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We Already Knew Hendrik Hertzberg Was a Winner
Filed under: gay rights, Hendrik Hertzberg, Keith Olbermann, Ta-Nehisi Coates, television, TOTT
...but the Columbia Journalism Review just reconfirmed it, with a "Winner" laurel for Hertzberg's recent Comment on the hateful Proposition 8. CJR's Charles Kaiser writes, "His opening paragraph is worth the price of the magazine."
It seems unlikely that you, the Emdashes reader, haven't seen Keith Olbermann's Special Comment on this Californian embarrassment
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"Writer Gives Long Account"
Filed under: abstracts, Jaime Pressly, Matthew Yglesias, New Yorker, Rebecca Mead, Ross Douthat, V.S. Naipaul
Jonathan Taylor writes:
Matthew Yglesias, seemingly not a print subscriber with access to Digital Reader, reminds me of something I've been wanting to take note of here: the pleasures of the New Yorker abstracts. Directed by The Atlantic's Ross Douthat to Rebecca Mead's 2003 article about Jaime Pressly, "The Almost It Girl" (Digital Edition link here) he points to what must be the longest abstract I've seen on
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Jonathan Taylor writes:
Perhaps, like me, you've heard about Claire Hoffman's interview with Prince in last week's Talk of the Town, even if you haven't read it yet. The one where, tapping a Bible, he's all, "God came to earth and saw people sticking it wherever and doing it with whatever, and he just cleared it all out. He was, like, 'Enough.' " (Okay, now I've read it, to get the real quote.)
Feel free to keep it meta with this interview of Hoffman by Brian Palmer,
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Campaign-Trail Pain Painful, Though Even More Painful Had Palin Prevailed
Filed under: Barack Obama, Dorothy Wickenden, Election 2008, newyorker.com, podcasts
Emily takes a break from a long issue close to write:
I was sorry to hear from the latest "Campaign Trail" podcast that most-having host Dorothy Wickenden has busted her ankle. President-elect Obama surmised that Chicago Sun-Times reporter Lynn Sweet's cracked shoulder was the "only major incident" from the Grant Park party. Could this be the second media-related injury this election season? Either way, I hope both bones heal quickly and well.
Also, I was delighted to learn, at the end of this week's podcast, that "The Campaign Trail" will continue to continue (as Simon & Garfunkel would say), as "The Transition," which Wickenden describes as "a program about the new political scene in Washington and around the country as the shift in power gets underway." I'm so glad: The show is too enlightening, and—particularly last week, when the crew became charmingly manic—too entertaining to end.
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The New Yorker Digital Edition, a Few Early Reactions
Filed under: Barack Obama, newyorker.com, The New Yorker Digital Edition, William Finnegan
I'm looking at the New Yorker Digital Edition, and I thought I'd get a few initial thoughts down here.
- Is this the most ambitious integration of a magazine on the Internet that we have yet seen? If anybody reading this can think of something comparable, please write in and let us know! To summarize: every subscriber to the magazine now receives, in addition to the physical version in the mailbox, an identical version of the magazine (including layout and ads) in a digital format that can be viewed in any browser wherever there is an Internet connection. Furthermore, every subscriber may now view every single issue the magazine has ever published. The Internet is a palpable problem for magazine publishers, because they are an expensive proposition and the audience is spoiled by
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- Report: Learning to read with comic books edited by Françoise Mouly (for Print)
- Interview: Designer Eleanor Grosch (for Print)
- Review: Charles Addams: A Cartoonist's Life by Linda H. Davis (for Newsday)
- Review: The King's Gambit: A Son, a Father, and the World's Most Dangerous Game by Paul Hoffman (for Newsday)
- Review: Does The New Republic's recent redesign mean a change of tune? (for Print)
- Proposal: A more attractive MetroCard (for A Brief Message)
- Interview: James Surowiecki on what's next for the wisdom of crowds (for Assignment Zero)
- Report: Eustace Tilley spruces up for The New Yorker's website redesign (for Print)
- Feature: Muslim immigration iconography in the Netherlands (for Print)
- Review: books about various New Yorker cartoonists by Liza Donnelly and Iain Topliss (for Newsday)
- Profile: screenwriter and novelist Joe Keenan (for Newsday)
- Review: The Complete New Yorker (for Print)
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