That is, besides sensationalistic headlines that aren't true, via Felix Salmon (and yes, I do have a WSJ subscription still running, I feel guilty about it, even though I got enough out of the paper from around 2000-2009 to feel like I ought to hang in there and hope against the inevitable. Sadly, now even the non-editorial content is bad enough it's not worthwhile.):
Last year, I kicked off quite a big fight with Henry Blodget after posting this to Twitter.
@felixsalmon
felix salmon .@hblodget‘s business model: Take a story about M&A fees associated with AIG. Illustrate with 2 hot babes kissing. http://bit.ly/dexECw
Mar 26 10 via TweetDeck Favorite Retweet Reply
The Business Insider post in question was illustrated with a black-and-white photo, 400 pixels wide. It was provocative and gratuitous, but it was nothing compared with this:
This is a full-page, full-color ad on page 8 of last week’s New York magazine; apparently it’s appeared in Time, as well.
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