This post was already on some Gawker site, because I remember seeing it here before too.

It varies by production company, but there have been multiple reports in the past on other shows broadcast by HGTV where the homeowners get between $10k and $30k in renovation or furniture budget provided by the show. I read that one guy even had 3 houses on various HGTV shows for this reason.

One thing they don’t make clear is that from their poverty in the initial episodes they have created a massive business with tons of employees doing residential real estate development and renovations.

He might fit into the middle of a pack of a middle school chorus, but the kid can’t actually sing for shit.

I would hope he fails pain for shooting his own kid in the head, but I’m not sure why anyone should give a shit at this point in time about his pain.

You’re referring to a tiny little society that, despite being old, has a relatively small number of members and requires nothing more than a one page application for a journalism program to join (which might explain why so few programs participate). It has nothing to do with accreditation, which is the term you used…

I’m disagreeing with your absurd proposition that there is such a thing as a formal definition of a journalist that excludes people like Klepek, or a professional clique that makes sure all journalists obey any sort of concrete or even nebulous ethical standard.

That’s the most inane and naive thing I’ve read on the Internet all day, good work. Your view of journalism was wrong even 50 years ago when it was commonly held, and is now widely seen as wrong, anachronistic and naive to how “journalism” works even at illustrious sites like the NY Times (where, incidentally, they…

It’s not clear you really understand the distinctions you are making. Gamespot is a news agency? Are you sure? What makes the difference between the work that a Kotaku writer produces and the work that an IGN writer produces? They both do original reporting. They both have editors to whom they report and who review…

Which rumors specifically do you think Kotaku reported that made the situation worse for Rapp?

You’re full of shit - no one can pull a college degree from a reporter for having violated professional ethics. And being part of a particular association, i.e. a gatekeeper, is not the only way to become a reporter. There are hundreds of thousands of reporters, worldwide, who don’t belong to any one monolithic trade…

It seems like you think you are providing some deep insight - “this is a blog, he’s a blogger!” Well, thanks buddy, you really cleared that up. Of course, if a blogger blogs about reporting he has done, then logically, he is both a reporter and a blog. Magic! Now run along.

Adam Sandler and to a lesser degree Will Ferrell do get tons of criticism for being repetitive. If Melissa McCarthy goes down that same road, it will probably be a similar long period of negative criticism coupled with fair box office success for her - just like it has been for Sandler and Ferrell.

I like how you blacked out the eyes but left the bare mannequin boobs on the front Jezzie scroll.

Is that the Lea from Glee? Or just a weird twin?

that isn’t what “avail herself” means, someone buy Gawker Media writers a subscription to an online thesaurus.

It looks like he’s still 8 feet tall, so I think that counts as large.

To which he is legally entitled. See the difference?

Saying you are “allergic to seafood” is like saying you are “allergic to things that grow in the ground.”

People should just stop playing shitty Nintendo games and buying shitty Nintendo products. The company is the evil empire and its our duty to stop feeding it until it dies and good triumphs in the world.