When the Washington Post‘s Rajiv Chandrasekaran requested an evacuation from his war-zone embed with the Marines in Afghanistan last week for “personal reasons,” military officials thought it sounded serious. But he just needed to go hang out with Matt Damon. More »
If you’re a journalism Brahmin who’s simply appalled at the prospect of the National Enquirer winning a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of John Edwards’ atrocious moral life, look out—they’re going after your young now! More »
In your ethical Monday media column: a movie review in need of some full disclosure, a trade magazine goes wacko, CBS is too good for Anderson Cooper, and Playboy looks grim(mer). More »
Companies are supposed to mail out tax forms to freelancers by the end of January. But we hear that Conde Nast had some trouble with that. More »
Facebook, the social network that conned users out of their privacy in its last redesign, nearly topped itself last night, misdirecting hundreds of private messages. Including sending an “explicit chat” to a newspaper reporter. Even by Facebook standards, that’s bad. More »
In your niveous Thursday media column: an Atlanta editor is a character, Dave Eggers pontificates, Jann Wenner is a joiner, ProPublica is unstoppable, and a sad poor end to a gay publishing empire. More »
“‘Fuck you,’ [Matt Taibbi] snarled, and then picked up his mug from the table, threw his coffee at me, and stormed out.” It would be awesome if the final scene of this new Vanity Fair piece on the…
The Washington Post is reportedly considering doing away with Sally Quinn’s godawful self-absorbed rich lady column from hell, which is an embarrassment to the entire institution. Do it, Marcus…
In your wearying Wednesday media column: the Washington Post is somewhat unpopular, the NYT is just coasting, Steve Coll’s secret reading list, and a late freelancer payment tidbit.
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Meredith Bryan observes in the NYO today that—hello!—niceness is back! On the internet, and in New York in general. Goodbye to cynicism! This interesting and somewhat true phenomenon will…