myrna-blyth

Myrna Blyth Steps In To Protect Us From Rosie's Dangerous Liberalism

Emily Gould · 01/11/07 11:40AM

We always enjoy the loopy ramblings of Myrna Blyth, who retired from Ladies Home Journal in order to write books like Spin Sisters: How the Women of the Media Sell Unhappiness—and Liberalism—to the Women of America. We'd even wondered what was taking her so long to weigh in on that little-known Trump/Rosie/Barbara Walters thing. So we were delighted today, when, at long last, she reached her bony grandma fingers into her changepurse and whipped out her two cents:

Media Criticism, 'New York Sun'-style

Doree Shafrir · 12/13/06 04:40PM

Former Ladies' Home Journal editor Myrna Blyth has done a lot of stuff post-LHJ: She writes for the National Review, and she's also authored such classic texts as Spin Sisters: How the Women of the Media Sell Unhappiness—and Liberalism—to the Women of America and the forthcoming How to Raise an American: 1776 Fun and Easy Tools, Tips, and Activities to Help Your Child Love This Country. She's like a less in-your-face, more matronly Ann Coulter. Hot!

Media Bubble: 'SI,' Si, Everywhere There's Sis

Jesse · 08/26/05 12:47PM

• All those stories today on Si considering a TV deal with Comcast? They're about SI — i.e., Sports Illustrated — not about Conde Nast. It took us a while to figure that out. [NYP]
• Oh, except that there is a TV deal at Conde, in which MTV is shooting a reality show in Teen Vogue's West Coast office. [WWD]
• The Times loves it some red staters, says Eric Alterman. [Nation]
• Myrna Blyth comes to bury celebrity editors. Again. Virtually word for word. [FishbowlNY]
• Remembering magazines' sexy, sultry summer of Scientology. [Folio:]
• There's a new national editor at the Times, which, come to think of it, doesn't change anything for nearly any of us. [NYT]