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Pointer
Dean chats up co-ed
Nothing
a redesign can't
fix
Tina Brown reads
own magazine, gasps.
Dave
Eggers
No
trouble getting
laid these days.
NYT
Magazine's
"What They Were
Thinking"
What Were They Thinking?
A
nation in mourning
Was
coverage of
Frank Lalli's death excessive?
NEXIS
Crashes
Journalism grinds
to halt.
TNR:
Beinart out,
Gore
3rd in
Younger, more Gore
editor in the catbird seat.
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Posted
4:02 a.m. ET Feb. 2, 2000
Modern
Humorist's
MediaGossipNews
Wednesday,
February 2, 2000
More
defections from Brill's
Content
Steve Brill is leaving his eponymous
magazine for an assistant editorship at
dELiAS.com,
the youth-oriented e-commerce venture. Brill
tells MediaNews: "I've enjoyed my time at Brill's
Content. My departure is amicable; there is no
truth to the rumor that I wasn't getting along with
myself. This is just an opportunity I
couldn't pass up." Candidates to fill the top spot
at Content: Tony Brill, Brenda Brill
and Brillworth T. Brill (no
relation).
Kurt
Andersen invited to book
party
Keith Kelly reports the Powerful
Media
chairman may be leaving his brownstone to attend
the release party for a new book. "I'm not sure if
I can make it," Andersen says. "It's Once and
Again night."
• EARLIER:
Wine, cheese to be
served
• Hirschorn:
I might drop
by
• Andersen:
If Hirschorn goes, I'll go
 Rosenthal
staying busy
In addition to his opinion pieces in the
Daily
News
and his upcoming gig for oldpeople.com,
former New York Timesman A.M. ("Abe")
Rosenthal will be scrawling a column on the
side of a brown paper bag that he will hide under
his bed. The column will be between 700 and 750
words, says Rosenthal's cleaning lady, and
will be untitled. The first installment will
concern tomatoes, and how hard it is to find good
ones in the winter, or female genital
mutilation.
• Frankel:
"He's still a prick"
Black
Tail lands former Shaved and Ready editor
Giliberti
After six years at the No. 3 shaved-fetish
magazine, Stan Giliberti is packing up his
razor and taking the helm of Black Tail. The
African-American-themed stroke
mag
has been steadily losing market share since the
departure of Kate Betts to Harper's
Bazaar.
Giliberti has previously worked at Juggs,
Granta and Mother Jones.
Old
cartoonist dies in
Midwest
Beloved by hundreds, an old cartoonist
for a small Midwestern paper is dead. The
cartoonist, known for his stinging but warm
caricatures of local politicians, also wrote witty
captions. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1942, 1946,
1961-1967, 1969,
1970 and 1998. (Last item)
• EARLIER:
Bil Keane still alive
Coverage:
Merger coverages to
merge
Reporters covering the AOL/Time
Warner
merger and the Warner-Lambert/AHP merger
announce their intentions to merge their coverage.
The proposed merger will free up 45 column inches
every day, allowing for added coverage of cold
snaps. "This is the season for 'em," says NYT's
David Barstow. The merged merger-coverage
entity will be called US News and World
Report.
• MUGGER:
Merger!
 EDITOR
ASSAULTED IN OWN
OFFICE:
Joan Lunden and her bodyguard were arraigned
on charges of assualt and battery after allegedly
roughing up McCalls
editor Sally Koslow and vandalizing her
ergonomic chair. Newsday reports
Lunden became enraged after a recent McCalls cover
shoot ran two hours too long. Koslow then threw a
pile of money at the blond pitchwoman.
Lunden said at a press conference outside the 12th
precinct, "Bitch think she all that."
• EARLIER:
Mixed reviews for former GMA host's new
album
Shakeup
at US:
Citing intense consumer demand, Jann
Wenner announces plans to take US
magazine daily. It will be renamed
ME.
• Read
Rolling Stone's trenchant interview with Stephen
Dorff
• Sen.
John McCain: "I can spot Wenner a mile
away"
Idea
of Alex Kuczynski's firm thighs haunts Michael
Wolff
Upon learning that statuesque, "Valkyrie-like"
media reporter Kuczynski was a swimmer in
college, Michael Wolff writes, "I can't stop
thinking about her. She's so pretty." The NYMag
critic admits to riding his dirt bike past the
Times building three times a day, and
insists, "She'd really like me if she knew
me."
• Wolff:
"I have an idea for a new media
company"
• EARLIER:
Wolff: "I have an idea for a new media
company"
Inuit
press scoops Toronto Globe and Mail on incremental
glacier
movement
In a coup for the scrappy indigenous
people's daily, the Nunavut Democrat-Gazette
uncovers news that the Upper Baffin Bay ice
shelf has moved one full inch since the last
readings were taken three years ago. G&M
glacier editor admits, "We got caught
flat-footed on this one."
Nation
relaunches with
color
Editor
Katrina vanden Heuvel emails, "Uh, we've
been in color since 1996."
• EARLIER:
Nation devotes special issue to campai—
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
• EARLIER:
Wolff tapes picture of Kuczynski's face onto Heidi
Klum's body
WSJ
portraits to include facial
imperfections
Celia McGee reveals that the Journal's front-page
halftone illustrations will now depict the
boils, moles, nose veins, eczema patches and
uni-brows so common among the business
class. "We need to stand out from the
Barnes
& Noble
portraits," an art director explains.
"Sumner
doesn't have the porcelain skin of a Brontë
sister."
PLUS:
•
Salon
launches "Whores Who Think"
•
Carl
Swanson emails link to really funny Mahir
site
•
Eggers:
Still getting
laid
• MUGGER:
My kids are funnier than this
•
Kurtz:
Media full of assholes
•
Assholes:
Media full of Kurtz
•
Otis
Chandler: I'm not wearing
shoes!
• Kausfiles:
NYT wrong on welfare, marinara
sauce
DISCLAIMER:
This site is a parody of Jim
Romenesko's MediaNews.
It used to be "gossip." Now it's news. How odd. Click
here
for the names of those responsible. Nothing in this Modern Humorist
parody should be mistaken for the truth. Except the Rosenthal thing.
Swear to God.
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said it?
"For the fourth time in my life I found
myself face to face with a naked Bill
Shatner. But this time I was
prepared."
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Only ten percent. I'm sorry, but she never
came around with refills.
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questions about that drawing that looks
like a pretty young woman from one angle
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