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Esquire Editor Makes Very True Sentence "We're at a fulcrum point in our culture, not just because of the election, but because the world seems to be at a real tipping point right now." [WWD, Previously]

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wtf

Four Awful Tips For Women From Esquire Editor

Esquire's David Granger, you'll recall, secured a lone nomination in the National Magazine Awards this year thanks, reportedly, to lobbying by fellow Hearst editor Rosemary Ellis, of Good Housekeeping. No surprise, then, that Granger was all-too-happy to do a solid for another Hearst title, O, The Oprah Magazine, when editors there asked him to answer the question "Men! What Do You Like Most About Us [women]?" Granger's exuberant response (last item) is clearly intended to flatter O's middle-aged lady readers, which is fine, since that's half the point of these things. But the answers are so obviously terrible one almost wonders if it was written as parody. Did Granger hand this one off to a junior assistant or something? The four worst tips:

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4:23 AM on Wed Jun 18 2008
By Ryan Tate
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Latest by n/a: This is more like what douches like about us. more »

the fix

How Magazine Editors Look After Their Own

So, was Esquire's last-minute inclusion as a finalist in the National Magazine Awards a stroke of luck for the languishing Hearst magazine, or merely the result of a fix? As you might have read, David Granger's men's title, which used reliably to feature in several categories in the magazine industry's annual exercise in mutual flattery, only received a solo nomination for its work in the past year. Mixed Media's Jeff Bercovici explained that even that was a fluke: the nomination was to have been New York's, until the judges realized that the magazine, an awards hog, had naughtily entered material it had already submitted in another category. So, a lucky break. Or maybe not. More »

3:59 PM on Fri Mar 21 2008
By Nick Denton
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Latest by n/a: I get the cover art. He's imploding and now we're all supposed to believe it. Except he isn't. At all. more »

onanism

So Atoosa, Laurel Touby, and Joanne Lipman Are Eating The Chicken...

Yesterday for three barren hours we sat in the back of a dining room at Tavern on the Green and watched media people accept essentially pointless awards from Min magazine. Portfolio won hottest launch. Atoosa Rubenstein shared nuggets of wisdom. Laurel Touby, one of the web's most "intriguing" people (if a poorly spelled sign is to be believed) embarrassed herself. Photographer Laurel Ptak really outdid herself in creating a photo essay of the luncheon. It's like 'Kids,' just more magazine-y! More »

4:45 PM on Wed Nov 14 2007
By Joshua Stein
1,451 views, 10 comments

Latest by NicoleItchy: Oh, I thought they were the Janice Min awards. That would have been better. more »

meeting the demographic

'Esquire' Is The Magabrand With A Penthouse

Don't tell Esquire editor-in-chief David Granger that the concept of "magabrands"—magazines that have "extended" their "brands" to new media, old media and non-media"—is out-of-control bankrupt. Esquire North is the magazine's sprawling Harlem three-level condo on Central Park North; each room and everything in it was decorated by an Esquire advertiser. To have the honor of furnishing arcade seats in eel skin in the gaming room, both Kenneth Cole and Intel had to purchase at least one page (ooh!) of advertising. Last night all these brands threw a party for Riverkeeper. We don't care really about fisheries on the Hudson, but we do care about Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is the main litigator for the environmental outfit. He is so boyishly handsome and so charismatic and so, well, Kennedy-like! Semi-socialite Melissa Berkelhammer stood alone near the panini bar as Kennedy gave a speech. And—was she wearing a sad pony mask? More »

2:02 PM on Wed Oct 31 2007
By Joshua Stein
2,040 views, 31 comments

Latest by DorothyMantooth: First the pretty ballerinos, and now RFK...Josh: Still not gay?! more »

book parties

AJ Jacobs Now Ready To Break Some Commandments

Last night Esquire scribe and gimmick book writer AJ Jacobs celebrated the publication of his latest, The Year of Biblical Living, a memoir about the healing process after his husband died. Oh wait. That's the other Year of Adjective Present Participle book. This one traces Jacobs' efforts to live his life according to the strictures of the Old Testament. Sounds hard, right? According to Jacobs, it was! The book party was heavily attended by Esquire editors and was at an Upper East Side bar called Genesis. Get it? And we didn't have to blow anyone to get tickets. More »

3:02 PM on Wed Oct 3 2007
By Joshua Stein
2,276 views, 24 comments

Latest by shesaidwhat: @MEL'S DINER: "I think its time Gawker cover real writers." 2 views 2 comments I'm sure we'd have a lovely conversation. (It's a joke. I know there would be at least 5 or 6 more people. Maybe upwards of 10 for Mr. Pip!) more »

media

Media Bubble: Play It As It Lays

  • There's a lot of backbiting and infighting at the Los Angeles Times, which is completely unusual behavior at a major newspaper. [NYT]
  • Kurt Eichenwald's "checkbook journalism" controversy may keep him out of the first issue of Portfolio, which should give him plenty of free time to file that lawsuit he keeps talking about. [WWD]
  • Quick recap of the action in the first week of Conrad Black's fraud trial. [ToTheCenter]
  • At this point we don't care who buys Tribune, we just want to see an end to this fucking story. Now Ron Burkle and Eli Broad have popped up again. [NYT]
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    9:27 AM on Mon Mar 26 2007
    By abalk2
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    Media Bubble: Wal-Mart Will Not Tap Your Phone Again. Guaranteed.

  • Wal-Mart is really, really sorry that they taped a Times reporter's calls. They don't want you to think they're Hewlett-Packard or anything. [NYT]
  • Do not even suggest that Brian Williams' trip to Iraq had anything to do with ratings. NBC is a professional news organization, damn it! Also, they're sorta sensitive. [Philadelphia Inquirer]
  • Ron Burkle made a $200 million dollar profit on the sale of some supermarkets. Radar may last forever! (Hahaha, we're just kidding, it's three and out.) [NYP]
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    8:59 AM on Tue Mar 6 2007
    By abalk2
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    esquire

    Man Expresses Ambivalence In 100 New And Different Ways

    [M]any editors profess to hate lists, features that are, at their worst, unoriginal and gushy. (A heavy-breathing essay in this year's Time 100 described George Clooney as "a family heirloom" whose serious bearing makes him "almost worth killing for.")
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    11:35 AM on Mon Aug 14 2006
    By abalk2
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