Dan Abrams Vs. Katrina vanden Heuvel – Feel Mediaite’s Daily Unshaven Pain

by Colby Hall | 5:16 pm, July 29th, 2009

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Mediaite Publisher Dan Abrams appeared on a number of television shows today to promote his new website Gossip Cop.

During a segment on Live with Carlos Watson, Abrams got into a bit of a kerfuffle with Nation publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel, revealing the torturous management style we at Mediaite have to endure.

As a media watch dog site we can only make the following comments:

Nice scruff Don Johnson
It was not your show big guy.
Does this attack on The Nation’s editor mean Abrams is a closet conservative?
How come there were no TV appearances to promote the Mediaite launch?
Though Abrams has no say in the editorial content of the site, we still are constantly badgered by his interruptive style. How does this taste boss-man?

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Carlos Watson, Dan Abrams, Gossip Cop, Mediaite, Mike Lewittes, msnbc, The Nation

3 comments

barry.do says:

July 29, 2009 at 6:44 pm

Wait, Dan Abrams is insufferable? Who knew!? Oh, yeah: EVERYONE!

dawgs529 says:

July 30, 2009 at 4:01 pm

pretty funny…. i dont know what set her off, really…

KatrinasmediaAngel says:

July 30, 2009 at 8:00 pm

Just to clarify something Mediaite did get a plug from Meredith Vieira on the Today Show the morning of its launch.

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