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Big shakeup at Yahoo includes resignation of former ABC head Lloyd Braun. [NYT]
Mother of tabloid TV news disavows her offspring. [NYO]
In the course of calling Spy a "total failure," Donald Trump refers to Vanity Fair ed Graydon Carter's "bad hair." Considering the source, that's got to sting. [NYP]
Slate wonders why the previously leak-proof White House is now turning into a gusher? We'd guess it has something to do with the fact that certain officals might find it advantageous to distance themselves from a lame duck whose incompetence has cost his party control of both houses of Congress, but, heck, we're not experts or anything. [Slate]
Media magnate Bono wants the parenting part of the Time For titles. [NYP]
France gets its own 24-hour news channel. [Guardian]
The search for missing CNET editor James Kim continues. [CNET]
R.W. "Johnny" Apple remembered at the Kennedy Center. Also, the reporter who made a deathbed request for Apple's favorite waffle shacks? Jill Santopietro. [NYT]
Nice tribute to George W.S. Trow. [NYO]
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And Now He's Dead: George W.S. Trow
George W.S. Trow, the media critic and essayist, has died at the age of 63. Trow is best known for Within the Context of No Context, an article he wrote for the New Yorker (they've made part of it available here) and later expanded into a book. (Also worth a read: My Pilgrim's Progress.) Trow's thirty year association with the New Yorker ended in 1994, when then-editor Tina Brown brought on Roseanne Barr to guest edit an issue. The Times obit quotes the lacerating back-and-forth between Trow and Brown:In his note of resignation, Mr. Trow likened Ms. Brown to someone selling her soul "to get close to the Hapsburgs — 1913."Trow's major thesis, that mass media and a cultural obsession with celebrity were ruining society as we know it, is borne out pretty much each day on this website and every other. Rest in peace, George. More »
Ms. Brown shot back, in a note of her own: "I am distraught at your defection, but since you never actually write anything, I should say I am notionally distraught."
