Gawker
fun with contextual advertising
Posts Tagged “
The Nation
”
fun with contextual advertising
first in the nation
First New Hampshire Votes Are In!
And Hillary Clinton has not received a single vote in the state of New Hampshire. Meltdown! The media was right! Once they declared her finished, after they anointed her the inevitable next president. And Drudge is running the most flattering photo of a liberal that we've ever seen him run. It's of Barry Obama! [NYT]
there is power in a union
'Nation' Ed Won't Cross Picket Line For Colbert
Nation editor Katrina vanden Heuvel just became maybe the first invited guest to publicly decline to appear on a strike-hobbled Colbert Report, which returns to the air without its writers on January 7. It's going to be a sad January for a lot of liberals totally unaware of their dogmatic humorlessness. [NYO via No Fact Zone]
liberal fantasies
Katrina Vanden Heuevel Wants A Pony
Nation editrix Katrina Vanden Heuevel, whose commitment to liberalism is almost as strong as her commitment to snuffing out all forms of humor or excitement in her magazine, offers her take on the Dan Rather-Katie Couric kerfuffle. Guess who's to blame? Big corporations! More »
remainders
Anna Nicole Smith and Kurt Vonnegut were both featured in the same issue of Playboy, but only one of them was naked. [Lard Biscuit]
What if a famous designer had a store opening and nobody came? [Racked]
The Sun has a right-wing agenda and loves Israel, says The Nation. Also, all that stuff about having 150,000 readers is grossly exaggerated. We're shocked. [The Nation]
Cain is moving farther downtown, but not exactly downtown: 17th and 9th, to be exact. Surely the neighbors are thrilled. [DBTH]
Starting in September, Nielsen will record ratings of shows watched in bars, gyms, hotels, and offices. [NYT]
More »
Remainders: The Anna Nicole-Kurt Connection
media
• Michael Massing thinks financial pressures are affecting the press' ability to do its job. [ETP]
• Tony Judt thinks it's because liberals are pussies these days. [LRB]
• Either way, things aren't going well financially for the liberal pussies at the Times. [AP]
Media Bubble: What's Left
• The Nation takes on the Washington Times: "The vast majority of people who read it don't realize that this paper is in bed with bigots and white supremacists." Funny, we thought that the vast majority of people who read it were bigots and white supremacists. [Nation]• Michael Massing thinks financial pressures are affecting the press' ability to do its job. [ETP]
• Tony Judt thinks it's because liberals are pussies these days. [LRB]
• Either way, things aren't going well financially for the liberal pussies at the Times. [AP]
ann coulter
Remainders: Joe Lieberman Shits in the Woods
• Apparently Joe Lieberman has some sort of bet going to determine how stupid voters in Connecticut really are. [YouTube]• When an outfit like The Nation calls something "the stupidest press release ever" you need to sit up and take note: It's got to be egregiously dumb to stand out amongst all the touts for new bongs and "progressive netroots" conferences. [The Nation]
• American Apparel flack responds to 2005 resignation letter; apparently, Dov Charney is so saintly that if you threw him out of a plane, he'd float up. [Consumerist]
• Philadelphia follows lead of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, bans smoking. Racist cheesesteaks still available. [Philadelphia Will Do]
• Britney Spears has no plans to birth newest Federline in Namibia, decides it's just as easy to sob yourself to sleep here in the U.S.A. [People]
• The Daily News doesn't need a touching quote to make us cry - they can just keep running that unsightly picture of Lloyd Grove each day. [Observer]
• Jack Shafer's not gonna be happy until every single American child is on the drugs. Also, he ran with a tough crowd in high school [Slate]
• Ann Coulter calls for assassination of Pennsylvania congressman; weary nation yawns, wonders who said it first. [ThinkProgress]
• A heartwarming story about respect. [OINY]
• OMG, this is SO. FUCKING. CUTE. [Corporate Casual]
media bubble
• Victor Navasky's secret to indie-mag success: Get Paul Newman to give you money. [FBNY]
• Jon Friedman likes Fortune. That's nice. [MW]
• Hungry in the new Hearst Building? The cafeteria officially opens Monday, but there was a "trial run" today. When does Bruni arrive? [Jossip]
• Us Weekly covers the Rolling Stone 1,000th-issue party, shockingly. [WWD (second item)]
Media Bubble: There Is Nothing Paul Newman Can't Do
• Why did Budget Living fold? The word "budget" in its name. On, and also too many subscribers, apparently. [Folio:]• Victor Navasky's secret to indie-mag success: Get Paul Newman to give you money. [FBNY]
• Jon Friedman likes Fortune. That's nice. [MW]
• Hungry in the new Hearst Building? The cafeteria officially opens Monday, but there was a "trial run" today. When does Bruni arrive? [Jossip]
• Us Weekly covers the Rolling Stone 1,000th-issue party, shockingly. [WWD (second item)]
covers
George W. Bush, Always a Cartoon
Between the new issue of Rolling Stone and the new issue of The Nation, cartoonist Robert Grossman is clearly, as the Observer notes, having his best week ever. At least until Jann Wenner and Katrina vanden Heuvel notice he sold basically the same image to two mags at the same time, and vow never to work with him again. More »
the nation
Navasky Emigrates from 'Nation'
There are several notable facts in a "Media Talk" blurb on The Nation in today's Times. First is the peg, that liberal lion Victor Navasky, who has been the magazine's publisher since he led the group of investors who bought it from Observer moneybags Arthur Carter in 1995, is stepping aside in favor of its editor, Katrina vanden Heuvel. Next is what Navasky will be focusing on instead: "his other job, as chairman of The Columbia Journalism Review," a fact that will make rightie press-crit sorts even more dyspeptic than usual. Then there's a notable financial reality, the magazine's current and unprecedented status as profitable, which, boosted by its oppositional prominence in the Bush years, it has been since 2003. Finally, and perhaps most interesting, is this: Even in light of that last fact, Navasky's beloved chestnut — "What's bad for the country is good for The Nation," quoted repeatedly as though it's new and fresh — makes no appearance at all. More »
kurt andersen
He Learned It All At Chris Hitchens' Learning Annex Class
You know why Kurt Andersen is an in-demand cultural critic and you aren't? Because of the brilliant, against-the-grain thinking he demonstrates in columns like this one, a biting attack on "intelligent design." More »
the nation
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Katrina?
Talking among ourselves this morning, we wondering if it's perhaps difficult to be named Katrina on a day like today. There are those Hitler relatives on Long Island who, The New Yorker reported several years ago, were forced to change their family name. Maybe there was some effect like that for well-known Katrinas, we speculated. What did this mean for, say, Nation editor Katrina vanden Heuvel? We emailed to find out. More »
the nation
