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nerdfight
Condé Nast's Grumpy East Coast-West Coast Feud
Big Ideas Author Malcolm Gladwell, a Manhattanite of the New Yorker, has issued a smackdown review of Free, Big Ideas Author Chris Anderson, a Berkeleyan of San Francisco's Wired. If that's not provocative enough, Gladwell sounds downright grumpy. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by T.A.N.: That Wired and The New Yorker are the two money-losingest titles (or even among them) feels so wrong. Does it... 7 Responses | Other threads
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grumpy old men
Is Dick Cheney Hoping For America to be Attacked By Terrorists?
This week's New Yorker features a 7600 word profile of Leon Panetta, Obama's choice to lead the CIA. Most notable among those 7600 words: Panetta's been wondering the same thing many have about the depths of Dick Cheney's dark soul. More »
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Comment by CountryClubRepublican: Hmm, when conservatives called liberals unpatriotic, the liberals screamed and moaned, and the media analyzed it for weeks. But I guess... 4 Responses | Other threads
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terrorists
Al Qaeda Recruiting European White Men
Al Qaeda may be aggressively growing its ranks by recruiting European white men to carry out attacks, a move New Yorker writer and Al Qaeda expert Lawrence Wright says allows the group to "transcend its stereotype." [The Stimulist]
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Comment by theartdodger: I saw this one coming. There is no angrier group of people than European white men. 3 Responses | Other threads
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magazines
Thinky New Newsweek Bringing on Stephen Colbert as Guest Editor
In a move that sort of reeks of desperation more than it does slick PR, Newsweek's Jon Meacham announced that Stephen Colbert will be the magazine's guest editor for the issue hitting newsstands on June 8. More »
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Comment by son of spam: I'm going to have Ashley Dupre guest edit my blog. 1 Responses | Other threads
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change
The New Yorker Embraces Modern Technology
"Jorge Colombo drew this week's cover using Brushes, an application for the iPhone, while standing for an hour outside Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum in Times Square." [New Yorker] More »
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twitterati
The Twitterati Refuse to Sell a Horse for an Aeron Chair
These tweets are made for venting. Joanna Pearlstein, Susan Orlean, Jim Louderback, and other media twits found plenty to complain about on Twitter: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by MrInBetween: Dear Cranky Hiring Manager: Don't make me tell you how my hiring would benefit WIRED. Tell me why a barely-breathing... 1 Responses | Other threads
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nerdfight
New Yorkerers in Scandalous Twitter Brawl
Our dreams have come true! New Yorker contributor and Twitterati regular Susan Orlean is whaling away on whiny, blogorrheic ex-staff writer Dan Baum on Twitter. Grab some popcorn, follow @susanorlean and @danielsbaum, and enjoy! More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by I.am.the.1: Our dreams have come true! New Yorker contributor and Twitterati regular Susan Orlean is whaling away... whaling away?? Certain you mean... 2 Responses | Other threads
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the way we live now
Dan Baum Still Twittering Away, Calls New Yorker Office 'Creepy'
Yesterday we told you about ex-New Yorker scribe Dan Baum using Twitter to tell the story of his hiring and firing at the magazine. On Monday he filed the second chapter of his Tweet-narrative. More »
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the way we live now
Dan Baum Details New Yorker Hiring and Firing on Twitter
On Friday ex-New Yorker scribe Dan Baum began telling the story of his employment at the magazine through a medium rarely synonymous with narrative storytelling—-Twitter. As of this writing he's up to 1399 words! More »
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Comment by ShridulaTheia: With 90k a year can't you afford your own health ins? Just asking. 3 Responses | Other threads
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twitterati
The Twitterati Use an iPhone App to Prove Something
Julia Allison thinks she has something to prove, Zillow CEO Rich Barton thinks he personally brought down AT&T, and MSNBC anchor Tamron Hall think she's a neutral vessel for news. Other delusions of the Twitterati: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Tammany_Fall: I haven't been around for a while, so I assume that you guys have already had a field day with... 1 Responses | Other threads
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breaking
Keith Gessen Said Taken by Russian Special Forces (UPDATED)
Writer Keith Gessen was reportedly detained (and released -Update) by a 15-person Russian special forces unit after investigating election tampering in Sochi, a Black Sea resort city hosting the 2014 Winter Olympics. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by SarahHeartburn: Grim and nasty. First Roxana Saberi in Iran, now this. Considering how journalists who dare to piss off the government... 3 Responses | Other threads
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twitterati
The Twitterati Are Humbled by a Bollywood Martini
A proud lot, journalists — and yet so often they drown their sorrows in PB&J martinis. Or the sweet liqueur of Twitter. Jason Pontin, Ana Marie Cox, Susan Orlean and others shared their secret shames: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by the supergoddess: I can't believe I know that the PB&J Martini-making 'she' refers to Sandra Lee. 4 Responses | Other threads
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twitterati
Sarah Palin Lets the Twitterati Sleep in the Same Room
Twitter, the ideal medium for feigning emotion! Bonnie Fuller pretended to be shocked, Erick Schonfeld and Kara Swisher pretended to fight, and Sasha Frere-Jones pretended to function. Today's real fake tweets: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by rustneversleeps: Bonnie is shocked that Sarah Palin is more of a douche than we thought. Considering Palin's public stance on sex... more » | Other threads
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twitterati
The Twitterati Will Have Painkillers, Two CDs, and a Martini
A Today anchorlady thinks her cohost is higher than a kite, a New Yorker aims to get drunk, Alex Balk perks up his ears, and everyone else pretends to work. The latest from Twitteronia: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by units: I'll bite: maybe Peter Kavka would like 2 CDs nuts, instead. more » | Other threads
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beautiful awards
Time to Start Hearing About the National Magazine Awards
If there's one thing we know, it's that readers could not possibly, under any circumstances, care less about any "award" a media outlet receives. Ladies and gentlemen, your 2009 National Magazine Awards nominees are here: More »
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Comment by DahlELama: GQ? Really? Is this because they got a naked Jennifer Aniston on the cover? Because I don't really remember that... 4 Responses | Other threads
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twitterati
Facebook's Redesign Drives Twitterati to Drink
Who knew New Yorker writers used Facebook enough to hate its new look, as Susan Orlean does? In other trivia, Tricia Romano got sauced, Olivier Knox developed a crush, and Jon Fine revealed his ignorance: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Kari's Favorite Mark: Is Susan still doing it with that orchid hunter? 7 Responses | Other threads
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twitterati
Guns, Profanity, Paranoia, and Fear on Twitter
Twitteronia is a scary place to be. A Googler got violent, an NBC TV host swore, and we frightened a top AP editor — while Michelle Malkin had a breakdown. Today's twittiest tweets: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by jasonelias: Please Michelle Malkin, give up on PC's and writing too... 1 Responses | Other threads
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books
David Foster Wallace Novel, Unfinished, Coming Next Year
The New Yorker's lengthy profile of David Foster Wallace broke some news: Little, Brown will publish the late novelist's unpublished manuscript for "The Pale King" in 2010. Chunks have already appeared online. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by ithacabaron: Wallace left the manuscript in the garage, to be discovered by his wife. He apparently did not feel the material... 3 Responses | Other threads
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twitterati
John McCain Doesn't Know How to Manage a Beaver
Oh, Twitter! Even senators say the darnedest things on the dynamic compendium of Internet users' stupidest thoughts. "How does one manage a beaver?" asked John McCain mid-pork tirade. More tweets that left us speechless: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by lobstr: if john mccain didnt ever use email or a cellphone, why the hell would we believe that he actually TWITTERS???... 2 Responses | Other threads
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twitterati
The Day the Twitterati Ate Their Own
Careful what you Twitter! Blogger Ben Leventhal savaged Julia Allison for a brainless tweet. George Stephanopoulos denied inhaling at a White House dinner. And Kurt Andersen just shouldn't have typed anything. Today's 140-character mistakes: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Sproing: "Meh," used appropriately, is not "I have missed the point." It is "I have gotten the point, and the point... 7 Responses | Other threads
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journalismism
New Yorker Rahm Emanuel Profile Fails to Attack Rahm Emanuel
Have you read the controversial New Yorker profile of Rahm Emanuel? It's controversial because it uses that word, in describing Rahm, a bunch of times, and also it pissed off some liberals. More »
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By PareeneComment by Moff: If the Internet has taught me anything, it's that everything everyone has ever written is a total wash if it... 4 Responses | Other threads
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Media Crack
Unpaid Interns Are the Future
In your sumptuous Tuesday media feast: Celebrity mags flounder, interns replace reporters, Ron Burkle's steaming mad, the New Yorker has jokes, and more! More »
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magazines
How Bad Is It at The New Yorker?
The latest issue of The New Yorker runs 82 pages. What you see above is all—all—of the paid advertising. Is it time to get seriously concerned? More »
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Comment by J. Cruel: Did anyone else have the reaction, upon seeing the Limoncello ad, that Danny DeVito must not be very good at... 16 Responses | Other threads
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Snarkin' it up
Please Buy David Denby's Book, So He Can Stop Talking
David Denby, the New Yorker movie critic (not the good one), continues to bait us in interview after interview so we'll write something about his book Snark, so it will sell. Okay fine, here: More » -
glaring omissions
Tom Wolfe Writes a Letter to The New Yorker In the Third Person
Well, partly in the third person. The famous youth culture expert wrote to complain about critic Alex Ross. More »
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By PareeneComment by ifstone: Which is worse, Tom Wolfe's cartoonishness or Alex Ross's standard-issue classical music critic pretensions? Ross is smart, but his stuffy... 8 Responses | Other threads
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journalismism
The New Yorker's Joy of Sex Jokes Ruin Both Sex and Joy
Have you ever imagined what it'd be like if a New Yorker staffer tried to talk dirty with you? Their online editors feel your pain.
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By Owen ThomasComment by Hydroceph: Honestly? that book and its illustrations did more to make me gay than my distant father and overbearing mother. They... 3 Responses | Other threads
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photoshop
Advertiser: Only Airbrush the White Girl!
To the expert eyes at photo agency Vanderbilt Republic, the above two-page New Yorker ad looked odd. Why is only the white girl "heavily retouched to give her perfect skin and rosy cheeks?" More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Mysterious Skin: is the picture on the left an advertisement for purdahs or that funny earring she got on? i am so... 13 Responses | Other threads
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wtf
Insanely Bloggy New Yorker Spells It '4ever'
New Yorker editor David Remnick is badgering his writers to blog more, and to be more vicious/cutesy while they're at it, just like real bloggers! It's absolutely adorable. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Botswana Meat Commission FC: Also.. Why is Sasha Frere-Jones so obsessed with mediocre Swedish pop singer Robyn? [www.newyorker.com] 4 Responses | Other threads
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correction of the day
The New Yorker's Tale of Two David Owens
From page 8 of this week's New Yorker: "EDITOR'S NOTE: On the Contributors page of the December 1st issue, the book "In Sickness and in Power," attributed to the New Yorker writer David Owen, was in fact written by a different David Owen." Even funnier? The "other David Owen" is, in fact, the former British Foreign Secretary one of the founders of their Social Democratic Party. And it's Lord Owen to you. More »
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By SheilaComment by Kid Twist: People are always wondering whether or not I'm "Kid Twist" the notorious mob henchman of the 1940s. I tell them... 1 Responses | Other threads
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malcolm gladwell
Pilot Warns Of 'Reckless' Malcolm Gladwell
Malcolm Gladwell's fellow intellectuals, bloggers and Canadians were the first to turn against the New Yorker essayist's accessible and apparently all-too-convincing ideas; now the various professional classes are, one after another, joining the backlash against his DANGEROUSLY misleading anecdotes. Fearsome reviewer Michiko Kakutani was brutal in the Times ("glib, poorly reasoned and thoroughly unconvincing"); the Malcolm Gladwell of computer programmers rather ironically ripped into him ("utterly lunatic theories"); and now a pilot writing in Salon warns that Gladwell will kill us all! Or at least perpetuate untrue stereotypes, false assumptions and incorrect statistics around commercial airline safety, which is almost as dangerous, if you'll grant us some Gladwellian license here. Take, for example, this exchange: More »
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By Ryan TateComment by SarahHeartburn: Patrick Smith's column is the best thing in Slate (which isn't saying much, I know). He's not at all allarmist... 5 Responses | Other threads
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television
"I sense that part of her is keeping her distance from the fray." [New Yorker]
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the chart
Trivia Quiz Proves Liberals Smug, Anti-American
US News and World Report cites research showing—pleasingly for self-satisfied liberals—that followers of the posh magazines and radio stations are smarter than Joe Sixpack and the rest of America's dumb masses. The four "best-informed" news audiences are those of the New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper's and NPR, according to the news weekly. Um, except not really. More »
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By Nick DentonComment by JinxyMcDeath: I'm more embarassed we know nothing about Canada or Mexico. How many people know the PM/President of the nations BORDERING... 5 Responses | Other threads
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nightlife
College Kids Horrified by Dorks at New Yorker's Dance Party
The New Yorker festival culminated in a rockin' dance party. (Our publisher offered us his spare tickets, which we sniffily rejected. "The New Yorker dance party?" snorted a friend.) IvyGate went, though, and they were scared for their future social life. "This could be you in eleven years," warned the headline. "It was mostly professionals in their late 20s to early 30s talking and grinding." Oh, no, not that! Yep, that's how us post-collegiate Olds party. And then we stumbled home, drifting off to sleep imagining what type of hit our Roth IRA took with the latest crash. [IvyGate]
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By SheilaComment by Unfun: Oh,what I wouldn't give to be post-collegiate again, broke, in a shitty apartment with a roommate I can't stand, awkward... 8 Responses | Other threads
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new yorker festival
Peggy Noonan At The New Yorker Festival: Kind Of Embarrassing
Early Saturday morning I dragged myself to the New Yorker Festival in Midtown, to see media mensch Ken Auletta moderate a panel discussion with Times editor Bill Keller, Atlantic blogger Ta-Nehisi Coates, Slate press critic Jack Shafer, and breathless WSJ columnist Peggy Noonan, the token conservative. I'll leave out the boring recap parts and distill the experience down to its key point: Peggy Noonan should go back to writing political speeches, because—even taking into account the fact that she's a Republican hack—her dishonesty is embarrassing to watch. Ugh. More »
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Comment by gawkimo: Get it right. Palin is not an idiot; she's a dangerous moron. Yes, I am a lib-ril elitist. A proud... 7 Responses | Other threads
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arianna huffington
The Missing Dirt On Arianna Huffington
The New Yorker published its profile of Arianna Huffington. Though disappointingly far from the juicy takedown we hoped for, it does contain a few interesting nuggets. We learn, for example, that the Republican-divorcée-turned-internet-publisher bizarrely "hides" all three of her BlackBerrys in her bathroom at night, even though she lives only with a housekeeper and her two daughters. Her gay ex-husband Michael Huffington elaborates on how she knew of his interest in men before their marriage, saying, "in my Houston town house I sat down with her and told her that I had dated women and men so that she would be aware of it." And Huffington sounds downright proud of her lack of long-term friendships, saying, "I metabolize experiences fast." But there's so much missing, so much that should be in this 14-page story, starting first with how she runs the Huffington Post — would any male mogul be profiled at such length with so little said about how he runs his business? — and continuing through to juicer questions about her dating life and cultlike religious guru. A few specifics:
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By Ryan TateComment by Un Chien Andalou: Are the Huffing Toned Poems available on the internet east of the Mississippi? 2 Responses | Other threads
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magazines
"How About Never?" The New Yorker's Cartoon Editor Explains It All
A previous winner of the New Yorker's cartoon-caption contest once wisely said, ""You are not trying to submit the funniest caption. You are trying to win the New Yorker's caption contest." The magazine's cartoon editor Robert Mankoff explained further in the Times yesterday about the impossible-to-capture essence of a good cartoon caption: More »
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By SheilaComment by Seeräuber Jenny: I think he's being a little dismissive of the comedic process. There are indeed theories of why some jokes... 6 Responses | Other threads
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magazines
Entertainment Weekly Parodies Infamous New Yorker Cover
At right is that horribly tasteless New Yorker cover from a few months back, and at left is Entertainment Weekly's new parody cover. There's faux conservopundit Stephen Colbert, dressed as a smirking Michelle "Angela Davis" Obama, terrorist fist-bumping with his old Daily Show boss Jon Stewart, who is clad in Islamobama gear. It's a well-executed (if a tad late) little bit of satire, and an example of just how thoroughly this endless horse race of an election has seeped its way into our idea of "entertainment." Click for (slightly) larger.
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alex ross
At Least One Genius Works For The New Yorker
The MacArthur Foundation announced its annual Genius Grants today—those no-strings-attached, five year, $500,000 awards that let the best among us pursue their science or art or writing free from the cares of the working world. And look who got one: Alex Ross, the classical music critic for the New Yorker! Ross is certainly deserving when it comes to smarts, if not to finance (he won't be quitting the NYer for a mere 100K per year). But genius knows no financial criteria, despite the jealousy of the poors! Ross says he'll use the cash to help him write his next book, upgrade his website, and "launch some home improvements." God, geniuses are the luckiest people ever. [FBNY]
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Comment by Aaron Altman: Just look at all those legally-owned copies of Tchaikovsky, Hadyn, Beethoven, Liszt, Chopin and Gershwin, right behind him. Kind... 10 Responses | Other threads
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bob dylan
"i went home an began writin/a suicide note" [New Yorker, New Yorker]
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barack obama
Obama Speech Media Hierarchy: Losers And Winners
Not all reporters are created equal at Invesco Field, where Barack Obama is about to close out the Democratic National Convention. John Koblin at the Observer printed a seating chart (left) and gave a rundown on the winners and losers. It looks like the Obama campaign continues to snub the New Yorker for its controversial parody cover, sitting the magazine's correspondents in worse seats than Jezebel/Glamour (team Megan!), the Nation and the New Republic. More delightfully, the campaign totally dissed those conssumate insiders at Vanity Fair, "which is stuck in the back row in Section J" behind basically everyone except the Gotham tabloids. Ha ha, I guess the entire free world is not actually obsessed with getting into the Waverly or your damned Oscar party, Graydon Carter! After the jump, early chatter among reporters, plus a list of seating winners. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Mike Jahn: Well, that was damned impressive. I know it's an obscure point, but I thought it was pretty smart to play a... 19 Responses | Other threads
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