encounters and your casually-paid career-helpers from the same place.)
My oh my, look what has "surfaced," as they say: A photo of populist war hero presidential candidate John McCain lumbering his way onto 
We have vast banks of TiVos and staffers trained to use them to feed us material from the magic lightning box called television for use on this internet. But sometimes (often!) we use the amazing gift from god called RedLasso. Not anymore! NBC and Fox joined forces (inspiring!) to sue them. And now RedLasso is back to being "a business-targeted service that lets clients track and clip content for internal use and a service for radio stations that lets them upload their clips for online sharing." Sigh. This is why the internet can't have nice things. [
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Oooohhhh, Maxim is mean! The writers there actually had enough time (and malice) to come up with a list of the top five unsexiest women. Topping the list was Sarah Jessica Parker… not exactly a big surprise. I don’t find her totally gross, but she is rather… equine. I was watching an old episode of “Family Guy” the other day that had to do with censorship on television, and one of the characters said, “”What the hell! They let Sarah Jessica Parker’s face on TV and she looks like a foot!” So there you go. How much can I say about someone not being very attractive? She still looks better than I probably do. So with that crushing blow to my ego, here’s the list:
