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But Who Would We Flirt With?

From a 1932 ad for the Automat in London: "Dialing [the] number of soft drink or wine delivers a shot from the spigot, thus eliminating customary bar tenders." Well, that can't possibly have been good for the wine. [Modern Mechanix]

4:25 PM on Mon Apr 28 2008
By Sheila
589 views, 27 comments

pic of the day

Soviet Union magazine

Those communist-era magazines seem so quaint, if one forgets the dull horror of the system that produced them. Russia's Soviet Museum carries an excellent online collection of the usual propaganda posters and photographs—and these images of Soviet Union magazine, in which the strategic rockets are daintier than the women's fashion. [via Metafilter]

2:54 PM on Mon Apr 21 2008
By Nick Denton
641 views, 23 comments

Latest by Rachel Marsden: I liked it better when our enemies knew how to dress better. Nowadays they look like hippies on spring break from Berkeley U. Total slobs. more »

femiladyism

National Press Club: Tolerating Women Since 1971

The National Press Club in Washington, D.C. is celebrating its centennial this month. It's only semi-recently since they've tolerated women in the club: "In 1956, the men offered a compromise by inviting women to attend the luncheons, so long as they sat in the balcony and left as soon as the lunch was over. While the men dined below, the women shared the balcony with television cameras, hot lights, and coils of electrical wiring." They weren't allowed to join as full members until 1971, and that was only because they needed money, and capitalism trumps sexism. But women weren't the only ones dissed. Radio news broadcasters (the bloggers of their day) "were also treated as second-class citizens at first, being permitted to join the club only as non-voting members." [Oxford University Press blog] Celebrate the old days with a clip from "His Girl Friday," after the jump. More »

11:58 AM on Fri Apr 11 2008
By Sheila
1,428 views, 8 comments

Latest by che_leo: oh my god, you guys! I thought the NPC was just a fancy mall/food court. more »

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In Happier Times

Newspapers, now suffering a technological inferiority complex, weren't always so apologetic. The New York Public Library has a wonderful collection of confident posters, promoting newspapers such as the Sunday Herald and the New York Times, from the turn of the century. The issue of the Times here featured offers a selection of stories with a definite air of its current Sunday Styles section—except for a fascination with British aristocracy now superseded by Hamptons plutocrats. The pitch for a story about the market for heiresses in Britain—A Matrimonial Slave Mart—is more lascivious than the uptight Times would now allow. After the coverlines comes an awesomely cocky pitch: "Many Other Features Equally Good."

2:55 PM on Wed Apr 2 2008
By Nick Denton
720 views, 69 comments

Latest by SidAndFinancy: What Leading Germans Think: "Although we've abandoned the Russian Reinsurance Treaty, the Triple Alliance and the Austro-German-Romanian Alliance shall keep the peace in Europe, as surely as the Archduke is welcome in Sarajevo." more »

old school odes

Publisher Felix Dennis May Have Killed a Man, But He Also Wrote These Poems

Today, we learned from the Times of London that Felix Dennis, Britain's eccentric billionaire entrepreneur and the vice-engaging publisher of Maxim, may have already killed a man. But besides the events of one dark night at the edge of a cliff 25 years ago, did you know that he's also an accomplished poet? Here's one of them, titled, "Polite Notice — To All Health and Safety Facists." More »

2:48 PM on Wed Apr 2 2008
By Sheila
1,045 views, 18 comments

old school odes

New Sweet Valley High Cover Girl? Soap Star Leven Rambin!

Now this is actually awesome: a fameball turning on itself in such convolution that the snake eats its own tail. Remember Sweet Valley High, the 80s young-teen series about a pair of California twins named Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield? They went to Sweet Vally High, and although they looked exactly the same, their personalities were actually quite different! (Jessica was the slutty one, and Elizabeth liked to read and write.) Well, Random House is releasing them with new designs in April, and the book's cover gal, posing as both Elizabeth and Jessica, is our favorite seventeen-year-old All My Children actress/Julia Allison boyfriend-stealer, Leven Rambin! The old and new covers of Double Love and Secret, which we remember all too well, follow. More »

3:53 PM on Wed Mar 26 2008
By Sheila
12,893 views, 115 comments

Latest by kc2002: So deaf Regina and coke overdosing Regina are, in fact, the same person - I had to resort to Wikipedia to satisfy my morbid curiousity: "Regina was the daughter of computer tycoon Kurt Morrow and his former fashion model wife Skye, more »

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Wall Street Journal To Lose Still More Character

After a series of character-sapping changes over the past 10 years, the Wall Street Journal is contemplating yet another makeover, this time of its Marketplace section. Owner Rupert Murdoch is looking to replace many of the columns and feature stories on the front of Marketplace with hard news, the Times reports in tomorrow's paper. Page One has already undergone similar changes. Stories have been shortened. Murdoch is adding some truth to the lie uttered by Charlie Sheen's character Bud Fox in 1980s movie Wall Street: "having sex with her is like reading the Wall Street Journal, 'cept the Journal don't talk back." More »

12:04 AM on Mon Mar 24 2008
By Ryan Tate
748 views, 14 comments

Latest by cassandra: @Larry Bird Flu: It is also a pretty shade and compliments most monochromatic beige interiors, while providing a daring counterpoint to black. @Ryan Tate: You make a compelling case. And all those European, bored people appreciate you for it. more »

old school odes

One Of The Devil's Own Nights

Oh! the night that I struck New York,
I went out for a quiet walk;
Folks who are "on to" the city say,
Better by far that I took Broadway;
But I was out to enjoy the sights,
There was the Bow'ry ablaze with lights;
I had one of the devil's own nights!
I'll never go there anymore.
[From Charles Hoyt's lyrics for A Trip to Chinatown, 1892, via The New York Sun]

10:41 AM on Thu Mar 20 2008
By Nick Denton
500 views, 20 comments

old school odes

Journalist Bars Suffer As Profession Gets Boring

Newspapers aren't what they used to be, what with their declining circulations and evolving missions, and old-school, hard-drinking writers and editors like the Post's Steve Dunleavy are retiring and dying of liver failure in droves. The exciting new "journalists" of the internet like to talk about how much they drink and sometimes actually do booze it up with sources and each other, but really their pageview quotas and intense competition usually keep them from becoming true barstool jockeys. The pansy new era of journalism has resulted in a wave of sad bar closures, which MarketWatch ambitiously documents in five cities and two continents in the video after the jump. More »

7:46 PM on Mon Mar 17 2008
By Ryan Tate
1,791 views, 19 comments

Latest by the cajun boy: @Conbon: god i feel like the kid at the schoolyard that tells everyone that santa doesn't exist. more »

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"If I Have to Teach You How to be a Reporter, Ollie, I'll Do That Later"

The attached clip shows local news at its absolute finest: a hothouse of over-serious but under-talented egos, squabbling with each other over the responsibility of real journalists to cover broken elevator stories as thoroughly as possible. The anchor, venerable old Jim Ryan, forced into retirement from WNYW in 2005. The reporter, former New York Daily News assistant managing editor Dick Oliver. They have a bit of a history. Clip after the jump. More »

5:36 PM on Wed Mar 5 2008
By Pareene
7,976 views, 24 comments

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Video Gallery: TV Network Affiliate Signoffs To Make Your Heart Swell

Doldrums? Blues? Forget the Zoloft. Seriously, just put it down. Instead, douse yourselves with these old-timey news station sign-offs, from the days when the networks took pity on their viewers and ceased to hurtle information at them around the midnight hour. The swelling arias! The purple mountain montages! The proud, if slightly canned, renderings of our national anthem! The men in uniform! Seriously, these sort of make Katie Couric's audience farewell seem downright anti-American, feeding as it does into "The Insider" or something equally horrifying. More »

3:38 PM on Wed Feb 13 2008
By Maggie
659 views, 10 comments

Latest by SarahHeartburn: + Watch video THIS is what we had to put up with in Spain throughout the 90's. more »

old school odes

Video Gallery: A Dozen More Movies Responsible For Your J-School Bills

Yesterday's gallery of journalism flicks, whose soaring soundtracks are partly responsible for infecting your mind with the Pulitzer bug, was a collection of some of our favorites. Twelve of yours, clamored after in the comments, are after the jump. Can we talk about Michael Keaton's secret burning desire to be a scrappy little news guy? Robert Redford too. 'Course, if the role of scrappy news guy came with a dressing room, an Alan Pakula script and six or seven figures, we'd be all over it too. More »

12:53 PM on Thu Feb 7 2008
By Maggie
1,126 views, 13 comments

Latest by It'stheRooo: I just want Alicia Clarke's wardrobe. And maybe her left hook. more »

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Video Gallery: The Movies That Made You Want To Be A Journalist

Don't lie kids. There's nothing wrong with staving off career burnout and despair by watching Robert Redford make Bob Woodward look good in All the President's Men. You know you've done it and you've probably got the 1976 Watergate flick to blame for your outsized career expectations. The chase! The glory! The downsizing! The infotainment! Erm, sorry—the chase! After the jump, a video gallery of nine of our favorite old movies about journalism, and some new movies about old journalism that aren't half bad either. Pass the ice cream. More »

5:12 PM on Wed Feb 6 2008
By Maggie
2,641 views, 45 comments

Latest by LCMULDER: I find it amazing that no one has mentioned the 1952 movie: "Deadline USA" with Humphrey Bogart. What a great newspaper movie. The last 30 minutes are outstanding. Check it out. more »

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To The Golden Age Of The Press

* "I was almost a newspaper delivery boy but lacked the snazzy cap and knee-shorts. And the delivery manager tried 'initiating' me by warming his hands by sliding them down the front of my pants on a 5am street corner. Even for San Francisco, I thought that was a bit odd. I mean, it wasn't that cold." More »

6:52 PM on Fri Feb 1 2008
By Maggie
2,252 views, 17 comments

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'WSJ' To Become 'The Midtown Journal'?

There goes the neighborhood. Rupert Murdoch is planning to move his Wall Street Journal newsroom from the financial district where it's lived for over 100 years to News Corp's headquarters on Sixth Avenue. The Midtown Journal just doesn't have quite the same ring, though. We predict singing rumble sequences in the cafeteria between WSJ staffers and their new Fox and New York Post siblings. Manhattan's newspapers have either died or migrated uptown over the century, choking the neighborhood around Rockefeller Center, but the Journal was a holdout of a bygone era. After the jump, a stroll around New York's former press nucleus. More »

1:45 PM on Mon Jan 28 2008
By Maggie
1,533 views, 12 comments

Latest by onebadclam: The typing monkeys Murdoch hires to produce his newspapers would not mingle well at the Wall Street watering holes. more »

old school odes

To The Golden Age Of The Press

So we were a tad scatterbrained on Friday and forgot entirely to post the second weekly installment of Old School Odes, in which we (and you!) remember The Press The Way It Was. We apologize heartily for neglecting our elders. Last week our inbox was flooded with the smells, sights and sounds of journalism's Golden Age. We've never seen the word 'fedora' quite so many times. We also got a good serving of cranky Si Newhouse stories and heard some whacked-out altweekly shit from the 1970s for which we have zero proof, but it involved crack cocaine and who can resist a good crack-cocaine-in-the-newsroom story. After the jump, our favorites from your nostalgia. Thanks to all who wrote in—keep them coming! More »

11:53 AM on Mon Jan 28 2008
By Maggie
1,062 views, 2 comments

Latest by IBentMyWookie: yeah well, if you want to get buzzed in the newsroom nowadays you just have to inhale deeply when Tommy Friedman walks by and hope that you can get a contact high off his self-importance. more »

old school odes

To The Golden Age Of The Press

Things we miss about old-timey journalism: bourbon in every desk drawer, the sound of 400 Underwoods clacking away at the same time, teletype rolls cascading out into the hallway and the undivided attention of the American public. Things we don't miss? Alcoholic colleagues (Balk aside), carbon copy paper, the glass ceiling and mini-fridge-sized tape recorders. Would we go back to the golden age of newspapers, the days of afternoon editions, hearty circulation, fat expense accounts and the magic of the rewrite desk? Oh, probably, but we'd like to take our iPhones, if that's cool. With that, we announce the beginning of Old School Odes, in which we remember The Press The Way It Was. More »

3:55 PM on Fri Jan 18 2008
By Maggie
2,071 views, 48 comments

Latest by trai_dep: I was almost a newspaper delivery boy but lacked the snazzy cap and knee-shorts. And the delivery manager tried "initiating" me by warming his hands by sliding them down the front of my pants on a 5am street corner. Even for more »