Well Are Wisconsin Journalism Students Thinking Clearly or Not?
In your confuseday Tuesday Wednesday media column: Newspapers crumble, Clear Channel layoffs, total confusion in Wisconsin, and the NY Sun is just messing around:
Tina Brown Building Powerhouse Of Impeccable Reporting Instincts
Former New Yorker editor and Princess Di grave-dancer Tina Brown has been working on a big new internet venture over at Barry Diller's IAC building for a few months now. So how's it coming along on the recruitment front? Well, she'll have the cruise ship beat covered, at least. We hear that Nicholas Wapshott,…
John McWhorter Sees A Little Bill Buckley In Himself
New York Sun columnist and bizarre racial thinker John McWhorter takes a wistful look back today at God and Man at Yale, crypto-fascist William F. Buckley's seminal work on how to be an uptight Ivy League conservative. Why today? Well, there's never a bad time to speak out against the outrageous marginalization of…
NY Sun Editorial Board Connects Two Unrelated News Items And Prays For The Best
The New York Sun, the little neocon paper we glance at so you don't have to, has a provocative question: what if Absolut, instead of making ads about Mexico taking over America, made an ad about TIBET? It's as if Matt Sanchez has surreptitiously landed a job on the Sun's editorial board, a scenario which is quite…
NY Sun Brightens Up Days, Suicides
From an editorial in today's New York Sun:
Katrina Kills Discussion of Fashion. Discuss.
We're always amused when news stories are entirely self-contradictory. Take, for example, this lead from the Sun:
We'd Never Suggest You Rob NYU Kids, But...
For the record, NYU's Water Street Residence is at 200 Water Street, off Fulton Street, immediately adjacent to the South Street Seaport.
Mayor, Can You Spare a Dime?
City Hall announced yesterday that Mike Bloomberg donated a total of $140 million to 843 groups last year, the Sun reports today. It's the most money he's ever given in one year — up from his previous record of $135.3 million, in 2003 — and by far the largest number of groups he's given to, up from his 2002 record…
Is This the Little Boy at Play?
Speaking of The New York Sun, that preferred small-circulation newspaper of New York's wealthy right-wing Zionists has recently (and somewhat unofficially) joined our little bloggy corner of the world. We present: It Shines For All, the Sun's new blog, which isn't actually linked from any obvious spot on the Sun's…
'New York Press,' Not Dead Yet (For Now)
We don't know which is more curious: The Press having something good to announce, or the Sun breaking media news. Either way, it's interesting: The Press has hired a new editor to replace the recently departed Alexander Zaitchik, who replaced the only slightly less recently departed Jeff Koyen. The new guy is…
'NY Sun' Doesn't Understand You Kids These Days
In a rare move certain to assert its relevancy amongst the under-25 crowd, the NY Sun dips into MTV's Sunday Stew and comes out with a mouthful of the Andy Milonakis Show:
