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the way we were
They Don't Make 'Em Like Felix Dennis Any More (Crazy)
Ah, the good old days—when crazy oddball media titans stood astride the magazine world, being odd. We have more fun stories about former Maxim publisher and admitted killer Felix Dennis! He's a neat freak who takes care of friends. More »
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Comment by raincoaster: This is like Conrad Black, with half the crazy and one-tenth the literacy. Because I'm not saying 1/100th the savoir-faire, Lord... more » | Other threads
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Media Crack
Saviors Save the Media!
In your salvation-drenched Thursday media column: Media career ascension! An available media job! People buying newspapers! People saving newspapers! People saving Paste magazine! Huzzah! More »
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Comment by sweetpickles: Paste: Why do they need to print a monthly Pitchfork on dead trees? more » | Other threads
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media
550 Layoffs at McGraw-Hill
McGraw-Hill is currently trying to sell off BusinessWeek, but they'll be lucky to make a buck on the deal. Worse: today the company announced it has laid off 550 people. More »
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Comment by BartholomewBurhans: Forgive the lack of registration, (and the long comment) but my mother was just fired yesterday from her job yesterday... 6 Responses | Other threads
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print is dead
Newsweek CEO Must've Skipped the 'How Not to Fire Employees' Seminar
The way Newsweek employees get fired now: Shamelessly and publicly, via mass emails from their boss singing the praises of their incoming replacements while encouraging their co-workers to wish their shit-canned asses "bon chance" on the way out the door.
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Comment by Baroness: What an insulting cockpunch, needlessly adding insult to injury. Then again, Newsweek has been insulting and injuring innocent minds since it... 5 Responses | Other threads
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Media Crack
Delusional Americans Love Fitness Magazine
In your level-headed Wednesday media column: Jared Kushner congratulates his busy employees, the New York Times Co. explains how broke it is, a great idea for J-schools, and Fitness magazine finds success in fat America, somehow. More »
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rumormonger
Felix Dennis Is a Food Safety Fanatic
Felix Dennis is publishing's wild man! How is the former Maxim publisher and admitted (then hastily retracted!) murderer keeping himself busy these days? More »
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Comment by GooberSaysHey: True story: I once interviewed at Maxim for a freelance gig like 6 or 7 years ago ... while I... 1 Responses | Other threads
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Media Crack
Only Two More Years of Ad Despair
In your tragic Tuesday media column: the ad slump is *almost* over, the NYT Co. sells its classical music station, an act of God stops Bob Woodruff in Iraq, and a eulogy for a murdered Complex magazine intern. More »
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Comment by DennyCrane: Is anyone else as saddened about #2 as I am? 3 Responses | Other threads
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magazines
BusinessWeek Same Price as McChicken
BusinessWeek is for sale! How much do we hear for this, the granddaddy of all business magazines? Do we hear...$1? Anyone? More »
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Comment by Aaron Altman: Actually, in Manhattan, a McChicken almost NEVER costs 99 cents - more like $1.39 - which means in some respects... 6 Responses | Other threads
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layoffs
Veteran media reporterDylan Stableford has been laid off from Folio magazine. Media reporting: it sucks.
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Media Crack
Harvard Whizzes Invent Concept of 'Beats'
In your superior Monday media column: the internet fights with the old media and wins (sort of), an old man makes comical remarks about women, Bob Woodruff returns to Iraq, and the Harvard Business Review is smarter than everyone. More »
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Comment by Perhaps Not: But... but Connor is not a woman himself! How can he know so much about this strange species called "women?"... more » | Other threads
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magazines
BusinessWeek For Sale!
Anybody want to buy an 80 year-old business magazine? Now's your chance. More »
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Comment by son of spam: Maybe. Does it come with a ride on Ivanka Trump? 1 Responses | Other threads
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Media Crack
Bill Keller's Had Enough of Your 'Jokes.' Jerk
In your famous Friday media column: exclusive thoughts from Steven Brill on the future of paid online newspapers, Rebecca Dana gets a new job, newspapers die and thrive, and Bill Keller will never be on the Daily Show again. More »
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Comment by lawyergay: On first sight, that Rebecca Dana headcut looked like a still from Norwegian supergroup A-Ha's "Take On Me" video. more » | Other threads
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Media Crack
Nick Kristof Is an Honest Man
In your commendable Thursday media column: Nick Kristof is the perfect columnist except for his writing, the NYT acknowledges its photo scandal, USA Today teaches us how to write a story that adds up to zero, and Lenny Dykstra's bankrupt. More »
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Comment by Pinekatz: If I was a high school teacher, I would take Mr. Kristof's weekend piece and make it part of my... more » | Other threads
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scandals
More NYT Photoshop Fakery Found
Photo District News has found evidence of digital manipulation in three more of the 'Ruins of the Second Gilded Age' photos published by the New York Times Magazine last weekend. It's starting to look like a *real* scandal. More »
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Comment by Borromeo: Leaves, clouds and hair will always reveal a lazy photo retoucher. 3 Responses | Other threads
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Media Crack
Rupert Murdoch Declares Culture War
In your woebegone Wednesday media column: the WSJ takes on the NYT's culture section in a total death match, TV networks not upset they lost $23 in ad money covering MJ, more Hobo New York Times coverage, and newspapers burn. More »
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Comment by son of spam: Murdoch's right about the NYT coverage. Now, did he say anything about a "Women of Sotheby's" feature on page 3? more » | Other threads
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literature
Dying Mag Pays Fortune For Dead Author's Unfinished Book
Famed literary journal and titty mag Playboy acquired the exclusive serial rights to the unfinished final novella of author Vladimir Nabokov. They won the rights with flowers! And also lots of money. And also The New Yorker turned it down. More »
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By PareeneComment by contains_hot_liquid: Nabokov's interview with Playboy from the early '60s is a great one. [kulichki.com] Alas that magazine disappeared and was replaced by another... 4 Responses | Other threads
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double standards
Magazine Newsstands: Hos Before Brünos
We knew that newsstands have been treating GQ's July cover, featuring a nude-but-not-all-hanging-out Sacha Baron Cohen is like porn. But a tipster at a Hudson News in Manhattan has noticed the decision has lead to some interesting juxtapositions. More »
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By John CookComment by ♥Anti-SocialSocialite♥: naked men are funny or grotesque - naked women are... decidedly not. 10 Responses | Other threads
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Media Crack
'The Printed Blog' Was Not Deceptively Brilliant
In your failure-prone Tuesday media column: The Printed Blog does not revolutionize the media, the Washington Post investigates endlessly, the newspaper industry declines more than 100%, and—what's this?—the City of New York wants to give money to you! More »
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Comment by Kid Twist: Maybe I should rethink my plan for "The Hand-Copied Blog." It'll be a shame to have to lay off all... 6 Responses | Other threads
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comings out
Perez Hilton Would Rather Be a Racist Than Bad for the Gays
Perez Hilton called will.i.am a "faggot." Now, in an Advocate profile he desperately wants for you to know that he's not a gay hate-monger. He's just a racist. Some of his best friends are gay people. Best friends like... himself!
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Comment by HeatherNumber1: he could have saved himself a lot of trouble if he'd just called him a pussy or c*nt. Then the... 6 Responses | Other threads
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Media Crack
Haha, 'The Ennuist'
In your sunny(!) Monday media column: Macy's costs the newspaper industry $600 million, Vogue is dreadfully low-class, The Daily Beast speaks very well of a book, and here's the name of new thing to write for: 'The Ennuist.' Haha. More »
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Comment by GooberSaysHey: "New Orleans: Is It Still There?" Ugh, I have nothing to say to this. 3 Responses | Other threads
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Media Crack
Honduran President Just Sitting Around Hoping a Reporter Will Visit
In your Friday-like Thursday media column: Howard Kurtz types many words for no good reason, Rupert Murdoch denies wanting to own the NYT, the WaPo can't stop distancing itself from that sellout email, and journalism is practiced in Honduras. More »
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Comment by marinaorangina: why don't you call him the DE FACTO president of honduras? not elected, not democratic.... geez, gawker... more » | Other threads
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180s
Michael Wolff Used to Hate Politico
Weird! Last year Michael Wolff thought Politico was lame because politics is boring. Now he thinks it is the greatest thing ever! Politico's foreign policy correspondent disagrees, which is why he quit after six months. More »
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By PareeneComment by vitajex: I don't get it. Why the picture of Kojak? 1 Responses | Other threads
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magazines
Vibe's final issue will be on newsstands after all. Why waste a Gucci Mane article?
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michael wolff
Politico Is Revolutionary, Says Man Who Should Just Be Writing About His Affair
Michael Wolff, internet shouty guy and writer-for-magazines, was supposed to write a juicy tell-all for Vanity Fair about his scandalous affair with an intern! Instead he's apparently been working on a piece about fucking Politico? More »
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By PareeneComment by GORDONGARTRELLE: Sweet "Virginia offices," Politico! more » | Other threads
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Media Crack
Where Were You When Vibe Died?
In your emboldened Wednesday media column: More on the Spin layoffs, "Where were you when Vibe died?" stories begin, Froomkin's proud, Michael Wolff's unnecessarily loud, and newspapers are how(itzer)ed. More »
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Comment by Rickyneck: The best part of Vibe was the "20 Questions". If unkut.com decided to make a magazine, that would be what's... more » | Other threads
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gq
L.A. Parents Don't Want Bruno Pretending to Sodomize Their Kids, Period
You might have thought that Los Angeles is a progressive city, but think again. All it takes is one little wink-wink ass-fucking photo shoot with a movie star and high school students to get parents all upset. More » -
print is dead
Quincy Jones Will Not Let Vibe Die
Today we learned that Vibe Magazine was folding. Now Vibe founder Quincy Jones is distraught over the news and determined to swoop in and save the magazine. How? "I'm'a take it online because print and all that stuff is over." More »
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Comment by T.A.N.: Quincy is a testament to it not being about a generational gap. Certain minds are timeless because they know and... 5 Responses | Other threads
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layoffs
Daily Intel hears there were layoffs today at Spin. Know details? Email us.
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Media Crack
Fox Biz Reporter Did Read a Book About 'Stocks' Once
In your censorious Tuesday media column: A Russian journalist dies after an attack, Fox Business Network hires only the best financial experts, dumb high school censorship, and newspapers all dying as usual. More »
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Comment by hypocriteoath: looks more like a Kalishnikov than a shotgun but what do I know? I'm just a gunless NYer. 2 Responses | Other threads
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great magazine die-off
Vibe Folds (Updated)
Vibe Magazine—one of the biggest music magazines in America—is folding. The entire music magazine landscape is full of the dead and dying. [UPDATED below.]
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Comment by T-RO: let's just imagine what it must be like to be a music journalist or a critic. the perfect storm of... 17 Responses | Other threads
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tabloids
Desmond's $500K Gamble: OK! Goes for Broke with Macabre Michael Jackson Death Photo
The absurd follies at OK! Magazine, British publisher Richard Desmond's cash-hemorrhaging tabloid weekly, never seem to end. This week they're tossing a desperate "Hail Mary" by paying huge to plaster an image of a dying Michael Jackson on their cover. More »
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Comment by belltolls: I wish someone would have the good sense to stage an ice dancing performance to the song "Ben" and just... 5 Responses | Other threads
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magazines
What Had Better Be the Nine Best Words Ever
Opium Magazine is running "The Longest Story Ever Told": it's printed on the cover, then printed over in black ink, which will fade over the course of 1,000 years to reveal the nine-word-long story. We already guessed it: More »
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Comment by Thomas Paladino: This is, literally, the dumbest thing ever. Like, in the history of mankind. 4 Responses | Other threads
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Media Crack
Still a Few More Years Before the Total Collapse of the NYT
In your sad Monday media column: the New York Times will limp along a little longer, Iran locks up journalists while they're engrossed in Twitter, Tim Rutten is predictable, and the television industry loses a couple billion, no biggie. More »
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Comment by kneetoe: Well, good news about the VJ job, anyway. God was I awful. 1 Responses | Other threads
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magazines
Is This Interview Over?
Like every other print magazine in the world, Interview continues to have problems. More »
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Comment by AtomicBalm: Let's all breathe pure Helium for 12 hours straight and then see if we think, sound and feel like Bjork... 2 Responses | Other threads
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Media Crack
Iran Arrests Entire Newspaper
In your overwhelmed Friday media column: Iran just arrests everyone, for reporting, Conde Nast's September prayers will not be answered, a new chairman at the FCC, and the Mark Sanford source remains at large. More »
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Comment by uncivily obedient: The Iranian government is run by jerks. Is that the besy you could come up with? 1 Responses | Other threads
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conde nast
Dead Magazine Replaced With Dead Magazine
This is what happens when magazines die too fast. Conde Nast folded Men's Vogue last October. But don't worry, Men's Vogue subscribers! We're hooking you up with a subscription to Portfolio. Wait. More »
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Comment by BookishLookish: If you used to get Portfolio and you are deigned not to have a penis, you get Architectural Digest. 4 Responses | Other threads
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Media Crack
New Trial For Anna Politkovskaya's Accused Killers
In your breakthrough Thursday media column: a new trial for a Russian journalist's murder, a mini-Jayson Blair at a college paper, Steven Brill's optimistic projections, and Boston Globe staffers are unhappy with their lot in life. More »
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scandal
How the Crescent City Revealed Wired's Plagiarizing Editor
How did the Virginia Quarterly Review connect Chris Anderson's book to Wikipedia, thus unraveling a plagiarism scandal? A strange use of parentheses. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Tremonius: When I was a boy in the fifties, and listening to AM station WNOE from New Orleans a thousand miles... 2 Responses | Other threads
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gossip
'Anderson Cooper's Big Fat Coming Out Party' (Updated)
What will Anderson Cooper be doing tonight? Unvogue Magazine says he'll be attending a party at the Sapphire Go-Go Lounge for their men's issue. It's been informally dubbed "Anderson Cooper's Big Fat Coming Out Party." [UPDATED: AC's denial below]:
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Comment by Richard Lawson: "Hello, we are the boy band Stark and we are here to eat your skin." 7 Responses | Other threads
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magazines
The Case Against Chris Anderson
Chris Anderson's plagiarism scandal is still unfolding; Brooklyn writer Ed Champion has found instances where the Free author copied material he was supposed to be summarizing. But there was grumbling about Wired's editor long before his book scandal. More »
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