Virginia Heffernan was once a high-profile tech and culture writer for the New York Times. For this reason, she is taken seriously. Yesterday, she wrote an essay entitled "Why I'm a Creationist." It amounts to a very specific guide as to why Virginia Heffernan should no longer be taken seriously.
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NYT Magazine recently probed the psyche of YouTube's falling figure skater meme, and a commenter pointed us to hobby animators' CGI snuff films. Among a cornucopia of cyber-Schadenfreude, which describes your innermost desires, fears, or fetishes? Let us analyze.
This "The Internet" thing is nice, but we often think: What it really needs is a self-proclaimed arbiter of its cultural relevance to undertake the preposterously
impossible
ambitious task of explaining the entire internet. In a book. Hello, Virginia Heffernan!
A New York Times columnist last week wrote that Facebook was almost dead after a user "exodus." Just six months earlier, though, she wrote that Facebook showcased a "perfect" cultural vitality. And she cited the same source.
Brave Virginia Heffernan launched a brazen attack against The Onion in yesterday's New York Times Magazine, slamming the faux-news organization's year-old Onion News Network. Chagrined, one of the Network's biggest supporters fired back with the following volley:
Is this generation of teens the first to grow up completely online? Hardly. Highbrow TV critic Virginia Heffernan was a MySpace teen before Myspace teens even existed, she reveals in this week's NYT mag. The year was 1983. The nascent online world: "primitive computer network" XCaliber.
All I can remember is IRC,…
Virginia Heffernan (and supposedly other people) lives in constant dread that her beloved Friday Night Lights will be canceled. It's her favorite show but draws only half the viewers of many other, dumber shows. Heffernan, the our favorite breathless TV critic, mournfully parses the situation in the Times Magazine,…
Virginia Heffernan's Internet-watching New York Times blog "Screens" has become "The Medium" and is sort of about the same thing but maybe not entirely? It is not about the show where that Arquette lady is a psychic and solves crimes with her mind. [The Medium]
When Times TV critic Virginia Heffernan wrote that "'K-Ville' opens with a silly in- medias-res chase sequence—meant, presumably, to grab you by the lapels—which turns out to be a dream," she had no idea how in medias res she really was: "A television review yesterday about 'K-Ville,' which had its premiere on Fox…
Times TV-watcher Virginia Heffernan reviews VH1's new reality series 'Douche School': "[I]t's no wonder that Mystery has a reputation for getting results, turning schlubs into ladies' men. (Neil Strauss, a former reporter and critic for The New York Times, chronicled Mystery's methods and adventures in his best seller…
Virginia Heffernan will pick up her blog, Screens, and move it from the New York Times to the... New York Times magazine, where she'll also do a column about "home entertainment." From the Times memo: "Virginia Heffernan plays a role at The Times not unlike that of Russell Owen, the correspondent who nearly 80 years…
Each year, one of our only fave aspects of the upfronts—those fancy endless presentations where network executives and the occasional star prostrate themselves in front of advertisers and announce next season's schedule—is Virginia Heffernan's liveblogging of the events for the Times.
Then smack the shit out of you,…Pity poor Virginia Heffernan of the New York Times, tasked with explaining the phenomenon of teen social networking sites in the wake of the Virginia Tech shootings.
Say what you will about the , at least they understand the needs of their geriatric print readership. Stephen Holden, writing an Kitty Carlisle Hart,…Last week we took note of Times TV critic Virginia Heffernan's close reading of The King of Queens. It turns out we weren't the only ones:
This is where we'd make the joke about having been inspired by Alessandra Stanley, but we're pretty sure most of you are too young to remember who that is. So we're just gonna go…From the sublime (uh, yeah, we just called Alessandra Stanley sublime; we feel kind of weird about it as well) to the ridiculous: the Times' other TV critic takes a break from watching YouTube to bring her highbrow critical faculties to the lowbrow arena of the sitcom:
Also, that episode of where they had the bet…It's here, it's here, the Amanda Congdon show is here! If you're willing to sit through a thirty-second Sheraton commercial and ignore the thousands of pop-unders ABC inflicts on you, you can catch The Rack in all its unfettered, Steely Dan-clad glory. We watched it with the sound muted so as not to be distracted…
• Gruff, avuncular voice may introduce Katie Couric. Or not. [NYDN]
• Domain for new magazine using common word as name already taken. [WWD]
• Virginia Heffernan and Jon Fine are hot on the trail of lonelygirl15. Imagine if they teamed up! It would be like Nancy Drew meets the Hardy Boys! Except, you know, about…
Oh, Viriginia Heffernan. Why can't we all be as smart as you?
