Ouch. Another major mistake took place in front of a global audience yesterday evening, but this one isn't as funny as accidentally calling John McCain "that depthless prick currently in the Oval Office." (Accidentally!)
The Bloomberg financial newswire updated and then unintentionally published its pre-written obituary for Apple CEO Steve Jobs. Jobs has battled pancreatic cancer for years now, but he's not dead yet. (In fact, as we speak he's probably inventing some new gadget people will rush out to buy only to have it immediately shatter in their hands.) Bloomberg soon realized its mistake, took down the obit and issued a retraction.
Investors were shitting themselves, of course; not because they were worried about Jobs, mind you, but because they were concerned by what his death meant for their glorious, glorious gobs of money. We hope Jobs realizes this, gets legitimately pissed and screws over all those bastards royally before leaving this increasingly dusty planet.
That ad there, at left? For The CW's Gossip Girl, the low-ratings show that everybody can't stop talking about? The show's creator, Josh Schwartz, actually hates the way the network has gone about pushing the show on viewers, taking advantage of the Parents Television Council's general frustration with its means of teaching young people about the birds and the bees.
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How to explain how Entertainment Tonight so very badly bungled the EXCLUSIVE!!! story about Angelina Jolie giving birth last week? (And then their website "crashed"; maybe they were hiding from their screw up?)
Well, it wasn't entirely their fault.
American Idol reject Michael Johns signed autographs outside the Fuse TV studios for a little kid who seemingly mistook him for Gnarls Barkley.
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Here, Mariah Carey fouls up a countdown to midnight on New Year's Eve in Vegas. TMZ has titled it "Clock Sucker." Many things stay the same. Happy 2008!
Moments ago, TMZ sent us an e-mail declaring that 17-year-old Nick Hogan bought alcohol just hours before his tremendous car accident that left his good friend in traction in August.
The hasty site claimed a grocery store employee bypassed security measures in order to sell Hogan about $80 worth of beer. BUT THEN: "PLEASE DISREGARD PREVIOUS EMAIL REGARDING NICK HOGAN. STORY MAY BE INCORRECT." Wha?!?! Up is down, down is up!
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