Archives: September 2006

The Week In Media Video: Clinton Points Finger, Wolff On Fire

  • Vanity Fair‘s Wolff Spars With Columbia Journo Prof On PBS Panel
  • Letterman’s Gay McGreevey Top Ten
  • Olbermann Responds To Post Powder Story
  • Daily Show Snags Musharraf Interview
  • Olbermann Defends Clinton, Says Wallace’s ‘Cheap Trick Would Get A Journalist Fired — But A Propagandist Promoted’
  • Fox News Offers Campus Sex Advice: ‘Don’t Hook Up With A Guy If You’re Sloppy Drunk’
  • Seventeen‘s Atoosa, Predator‘s Hansen Talk Stalk Shop On Today
  • Clinton Points Finger At Right Wingers On Fox News; FNC’s Wallace ‘Felt As If A Mountain Was Coming Down In Front Of Me’
  • Lil Jon Would Like To Wish You A Hebrew Crunk New Year
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    BusinessWeek Slashes 14 | ScarJo Sexiest | New Yorkers’ Stalking Game | New Mag For ‘Alternative Weddings’

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  • BusinessWeek: Slashes 14. [NYP]

  • New Yorkers: Play citywide “stalking” game. [Reuters]
  • ScarJo: Sexiest, says Esquire. [WWD]
  • Ex-Source Editor: Arrested on assault charges. [Page Six]
  • New Magazine: For “alternative Weddings.” [Mediaweek]
  • Rich People: Reading magazines more than ever. [Folio:]
  • Lance Armstrong Rejects Nike’s ‘Speedo’ Shorts For NYC Marathon

    lance_armstrong_runnersworl.jpgThe November issue of Runner’s World will feature Tour De France winner and rubber bracelet manufacturer Lance Armstrong on its cover. Armstrong, who, in the spirit of Diddy and Oprah before him, is prepping to run his first New York City marathon November 5, gives an “exclusive interview” to magazine about his forthcoming five-borough devirgining, including his defiance of Nike’s outfit proposal:

    The Nike guys came down and were like, “Here’s what you’re going to wear in the marathon.” And they brought these little short things. I said, “No, I’m not.” I’m running in, like, basketball shorts. That’s what I run in every day.

    Armstrong’s ex-wife, Kristin, is a contributing editor to Runner’s World, who took up running shortly after their split.

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    Should Page Six-Attacking Radar Disclose Its Relationship With Ron Burkle?

    hard-to-kill-radar.jpgThat’s what some gossip-tinged media insiders in New York are wondering, after Maer Roshan‘s third incarnation of Radar spent the past couple days pounding Page Six.

    As Eat The Press’ Rachel Sklar deftly explains:

    Both items mentioned Jared Paul Stern, the former Page Sixer who this spring was alleged to have attempted to blackmail supermarket magnate Ron Burkle. That’s the same Ron Burkle who has been alleged to be a part-owner of — wait for it — Radar. In March, before the Page Six scandal broke, the rumor surfaced on Women’s Wear Daily that Ron Burkle and Yusef Jackson were in talks to fund the then-defunct magazine (broken, in a poetic twist, by then-WWDers Sara James and Jeff Bercovici, the now-Radar staffer who wrote both the above-linked items). Jackson did indeed go on to fund Radar, and has specifically not confirmed (but not denied) that Burkle is involved (“I don’t discuss my investor group,” he told the Chicago Tribune, even though everyone else does: both the Trib and the NYT mentioned Burkle and Yousef’s partnership in making a play for the Chicago Sun-Times in 2004). Radar editor Maer Roshan would not so confirm, either, saying “To my knowledge, Yusef has not publically named any other investors in this venture, but your question about Ron Burkle’s involvement is best addressed to him.”

    EARLIER:

  • Page Six Reporter Fired
  • Jason Binn’s Niche Media Sold?

    niche_media_binn_sale.jpgMultiple sources tell FishbowlNY that Jason Binn [left, with Lizzie Grubman] is exploring a sale of his luxe publishing company, Niche Media, to Jerry Powers‘s SoBe News, who co-founded Ocean Drive with Binn, and Nevada-based Greenspun Media, which co-publishes Vegas magazine with Powers.

    Binn is a shareholder in SoBe News.

    Binn, who founded Niche Media in 1998, did not immediately return phone calls seeking comment.

    Binn’s ability to reach high-end advertisers through his oversized titles, including Aspen Peak, Gotham, Hamptons, Los Angeles Confidential, led to his induction into the advertising hall of fame.

    Gawker’s Coen Jumps To Vanity Fair

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    Ex-Gawker co-editor Jesse Oxfeld with Jessica Coen in May

    Gawker co-editor Jessica Coen is leaving Nick Denton‘s Gawker Media — the so-called Condé Nast of the blogosphere — for the real thing. Coen today announced she’s taken a gig as Vanity Fair‘s deputy online editor:

    These are my last two weeks at Gawker, and I’d rather not get reflective and emotional just yet (and seriously, why the hell am I so emotional?! I’m exhausted — move on, lady!), as I still have to get up at some ungodly hour and help you procrastinate for a little while longer. After I’m done here, I’ll be heading over to Vanity Fair, where I’ll be their deputy online editor. While it’s actually quite hard to say goodbye to this job (crap, am I being sincere already?), I can’t pass up the opportunity to do all sorts of inappropriate things to the Conde Nast salad bar when no one’s looking.

    Coen’s departure comes less than three months after her longtime co-editor, Jesse Oxfeld, was let go in a companywide shakeup and replaced by a co-editor, Alex Balk, and managing editor Chris Mohney.

    FishbowlNY’s Gawker Coverage:

  • Denton On Gawker Shift: ‘Like a TV Network, We Have to Back Our Hits, And Clear Out Our Schedules Of Less Popular Shows’
  • Gawker’s Denton: ‘Better to Sober Up Now, Before the End of the Party’
  • Oxfeld On Gawker Tenure: ‘I Was Brought In Explicitly To Bring Gawker Back To Its Original Inside-Media Mission, And I Think I Did That’
  • Gawker To Focus ‘More On Pop Culture And Less On The Media’?
  • Oxfeld Out In Gawker Shakeup
  • Janet Jackson’s Publicist, Breasts Deserve Raise

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  • Nipplegate Case Delayed
  • Grand Central Newsstand Covers Up Janet Jackson’s Breasts, FHM
  • NBC’s Zucker To Get Passed Over For Freston?

    jeff_zucker_freston.jpgBefore naming NBC president Jeff Zucker successor for CEO Bob Wright, the network has “launched an informal formal search for outsiders that could take over Wright’s post,” the New York Post reports.

    On the list of casual candidates? Ousted Viacom CEO Tom Freston.

    The network, however, says there “is no search.” And Wright has not indicated when he would step down, all of which would seem to indicate a non-story here. But the lure of a “Zucker Punch” headline is too hard to resist.

  • ZUCKER PUNCH [NYP]
  • Letterman’s Gay McGreevey Top Ten

    An edgier than usual Top Ten about gay ex-New Jersey governor Jim McGreevey, via last night’s Late Show With David Letterman broadcast on CBS:

    THE “LATE SHOW” TOP TEN: “Chapter Titles in Jim McGreevey’s Book”

    10. “The Day I Got Caught Governing Myself”
    9. “How to Pretend to Like Girls for 47 Years”
    8. “From Schwarzenegger to Pataki: Governors I’d Like to Oil Up”
    7. “Another Confession: I Can’t Resist Entenmann’s Pound Cake”
    6. “At First I Just Thought I Was Bipartisan”
    5. “The New Jersey Budget Crisis: What Would Judy Garland Do?”
    4. “A Look at the Governor’s Balls”
    3. “Politicians Who Left a Bad Taste in My Mouth”
    2. “How to Push Through a Bill — Or a Steve or a Larry”
    1. “Why I Don’t Like Bush”

    EARLIER:

  • New York Mag Gets McGreevey Excerpt Confession
  • Video: Olbermann Responds To New York Post Powder Story

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    On Tuesday, cops were summoned to Keith Olbermann‘s Central Park South home after the Countdown host opened envelope with a white substance was found. On Wednesday, the New York Post ran a Page Six story about the incident entitled “Powder Puff Spooks Keith.” Yesterday, Olbermann responded to the Post:

    The Rupert Murdoch-owned newspaper, The New York Post, may have just impeded an FBI investigation into terroristic threats. I know this because I was a recipient.

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  • Video: Olbermann Defends Clinton, Says Wallace’s ‘Cheap Trick Would Get A Journalist Fired — But A Propagandist Promoted’
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