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Double Standard for the Times; But Then Why Not? Bloomberg Owns This Town

Leonie Haimson | Posted 10.20.2009 | New York

Read More: New York Times, Mayoral Control, Monopoly of Power, New York Magazine, Michael Bloomberg, Double Standard, New York Pension System, Randi Weingarten, Bill Thompson, Panel for Educational Policy, New York News
Leonie Haimson

In the mind of the Times, accountability for billions of dollars in tax funds for public education meant that one man alone, namely Bloomberg, should continue to have total control.

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Bruce Wasserstein 1947-2009

Robert Teitelman | Posted 10.15.2009 | Business

Read More: Lazard, The Deal, Bruce Wasserstein, M&A, Media, Business, New York Magazine, Deals, Business News
Robert Teitelman

The Bruce we knew was an enthusiast of the media and for journalism. It's been said often enough, but Bruce came up with the idea for a national newspaper to cover deals.

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Jimmy Fallon's Valued Online Audience Returns Little Value

Danny Groner | Posted 11.09.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: The Internet, Jimmy Kimmel Live, I'm Fucking Matt Damon, Late Night Jokes, Adam Sternbergh, I'm Fucking Matt Damon Video, Matt Damon, Sarah Silverman Matt Damon, New York Magazine, Internet, Television, Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, Late Night Shows, Youtube, Jimmy Kimmel, Online Video, Jimmy Fallon, Sarah Silverman Matt Damon Video, Nbc, David Letterman, Entertainment News
Danny Groner

In the past few months since Fallon debuted, he's led regular and occasional features targeting, among others, an online audience that doesn't stay up for Fallon.

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Jason Linkins

NY Mag Art Critic Challenges Glenn Beck To Stage Art Shows

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.20.2009 | Media

Read More: Glenn Beck Video, Jerry Saltz, Art Criticism, New York Magazine, Communist Art Nbc, Glenn Beck, Glenn Beck Nbc Communist Art, Media News, Media News

Days after Glenn Beck presented Fox viewers with his art history lecture of Rockefeller Center, I find myself really thrilled at the extent to which p...

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My Mad Men: When Your Boss Is Your Lover

Lea Lane | Posted 09.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Mad Men, Office Relationships, Relationships, Boss-Lovers, New York Magazine, Living News
Lea Lane

Between my marriages I dated two bosses -- two mad men -- back to back. They weren't the "mad" of Madison Avenue. They were mad as in angry and sometimes even crazy.

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MSNBC Guest Suffers Through Awkward Technical Difficulties (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Peter Drivas | Posted 09.03.2009 | Media

Read More: David Shuster, Jennifer Senior, Msnbc, Tamron Hall, New York Magazine, Video, Media News

New York Magazine's Jennifer Senior experienced awkward technical difficulties during an interview with MSNBC's David Shuster and Tamron Hall today. ...

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Pictures of Minors Driving 60 mph and Texting? What is the NYT Thinking?

Blake Fleetwood | Posted 08.20.2009 | Media

Read More: Poynter Institute, Kelly McBride, Cell Phone Driving, Cell Phone, Text Messaging, New York Times, Journalistic Ethics, Staged Photos, Dan Gill, Journalism Ethics, Newsweek, New York Magazine, Media News
Blake Fleetwood

Could the Times possibly have assigned the photographer to take a picture of minors engaging in what seems like incredibly risky behavior?

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New York Magazine Article Drew Attention To Chantix Problems In February 2008

Huffington Post | Peter Drivas | Posted 08.02.2009 | Media

Read More: Chantix, Media News, Media, Derek De Koff, Food and Drug Administration, New York Magazine, Media News

On Wednesday, the Food and Drug Administration mandated that Chantix, an anti-smoking drug, be required to carry its strongest safety warning due to s...

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Carlos Slim: Can He Turnaround The NYT?

New York Magazine | Chris Rovzar | Posted 06.27.2009 | Business

Read More: Billionaire, New Yorker, New York Magazine, Lawerence Wright, New York Times, Carlos Slim, New York Times Company, Business News

Throughout his endless (though interesting) profile of Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim, New Yorker scribe Lawrence Wright provides example after examp...

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New York Magazine Cutting Rate Base, Raising Subscription Price

MediaWeek | Posted 06.22.2009 | Media

Read More: Magazines, New York Magazine, New York-New York, Media News

New York magazine announced that it would lower its rate base 6 percent to 400,000, while hiking its introductory subscription price 25 percent to $24...

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All The Rage

Michael Sigman | Posted 06.06.2009 | Home

Read More: Pete Seeger, Bear Stearns Collapse, Erin Burnett, Wall Street, LA Weekly, New York Magazine, Home News
Michael Sigman

"Revenge is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out." --Francis Bacon Late in the pre-Google ...

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Jason Linkins

Scritti Politti: April 21, 2009

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.22.2009 | Media

Read More: Barack Obama, New York Magazine, Dick Cheney, The Awl, Financial Crisis, The Washington Independent, Torture Memos, Torture, Media News

Over at Foreign Policy's Shadow Government blog, there's a thoughtful post up from Philip Zelikow - no bleeding heart, he - about torture. The whole ...

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New York Magazine Embraces Tiny Cover Type

The New York Observer | John Koblin | Posted 05.16.2009 | Media

Read More: Adam Moss, New York, Magazines, New York Magazine, Media News

In a big, bold, screaming headline, you found the cover line: "THE FACEBOOK REVOLT" over a shot of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. But then there's all ...

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New York Magazine Blog Takes Down Michelle Obama Booty Post

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 05.01.2009 | Media

Read More: ยช, Dan Amira, New York Magazine, Poll, New York, Daily Intelligencer, Daily Intel, New York-New York, Media News

New York magazine's Daily Intel blog published and subsequently deleted a blog post focused on the First Lady's booty Tuesday afternoon. The post by ...

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Extreme Birth, Indeed

Jennifer Block | Posted 05.01.2009 | Living

Read More: Ricki Lake, Birth Center, New York Magazine, Midwives, Natural Childbirth, Cesarean Section, Erykah Badu, Obstetrics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Home Birth, New York City, Evidence-Based Medicine, C-Section Rate, Living News
Jennifer Block

Routine maternity ward monitoring, inducing, and anesthetizing have added up to millions of unnecessary cesarean sections: a hospital childbirth system gone insane.

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National Magazine Awards 2009: New Yorker, GQ, New York Lead Nominations

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 04.18.2009 | Media

Read More: Gq, Conde Nast, New Yorker, New York Magazine, ASME Awards, National Magazine Awards 2009, National Magazine Awards, Magazines, Media News

The New Yorker led the pack of nominees for the 2009 National Magazine Awards, garnering 10 nominations in categories including General Excellence, R...

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50 Years Late, Connie Converse Is Music's Next Big Thing

Tony Sachs | Posted 04.10.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Pop Music, San Francisco Chronicle, Brooklyn, Bon Iver, Gene Deitch, Indie Music, Juno Movie, Connie Converse, Kimya Dawson, Myspace, Facebook, New York, New York Magazine, Entertainment News
Tony Sachs

Singer-songwriter Connie Converse is the indie hipster of the moment in Brooklyn with the release this week of her debut album. Did I mention that Connie Converse is 85 -- if she's even alive?

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This Week in Magazines: Recession Special

James Warren | Posted 03.18.2009 | Media

Read More: New Yorker, Newsweek, This Week in Magazines, Time, Tim Geithner, Vanity Fair, New York Magazine, Media News
James Warren

If even Jim Cramer cuts Treasury Secretary Geithner some slack, perhaps there is bonafide hope for our most influential tax evaders' plan to save the economy.

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Glory days? They Were Gone Long Ago.

Nicole Kenealy | Posted 02.11.2009 | Media

Read More: New York Times, New York Magazine, The New York Times, Literary Culture, Literature, Publishing, Books, Media News
Nicole Kenealy

Another article informing me about the impending death of the publishing industry. Like I needed a reminder? Black Wednesday wasn't so long ago that we already need a recap.

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Naked Dead Women Are Hawt!

Charlotte Hilton Andersen | Posted 01.12.2009 | Media

Read More: Necrophilia, Misogyny, Women, Naked, Duncan Quinn, Advertising, Year-End Lists, Dead, New York Magazine, Sexism, Sexist Advertising, Media News
Charlotte Hilton Andersen

What is it about watching a well-dressed man either about to kill a senseless woman draped over the hood of his car that would make anyone want to buy their clothing?

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Gael Greene, 40-Year New York Magazine Food Critic, Let Go

Huffington Post | Posted 12.21.2008 | Media

Read More: Gael Greene, Magazines, New York Magazine, Media News

New York magazine's longtime food critic, Gael Greene, has been let go after 40 years of writing about New York dining for the magazine. "New York ma...

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A Challenge

Andrew Sargus Klein | Posted 11.17.2008 | Media

Read More: Byron York, Matt Taibbi, U.S. Economy, Debate, National Review, Talking Points, Economy, Media, Partisan, Media Bias, New York Magazine, Ponzi Scheme, Media News
Andrew Sargus Klein

Snark and blinkered partisanship aren't going to help anyone out of this mess. It's going to take a lot of ivory tower types and pragmatic politicians to pull this off.

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Hillary Clinton Speaks at Convention, the Press Concocts a Story

Eric Boehlert | Posted 09.26.2008 | Media

Read More: Msnbc, Radar, Cnn, Boston Globe, New York Magazine, Wall Street Journal, Barack Obama, The Note, Washington Post, Hillary Clinton, New York Times, Democratic Convention, Media News
Eric Boehlert

The press has portrayed Clinton's planned convention address, as well as the fact that her name is being placed into nomination, as an unprecedented, heavy-handed power grab. It's not.

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Plastic Surgery For Dummies

Charlotte Hilton Andersen | Posted 09.14.2008 | Style

Read More: Vogue Magazine, Fat, Eating Disorders, Operation Smile, Obesity, Anorexia, Plastic Surgery, New York Magazine, Style News
Charlotte Hilton Andersen

Plastic surgery has legitimate uses. Nobody is denying the great good that organizations like Operation Smile do. But somehow I think fixing actual ...

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Friend Poaching or Social Networking?

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 09.11.2008 | Living

Read More: Friendship, Linkedin, Friend Poaching, Myspace, Relationships, Female Friendship, Social Networking, Social Poaching, cnn.com, Living, Toxic Friends, Facebook, Betrayal, New York Magazine, Living News
Dr. Irene S. Levine

Friendships change over time. A friendship that is 'stolen' may have long been gone. It may offer the poachee an opportunity to change or get rid of a friendship that was draining or toxic in other ways.

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