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Tag Archives: Magazines
Maybe Journalists Should Smoke More Crack? [Media Crack]
In your brainstorming Tuesday media column: better journalism through crack, a Bob Schieffer vacation, Hugh Hefner gets sued, a star-studded media kid bar mitzvah, and newspapers discover a rich new…
Who’s the Next Rich Sap to Blow His Wad on Journalism? [Media Crack]
In your Byzantine Monday media column: searching for a rich media savior, a recipe duplication scandal, the future of robot media is $1 per hour, and STEPHEN A. SMITH is back in your area…
Print Continues to Die [Magazines]
The US magazine circulation figures for the second half of 2009 are in. And grim! The big losers (and a winner), below.
Overall Newsstand Sales: -9.1%
Biggest Newsstand Loser: W Magazine,…
Jared Kushner Expands His Unsuccessful Newspaper Empire [Media Crack]
In your foreboding Thursday media column: Jared Kushner has a bright idea, Howard Zinn’s reputation impugned, David Letterman plays a funny joke, and Janice Min somehow survives being rich as…
Zac Posen Refuses to Play Along With Harper’s Bazaar [How Things Work]
Zac Posen lost his shit because Harper’s Bazaar wanted him to stand next to Sesame Street’s The Count in a fashion shoot. It was the only way he could get into the magazine “as a non-advertiser,” EIC…
Chicago Woman Is Awesome [Heroes]
Peggy Wilkins is an average heterosexual 45 year-old Chicago woman who had to rent an entire apartment above her own to hold her massive, encyclopedic Playboy collection. Gurl U no U always B our…
Keith Olbermann Is the Last Unbiased Man in the Media [Media Crack]
In your slushy Wednesday media column: Keith Olbermann sniffs out media bias whether it exists or not, a way to save magazines in fantasyland, PARADE’s editor leaves, and Air America totally owes…
Marcus Brauchli Is Insanely Wealthy [Media Crack]
In your staggering Tuesday media column: Marcus Brauchli is far richer than a newspaper editor should be (especially considering the new classified ad numbers), the future of Harper’s debated, and…
Unauthorized Magazine Written in Sarah Palin’s Voice Is Keeping Old Media Alive [Palinomics]
Which fact is more befuddling: (1.) Though Sarah Palin: The Untold Story …In Her Own Words! is written in the first person, it was made with zero input from Palin. (2.) This magazine is expected to…