Archives: April 2006

Marlene Kahan, the head of ASME (American Society of Magazine Editors), has launched a campaign to “Punch Out Parkinson’s” via public service announcements in magazines. This makes a lot of sense, considering, as she put it “I have the magazine world in the palm of my hand.”

The launch party for the campaign was last Thursday (April 27th) at the well-appointed multi-bazillion dollar Upper East Side home of William Reilly, former head of Primedia and now head of Aurelian Communications. At the media-star-studded event, Kahan announced that her campaign has so far raised $25 million worth of Public Service Ads in 20 magazines/media outlets, including AARP’s magazine, Adweek, Business Week, Cooking Light, Edutopia, Forbes, Gourmet, Harvard Business Review, Kiplinger’s, People, Prevention, Success, Travel & Leisure — and mediabistro.com. Not bad for a night’s work!

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From the L.A. Times‘ Envelope:

WHO’LL WIN THE DAYTIME EMMYS THIS FRIDAY NIGHT? Looks like Rachael Ray is the Eve Harrington of the Daytime Emmys — she gets the best odds to beat Martha Stewart, who had dominated the awards for 6 out of the past 7 years.

The latest installment from our ongoing Correspondency on NYC-TV’s NY 360. This time, Robbie Myers, editor-in-chief of Elle magazine, dishes on top models and celebs, and reveals her entire budget for everything from new editorial hires to freelance contributors. Hah! We wish.

If you’d like to see this on your TV screen instead, New York folks can tune in to Channel 25 on this Saturday, April 29th at 10:30 p.m. and again on Monday, May 1st, at 8:30 p.m.

*Stay tuned for our next interview, with Vogue‘s Sally Singer!

A bloggy announcement courtesy of Jason Calacanis‘ Weblogs Inc. came over the transom yesterday:

AOL Launches New Blog Network Dedicated to Individual Stocks of the Most Watched and Widely Held Companies

Series of Blogs to Provide Original Analysis and Commentary Plus Information on Breaking News, Industry Trends, Market Moves and More

Dulles, VA (April 27, 2006) — In the first joint creation of a new blogging network since the acquisition of Weblogs, Inc., AOL and Weblogs, Inc. announced today that they have launched a new network, bloggingstocks.com, which will host a series of individual blogs dedicated to providing daily commentary, insightful and thought-provoking analysis and news coverage of some of the most-widely held and followed public companies.

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The bloggers will not be making investment buy or sell recommendations or provide any personalized investment advice, but rather providing original and entertaining commentary and analysis so individual investors can become better informed about the stocks they hold or are most interested in.

Entertaining commentary. Related to Wall Street. Sounds familiar.

The first companies to get the Weblogs’ stock treatment: Time Warner, Google, Yahoo, Apple, eBay, Microsoft, Wal-Mart, General Electric.

BusinessWeek‘s Jon Fine [left] has a little fun with this month’s GQ and what he calls the “editor-rock” genre:

White, intellectual (or at least semi-intellectual), ineffectual, and generally namby-pamby, albeit with occasional forays into, you know, distorted guitars. No aggression. It’s very polite and well-mannered—way too much so, in fact—for rock music. It’s music for the head, and not the hips and gut. Judging from most ratios of sales-to-coverage-in-glossy-magazines, it’s beloved primarily by magazine editors in major cities.

We felt it’s only fair to point out the band Fine fronts, Coptic Light, is playing tonight at Tonic (with Flaming Fire) on the Lower East Side, and heading to Japan in a few weeks (they’re “big” in Japan, we hear.) But tonight’s the perfect opportunity for you “editor-rock” bands, fans — perhaps GQ editors — to let him know how much you appreciate yet another genre you’ll spend years trying to trascend.

Coptic Light Tour Dates:

Apr 28 2006 8:00P tonic new york, NY

May 14 2006 8:00P shibuya o-nest tokyo

May 15 2006 8:00P unagidani sunsui osaka

May 16 2006 8:00P helluva lounge kobe

May 17 2006 8:00P imaike tokuzo nagoya

An Unfortunate Descent Into Rock Criticism: GQ And Editor-Rock [Fine On Media]
Coptic Light [MySpace]
Coptic Light

Bonus: Pics of fine Fine rocking:

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• Fitness in Shape: Shape‘s Denise Brodey is getting the top job at Fitness, but has to stop at More until her non-compete clause expires.
• Burkle: Is there anything this guy isn’t involved in?
• ‘Bloggers are Generally About as Subtle as a Punch in the Stomach’: So says Marketwatch’s Jon Friedman in assessing Tony Snow‘s elevation to the White House’s press secretary post.
• Yanked: Little, Brown requests accused Harvard plagiarist’s book be pulled from bookshelves.
• Laguna Beach 3?: Time Inc.’s Real Simple takes a meeting at Montage Spa and Resort. Odd timing, considering companywide layoffs, says WWD.
  

AP headline writers (still) aren’t big on double entendres, we guess.

Katrina Report Rips the White House Anew [CBSNews.com, Yahoo]

Newly-crowned White House press secretary Tony Snow‘s Fox Web site is apparently still active — at least parts of it. Snow’s site had posted versions of the 12 cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that ignited a firestorm when they appeared in a Danish newspaper in September. They’re still up there, with a disclaimer that they are “fake.” It’s a disclaimer that probably appeased Fox execs at the time. Trouble is, they don’t look fake.

In any event, it begs the question(s): Why is any part of the site still up? And is Snow’s elevated profile and documented history as a pundit going to smack the White House in the face every time a political controversy arises?

From today’s WSJ story about wireless cellphone carriers quietly imposing decency standards on music and video content providers:

Among the subjects and images some content providers say Verizon Wireless barred them from including:

Exposed male or female genitals

Bare buttocks

Explicit, obscured or implied sexual acts

Crude words or profanity

Language intended to incite violence

Hate speech

Glorification or promotion of criminal acts

Derogatory references to Verizon, Verizon Wireless or Vodafone

Wireless Carriers Set Strict Decency Standards for Content [WSJ]

We had taken a bit of a posting break from the Page Six scandal — following, certainly, but letting the Js and Ps cool off on the keyboard, at least temporarily. But, as one of our readers — who absolutely does not spend his days obsessing over the case at home in the Catskills — points out, there’ve been enough stories of late to warrant a roundup:

The FBI investigation into the Anthony J. Pellicano wiretapping trial trips up a connection to Ron Burkle. [via FishbowlLA]

Slate delivers it’s own roundup. So does Jossip.

Gawker points out a strangely timed omission by the New York Times in a story relating to Pellicano.

Myrna Blythe doesn’t get Ron Burkle.

The Clintons’ association with RB is going to be trouble for Mrs. Clinton’s run for the White House, says the New York Post.

It seems models have taken to blogging about Burkle, occasionally referring to him as a “sea slug.”

Vanity Fair, perhaps sensing its lead time is killing the impact of its upcoming June feature that references the Burkle-Pellicano connection, offers a “Sneak Peak” of its story online.

Could all this apparent (mostly) anti-Burkle press mean the tide of public opinion has turned in Jared Paul Stern‘s favor?