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more about #davidremnick more comments → Queef_Of_All_Media: This is all a big Yankee conspiracy to keep the South down. Soon a vast army of Alabama ticks will rise from the swamps and carry the souls of a thous... more » thatgirlinnewyork: what would the birmingham olympics look like? cross-country cousin marrying? freestyle lynching? more » BadUncle: wait - I thought the Olypics was one of those Obama-led, Blue State socialist conspiracies. #media more » SpikeLives: It's quite easy to be "very, very, very accurate" when you edit, re-edit and never acknowledge your changes. Finke is a batshit crazy wackjob that ev... more » bodegacat: Enjoyed your post, Kamer. Will add that I thought Friend's comparison to Nikki with early female Hollywood gossip columnists was a sexist double sta... more » BBooms: I like Nikki, the so-called "nihilism" makes things fun. She's mean, but whatever. And if, in the end, she's the most accurate, then maybe she is th... more » BlinkyMcChuck: Oh God. I couldn't even read this. Not because of your writing, darling. I'm just so worn out by her. more » Baroness: Right, because Hollywood isn't a vicious fucking snakepit. Nikki Finke is just mean to those studio moguls! Just don't know why this post seems to h... more » Foster Kamer: Also, in honor of you, Nikki: [www.youtube.com] more » Dickdogfood: She made The New Yorker her "buttboy" and Friend was "easy to manipulate" and yet in spite of all that masterful string-pulling her time was wasted? U... more » bored2tears: Nikki's most impressive feat is her Dorian Gray in reverse routine. She gets older and older, but her picture stays the same ... always the same Veron... more » triplethreat: That person talking about the refrigerator is either the assistant to an EIC and talking about his or her personal refrigerator, or started at CNP in ... more » BrentHelmer: I worked at conde nast for 15 years and Graydon and Anna frequented the cafeteria, mostly when it was brand new and other times when meeting with Si a... more » FarmanMetellus: I naively agreed to be an "off-the-street" person for a fashion magazine piece. At the shoot, the editors and stylists and assistants ordered lattes ... more » Thatcornellguy: I guess when you're only paying roughly $2000 a month for rent, you pretty much have to eat like the rest of us. more » -
#mediacrack
Mean Reporter Undermines Birmingham Olympic Bid
In your thinly-spread Thursday media column: A vicious backbiting war amongst Birmingham's press corps, David Remnick still has money to spend, Germany looks to screw bloggers, and Bernie Kerik: Journalistic Hero. More » -
#awesomethings
Nikki Finke Hits The New Yorker: "I Bitchslapped David Remnick"
BOOM! goes the dynamite, or or in this case, Nikki Finke's New Yorker "profile" that dropped today. It's an insubstantial but fairly fun read with a few juicy anecdotes. Nikki's already reacted. Family friendly journalism, right here. Bring the kids:
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#downturns
This Is the Way Condé Nast Ends, Not with a Bang But with Tap Water
While the dreaded McKinsey recommendations are still weeks away, Conde Nast is in full cost-cutting mode. Examples: Graydon Carter is now lunching in the cafeteria with commoners and the free Fiji water will soon be replaced by tap water. Yeah.
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#thewaywelivenow
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 » -
#gossiproundup
Did Bruce Willis Audition Mates?
Mid-week, everyone needs to freshen up. Barbara Walters craves a clean break from ABC, reportedly; Robert Pattinson needs a shower and Bruce Willis might never be able to wash off the slime. More » -
#media
Conde Editors Get Their Precious Domain Names Back
Last month Cityfile unveiled, oh, a hundred or so domain names of famous New Yorkers' names that it had bought, just because it could. Conde Nast immediately marshaled its team of high-powered attorney warriors! More » -
#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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#printisdead
Save Your Newspaper: Cover The Edwards Scandal
The newspaper industry is in the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. The biggest kiosk seller this month was a highbrow liberal weekly that featured a tabloid satire of a presidential candidate and his wife. The biggest newsmaker this month was a supermarket tabloid that caught a former presidential candidate visiting his extramarital baby mama, and the major journals of record won't even blog about it. Surely this is the End Times of big media. What is to be done? Where are our journalistic standards headed? And how long before what you see above becomes an actual New York Times Magazine cover? More »
