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'NYTM': Dov Charney and the Global Village People

The lede of yesterday's Times Magazine profile of American Apparel bigshot Dov Charney describes the surroundings in the kinky clothier's Los Angeles office:
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And at Charney's place, no doubt, the massage is full release.

UPDATE: OK, so, while Marshall McLuhan's famous phrase is "the medium is the message," it comes from his book Understanding Media; he never used the line as a title. He did, however, use the punning phrase The Medium Is The Massage as the title of a subsequent book. But here's where things get weird: By this morning, the Times Mag had "corrected" the title from "Massage" to "Message" on its website. (Clearly, we — and they — know nothing of McLuhan's work.)

'The Medium Is the Massage' [Regret The Error]
And You Thought Abercrombie & Fitch Was Pushing It [NYTM]

9:46 AM on Mon Apr 24 2006
By Jesse
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