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Please Politely Welcome Jeffrey Goldberg to the Internet
Atlantic contributor Jeffrey Goldberg started his very first blog this week, with a charmingly naive post mostly about how he knows nothing about blogging but does sit near uber-blogger Andrew Sullivan. "This is almost certainly a mistake," he begins, and it turns out he's 100% right. When the New York Observer's media blogger Matt Haber (the forgotten Gawker Alum!) devoted a post yesterday to basically announcing the existence of Goldberg's blog and needling Goldberg for his initial boneheaded support of the Iraq War, Goldberg blew up with rage. Haber's post was a mugging, he says. Jeffrey, Jeffrey, Jeffrey. We'll show you what a mugging is. More »
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Chris Hitchens' "Lesbian" Moment With Andrew Sullivan
The great fun of Christopher Hitchens is that the commentator so often says things in formal settings you'd expect to hear around the dinner table after many hours of wine and whisky. The Vanity Fair columnist usually pulls this off, in part because a ribald manner is now expected of him, but there's always the risk of pushing it too far, as in the following clip from MSNBC's Tim Russert. Just after Hitchens jokes with pundit Andrew Sullivan to get on with his point and "don't be such a lesbian," he takes a regretful look toward his navel, apparently realizing he may have just put his foot in it. Ah, Hitch, your public expects nothing less. If MSNBC gives you a hard time, the first ten rounds are on us. Video and transcript (via Media Matters) after the jump. More »
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Last Thing On Comments, I Swear
Like you, I'm over this whole commenting, what it says about you, what it says about me and our Internet society at large thing. But there's a Wall Street Journal article on the subject, and it's my beat. Atlantic writer Andrew Sullivan, whose website does not have commenting, recently ran a poll about allowing them. The results will shock you. (How's that for an incentive to click the jump?)More »
The December Atlantic will have bear-blogger Andrew Sullivan on Barack Obama as its cover. Can you hold your breath until then? Let's hope Sully is as right on Obama as he's historically been on everything from "the end of AIDS" to publishing excerpts from The Bell Curve in The New Republic to his participation in a religion that hates him to his misreadings of Susan Sontag to supporting the war in Iraq to linking the 2001 anthrax mailings somehow to the war to endorsing Bush in 2000! [Folio]
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Andrew Sullivan, Theatre Critic
Later that night, at the Vanity Fair party held at Christopher Hitchens' house, The Transom pried loose a few wedding details from Mr. Sullivan's fianc , Eric, an actor (last name withheld at Mr. Sullivan's request): It's going to be a small affair, mostly family, to take place in Provincetown, Mass.More »
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Gossip Roundup: Spears To Become A Simpson?
david bradley
David Bradley To Form Suspiciously Gay Cadre Of Extremely Sadistic Super-Bloggers
David G. Bradley, the owner of the Atlantic Monthly, today announced in the Washington Post that he seeks to "recruit a cadre of uber-experts to form what he calls the Atlantic Society, 'where we will find 300 of the smartest human beings across the main intellectual terrains we're likely to cover and to go out and ask them, would they be essayists for the Atlantic?'" And if they decline the opportunity, he slits their throats on the spot. We knew things were going to get deliciously freaky over there after they hired that perv Andrew Sullivan away from Time. More »
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Andrew Sullivan's New Look
After addled former-con blogger Andrew Sullivan's one-year contract was up at Time last month, he hopped his buns over to the Atlantic, and had his illustration redone. More »
mickey kaus
JoeJournalist Had Better Be James Fallows, Because We're Getting Pretty Goddamned Tired Of This Story
So, JoeJournalist: We figured this scintillating story had run its course but, unfortunately, no. In a segment on the consistently incendiary BloggingHeads.tv, suspected self-aggrandizer Mickey Kaus claims that he knows who the solipsist is, and that it isn't Andrew Sullivan (or Kaus). Mickey won't give up the name, but he does volunteer that the journalist in question is "an important figure in the New America Foundation." More »
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JoeJournalist.com: Could One Of These Men Be JoeJournalist? Yeah, Maybe.
This morning we asked you to help us identify the mystery journalist who had the effrontery to start his own website in the early days of the Internet. While the general consensus remains fixated on Andrew Sullivan, there are a few other ideas out there. We present them after the jump. More »
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JoeJournalist.com: World's Most Boring Guessing Game Continues
Okay, so that Kinsley piece: We'll start you off with the "blind item" in question:The first person I knew who had a Web site of his own was a fellow Washington journalist. This was when many journalists were still just getting into e-mail, but the URL for this Web site quickly circulated around town and around the world. Why? Well, we were all impressed by the technological savvy. But we were absolutely astounded by the solipsism. What on earth had gotten into Joe (not his real name)? This was a modest, soft-spoken, and self-effacing fellow, yet his Web site portrayed him as an egotistical monster. Or so it seemed at the time. All of the elements that struck us as obnoxious maybe eight years ago no longer seem that way. In fact, they are now virtually required for any writer's Web site. The Web address, of course, was his name: JoeJournalist.com. It's hard to recapture why that even seemed pretentious. But it did. Then there was his deadpan list of books he'd written and awards he'd won. And quotes from other journalists about how wonderful he is.So who's the mystery journalist? More »
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Media Bubble: Here Is The Internet
CNN Covers All the Gay News
In fairness to the daycare center, they only got freaked out when Andrew Sullivan couldn't provide a good reason for his visit. CNN.com
In fairness to the daycare center, they only got freaked out when Andrew Sullivan couldn't provide a good reason for his visit. CNN.com
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In Sullivan's Defense, His Gaydar Was in the Shop for Repairs
Heterodox homos just say the darnedest things, don't they? Case in point: Time's blogboy Andrew Sullivan on BlackBook EIC Aaron Hicklin's move to Out magazine: More »
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Andrew Sullivan Makes Sweet, Bloggy Love to Stephen Colbert
Blogstar Andrew Sullivan — who's now posting his blog on Time.com — took his funny accent to The Colbert Report last night, where pressing issues were deftly tackled: More »
media bubble
• Andrew Sullivan to move his blog to Time.com. Sellout! MSM! All those other things we're supposed to say! Yada yada yada. [NYP]
• Bob Schieffer to stay longer as CBS Evening News anchor. [NYT]
• Times to launch quarterly sports mag. [NYP]
• Esquire likes undulating apartments. [NYT]
• Google considers offering book rentals, sort of. [Reuters via Yahoo]
• Ruth Reichl reads The Bruni Digest. Bruni doesn't. Or so he says. [AP via Yahoo]
Media Bubble: Right-Wingers Like Judy. Imagine That.
• Is Judy Miller now a right-wing hero? Wait, what was she before the war, then? [NYM]• Andrew Sullivan to move his blog to Time.com. Sellout! MSM! All those other things we're supposed to say! Yada yada yada. [NYP]
• Bob Schieffer to stay longer as CBS Evening News anchor. [NYT]
• Times to launch quarterly sports mag. [NYP]
• Esquire likes undulating apartments. [NYT]
• Google considers offering book rentals, sort of. [Reuters via Yahoo]
• Ruth Reichl reads The Bruni Digest. Bruni doesn't. Or so he says. [AP via Yahoo]
Journo-Jabbing
A quote of the day from Jesse Kornbluth: "No ideas and the ability to express them—that's a journalist." —Karl Kraus (1874-1936)(—MG)
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A quote of the day from Jesse Kornbluth: "No ideas and the ability to express them—that's a journalist." —Karl Kraus (1874-1936)(—MG)[swami uptown]
