1. More Judy Miller bashing...
2. Second-degree schadenfraude. (On Lauren Weisberger's second book deal.)
3. Joan Didion: "I am bad at interviewing people. I avoid situations in which I have to talk to anyone's press agent. (This precludes doing pieces on most actors, a bonus in itself.)
4. Getting laid in Baghdad. Or not getting laid, as it were.
5. The New York Press abandons the appallingly effortless task of taking down the playground bullies (big media, large publishing houses) and bravely chooses to take down the playground retards (blogs, indie writers, etc.) instead. Very U.L.A. of them.
"The blog is a dead form within two years. On the outside."
Isn't that what people said about Drudge?
Posted by: Ed at September 25, 2003 10:44 AMYou mean Drudge isn't dead?
Posted by: jon at September 25, 2003 01:52 PMRe: #3...I like the last line of that piece...I think it's "A writer is always selling someone out."
Posted by: ck at September 25, 2003 02:29 PMHmmmm.... according to Alexa, Gawker is about the same size as NYpress.com. I would love to see NYP's online operating costs, versus those of Gawker.
"These sites which get more traffic than us at 5% of our cost will be dead in two years. Yeah, Baby!"
DAMNATION!
A monologue from the play by Frank Wedekind
NOTE: This translation by Samuel A. Eliot was first published in 1914 by Boni and Liveright, New York. It is now a public domain work and may be performed without royalties.
CASTI-PIANI: The best your superhuman sacrifices could do would be to turn my stomach. All my life I have loved tigresses. With bitches I was never anything but a stick of wood. My only consolation is that marriage, which you glorify so rapturously and for which bitches are bred, is a civilized institution. Civilized institutions arise only that they may be surmounted. The race will win beyond marriage just as it has surmounted slavery. The free love-market, where the tigress triumphs, is founded on a primordial law of unalterable nature. And how proud and high will woman stand in the world, so soon as she has conquered the right to sell herself, unbranded, at the highest price a man will bid for her! Illegitimate children will be better cared for then by the mother, than legitimate ones are now by the father. Then the pride and ambition of woman will no longer lie in the man who allots her her place, but in the world, where she struggles up to the highest position that her value can give her. Then what a glorious fresh vital sound the words "daughter of joy" will have! In the story of paradise it is written that Heaven endowed woman with the power to seduce. Woman seduces whom she will. Woman seduces when she will. She does not wait for love. And conventional society combats this hellish danger to our sacred civilization, by bringing woman up in an artifical darkness of mind and soul. The growing girl must not know what it means to be a woman. All our institutions might go smash if she did!
I wonder where folks like Josh Marshall, JEff Jarvis, Ed Cone, Amy Langfield, Virginia Postrel, Megan McArdle, Andrew Sullivan, Matt Welch (and now Liz Spiers) -- "made" print journalists who also love to blog and have bigger audiences than most magazine publishers -- fit into the NYPress's schema.
Why are publishers so narcissistic? "Whee... everyone wants to be just like meeee!"
Posted by: henrycopeland at September 26, 2003 08:20 AMYo Elizabeth,
So happy to see you have your own blog - as Marx/Engels would put it, you've seized the means of production. Or in your case, the moans ... or the just plain mean. Oh whatever, so the joke doesn't work.
I met you at the BUZZ party and remained a fan even after putting face to blog. In fact became even more of a fan. Hope you're doing well.
Keep on writing!
Peter
Posted by: Peter Jurew at September 26, 2003 04:08 PM