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Gawker should stick to stuff it knows - like airheaded Manhattanites
By adamg on Mon, 12/01/2008 - 5:13pm
Gawker looks at some Obama contributor list and concludes it's "full of fraud" because one of the contributors, Doug Berman of Cambridge, MA, listed his employer as Dewey, Cheetham and Howe.
Yeah right, Mr. Berman! Very clever!
Anybody care to educate Gawker on who Doug Berman really is and who he really works for? Here's a free clue for Gawker. And here's another photo of their headquarters in Harvard Square.
Thanks to Lindsay Murdock of Brighton Communication for the tip!
Photo by Schmich, used under Creative Commons.
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Comments
DBA?
I wonder if this is Berman's registered DBA in Cambridge. It doesn't take much to take one out, and you pretty much need a "doing business as" to create a formal legal business entity for freelancing purposes.
I bet that Gawker didn't even bother to check with the city.
Look at the bottom of Car Talk Web pages
"CAR TALK, DEWEY, CHEETHAM & HOWE, SHAMELESS COMMERCE, and WARPED DISCS are registered trademarks, and CLICK AND CLACK is a trademark, of Tom and Ray Magliozzi and/or Tappet Brothers Associates d/b/a Dewey, Cheetham & Howe."
http://www.cartalk.com/
Berman didn't lie
Since that is their real DBA, then Berman properly reported his employing entity. He has to put that down as a source of income on his taxes, so why not on a contributor list?
Of course, the gawker guys, being wankers, likely never had to actually register a business in such fashion. Their trust funds have yet to run out, and/or their parents haven't yet purchased a smaller house without a basement as a hint.
I can vouch that is their
I can vouch that is their official DBA, a basic google search will result in this as number 1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewey,_Cheatem_&_Howe
Now they would have also had access to where this "fake" business was. That google search makes it even more possible. My ONE problem is Cartalk plaza is in Harvard Square, which is 02138, yet the Gawker still frame clearly says 02140... 02138 is Harvard Square, 02139 is more Huron Village and Central ( I think) and if I recall 02140 is Porter and North Cambridge. Theres no way their offices are in 02140, so where does that number come from?
I bet that's Berman's home Zip code
The actual list indicates where the donor is from and where he/she works. We know from the NPR link above that Berman lives in Cambridge. So he probably lives in 02140 and, as we know, works at Dewey Cheetham and Howe.
And, indeed, it's his home address
Google
"doug berman" cambridge 02140
and see what pops up.
02140
Perhaps Mr. Berman's home zip code? A check of the White Pages shows Dougie lives in that zip code.
So Gawker's joke didn't go
So Gawker's joke didn't go over very well?
So it was a joke
Yeah, it's possible I have no sense of humor. Or I'm just too used to Gawker's faux outrage over things. Or both.
I guess its possible they
I guess its possible they are well aware of who these guys are... its possible if any of the Gawker guys spent anytime in Cambridge/Boston, but their main audience is in NYC where Dewey Cheatem and Howe is only meaningful as a Three Stooges thing. I think they seriously thought they found soemthing.
The faux outrage, including
The faux outrage, including exclamation points!, should tell the tale. And Car Talk has been syndicated across the country for a generation. Then there was the TV show based on the boys several years ago.
Official Gawker Joke Writer: Hugh Morless
Considering the post ends with "Now you kids try to find some stuff in there for us to talk about, too!" I am reasonably sure some Gawker over there really did think they'd ferreted out An Honest To God Fake and wanted to find more.
The commenters seem to be savvier and have set everything straight in the first few comments, but Gawker can always fall back on the "We were just joking!" defense if necessary.
Meanwhile, those of us up in the land where our baseball team actually made the playoffs this year get to chuckle and be smug for another day. Today's going pretty well, honestly!
(And even though Dianne Wilkerson nervously adjusts her sweater every time she hears us say it...)
Go back and read the last
Go back and read the last line. Vincent "Vint" Cerf really did invent the internet. Get it now?
In the interests of nit-picky correctness
Vint Cerf did not invent the Internet. He co-wrote (with Robert Kahn) TCP/IP, which is now the standard protocol for connecting computers to the network. But what we now know as the Internet had already been running for several years - using another protocol that Cerf and Kahn used as a base to write TCP/IP.
I can see you're using the
I can see you're using the Vint Cerf joke to further the belief that the entire entry was indeed tongue-in-cheek, but I ain't believing it.
And even if it was, the joke flopped harder than a mackerel on the main deck.
I disagree, it would have
I disagree, it would have been quite funny if they knew all the facts in advance, although the humor would be more along the lines of Wonkette then Gawker, but hey they used to be owned by the same entity right?
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