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Category: Media Miscellany
Media Minutiae: Adam Morrison Sobbing Uncontrollably Edition
- Truthiness: Post-James Frey, memoirists give us way too much information.
- Gawker's New Home Officially Hinted: In an advertorial post.
- Fine: BusinessWeek's resident humorist says Time Inc.'s Office Pirates experiment is decidedly Web 1.0.
- My Old Plateglass Window Home: Vermont editors want answers over AP chief's firing.
- These Are Publishing Jobs Too, You Know: Farm Journal's Pam Henderson and Andrew Burchett presented with a Neal Award at the Waldorf for "Asian Soybean Rust Takes Root in the U.S." series.
Media Minutiae: Meth, Fix Edition
- Web 2.0 or Star Wars Character?: You decide.
- 5 Ways to Fix Time Warner: No. 1? Become stable enough that your own business magazine doesn't write an article about 5 ways to fix you.
- You need us: for news.
- Stalk Market: Gawker's Stalker is "a small but spirited grenade" lobbed into the arena of celebrity journalism, says CBC's Jeff MacIntyre.
- Meth Manufacturing: that's what the Oregonian did with its stories on meth, says Willamette Week.
Media Minutiae: Blood-Soaked Edition
- Saltzy: Village Voice critic Jerry Saltz peppers the New Yorker with literary birdshot over its profile of Sotheby's auctioneer Tobias Meyer. (via Arts Journal)
- Can't wait for Simon Cowell's American Mongolian Cow Sour Yogurt Supergirl Contest: One of China's most popular shows, an American Idol knockoff called American Mongolian Cow Sour Yogurt Supergirl Contest (not kidding), faces a government crackdown.
- Blood money: Human-rights activists scorch the Times for taking advertising from Sudan, reports Lloyd Grove.
- Barron William Trump: Ahem.
Media Minutiae: Monday Edition
- Redesigned: WNYC's website gets a much-needed overhaul. Unclear whether it was the trickle-down effect from an NPR flush with cash.
- Hachette gets the hatchet: Another year, another nom-less National Magazine Awards for Hachette Filipacchi Media. Surprising, too, since Hachette's prez, Jack Kliger, now presides over the Magazine Publishers of America board.
- 'Chicken,' Tivoed: KFC's stunt embedding a coupon into a commercial so as to entice Tivo users paid off — with 100,000 biting, says the Wall Street Journal.
- HuffPo-Clooney Reax: Bloggers react to the Arianna Huffington's Clooneygate, and at least one says whole thing is a non-controversy, or, rather, "the wrong controversy."
- A Thriller Writer's Own Thriller: While on a family trip to Italy, Douglas Preston was accused of "planting evidence, and of being an accessory to murder after the fact, which scared the hell out of me," the Boston Globe reports.
Media Minutiae: Green Beer Edition
- Google gets off: A suit accusing Google of wrongful conduct, including copyright infringement and defamation, was dismissed by a U.S. judge, the WSJ reports.
- Dethroned: CNN on the defensive about rumors that Larry King is being pushed out of the Live chair.
- Fine on the $4.5B Knight Ridder deal: "Pruitt is 48 and looks younger, which makes him a teenager compared with typical newspaper bosses. He has the hair, looks, and unruffled demeanor of a class president, but his references to the Rolling Stones and Elvis Costello reveal a desire to score points with the cool kids."
- NYT reporters and editors on blogs: "Nobody would ever call them ncritical guzzlers of blog bilge," says Slate's Jack Schafer.
- JT 2.0?: Just what we need, another memoirist controversy.
Media Minutiae: Late Edition
- Plame Leakgate: More disputed intricacies in the Valerie Plame CIA leak case, courtesy of Vanity Fair. Like we needed more names to keep track of there.
- Googled: A federal judge says Google will have to turn over some data culled from those who Google to the government, but not all.
- Best — and Worst — Mag Cover Sales of '05: Deaths of Pope John Paul II, Hunter S. Thompson buoyed sales of Time and Newsweek, Rolling Stone respectively.
- Staring down the stalker: Cable news beauty Monica Crowley faced her alleged stalker in court.
Media Minutiae: Loathsome, Stalking, Iconic Edition
- Loathing: Jon Friedman nominates CNN's Lou Dobbs for President, then proceeds to hatchet Dobbs' stump like an axe-wielding woodsman at the Great Outdoor Games: "It's always interesting when you turn into what you loathe."
- A-boo-boo Ghraib?: NYT to review the accuracy of a story that claimed to identify the hooded detainee shown in one of the most iconic photos of prison-abuse from Abu Ghraib after Salon kicks up dirt suggesting a false ID.
- 60's Icon: Clock's officially ticking on Mike Wallace's storied run at 60 Minutes.
- For those of us who need to know exactly where Lindsay Lohan was five minutes ago: Gawker's Stalker feature to get a Google mash-up.
Media Minutiae: By George Edition
- By George: HuffPo nabs George Clooney's first post-Oscar-win role: liberal blogger. His post? Echoes of his Oscar acceptance speech, and with them, 114 comments.
- Freyed: The LAT reports James Frey's TV pilot — about a world champion surfer/PI/"lover of ladies" named Donald "Insane" Tremaine — is "in a million little pieces, too." Now, how did that concept not work?
- The Boyish Man Behind Laguna Beach: MTV head of series development Tony DiSanto, 37, loves the "The Andy Milonakis Show, but says it's "not for everybody."
- A report from the 9th Annual USA Memory Championship, where contestants — including Slate's Joshua Foer, the eventual winner — competed for ... uh ... umm ... what were they competing for again?
Media Minutiae: It's Whiffleball Weather Edition
- Mrs. Clinton, Observed: Watergate icon Carl Bernstein's book on Hillary Clinton will come out next year, says Politicker Ben Smith.
- Fine: Time Warner CEO Dick Parsons loves Time, isn't retiring anytime soon and is definitely not bidding to succeed Mayor Bloomberg, says Jon Fine.
- No doubt: Jane Pratt looks to Gwen Stefani for help on her return to magazines, reports WWD.
- A Million Little ... ah, forget it: U.S. News & World Report's cover story examines the credibility of and online threats to the book publishing business.
- 30 Rock Shock: Nothing like a media gossip story involving NBC's Brian Williams, an incestuous affair involving a pair of Nightly News producers and a BlackBerry to end your media week.
Media Minutiae: Revolt Edition
- Can't shareholders just blindly accept M+As?: Same companies that led a VNU shareholder revolt are at it again, and will "likely" try to block its sale.
- HuffPo-wer: HuffPo's own Arianna Huffington debunks Secretary Rumsfeld's history of presidential approval ratings during wartime. Huff: "Only trouble is, it's completely bogus history. A brief fact check reveals that public support for WWII never slipped below 75 percent; Roosevelt's approval rating during the war never fell below 66%; and his disapproval rating never climbed above 25%." (And a thanks to AH for the heads-up.)
- Stewart-Colbert 'rivalry' moves to the small screen: iTunes is offering 16 edpisodes of The Daily Show and Colbert Report for $9.95 a month.
- Wiki on the plains: A South Dakota paper takes a stab at that freaky 'Wikitorial' thing again.
Previously
Media Minutiae: Fair Fade Edition
Media Minutiae: 'One Man Mobile Uplink' Edition
Media Minutiae: Post-Oscar Edition
Media Minutiae: The Absolut(e) Edition
Media Minutiae: A Welcome Edition, or at Spin, Subtraction
Media Minutiae: The "After Blogging This For Month, I'm Ready To Switch To PR Myself" Edition
Media Minutiae: The "They Certainly Have A Degree in B.S" Edition
Media Minutiae: The "You Won't Find This In The Folio Salary Survey" Edition
Media Minutiae: The "Howard Stern Misses The Trifecta" Edition
Media Minutiae: The "Henry Luce Does A Slow 720 In The Grave" Edition
Media Minutiae: The "Don't You Ever Say Bruce Wasserstein's Name In This House Again!" Edition
Media Minutiae: The "One Music Magazine For Sale, In Good Condition — Slightly Used" Edition
Media Minutiae: The "There Ain't No Way Daily Candy Is Worth $100 Million" Edition
Media Minutiae: The "You Don't Know Dick, Do You?" Edition
Media Minutiae: The "I'm Not OK!, You're Not OK!" Edition
Media Minutiae: The Models On The TV, Models On The iPod, Models Everywhere! Edition
Media Minutiae: Feisty Friday Edition
Media Minutiae: The "What's It All About, Alfie?" Edition
Media Minutiae: The Laptops & Lingerie Edition
Media Minutiae: The All-TWX, All-The-Time Edition
Breakfast (on Steroids) at Condé
Media Minutiae: The Onion Foretold It Edition
Media Minutiae: How The Sausage Gets Made Edition
More Media Minutiae: The Newborn Blog Addendum
Media Minutiae: The Prank Call Edition
Media Minutiae: "Pop Quiz, Hotshot" Edition.
Media Minutiae, Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My! Edition
Media Minutiae, Supafast Supafly Edition
More Minutiae, Kissing Valentino By A Crystal Blue Italian Stream Edition
Media Minutiae, "Vloggio Killed The Bloggio Star" Doesn't Quite Have The Same Ring Edition
More Minoosh, Just Because Edition
More Minutiae, Apparently Something's Happening On Oprah Edition
Media Minutiae, J'aime Bien Le Pamplemousse Edition
More Minutiae, Only The Young Can Say Edition
Media Minutiae, Where EVERY Page is Page Six Edition
More Minutiae, And Thou Shalt Worship Thy Dark Lord Jack Shafer Edition
Media Minutiae, Depressing Media News Edition
Media Minutiae, With Apologies To Oasis Edition
It's the Most N+1-derful Time of the Year
Media Minutiae, God Morgon Edition
Media Minutiae, Long-Form Edition
Media Minutiae, If "Hervé" Catches On I Will Be So Happy Edition
Media Minutiae, All-NYT All The Time Edition
Media Minutiae, The Cheese Actually Doesn't Stand Alone Edition
Media Minutiae, Guns On The Run Edition
Media Minutiae, Fishbowlosity Edition
Media Minutiae, Frey Fray Edition
Media Minutiae, Korn is Kool Edition
Media Minutiae, Eggrolls Are Delicious Edition
More Minutiae, It's Been That Kind Of January Edition
Media Minutiae, Oh, People They Don't Understand Edition
Morning Media Minutiae, Saturday Night In Jungleland Edition
Media Miscellany, Another Reason Not To Move, Another Vodka Tonic Edition
Media Minutiae, There's Always Times Square Edition
Media Minutiae, How To Be A Better Equestrian Edition
Media Minutiae, The Paper Holds Their Folded Faces To The Floor Edition
Morning Media Minutiae, $52-Million Worth of Hard-Hitting Love Edition
Media Minutiae, The Prince of Darkness Finds His Kingdom Edition
Media Minutiae, Gollum Is Kong Edition
Morning Media Minutiae, Maybe In Touch Should Just Fake Jessica's Diary Again Edition
Media Minutiae, It's All Greek To Crain's Edition
Media Minutiae, Let It Snow Let It Snow Let It Snow Edition
Morning Media Minutiae, Sex With A Strange Man In A Stairwell Edition
Media Minutiae, Magical Thursday* Edition
Mid-Aft Media Minutiae, Breck Jock Edition
Morning Media Minutiae, So The Pope Walks Into A Bar...Edition
Media Minutiae, Katie's Got Les Moonves By The Cojones Edition
Late Media Minutiae, Forbes Gets All Up In Your Gringott's Edition
Media Minutiae, Maybe Now's Not A Great Time To Be Going To Baghdad Edition
Morning Media Minutiae: A.J. Extravaganza Edition
Media Minutiae, Wednesday Bloody Wednesday Edition
The Hills are Alive With the Sound of Media Minutiae
Media Minutiae, Your Eggs Aren't Getting Any Younger Edition
Media Minutiae II, Canadian Blog Synchronicity Edition
Thanksgiving Round-Up: What You Missed While You Were In A Four-Day Food Coma
Media Minutiae, Ted Koppel's Final Tuesday, With Morrie or Anyone Else Edition
Media Minutiae, TV Networks X Out The Darnedest Things Edition
Media Minutiae II, Duck-Billed Web-Footed Egg-Laying Monotreme Edition
Media Minutiae: Murtha, Murtha, Murtha! Edition
Media Minutiae, Playing Catch-Up edition
Media Minutiae, Strong Enough For A Man But Made For A Woman Edition
Wherein we plunder our brethren
Media Minutiae II, They Call It Snuppy Love Edition
Media Minutiae, Leave Your Keys In The Bowl Edition
Weekend Minutiae: Sex and Shopping
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