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Wednesday, December 26, 2007 12:00 AM

The year in celebrity scandal

From attention-seeking celebrities to roving nut jobs with automatic weapons to the self-deluded editors of mean-spirited gossip rags, this is the year that media-savvy lunatics took over the asylum.

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  • Wednesday, December 26, 2007 03:39 PM

    Demoted.

    I'd love to know why my Letter defending Gawker was starred with an Editors' Choice, only to be demoted 3 hours later to "blather ".

    How does one's post go from being starred as Editors' Choice get demoted in this way?

    Havrilesky's article missed the mark on Gawker by a mile, and I said so. I'd suspected Salon Letters censors posts critical of their writers, but HOW shit-heel of you to take my Editors Choice star away from me, seriously cowardly.

    On behalf of those of us who enjoy Gawker, and disapprove of Salon's egregiously dumb comparing of Perez to said site, a hearty screw-you.

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