Christmas Ape Gets Canned From Washington Post for KSK Escapades

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THE WASHINGTON POST IS GAY
Published 30 days ago at With Leather
... The result?  Oh yeah, he got fired.  And good for him.  He's going to get a nice, better-paying job blogging (over-under: one week), and he got out of a dying medium where he was surrounded by assholes.  Good luck, Mike, and FUCK YOU, Washington Post. ...

The Roundup: MLS Players Act; are Obnoxious
Published 30 days ago by TheBigLead at The Big Lead
... … employers are watching your myspace and facebook accounts, and your blog, too … ok, enough with the intern “applications” - we’ll get through all of them and pick five people to write a post and then probably pick one or two to be chosen as the intern, and if we’re lucky, VH1 will televise it! … ...

The Washington Post Will Not Tolerate Its Employees Enjoying Themselves
Published 30 days ago by Chris Mottram at Mr. Irrelevant
... In the process of identifying himself as a human, who lives so far above his mother’s basement that he actually had a mainstream media gig, Mike also posted a photo of himself as being self-described “completely fucking wasted” (see image to your right). In hindsight, that was a mistake, as it was the sole reason he was politely asked to get the fuck out, although the actual language WaPo used was that he brought “discredit to the paper.” But who knew the Post was full of such tightass, buzzkilling narcs? (Actually, Mike probably had ...

Washington Post Fires Michael Tunison Over His Blogging at Kissing Suzy Kolber
Published 30 days ago by Michael David Smith at FanHouse
... Or at least he did, until he was fired by the Post for what he's written at the blog. Tunison says the Post told him he violated Post standards and discredited the paper by writing ...

Dooced: To lose one’s job because of one’s website.
Published 30 days ago by CarlSpackler at perkisabeast.com Blog
... a necessity in the blogging world, yet does this anonymity provide any insight to who we really are? Well over at KissingSuzyKolber a member of their crack staff, xmas ape, decided to “out” himself in celebration of the blog’s upcoming revenue. Apparently his employers, the Washington Post, were not so enthused about being called a dying medium or even slightly intrigued by the ongoing tales of Marmalard. Thus the Xmas ape was dooced by an asshole editor at the Post. ...

KSK Blogger Disgraces Washington Post's Pristine Image [God Save The Washington Post]
Published 30 days ago by Leitch at Deadspin
... — we are unfamiliar with those! — and, perhaps predictably or perhaps surprisingly, the Post freaked out. Less than 48 hours after Tunison's KSK post, he was fired. ...

Create The Caption #201
Published 30 days ago by Awful Announcing- at Awful Announcing
... pictured: Jamal Williams walks by in Under Armour, makes all the girls jealous."- Chone "You no help me now, I say fuck you, Jobu, I do it myself."- Ross (Too many funny ones to include. Great job everyone.) _______________________________________ Are you funny enough to create a caption for this photo of Melo and A.I. during last night's Nuggets game? Daily Links: Screw The Washington Post (KSK) Isiah Gone And Mark Jackson Leaves YES (NY Post) Yanks Bury Bernie ...

Christmas Ape, freed
Published 30 days ago by PostmanE at The Postmen // A Sports Blog // Chicago, IL.
... It’s hard to add much to this story about KSK blogger Christmas Ape and his apparent firing at the hands of some humorless Washington Post human resources drones. After all, if you’re reading us, you’re probably reading ...

Blogging Will Get You Fired
Published 30 days ago by Fornelli at Foul Balls
... , but if you are, then you're more than familiar with the blogger over there who goes by the name of Christmas Ape. Along with writing for KSK, Ape also contributes on Deadspin from time to time. Well, Ape is going to have a lot more free time to blog because he's been fired from his "real" job over at the Washington Post for what he's done on KSK. Anyone who had 48 hours in the Ape Gets Fired For Coming Out On KSK Pool, please claim your prize of ...

Links of the Day 4/17/08
Published 29 days ago by Ryan at The Victoria Times
Christmas Ape from Kissing Suzy Kolber and Deadspin fame recently outed himself as Michael Tunison of the Washington Post was canned by the Washington Post. This is why nobody shall ever know the real names of Ryan, Steve or Beth, or anymore than the fact that Ryan is from Victoria, Minnesota or that Ryan and Steve went to Purdue, lest our employers find out and terminate us. The Colorado Avalanche and the ...

They can take our jobs, but they'll never take...our freedom!
Published 29 days ago by Nate at Flyers Fieldhouse
... To stem that argument, some of the Blogfathers ("The Big Lead" and recently fired for blogging/drinking/writing for real at the Washington Post "Christmas Ape"....me still no smirre over that last one) have joined their already (self) outed brethren at Deadspin, AOL Fanhouse, With Leather and more. ...

Double Standards At The Washington Post
Published 29 days ago by GC at Can't Stop The Bleeding
Washington Post employee Michael Tunison was asked to leave-and-never-return earlier this week, after outing himself as Kissing Suzy Kolber Ko-Konspirator Christmas Ape. Or perhaps it was the other way around. It’s hard to keep all of these pseudonymous pursuits straight. Though I ordinarily wouldn’t shed tears for this gentleman, Editor & Publisher cited the following provisions from the WaPo’s stylebook : We work for no one except The Washington Post without permission from supervisors. Many outside activities ...

So goes Boylan
Published 29 days ago by Rickhouse at Tremendous Upside Potential
... had in him, and they didn’t do it. It was one thing for Skiles not to play Tyrus when the season was still young/alive, but completely different for Boylan to let him sulk on the bench once it was over. Let’s not even get started on playing Duhon/Hughes ahead of Thabo, things might break. ********** Next week is NFL Draft week here at TUP. Prepare yourself. ********** As a member of the sports blogging community, I feel this is my obligation: long live Ape.

This Week in Bloggernets: NBA playoffs are here!
Published 28 days ago by Dan Lamothe, Red Sox Monster at Red Sox Monster - MassLive.com
Editor's note: Yes, yes, I know. This is a Sox blog, and I shouldn't be forcing my affinity for basketball on you readers as the NBA playoffs begin . As someone who was mocked for wearing Celtics gear to middle school while the Bulls reigned supreme, though, I take great umbrage to the fact that people won't let the Celtics back in the heart. In any event, here's This Week in Bloggernets, are weekly look at some of the weirdest and most interesting things floating around on the Web. -- Old video of Michael Jordan shattering a backboard during a game in Italy. How did I never see this before? ( NESW Sports ) -- Somehow, Fire Joe Morgan has managed ...

Bigger Disgrace to MD Journalism: Christmas Ape or Jayson Blair?
Published 27 days ago by Brien at East Coast Bias
The biggest story in the sports blogosphere this week was unquestionably the firing of Christmas Ape/Mike Tunison from the Washington Post for his postings on Kissing Suzy Kolber. An under-reported aspect of the story (from this Terp's point of view) is the fact that Tunison is a ...

Smittblog Unveiled
Published 27 days ago by Luol Dang! at The Smittblog
... If you haven't read about it, you should, but to summarize KSK's Christmas Ape revealed his true identity on the site this week only to be fired 48 hours later when his company (The Washington Post) learned of his "hobby" and felt that it was not in their best interest to keep him on. Fortunately for Ape, the boys at KSK are now getting paid for their work and he doesn't have to worry about filing for unemployment or applying for work with the Baltimore Sun. It was a ballsy move on his part and he upped the "ballsy" level by referring to the Newspaper biz in his "coming out" ...

Case of the Mondays
Published 26 days ago by Bunkie Perkins at Friends of the Program
... We use the same joke as the fat middle-aged data entry clerk in your office when you ask her how her day is going (even though you really don’t care) to bring you our favorite links from the weekend. Kiss Suzy Kolber’s Christmas Ape gets fired from the Washington Post.  The blogosphere is pissed. Good to see sex boat captain Fred Smoot is still keeping it real What a scholarship offer letter from Mike Gundy probably looks like. Eli Manning got married over the weekend.  Our ...

Gilbert is a Go Tonight
Published 26 days ago by JakeTheSnake at Gilbertology
Ivan Carter has the update from today’s shootaround: Gilbert Arenas wore tape to protect his sprained right wrist but didn’t appear to have any problems shooting the rock at the morning shootaround today and will be ready to go tonight in Game 2. Not only is his wrist sore, but his wallet is feeling the pinch: Actually, Arenas did have one problem: he lost a grip of money to Andray Blatche and Nick Young by missing a series of shots from mid-court after the shootaround was over. Some were right-handed, some ...

Blogger Interviews: Christmas Ape
Published 25 days ago by The Big Picture at The Big Picture
... What's the point? Well, these guys spend countless, thankless hours writing, so a little recognition from time to time is well warranted. Think of this as the blogger's version of a reach-around or something. Up today is Michael Tunison, known in the blogging daisy chain as Christmas Ape. Ape is one of the founding fathers of Kissing Suzy Kolber but also shows his face at Deadspin and SportsbyBrooks. A former Washington Post employee, Tunison was recently dismissed after revealing his true identity. So, yeah, don't be too hard on ...

Buzz Bissinger Would Rather You Stop Reading This
Published 17 days ago by MariusJanulisForThree at Troy Nunes Is An Absolute Magician
To be upfront, I didn't watch last night's railroading of Deadspin's Will Leitch on Costas Now. For the moment, all I can go off of is Will's recap of the events. I'm awaiting the videos to go live on the YouTubes and I'll see what all the hubbub is about. I was about to record the show when I got home when it occurred to me that I don't have HBO anymore (Blame Showtime and their stellar TV Show line-up...yes, it's better than HBOs...sorry). And so, I wait... From what I can tell, we're looking at one of those landmark events. Not in the big picture. But for those of us who have been sports bloggers or ...

On blogging, sports and the struggle therein
Published 16 days ago by Dan Lamothe, Red Sox Monster at Red Sox Monster - MassLive.com
Editor's note: At this point, I'm a solid day behind the curve when it comes to discussing Buzz Bissinger, Bob Costas and the HBO special that ran Tuesday night on the state of modern sports media. Nevertheless, as a sports fan, avid blogger and blue collar journalist by day, to boot, I couldn't help but respond to the uproar created by this exchange. My words follow. --------------------------------------------- I like to think of myself as a thoughtful guy. Sure, I traffick in a combination of unreasonably urgent passages about the Red Sox, fart jokes and unruly YouTube videos on this site. It's all in an attempt to have some good clean fun, though, and if I ...

Len Shapiro Tilts At "Uninformed" "Cowards" [Bully For Him]
Published 7 days ago by Christmas Ape at Deadspin
... Foof! That's a doozy. So many things to address in one little graf. I'll start with the "don't ask" aside. I'm guessing this is an oblique reference to my firing from The Washington Post, but who can really be sure? Apparently they don't stress writing for clarity in newspapers anymore. So much has changed in the month I've been gone. If so, you have to find humor in any "professional" journalist who implores readers not to ask questions. ...