Vanity Fair Magazine

Mondo Times editors    Boulder, Colorado USA

Posted at 2:10pm on Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

Yet more political furor involving Sarah Palin, according to Politico from a story on June 30, 2009:

"A hard-hitting piece on Sarah Palin in the new Vanity Fair has touched off a blistering exchange
of insults among high-profile Republicans over last year’s GOP ticket – tearing open fresh wounds about leaks surrounding Palin and revealing for the first time some of the internal wars that paralyzed the campaign in its final days.

Rival factions close to the McCain campaign have been feuding since last fall over Palin, usually waging the battle in the shadows with anonymous quotes. Now, however, some of the most well-known names in Republican politics are going on-the-record with personal attacks and blame-casting."

The full story:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0609/24392.html

Mondo Times editors    Boulder Colorado USA

Posted at 2:06pm on Saturday, June 6th, 2009

Graydon Carter was named the editor of Vanity Fair magazine in July 1992, replacing Tina Brown, who left to take the editor job at The New Yorker. Carter began his career at Time Inc., where he worked for five years on Time and Life magazines. He then became the editor of the New York Observer.

Carter was the subject of "How to Lose Friends and Alienate People," a book by former Vanity Fair contributing editor Toby Young. The book was made into a movie in 2008, starring Jeff Bridges.

Eric Kallgren    Boulder, Colorado USA

Posted at 11:29pm on Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

In Vanity Fair magazine on April 28, 2009, Matt Pressman wondered which media web sites will survive:

If there’s one thing media prognosticators can agree on, it’s that print publications are on the way out. The great unanswered question is what the online media of the future will actually look like. Although it has been 13 years since the launch of Slate magazine and NYTimes.com, we are still in the early stages of the evolution of online media, and it remains to be seen which creatures will emerge from the primordial ooze adapted to survive in a harsh new environment. But like the meteor (or whatever the hell it was) that caused a mass extinction 65 million years ago, the economic crisis has winnowed the field and made it possible to create a taxonomy of new-media animals and predict which will be the crocodile and which the brontosaurus."

The full story:
http://www.vanityfair.com/online/politics/2009/04/media-darwinism-which-sites-will-survive.html

Eric Kallgren    Boulder, Colorado USA

Posted at 5:02pm on Monday, March 30th, 2009

New York Times publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. is at the edge of a precipice, according to an article in Vanity Fair magazine, which is at the edge of a precipice.

Mark Bowden wrote "The Inheritance" in the May 2009 issue:

"In 2001, The New York Times celebrated its 150th anniversary. In the years that have followed, Arthur Sulzberger has steered his inheritance into a ditch. As of this writing, Times Company stock is officially classified as junk. Arthur made a catastrophic decision in the 1990s to start aggressively buying back shares ($1.8 billion worth from 2000 to 2004 alone). This was considered a good investment at the time, and had the effect of increasing the stock’s value. Shares were going for more than $50. Now they are slipping below $4—less than the price of the Sunday Times."