Jessica Coen

Jan 22
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LedgerFrenzy: A look inside the new-media "newsroom"

  • 4.45 PM
  • coen: heath ledger dead
  • rovz: what?
  • coen: interrupted news right now
  • coen: put it up now
  • coen: channel 7 news just reported
  • coen: gogogo
  • rovz: oko ok ok
  • 4.45 PM
  • coen: um, you ready for the shocker du jour?
  • lock: yes
  • coen: heath ledger is dead
  • coen: they just interrupted commercials during oprah
  • lock: WHAT?
  • coen: um yeah
  • coen: ah on p6.com
  • lock: holy
  • coen: omg page six has a siren.
  • lock: wowzers
  • coen: right?!
  • coen: how fucking crazy is that???!
  • lock: jesus
  • lock: on broome street
  • lock: no less
  • 4.45 PM
  • neel: holy shit heath ledger died
  • 4.47 PM
  • coen: on p6.com now
  • rovz: link them?
  • coen: you could say saw it on the news, page six confirms
  • coen: throw noe some love
  • rovz: they say it was a drug overdose. do we say that?
  • coen: say that they said it
  • coen: AP on it now too. just get it up.
  • 4.50 PM
  • coen: talk about celebrities you didn't expect to die today.
  • lock: for serious
  • coen: brad renfro, like, ok. he was off the charts.
  • coen: but heath fucking ledger? serious a-list actor?
  • lock: lock: dude shoulda stayed in brooklyn - Joey: traded it all for the bright lights of the big city - look where it got him
  • coen: you two.
  • lock: it's the only way we know to numb the pain
  • lock: drudge siren
  • 4.50 PM
  • coen: it's like the whole world just found out during the same 10 minutes
  • rovz: during the same 5 minutes
  • rovz: that was amazing
  • 4.51 PM
  • lindsay: RIP Heath Ledger!
  • coen: i know
  • coen: like, omg
  • lindsay: What a big ass celeb funeral that's gonna be
  • coen: i think the whole world found out in the course of 10min
  • lindsay: yeah
  • lindsay: wildfire
  • 4.55 PM
  • lock: ok, this is funny
  • lock: Subject: New York Sun Breaking News: Heathcliff Ledger Dies, Police Say
  • coen: SHUT UP
  • coen: can you fwd that to me?
  • 5.00 PM
  • coen: now i've got someone making the joker jokes
  • rovz: oh God
  • coen: you realize that in the course of 20 minutes we've gone from shock to spreading news to horror to sad, and now we're at humor?
  • rovz: I'm not ready for humor
  • coen: me neither!
  • coen: i'm a little horrified by how quickly that happens
  • rovz: though I did laugh when the CNN reporter said "we BELIEVE his ex-wife Michelle Williams was in Brokeback Mountain as well"
  • 5.00 PM
  • lindsay: my personal contribution is "Renfro/Pleshette/Ledger: MLK Week '08"
  • coen: pleshette?
  • lindsay: suzanne pleshette died
  • coen: i don't even know who that is.
  • lindsay: it's ok
  • 5.00 PM
  • coen: surrounded by sleeping pills.
  • lock: yup
  • coen: suicide
  • lock: joker crying on the inside
  • coen: GOOD ONE LOCK
  • lock: har, the news just swept the curbed office
  • lock: people here are a bit slow
  • coen: you guys are too busy chronicling subprime shit
  • lock: joker jokes officially over, 21 minutes after the news hit
  • lock: time to start working the reax to the reax angles
  • lock: like, are we SURE they finished ALL filming on the batman flick?
  • lock: what if he still had some voiceover work to do?
  • lock: it's too much to contemplate
  • 5.05 PM
  • rovz: ooh, look how nice the apartment was! corcoran.com/property/listing.aspx?Region=NYC&listingid=1100251
  • coen: um link that
  • rovz: ok
  • 5.10 PM
  • coen: i don't see denton in the live footage of paparazzi at the bldg door
  • lockloct: eesh
  • 5.15 PM
  • lock: wait, this was mary kate's apartment?
  • coen: what?
  • lock: someone just made that claim here
  • 5.15 PM
  • coen: have you heard that it's mary-kate's apt? could be total rumor bullshit, lock said someone said it over there
  • rovz: it was on Perez
  • coen: plausible?
  • rovz: she lives in Soho?
  • rovz: I don't know, I'm sure it's plausible.
  • rovz: funny, TMZ just reported "EXCLUSIVELY" that he's dead
  • rovz: not like them to be behind CNN
  • coen: i'm sure they'll get the toxicology reports
  • coen: and pictures of the pill bottles
  • 5.15 PM
  • bossman: i can't believe heath ledger dies
  • bossman: nevertheless, well done getting that up so quick
  • 5.20 PM
  • bossman: we flicked over to the homepage during the presentation
  • bossman: and everyone saw the headline and went "what???"
  • 5.20 PM
  • lock: joey: "would probably be in poor taste to do a 'what other units are available in 421 broome street' post"
  • 5.20 PM
  • lindsay: broome street??
  • 5.20 PM
  • rovz: I'm pretty sure it was his apartment
  • rovz: otherwise why would his housekeeper be there?
  • coen: yeah
  • 5.25 PM
  • lindsay: haha, on the page six post:
  • lindsay: Related Articles Heath Ledger and Yet Another Blond Girlfriend; Ladies, Look Who's Single!
  • lindsay: I just read that mk olsen owns the apt
  • 5.30 PM
  • coen: it IS mk's
  • coen: sewell chan on the case
  • lock: wacky times
  • lock: dude sewell chan IS the scene
  • lock: ha, crappy valleywag splice on gawker disrupting denton's coverage
  • lock: that amuses me greatly
  • coen: pretty funny
  • 5.30 PM
  • bossman: omg
  • bossman: they just threw mary-kate into the mix??????
  • coen: HA
  • coen: yes, it's MK's apt.
  • bossman: how could this get any better from a tabloid perspective?
  • 5.35 PM
  • coen: it doesn't. i hate myself
  • 5.38 PM
  • levy: they took heath from us too soon
  • coen: seriously
  • coen: such crazy late-day tabloid action
  • levy: and ashley olsen
  • levy: once again, RUINING THINGS
  • coen: nnono
  • coen: MK.
  • levy: no
  • levy: mk's apt
  • levy: ashley was there tody
  • levy: THERE TODAY
  • coen: WHAT?
  • coen: where is that?!
  • levy: gawker
  • levy: that ashley can't leave well enough alone, can she?
  • 5.40 PM
  • coen: jesus, ashley was there today?!
  • rovz: well, that's a rumor gawker is reporting
  • rovz: is it confirmed somewhere?
  • coen: no but it's a good rumor
  • rovz: it is a good rumor
  • 5.40 PM
  • coen: ASHLEY WAS THERE TODAY?
  • bossman: i saw, yeah
  • bossman: that's how it gets better
  • bossman: heath was having sex with ashley in mary-kate's apartment
  • coen: no. NO.
  • 5.45 PM
  • levy: son of a bitch
  • coen: first lance, now this.
  • levy: EXACTLY
  • levy: leave our heros be please
  • levy: LEAVE THEM BE
  • coen: ha
  • levy: seriously, though
  • levy: ashley was involved
  • levy: wow
  • coen: you don't know that for a fact
  • levy: i don't really care, jc
  • levy: the mere suggestion
  • levy: there's a chink in the armor
  • levy: in the olsen armor of invincibility.
  • coen: they never had armor, ben
  • coen: they were so fragile
  • levy: non-fact
  • coen: need i remind you of the cirque lodge?
  • levy: they wanted you to believe they were fragile
  • levy: so when they KILL
  • coen: they can take their victims by surprise.
  • 6.10 PM
  • levy: any updates?
  • levy: is AO in custody yet?
  • coen: HA
  • coen: that would be amazing
  • levy: here's one to blow your mind
  • levy: what if she is now WITH CHILD?
  • levy: and it's his?
  • coen: love the way your mind works
  • levy: now that would be something
  • levy: i think we can agree
  • levy: if two celebrities are alone doing drugs
  • levy: they're also having intercourse
  • 6.10 PM
  • lock: any new hot breaking intimate details??????
  • coen: yes!
  • coen: i just put on pink underwear!
  • lock: YES!!!!
  • 6.44 PM
  • lindsay: ha, on the way home I was thinking I was going to make a joke when alex got here "let's go up to broome street and look at the media circus." and then I just read your blog!
  • 6.45 PM
  • lindsay: (I hadn't seen the post you linked to or any pics of the apt)
  • coen: yeah denton ALL over it
  • lindsay: crazy. I'd be so embarrassed to even be there!
  • lindsay: ok, just signed on to say that!