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The White House Correspondents Dinner Is an Awful Clown Show of Bullshit.

The White House Correspondents Dinner Is an Awful Clown Show of Bullshit.

I’ve never been inside the White House Correspondents Dinner, but I have covered it, exactly once, as a media reporter. It was one of the…
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Foster Kamer
May 1, 2018
Notes on the End of mental_floss (Magazine)

Notes on the End of mental_floss (Magazine)

So, some news: mental_floss, after a 15-year run, is ending print publication. The November-December 2016 issue will be our last.
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Foster Kamer
Sep 30, 2016
Obligatory Gawker Eulogy Post, Pt. 2

Obligatory Gawker Eulogy Post, Pt. 2

All that’s a long way of saying: My ten months at Gawker were and are one of the most formative moments of my life. I’d be so, so much…
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Foster Kamer
Aug 10, 2016
On the Shaun King Mess, and The Editor in the Age of Churn

On the Shaun King Mess, and The Editor in the Age of Churn

So, finally, the story so many of us were waiting on is here: Firebrand columnist Shaun King’s editor at the New York Daily News, Jotham…
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Foster Kamer
Apr 21, 2016
Vice and Mollification

Vice and Mollification

People seem to like to talk about media these days in a way they were never really interested in doing so before. And, truly: Normal…
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Foster Kamer
Mar 11, 2016
All the Hard Ways: A Native Son of Vegas, and the Las Vegas Review-Journal

All the Hard Ways: A Native Son of Vegas, and the Las Vegas Review-Journal

The earliest memory I’ve got of anybody ever being proud of me has to do, directly, with the Las Vegas Review-Journal. It’s a weekday…
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Foster Kamer
Dec 24, 2015
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