Flashing Logos Are The Future [Print Is Dead]
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Esquire’s September cover will have a flashing digital display made by E Ink, the company that hopes to replace print with its digital paper technology. Iif you put it on the cover of a print magazine, doesn’t that defeat the purpose? [NYT]
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What Will Really Get People to Stop Buying Magazines
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It took only a six-figure investment, a Chinese engineer making a special battery, manufacturing gurus in Texas and Ohio, and sponsorship from Ford for Esquire to move forward with plans to turn your local newsstand into the flashing nightmare that is Times Square.To celebrate his magazine’s 75th anniversary, David Granger (claims to have) dreamed up […]
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Source: Metro Editor Fired For “Obama Is My Slave” Publicity Stunt Story [Rumormonger]
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A tipster tells us that Mark Bulliet, an editor at NYC’s throwaway free morning paper Metro, has been fired. The reason: Bulliet was the editor who oversaw Metro’s embarrassing front-page story last Thursday about a girl who was supposedly attacked by four black girls because she was wearing a t-shirt reading “OBAMA IS MY SLAVE.” As we told you last week, that story’s only source was the crappy designer who had sold the t-shirt, and it’s likely the whole thing was a tasteless, racist publicity stunt that Metro fell for. A source tells us that Bulliet had an intern do the story despite its incredibly poor sourcing. We’ve emailed Metro for a response. If you know more about the fallout, email us. [Previously]
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Made-Up Japanese Sex Stories [Bullshit]
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The good news: Everything you ever read about the sexual perversities of the Japanese may still by true. The bad: If you read it in the “WaiWai” column of the Mainichi Daily News, it probably isn’t. The English-language version of popular Japanese newspaper Mainichi Shimbun has been inventing all its best kinky features, or rather deliberately mistranslating them from the original. As it turns out, moms are notblowing their sons to get them to study harder, there is no bestiality restaurant in Tokyo, and housewives probably aren’t turning tricks in suburban coin showers. The paper vows to start over fresh by hiring women to scrutinize the legitimacy of its seedy reporting, and the internal investigation was said to rival the Times’s after the Jayson Blair fiasco. The editorial apology after the jump (it does no good to nettlesome national stereotypes that the URL actually ends with “So sorry”).
…We continued to post articles that contained incorrect information about Japan and indecent sexual content. These articles, many of which were not checked, should not have been dispatched to Japan or the world. We apologize deeply for causing many people trouble and for betraying the public’s trust in the Mainichi Shimbun.
The Mainichi Newspapers took punitive measures on July 20 against Managing Director Yoshiyuki Watanabe, who previously served as general manager of the Multimedia Division, and another senior official, to hold them responsible as supervisors, in addition to those who were earlier punished.
We will take the following measures to prevent a recurrence of the problems pointed out to us through the criticism and opinions received from many readers, through our in-house investigation, and as indicated by the Open Newspaper Committee of experts:
On Aug. 1, we will reorganize the MDN Editorial Department, and on Sept. 1, under a new chief editor, the MDN will be transformed into a more news-oriented site. We will translate Mainichi Shimbun editorials and commentaries by prominent figures, such as “Jidai-no-Kaze” (Sign of the Times), and post them on the site in an effort to deepen the understanding of Japan among readers overseas.
At the same time, we will set up an advisory group to the MDN comprised of Megumi Nishikawa, an expert senior writer, and other staff writers specializing in international news coverage. The group will check the MDN’s editorial plans and the content of articles in the MDN.
We are determined to try our utmost to regain the public trust that we have lost as a result of this incident and rehabilitate the English site into one that can dispatch information about Japan to the world in an appropriate manner.
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Presented Without Comment: Olivia Palermo in Page Six Magazine [The Rich]
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The 22-year-old socialite says, “I don’t have to work—my parents have always supported me in everything I’ve wanted to do—but I want to. I want to be an actress and a brand, and then I want to do some producing.” [Page Six Mag]
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Crap Letter from a Crazed Nazi Sympathizer [Books]
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And here we were, just complaining that two-line blog comments are king and nobody writes letters to the editor anymore. Looks like the art of letter-writing isn’t completely lost—prisoners, Nazi sympathizers, and cranky olds of the world proudly carry on this tradition. Via Cajun Boy, an excerpt from a four-page, handwritten letter to a publishing house, written by “a German woman and proud of it” who says “Adolf Hilter was super cool and women liked him.” (The letter—or is it performance art?—was in response to the book The Nazis and the Occult.)
That’s not all she wrote! Read the rest of the screed here.
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What Will Our President of Tomorrow Look Like in the Future? [Spoiler Alert]
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The presidency ages a man. (And hypothetically it would a woman, but we’ll never know!) Remember when there was color in Bill Clinton’s and George W. Bush’s hair? Barely? After two terms in the Oval Office, both men looked twenty years older. This despite the fact that Bush gets 12 hours of sleep a night and Clinton received regular tail! But what will happen to Barack Obama or John McCain? Obama does too many drugs to sleep and old people like McCain just doze off in front of the tv each night for a couple unsatisfying hours. So we had intern Anna Peele work a little photoshop wizardry to age Obama and McCain and help us figure out exactly which terrifying visage we’ll be forced to look upon in 2012. Scary results below!
See? Then they’ll dissolve the Senate and create the Galactic Empire.
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Whoa! []
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Bored permalancers working from home in the Williamsburg/Greenpoint area should try ordering their lunch from Jimmy’s Diner over on Union. The delivery guys they send you are cute!
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More Sex Stories Coming, Says Times [Journalismism]
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Were you reading the Times this morning, wondering why there weren’t more sexual stories up in there? Were you thinking some sex would fit particularly well in the metro section, squeezed between reports on rent control for VIPs, that Harlem neighborhood photographer and that guy who died in the triathalon? Well, then, you’re in luck, because Joe Sexton (ahem), leader of the metro section’s scoop ninjas, is saying the paper will likely deliver more discourse on intercourse. Apparently their Eliot Spitzer hooker exclusive was just the beginning! Here’s what Sexton wrote on the Times website today, responding to a question about the newspaper’s plans to expand New York City coverage:
Readers across the globe, I think, regard New York as a place of fascination and, in many cases, a place of destination. More good stories about a place of such wonder and absurdity, magic and outrage can’t but attract more readers — in this city or on other continents.
Jim Dwyer, our gifted About New York columnist, likes to say there are three great, inextinguishable human needs: food, sex and stories. We’re going to keep the stories coming, likely including many about food and sex (don’t wince yet!)
The Observer wonders if this statement means the paper will create a sex beat (the San Francisco Chronicle created such a position). But maybe Sexton just knows something about one or more elected officials we’re not privvy to yet!
[Times via Observer]
(Photo via Times)
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These Actors Need to Fire Their Agents [Casting]
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The image associated with this post is best viewed using a browser.That’s Cuba Gooding Jr. (natch), Lucy Liu, Jim Caviezel, Adrien Brody (sigh), Ben Chaplin, Wes Bentley, Emma Stone (really?), and the doomed Heather Graham. Well, these are The Playlist’s picks for who needs new representation. We agree with most of the choices, except for Emma Stone, who is so new to the scene that it’s hard to tell. In fact, we think she could be a member of the Tabloid Class of 2010. We’ve added another suggestion after the jump.
Joan Allen
The Steppenwolf Theatre alum has done such fine work in The Crucible, Nixon, and The Upside of Anger that we’re not really sure why she isn’t in every other prestige drama, a la Laura Linney. Yes her reps were clever to get her on board the Bourne movies, as those were kicky good fun and she did actually get to act a bit. But why God why is she next starring in a movie called Death Race alongside such notables as Jason Statham and Tyrese? And then, after that, she’s doing a tiny movie called Good Sharma. At least she’s got that Lasse Hallström movie coming up. Though, regrettably, it’s called Hachiko: A Dog’s Story. Oh, and she’s coming to Broadway soon. Maybe that’s the beginning of a renaissance, Joan! In the meantime, get better people.
Who do you think? Anyone else who’s perpetually denied golden opportunities or makes terrible choices, seemingly on the advice of representation?
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