Much Ado About Not Much
(Clockwise, from top right, Harper's editors from 1941 through 2010.)
Cause? None in particular it seems, except for “the general weakness of the magazine’s newsstand sales and circulation figures.” Well, that would put Hodge in good company with the magazine’s previous editors. Hey, it’s hard to be a gangster.
*Yes, related.
I’ll be hanging out with the Shitcanned Media Elites over at ASSME.org for awhile—you know, a little blogging, a little this, a little that.
Should your Tuesday afternoon be getting you down, by all means swing by and check out the pink slippers—a change is a-coming, hallelujah. Etcetera, so on, and so forth too.
“Media workers have the gifts of adaptability and organization,” says Allison Hemming, founder of the Hired Guns talent agency (thehiredguns.com) and author of Work It! How to Get Ahead, Save Your Ass and Land a Job in Any Economy. “This makes them ideal project managers.”
“I don’t think it really much matters either. I know he’s dead and…there are worse things that could have happened today. Now, Fox News has confirmed that he is 41. The Associated Press now says 42. Again, it does not matter. He is neither age anymore.”
—Lyrically-inclined Fox News anchor Shepherd Smith speculating on how Binghamton shooter Jiverly Voong might have died.
Well yes, ninety9, but these are still terribly urgent matters, especially in light of the fact that the panel where you discuss nobler things (oh, this is sxsw? ha) absolutely just never ever gets live-Twittered. What more can one possibly say about the world and its handbasket home?
SO!
Not true:
“After one year, Gould resigned from her editor position at Gawker due to constant, overwhelmingly negative feedback on her Gawker blog posts.”
Very true, and smart!
“With respect to women,” says [Mediabistro editor Rebecca] Fox, “keeping your mouth shut has long been tantamount to being ‘good,’ and the virgin/whore complex is alive and well both online and off.”
Awkward on so many levels:
“‘Women are girlified way more than men, but to be fair, Emily was young when that article came out—25—and it openly portrayed her vulnerability as a neophyte in a new situation,’ Sklar writes via e-mail.”
Misinterpretation:
“‘When he was at Gawker, blogger Alex Balk wrote in the character of ‘My Cock’ for more than a year and still blogs about his affinity for blow jobs, yet he’s like the Teflon man when it comes to how the blogosphere collectively regards his writing,’ Fox says.”
The afore-chewed-over double-standard is less responsible for Teflon Cock’s esteem than the man’s acute dexterity when it comes to the art of satire, a form that—if you will—flummoxes folks on occasion. Like here!
[All via The Austin Chronicle, which is a real (alternative) live (weekly) newspaper owned by its own goddamn self! Amazing.]
