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Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 9:48am on Wednesday, February 24th, 2010 | Liberal Magazines Suffering Under Obama Because "Hate Sells"
Vanity Fair reported on February 23, 2010:
"The George W. Bush years were good for more than just oilfield-services companies and waterboard manufacturers. They were also a boon for liberal political magazines, whose circulation soared on the wings of the Bush hatred that swept much of the country. The paid circulation (subscriptions plus newsstand sales) of The Nation nearly doubled from 2001 to 2005, that of Mother Jones rose by 37 percent, and that of Harper’s Magazine by 7 percent.
So how have those magazines fared now that they don’t have W to kick around anymore? And have their ideological opposites on the newsstand enjoyed a boost from the anti-government, tea party-led fervor that has taken off since President Obama’s inauguration?"
The full story:
http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2010/02/hate-sells-why-liberal-magazines-are-suffering-under-obama.html
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Mondo Times editors
Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 12:17pm on Tuesday, January 5th, 2010 | Woods Bares All, Or At Least Most, On Vanity Fair Cover
WWD Media reported on January 5, 2010:
"Yet another view of Tiger Woods emerges — perhaps the side his multitude of mistresses are more familiar with — on the February cover of Vanity Fair, which shows the much-maligned golfer wearing nothing but a hat while lifting weights.
Of the growing list of regrets Woods would like to take back, posing semi-nude for Annie Leibovitz back in January 2006 is perhaps one of them."
The full story:
http://www.wwd.com/media-news/fashion-memopad/memo-pad-tiger-woods-bares-all-kelly-cutrone-by-the-book-2404040
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Mondo Times editors
Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 5:29pm on Wednesday, December 16th, 2009 | December 16, 2009 -- Vanity Fair wonders whether putting Stephen Colbert on its cover would sell more magazines than, say, Jon Stewart:
"Colbert covers sell quite well, according to data from the Audit Bureau of Circulations. He boosted Wired’s newsstand sales by 38 percent, Esquire’s by 17 percent, Newsweek’s by 16 percent (according to unaudited numbers), and GQ’s by 6 percent. New York’s sales of its Colbert-fronted issue were about average, and Rolling Stone has not yet reported the numbers for its August 14, 2009 issue, with Colbert on the cover.
A solo Jon Stewart, on the other hand, hasn’t been as much of a draw on the newsstand. His July 2001 turn on the cover of Esquire sold 15 percent fewer copies than the July 2000 issue. When Rolling Stone put him on its October 28, 2004 cover, sales were 10 percent lower than the average 2004 issue."
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Mondo Times editors
Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 11:42pm on Tuesday, September 29th, 2009 | Dominick Dunne died on August 26, 2009. Michael Hogan wrote the story "Our Man Dominick" in the November 2009 issue of Vanity Fair magazine:
"When Dominick Dunne died in August, he had become what he’d always yearned to be, a bona fide celebrity. The dapper V.F. contributor and novelist was also something more important: a crusader for justice. Surveying Dunne’s life before and after its crucial event—the murder of his daughter, Dominique—the author recalls his epic fall from Hollywood grace, his astounding comeback, and his fearless pursuit of rich and powerful offenders for this magazine, from O. J. Simpson to the Kennedys.
Nobody ever saw Dominick Dunne and wondered, “Is that who I think it is?” You knew right away. The Turnbull & Asser ensembles in Crayola hues, the circular tortoiseshell glasses, the aroma of talcum powder that preceded him by five paces. It was all by design. He wanted you to recognize him. He wanted you to introduce yourself. He wanted you to tell him what you knew.
“He always used to say that people told him things, and they did,” says Betty Prashker, Dominick’s longtime editor at Crown, “and not just the people he was sitting next to at a dinner party, but the waiters who were handing him the food and the butlers who were taking his coat and hat.”"
The full story:
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2009/11/dominick-dunne200911
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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
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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.
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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
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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."
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