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Typo, Filler Ad, Mainstream Movie Herald New York Observer's Second Very Short List
How is shopping newsletter Very Short List doing on the second day under the New York Observer's ownership? Poorly enough to motivate mogul wannabe Jared Kushner to hire some dedicated staff, perhaps. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by ninety_nine: Maybe they thought DO was a new section in the 'revamped' Observer. Fun fact that you might have been able... 1 Responses | Other threads
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'The Observer's Very Short List' Proudly Brought to You by the New York Observer
The first edition of email newsletter Very Short List is out for the first time under the control of New York Observer publisher Jared Kushner. What advertiser do you think he lined up? More »
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By Ryan TateComment by The Dominant Glee Club: High-brown? What is going with Gawker lately? 6 Responses | Other threads
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'Very Short List's Been Sold To Jared Kushner, We're All Fired.'
A source writes in: ink on the long-rumored deal selling IAC property Very Short List to Jared Kushner and The New York Observer's dry. VSLers have been fired, and the property's clumsily fallen into the Observer's hands, now. Update: confirmed.
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By Foster KamerComment by Awesome X: Ethical question. You were just canned. The new you is on the phone, asking how to do the job you'd... 4 Responses | Other threads
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The Very Long Con of a Very Short List
Barry Diller's effort to pawn off Very Short List, his failed shopping newsletter for the rich, is turning into a classic New York media folly — a big drama over a puny digital property. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by CoachHogan: Which is it, guys? 40 percent or one fifth? 5 Responses | Other threads
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Barry Diller's Not-So-Exclusive 'Very Short List'
Very Short List has been a favorite bauble of Barry Diller since the IAC chief established it nearly three years ago, after failing to buy Daily Candy. He envisioned VSL as a smart, tidy newsletter. But it looks worrisomely distended. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Nick Denton: From Kurt Andersen: Hi, Nick. In addition to being un true, the suggestion in the Gawker item that "the [VSL]... 1 Responses | Other threads
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Drunken Liar
The editor of Very Short List—an email newsletter of cultural recommendations inspired by Spy founder Kurt Andersen—has been caught out. Father-of-two Gary Foodim was quoted in the New York Post complaining about the price of food for the kids, but eagle-eyed Intelligencer spots the real budget-buster: a 177% increase in spending on alcohol.
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By Nick DentonComment by Smirk: Amen. If I had kids (thank goodness I don't) I would need to be as drunk as a fucking loon. more » | Other threads
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Barry Diller's New Lair, New Plans Take Shape
Pictured is Jakob Lodwick, of College Humor, lurking in the future new office of his InterActiveCorp overlord Barry Diller. Still undecided: where the obsidian sacrificial altar should go. Really needs to be next to a load-bearing wall. On a more sunny though still mystical note, the New York Times peeks into the IAC crystal ball by way of a profile on Michael Jackson, Diller's point man on most things Webward. Nothing shocking, though it's almost comical to consider the vast intellectual resources bent toward the creation and curation of Very Short List — IAC's recently debuted once-daily email of recommended stuff. In addition to Jacskon and, one presumes, Diller, you also have pillar o' the community Kurt Andersen, plus design input (at least initially) Bonnie Siegler and Emily Oberman. We all need smarter people to tell us what to buy these days. Besides the new digs, what's next on the IAC conquest plan?
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By Chris MohneyComment by raincoaster: Where are the sharks with frickin laser beams on their heads? more » | Other threads
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People Thought Joe Piscopo Was Funny Back Then Too
Over at Very Short List they're pimping out VSL co-founder Kurt Andersen's Spy: The Funny Years. (It's okay, though, they do it under the rubric of "Logrolling in our time," which is so, like, meta!) There's a sneak preview of the book, offering about five pages of vintage Spy, (The Greatest Magazine Ever! The first mag to use funny charts! And be snarky! Or notice that this thing looks like that other thing!) including graphs, the feature you see above, and a mean letter from Donald Trump. Gah. Either years of non-stop ironic detachment have somehow withered our sense of humor or people had way lower standards in the eighties. But whatever, we'll still buy it. Probably a few things left to rip off. More »
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By abalk2Comment by raincoaster: Walter Monheit is back! And so is Donald Trump. The classics never get old. more » | Other threads
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Screw You, Dany Levy, Barry Diller Can Start His Own E-Newsletter
We just received the first "edition" of Very Short List, IAC head Barry Diller's newest attempt to console himself over losing out on the purchase of Daily Candy. (Not even the CollegeHumor deal cushions that sting.) VSL, still in double-super-secret test format, is in fact a Daily Candy for the "smart set," specifically the smart set that doesn't have time to, you know, read reviews to figure out what book or movie they need to pretend to have seen or read. Among its contributors VSL includes "godfather of snark" Kurt Andersen, which makes sense when you consider that the newsletter is under thesupervisionlaunch-editorial consultancy of Simon Dumenco, whom Andersen still owes big time for that whole Bennetton magazine thing. The e-mail itself is fairly concise, if unexciting; this project might work. But what about those of us who are too busy to even read e-mail? Maybe at the end of the month they can take all the stuff they've recommended, stick it in a box, and mail it out. Someone would pay money for that, right? More »
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