January 2010
16 posts
“We are, collectively, much like eight-year-olds chasing a soccer ball. Instead...”
– The above is from the New York Times’ White House correspondent Peter Baker, the kicker to a fantastic New Yorker article by Ken Auletta (not online).The article has a fantastic look at how the White House press corps is perhaps too consumed by minutiae and answering the question of “who...
“And now, a word to the budding (and established) comedians, writers, editors,...”
– A really smart effort by Heather Havrilesky over at Salon, deconstructing the NBC/Conan O’Brien confrontation after Dick Ebersol’s comments earlier this week. Go read.
“Maybe America just didn’t want to look at a redhead at that hour.”
– The above is the lede from Maureen Dowd’s column today, focusing on Conan O’Brien’s travails and how Jeff Zucker keeps on falling upward.
I think this comment may be true, though, sigh.
thedeadline:
One more day of NBC, etc., then vacation.
Are you channeling Conan himself here, Mr. Stelter?
“[C]onsider the caper of [longtime editor Jim] Naughton and the columnist he...”
– One thing that continues to surprise me as I visit newsrooms — and I always seem to have this reaction, no matter the newspaper or magazine — is how staid it is. Carl Sessions Stepp, a senior editor at American Journalism Review, writes a love letter to those olden time and nails what it...
CNET News: "Vanity Fair on Twitter Fame:... →
Only one thing to say to this: Spot on, Caroline. Had the same reaction you did when I read the Vanity Fair piece on the Twitter ladies. (And, no, that doesn’t make you wrong at all.)
The Wrap: "The Great Muppet Comeback" →
From 1979’s ”The Muppet Movie”: You can’t live with ‘em, you can’t live without ‘em. / There’s something irresistible-ish about ‘em. / We grin and bear it ‘cause the nights are long. / I hope that something better comes along.
Great article by Brent Lang highlighting all the groundwork now being laid for a big comeback by the Muppets in...
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Not Bad, Tumblr!
Tumblr was able to get former labor secretary Robert Reich to make the switch from Blogspot to their platform. As he mentioned on his old blog, “The nice folk at Tumblr have redesigned my website to include my blog.”
See here— this is an automatic follow for me, he’s been one of the best writers on the financial crisis. And he’s a much better representative for the...
Tomorrow marks the 30th anniversary of The...
“It’s like seeing someone for the first time, and you look at each other...”
– Great dialogue from “Out of Sight,” getting reacquainted with one of my favorites today.
“What people always demand of a popular novelist is that he shall write the same...”
– George Orwell, commenting on Charles Dickens.
“The Sex Pistols’ Never Mind the Bollocks (1977) is closer to the second world...”
– Scary thoughts, via Christopher Caldwell in the Financial Times.
