Newsweek's Dan Lyons quits blogging -- includes the full text of his five deleted posts

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13 points·ilamont··7 comments

Sounds pretty angry to me. I don't know what the tone of his site was like in general, but maybe he needs to take some time off and cool down a little bit.

Life's too short to be constantly bitter toward people.

How true. Realize that, and you'll be a much happier person overall...

Lyons slammed the company after Yahoo flacks told him just weeks ago that the Google/Yahoo search deal was a "sure thing" and that Jerry Yang wasn't going anywhere. "Then that deal fell apart. And now Jerry Yang is out on his ass. The take-away: Do not believe a word that Yahoo says. Ever."

Then again, getting lied to constantly by PR people isn't exactly something that's going to result in happy feelings.

What's wrong with calling out PR people when they lie? I get why it's not good from the publisher's standpoint, but if they PR guys at Yahoo! are making stuff up constantly, call 'em liars.

Once Fake Steve Jobs was unmasked, it was all downhill from there. The strain was already becoming evident...

It's a shame, because he was an incredible blogger. FSJ is the blog that I point people to as a sign of what Internet writing can be.

the guy IS an incredible blogger. He's just gotta find a new gig that lets him harness those skills again.

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