Tomorrow's corrections today: "Mr. Rove, who is leaving the White House at the end of the month, didn't cut an especially heroic or villainous figure. The strategist who looms in the public imagination as a political mastermind and West Wing Svengali used a rare appearance on camera to deliver an exiting White House…
Where To Find Your Favorite 'Times' Journalists In The New Building
Now that every department at the New York Times has moved into the new building, you're probably wondering where everyone has gone! So let's go floor-by-floor, shall we? And as we work our way up, we'll see who really matters in the Times organization.
Alessandra Stanley Forgets Which '60 Minutes' Fogeys Died
In today's examination of the improbable continued relevance of the venerable newsmagazine show, Alessandra Stanley gives us this present:
Five Signs It Is Time For A Vacation
AdAge has a super-servicey piece today about how to tell if you should find another job. The piece offers five indicators that may mean it's time to move on. I've been feeling a little bit of workplace dissatisfaction lately, but assumed it was just weather-related. I decided to do a little self-assessment based on…
Repent! Repent! 'The Sopranos' Is About To Die For You
Tonight, at 9 PM, on HBO, The Sopranos returns for the home stretch of its sixth and final season. Imagine if there were a day in which God comes back from the dead one last time before going away forever. This is like that day, but bigger. In fact, basically every demographic, interest group, and extant species is…
ABC Totally Pissed At Alessandra Stanley
A letter to Romenesko, sent to us as well, by ABC News Senior Vice President Jeffrey W. Schneider begins: "There are glaring errors in Alessandra Stanley's column today." At this point there's little more to do than shrug one's shoulders and mutter the Hebrew from the Passover question. We're not sure how something…
Alessandra Stanley, All Is 'Lost'
Yesterday, we charitably declined to take New York Times T.V. chick Alessandra Stanley to task for screwing up Lost plotlines. Seriously, we watched that shit last night and already this morning we can't explain why Sawyer was getting all sand-in-the-Vaseline with Jack on the beach. Oh wait. Maybe that was the creepy…
Great Moments In Journalism: A Clout On The Head
Great Moments in Journalism are submitted by readers, and can be sent to this address. Today's Great Moment comes to us, as so many of them do, via Alessandra Stanley's TV Watch column. Here, she's discussing the fanbase that remains to geeky shows like Lost:
Alessandra Stanley Advances The Banner of Ladyism
It's a given, at this point, that any woman writer who tries to contradict Christopher Hitchens's airtight assertion that "Women Aren't Funny" (which he later amended, of course, to 'Non-"hefty, dykey, or Jewish" women aren't funny') will be on the receiving end of a predictable, nyah-nyah "You just proved my point…
Alessandra Stanley Makes Us Think We Might Actually Be Taking Crazy Pills
Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster was the blogger. On Christmas Eve, as the blogger sharpened stakes of holly to drive through the hearts of media "celebrities," Intern Stephanie timorously asked to take the next day…
Media Bubble: On Your Bike
And They Both Sound Funny When They Say "Nuclear"
In today's New York Times, Alessandra Stanley points out to us the uncanny parallels between the television appearances by Madonna and George W. Bush.
Michael J. Fox Wins This Round, Rush Calls in Cavalry
So what's the latest on the Rush Limbaugh vs Alex P. Keaton beef? Well, after getting thorughly p0wn3d by the TNR's The Plank and his own inept research department, he apologized for accusing Michael J. of faking Parkinson's, though not as "bigly and hugely" as promised. The former ESPN personality added that Fox "is…
Not That It's the First Time the Paper's Read Like Gibberish
Today the Times reviews Calista Flockhart vehicle Brothers and Sisters, the ABC drama that anorexic Ally McBeal fans have been waiting for. The first page reads fine, but the second page? Looks like someone forgot to remove the placeholder text. But it doesn't matter what the page should say — it's an Alessandra…
People Like To Put The Television Critic Down
We've always assumed Alessandra Stanley got the TV critic sinecure as a consolation prize for not rising farther at the Times; you'd figure as a former foreign correspondent, she'd at least be able to bring some of that reportorial skill to her review of The Path to 9/11, the controversial ABC mini-series suggesting…
Also, Alessandra, Conan O'Brien Wasn't Really in a Plane Crash
You watch the Emmys, kids? Yeah, same here. Still, we read the coverage in The Paper of Record and came across this:
Alessandra Stanley Now Pissing Us Off With Both Fact and Opinion
Believe us, we take no pleasure in pointing out the frequent errors committed by Alessandra Stanley. It is, at this point, a heavy burden from which we wish we could be unyoked. Today, however, is a special day in our Alessandra coverage: We're taking issues not so much with her factual record, but with some of the…
Critic Caught In Bennifer Conundrum
Speaking of Tabloid Wars, we couldn't help noting the following in yesterday's NYT review of the show:
Remainders: Puffy and Dan Klores End the Affair
Er, BREAKING: After 10 years of mutual love and support, Diddy and PR man Dan Klores are getting divorced. Word is that Puff left DK for another woman — Jill Fritzo at PMK. But just in case Diddy gets involved in another shooting, Klores is staying on a $1K/month retainer. Gotta keep the bases covered.
Alessandra Gives a Bravura Performance in 'Idol' Finale
Because American Idol is not merely a television show but rather a very popular television show, news about its winner has been elevated — perhaps everywhere, but certainly at the Times — from the remote precincts of the Arts section to the sober pages of the National Report, where today, for the second consecutive…
