Gawker 
Enter your username and password.
-
more about #jonmeacham more comments → VoxPopuli: It's hilarious to see Bill Keller and Perez Hilton in the same category. more » DeadliestSin: Still think Jeanne Moos is awesome, wish she was higher in the list of tv reporters. more » Foster Kamer: You're not on it, and neither am I. I feel like we lived through the first invasion of Austria. more » RollsRoyceRevenge: Cajun Boy, I can only assume that you have never worked in the New York art gallery world. I see your self important a-holes and raise you 6,000 anor... more » Spy from the Land of Rainpeople: I was always wondering: why US-ians are so obsessed about one-dimensional linear numerical orderings? No other culture that I'm aware of spends so muc... more » MisterHippity: It's like the "tumblrity" index on Tumblr: The more they suck up to other people and repeat their ideas, the higher their ranking goes. more » croush1211: Bill O'Reilly is ranked higher on the "Power Grid" than Ann Curry. An unabashed racist and intolerant ratings-grabber with an incredibly dangerous vie... more » ElizabethNarballs: I interviewed Joe Scarborough yesterday about his book. All my questons were about subject material in his book, except for my last one, which was abo... more » Mount_Prion: "They call it 'Morning Joe', not 'Mourning Joe'. What do I care if they killed him? He was going to hell anyway." more » son of spam: I'm going to have Ashley Dupre guest edit my blog. more » NathanSt: I agree Mr. Cajun Boy, this doesn't sound spectacular. I smell pandering. Thus definitively marking the end of Colbert as cool and beginning the era o... more » Imogen Quest: Newsweek hasn't had news in it for years-- now it's trying to be less "weekly" as well? Might consider a name change. Also, didn't GWB go to bed at li... more » HurtsSoGood: The man goes to the gym every morning before going to the office at 9. We did the same thing in the 10th Mountain Division, and I dare you to tell te... more » Dickdogfood: It looks like it should be part of the Criterion Collection. more » gladys_kravitz: Seeing the clip of Hannity becoming enraged when his panel wouldn't agree that waterboarding is OK if it would save Americans from another terrorist a... more » -
#narcissists
Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be in the Media
Have you seen Mediaite's "Power Grid," that ridiculous thing ranking people in media, and maybe silently wondered, "What sort of blighted souls give a damn about any of this?" Well, one magazine is distributing PR statements touting their editor's ranking! More » -
#howthingswork
Joe Scarborough's 'Team' Asks for, Receives Special Treatment from Newsweek
Newsweek interviewed MSNBC morning host Joe Scarborough last week, and prominently mentioned when Scarborough defended the murderer of an abortion doctor. That didn't go over well in Scarborough country, so Newsweek editor— and frequent Scarborough guest—Jon Meacham changed it. More » -
#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 » -
#magazineevolution
The Era of the New Newsweek is Upon Us Again
In February, the New York Times reported that Newsweek would soon be unveiling a design specifically intended to "appeal to its best-educated, most avid consumers of news." That new design is being unveiled today. More » -
#mediacrack
Sean Hannity Has No Excuse Not to Get Waterboarded
In your inhumane Friday media column: Layoffs at NPR, another freakin' Dubya('s dad) book, newspapers burn as usual, New York mag has ad trouble, and Sean Hannity's waterboarding money appears! More » -
#newsweek
Newsweek Nukes Itself Into Printed Blog
The rumors appear to be true: Newsweek will amputate up to one million copies from its 2.6 million circulation, according to Wall Street Journal sources, and no fewer than 500,000. There will be an unknown number of layoffs, announced Thursday, to be achieved through voluntary buyouts like the 111 from last spring. But the biggest change at the 73-year-old magazine: It's going to become a whole lot more like Washington Post Co. sibling Slate, with contrarian, gimmicky or otherwise grabby headlines that wouldn't be out of place on Digg. More » -
#rumormonger
Did Editor's Scolding Wife Spike Newsweek Obama Cover?
In this week's cover story about Barack Obama, Newsweek distills the conventional political wisdom into a bitter tonic of condescending campaign advice. The Democratic presidential candidate is praised for having "wisely taken to often wearing and American-flag lapel" and advised "it would help to be seen venerating your white mother and grandparents as well as your black father" and that "whites resent being accused of racism for remarks they regard as innocent," in case the black politician hadn't learned that yet. To illustrate this cynical lesson in realpolitik, the magazine had originally planned to run the suitably stark cover above and on the left, according to the person who supplied us with a copy. But that cover was "killed" late Friday night, we are told, and replaced with the bright and sunny front at right — a bizarre choice given the gritty lead article and stark collection of supporting pieces on racial division. More outlandish still is the purported reason for the cover switch: More » -
