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It's Tuesday November the 22 around 6:13PM and

Media Notes: The Craigslistization of News

*We saw this ad campaign for AIDS Vancouver when we were having lunch the other day - it was on a coaster at the Fountainhead Pub on Davie. It's another product from our good buddies at Rethink. Here is the TV ad entitled "Admiral Winkey" It's all part of a campaign with the message: "Whatever you call it, thanks for keeping it safe."

*Craigslist founder Craig Newmark is going to jump into the news business promising a new journalist based model that will offer the "wisdom of the masses". This is pretty much the greatest news since the Adidas store hit Granville St. and Jennifer Good discovered the Vancouver Canucks.

"The big issue in the U.S. is that newspapers are afraid to talk truth to power," said Craig. "The White House press corps don't speak the truth to power; they are frightened to lose access they don't have anyway," he said, according to the Guardian newspaper."

*Meanwhile, and just so we are clear about our editorial standards here, we show you the way to our blog crush, Gawker who has endless fun with Kate Moss today in her pre-cocaine and rehab days, "topless, performing some sort of glorious seizure-dance." it's not pretty, but qualifies her to be... Mayor of Vancouver. [Note: After tonight's "My Name is Earl" we would rather have Beau Bridges as our Mayor. We're just saying.)

*Delightfully irresponsible journalism is totally the new black. The Wonkette's headline today, "Bush Drinking Again" is pretty much the best thing we've read since like 9:00 am. "As Daily Kos and other have pointed out, Bush's hat tip to local culture in Mongolia -- drinking fermented yak's milk -- means that the poor guy is drinking. 'Again.'"

*Singing Absolute special holiday bottles? Adrants points out just how great this is.