Tag Archives: We Want Media

When Jonathan Landman walked into the room, I had him pegged for a New York Times guy. With his squared glasses and graying hair, he looks like a Times guy. With his composure and enunciation, he talks like a Times guy. But what he told me was not exactly what I was expecting from a Times guy. Continue reading →

Will Rupert Murdoch work with law enforcement to make widespread arrests of his MySpace users for the good of the community? Continue reading →

As if it wasn’t bad enough that you might not get that fabulous job because of a handful of un-PC comments on your MySpace, now you can get tossed in the slammer for posting your answer to the above question online. Continue reading →

This weekend, the Daily News (who else?) broke the story that Page Six lackey Jared Paul Stern met with billionaire recluse Ron Burkle to strike a $220,000 deal that made the investor immune from printed lies on the page for a year.

Wait. Struck a deal? Illegal. Printed lies? Unethical. Recluse? Fantastical. Continue reading →

Bravo, SPIN. With a little flourish and some Klosterman karma, you fooled hundreds of bloggers into thinking that Axl Rose was finally going to deliver after 15 years with Chinese Democracy. Continue reading →

Kurt Andersen says celebrities are dead and we’re slowly beginning to shun their dying personas. I think he’s wrong – and Paris Hilton is probably banking on it, Sidekick and all. Continue reading →

Arianna Huffington screwed up. She knows it, George Clooney knows it, the blogosphere knows it, and now, the nation. On March 13, Huffington strung together a bunch of comments George Clooney made to other media outlets regarding the war in Iraq. Continue reading →

With March Madness in full swing, CBS’s streamed telecasts are to a college basketball fan what a Ferrari is to a 16-year-old kid with a new driver’s license: high-octane freedom. Not only can I argue with friends over which player made a better basket, I can watch the game on my laptop while I’m stuck in an office meeting about teamwork. Continue reading →

Now with Logo, an MTV-owned gay channel, Bravo’s OutZoneTV.com, gay broadband entertainment, and PlanetOut, a crop of gay magazines and websites, gay media is flying around faster than Scott Stapp’s sex video. Continue reading →

From Dean screams to trial denials, the Gallup poll has been a wonderfully cynical way to tap into the fears of your favorite American-next-door. But their latest poll on the Big Easy had me scratching my head. Continue reading →

What really struck me was how quickly people turned against James Frey’s A Million Little Pieces after The Smoking Gun blew Frey out of the water. Were they right? Absolutely. Was it a good piece of journalism? You bet. Does it make the book any worse?

No. Continue reading →

Gawker’s Jessica Coen is a living, breathing reason why watching “Good Night and Good Luck” won’t leave me with anything but a soft spot for journalism’s legacy and the determination to age like George Clooney. Continue reading →