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Trash Me, Baby!
Buzz Bissinger is the author of the Texas high-school football book Friday Night Lights and Prayer for the City, which is about Philadelphia under former Mayor Ed Rendell. Mr. Bissinger also wrote the...
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Obama Contains Multitudes … Again
The September 1/8, 2008 "Special Convention Issue" of The Nation features a striking cover of Barack Obama as a mosaic composed of hundreds of smaller images of other people, suggesting that Senator...
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McCain Manipulating Photographer Dropped by Agency
The Atlantic‘s Jeffrey Goldberg is reporting on his blog that photographer Jill Greenberg has been dropped by her photo agency, Vaughan Hannigan Artists. A call to the agency by Media Mob confirmed the...
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The Atlantic Redesigns; Andrew Sullivan Bigger Than Ever
The Atlantic‘s PR reps just sent out some PDFs of the magazine’s new look, as overseen and conceived by editor James Bennet and Pentagram’s Michael Bierut. In an essay in the November issue of the...
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Fox News Executive VP on McCain Volunteer Race-Bait Hoax: ‘Senator McCain’s...
As you probably know by now, Ashley Todd, the Texas woman who claimed she was attacked in Pittsburgh and had a ‘B’ scratched in her face because of her support of Senator John McCain was lying. There...
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Claim: Sarah Palin ‘Did Not Have the Time or Focus to Prepare’ For Couric...
And now the fun part begins. The New York Times‘ Elisabeth Bumiller has an A1-promoted story headlined Internal Battles Divided McCain and Palin Camps, in which she reveals all about the Republican...
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Former Housemates Andrew Sullivan and Michael Hirschorn Discuss Future of Media
“What’s the cost of being a nerd?” read the neon sign that greeted guests emerging from the elevator at Justin Smith’s apartment in Tribeca last night. Provocative though it was, that question was not...
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Iran Coverage on Twitter: Counter Arguments to the Online ‘Revolution’
Over the weekend, as protestors raged against Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s declared victory in the Iran electon, the Web world watched events unfold online on sites like Twitter where students and activists...
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A Victory in Defeat?
Andrew Sullivan weighs in on the rejection of the bill to legalize same-sex marriage in Albany yesterday, and sees it not as a setback, but as a victory for marriage advocates: “It’s demoralizing and...
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Malcolm Gladwell Compares Twitter Activism To Civil Rights
Malcolm Gladwell is sick and tired of hearing about the way social media will change the world for the better. In a lengthy article this week comparing online activism to the Civil Rights movement, The...
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Daily Beast TV Goes Live
As an in-house advertisement in the Halloween issue of Newsweek promised, Tina Brown’s dormant TV career is back from the dead. Daily Beast TV, the online video channel The Observer first caught wind...
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Tina Brown Not to Be Outdone by Breastfeeding 26-Year-Old
Yesterday Newsweek/Daily Beast editor Tina Brown reclaimed her crown as queen of controversial covers. It had been briefly snatched by Rick Stengel, whose Magazine of the Year, TIME, caused a media...
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Andrew Sullivan Hates Miserable, Money Sucking “New York Shitty”
He hates Manhattan! Andrew Sullivan has never been shy about expressing his opinion and when it comes to New York—where he’s lived for all of two weeks—he’s not pulling any punches. In a Daily Beast...
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Andrew Sullivan Declares Independence, Leaves The Beast
The staff of The Dish. (Photo credit: AndrewSullivan) New year, new business model for Andrew Sullivan. Mr. Sullivan is leaving the office he rarely visited and taking his Dish blog rogue. Instead of...
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Andrew Sullivan Rakes in Subscribers, But What Else Could $19.99 Get You?
Andrew Sullivan is bringing in some serious cash so far. It’s been just a day since he announced that he was taking The Dish rogue and leaving The Daily Beast to gamble on a support from a direct...
View ArticleElsewhere: Maloney Purges, Rudy Surges, O’Connell Airs
Ben notices an Orwellian purge from the campaign website of Sean Maloney. Rudy Giuliani will hire more fund-raisers and key staffers in early primary states in an effort to prove he’s really running....
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The Afternoon Wrap: Thursday
Ann Coulter doesn’t like inconsiderate liberals in East Hampton: “It does not occur to them that someone has to manufacture the tiles and steel and glass and solar panels that go into those...
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Beltway Bells Are Ringin’! David Geffen Unveils Andrew Sullivan’s Plans to...
“Andrew, did you see David?” said authoress and blogger den mother Arianna Huffington to writer Andrew Sullivan as Hollywood mogul David Geffen approached. The group had coalesced outside the Hilton...
View ArticleGay Marriage Legal Impact: Van Capelle v. Louis
One of the more exciting conversational themes in Albany today is Errol Louis' column in the Daily News about gay marriage. In it, he writes that the effort to legalize gay marriage, which passed the...
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Jeffrey Goldberg: Look Who's Blogging
The Atlantic‘s Jeffrey Goldberg—who joined the magazine from The New Yorker last year—has started a blog. His first entry, which features an endearingly retro Public Enemy reference as its title,...
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