After the supposedly serious-minded Washington Post-owned Slate.com sent out the following e-mail PR blast on Thursday night pointing to a new feature called “Hillary Deathwatch,” several Hillary Clinton supporters are decrying rampant misogyny and bias at the online magazine (the male authors of the piece, Christopher Beam and Chadwick Martin, are believed to be in their early- to mid- twenties). If not bias, just plain crassness:

The Slate.com article also depicts a cartoon Clinton caricature on a sinking ship.

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From Jossip:

Chris Beam, part of the duo that put out IvyGate, is now running Slate’s new campaign blog, Trailhead.

The Columbia ’06 wunderkind co-wrote an infograph for the New York Times Book Review (PDF) last week with his dad, a columnist at the Boston Globe.

Who would have guessed that an Ivy League education and family connections would pay off?

Recall that Big Head DC covered Beam’s burgeoning success last year (before we even knew just how well-connected he is). We always pick winners!

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When Slate ran with Lucy Caldwell’s story yesterday, revealing Caroline Giuliani’s Facebook profile to the world, the publication violated one of Facebook’s main rules. Under the “User Content Posted on Site” section of the network’s terms of use, it reads:

You may not post, transmit, or share User Content on the Site or Service that you did not create or that you do not have permission to post.

Legal experts told Big Head DC today that Facebook could definitely take legal action against Slate regarding this matter.

Earlier: Radar Claims Caroline Giuliani Facebook “Exclusive,” But Slate Had the Story First

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At 3:05 p.m. yesterday, Radar’s Jeff Bercovici posted an item about Caroline Giuliani’s embarrassingly supportive Barack Obama posting on her Facebook page. Today, the graphics department at the mag went to town, creating this gossip-worthy billboard for the site’s front page features section:

The graphic links to the Radar story from yesterday. But how the heck was that story a Radar “exclusive” when Slate posted the same story earlier yesterday at 11:49 a.m.? The Radar piece, as far as we can tell, added nothing new and was based on the original Slate Facebook revelation.

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The Slate political writer makes a much more convincing (and concise) argument for why he loved his mom, Nancy Dickerson, in the shit-fit he penned in response to the NY Times’ negative review of his book than he did in the lengthy tome itself.

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