Check out Mini-WeSmirch for simple mobiles or WeSmirch Mobile for modern smartphones.
9:50 AM ET, December 15, 2008

WeSmirch

 Top News: 
Liz McNeil / People.com:
Naomi Watts & Liev Schreiber Have a Baby Boy  —  Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber  —  Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber welcomed their second child, PEOPLE has learned.  —  “I can confirm Naomi and Liev had a baby boy yesterday,” said the actress's rep.  —  A couple since 2005, Watts, 40 …
RELATED:
Allison Corneau / Us Weekly:
Naomi Watts Gives Birth  —  Naomi Watts and her husband, Liev Schreiber, welcomed their second child, a boy, on Saturday, the actress' rep tells Usmagazine.com.  —  “I can confirm that she had a baby boy yesterday,” the rep tells Us.  The name has not yet been released.  —  See Us' baby bump hall of fame.
Jovie Baclayon / E! Online:
Naomi Watts, Liev Schreiber Welcome Baby Boy  —  And baby makes four.  —  Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber welcomed their second child yesterday.  —  A rep for Watts, 40, exclusively tells E! News, “I can confirm that Naomi and Liev had a baby boy yesterday.”  —  The happily unmarried couple have been together since 2005.
Discussion: Pink is the New Blog and Dlisted
In Touch Weekly Magazine:
In Touch Exclusive:Naomi Watts gives birth!
Discussion: Socialite Life and X17 Online
Katie Nicholl / Daily Mail:
Guy and Madonna WILL spend Christmas together … Madonna and Guy Ritchie are to call a Christmas truce for the sake of their children.  —  The divorcing couple have temporarily ceased their custody battle and struck a deal to share a traditional family celebration at Guy's Ashcombe House estate …
RELATED:
Metro.co.uk:
Madonna to tour with Britney?  —  Best of friends: Britney and Madonna may team up again  —  Britney Spears wants Madonna to guest star on her forthcoming tour.  —  The singer is in talks with Madge to make a series of appearances, according to Spears' choreographer Wade Robson.
Discussion: Scandalist
New York Post:
NOT SO SECRET  —  LEIGHTON Meester (above) and her beau, Sebastian Stan, are taking the next step.  A source close to the starlet told us the inseparable lovers are engaged - and they made the announcement on their “secret” Facebook pages.  “Gossip Girl” star Meester and Stan have been dating since …
TMZ.com:
“Charm School” Chick: Sharon O. Attacked Me  —  The LAPD is investigating an alleged brutal cat fight that went down between Sharon Osbourne and a contestant on the VH1 reality show “Rock of Love: Charm School” who ended up in the hospital.  —  Megan Hauserman claims Sharon Osbourne went ballistic during …
People.com:
Charlie Sheen's Daughters Unharmed in Car Wreck  —  Charlie Sheen with wife Brooke and daughters Lola (left) and Sam  —  Charlie Sheen and ex Denise Richards's daughters are unharmed after being involved in a car accident Friday in Malibu, his rep tells PEOPLE.
Discussion: I'm Not Obsessed and The Pop
RELATED:
New York Post:
JEN'S BACKUP PLAN FOR A MAN  —  OPENING her movie on Christmas, the same day her ex-husband's film hits theaters, will be tough for Jennifer Aniston - but it would be much tougher promoting “Marley & Me” if Hollywood's most talked-about single woman didn't have a date.
Discussion: Hollyscoop and Faded Youth Blog
David K. Li / New York Post:
PATERSON IN A BLIND RAGE OVER ‘SNL’ SKIT  —  Gov. Paterson didn't see the humor in a “Saturday Night Live” bit that mocked his blindness.  —  During the “Weekend Update” segment of NBC's irreverent comedy show, actor Fred Armisen played Paterson, imitating his wandering eye, gravelly voice and blunt, self-effacing demeanor.
Metro.co.uk:
Dannii: Brit treated me like a naughty schoolgirl  —  Dannii Minogue has described the X Factor judges' infamous meeting with Britney Spears as ‘hysterical’.  —  She revealed how she, Simon Cowell, Louis Walsh and Cheryl Cole were lined up outside Spears' dressing room like naughty schoolchildren.
Discussion: OH NO!!
Ivory Jeff Clinton / People.com:
Chris Rock: My Girls Want a Playdate with Obama's Daughters  —  Chris Rock with daughters Lola (left) and Zahra  —  With Christmas around the corner, comic Chris Rock's daughters have a tall order on their wish list - a visit to the White House.  —  “His girls are a little older than mine …
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of WeSmirch at 9:50 AM ET, December 15, 2008.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 See Also: 
WeSmirch: site main
WeSmirch River: reverse chronological WeSmirch
WeSmirch Mobile: for phones
WeSmirch Leaderboard: WeSmirch's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
WeSmirch RSS feed
WeSmirch on X
 
 
 More News: 
Jamie Murnane / PopEater:
Lady GaGa's Stock Keeps Rising, With Help From ‘the Gays’
Discussion: Backseat Cuddler
Phil Taylor / News of the World:
£5k to kill Amy pusher
Rennie Dyball / People.com:
The Veronicas: We Taught the Jonas Brothers ‘Everything’
Discussion: oceanUP
Pete Samson / The Sun:
Eh, nurse Amy, can I have a few pills?
Discussion: Dlisted and X17 Online
E! Online:
Pulp Fiction Writer Charged With Vehicular Manslaughter
Discussion: dailystab.com
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
The Demise of Dating  —  The paradigm has shifted.  Dating is dated.
Discussion: Gawker and Jezebel
 Earlier Picks: 
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Michael Schneider / Variety:
Nielsen: the Biden-Trump debate drew an average audience of 51.3M viewers across 17 networks in the US, down from 2020's first debate, with nearly 73.1M

Tim Marchman / Wired:
Quora-owned AI chatbot platform Poe is providing users with downloadable HTML files of paywalled articles from outlets including NYT, Forbes, and The Atlantic

Hanaa' Tameez / Nieman Lab:
Spain's El País launched a digital edition to cover the US in Spanish in May with 11 bilingual correspondents; as of April, the outlet had ~366K subscribers

 
Sister Sites:

Techmeme
 Top news and commentary for technology's leaders, from all around the web
Mediagazer
 Top news and commentary for media professionals from all around the web
memeorandum
 What US political commentators are discussing online right now