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'WSJ' Weekend Edition: Because No Saturday Is Complete Without Stipple Portraits

Pareene · 09/19/05 12:19PM

The Wall Street Journal — favorite newspaper of robber barons, those with an irrational fear of photography, and rich people too smart to read the Sun — introduced its heavily publicized, TimeSelectian experiment in catching up with the turn-of-the-20th century last Saturday, a so-called "Weekend Edition." But, you see, we live on the internet, and the Wall Street Journal lives in the offices of the powerful people whose salaries New York Magazine is more generous in guessing/making up. In other words, it ain't online for free and we didn't get it in print. As an emailer wrote in earlier today:

Seth Mnookin Prepares Another Lengthy Appendix

Leitch · 09/19/05 08:32AM


Now that they want your precious scratch, will the Times be even more vigilant about their exacting standards of accuracy? That may be the only explanation for the "correction" they appended to Elmore Leonard's first installment of his weekly serial story in their much-ballyhooed new "Funny Pages" section. The correction, mysteriously, is some obscure military something-or-other — and not an acknowledgment that the story isn't funny.

Tabloid Wars: Cornering the Market On Indignation

Leitch · 09/19/05 08:05AM

While today's Post is full of its typical subway shootings and Bloomberg-fellating, those upstarts at the telegenic Daily News are hitting them where it hurts, with a stolen-memorial story offering, per their front page, "EXCLUSIVE 9/11 OUTRAGE." Of course, the inclusivity of outrage is the reason we have two tabloids in this city, but all Murdoch's giving us today is exclusive outrage at the degrading treatment of "superstar rapper Lil' Kim." Or is it voyeuristic excitement? We can never quite tell the difference. In either case, look for the tomorrow's Post to feature at least 4 defaced or vandalized 9/11 memorials, as well as an exclusive (and outrageous) photo of Freddy Ferrer spitting on firefighters' graves.

Today's AP, Not Just for Old People Anymore

Jesse · 09/14/05 10:30AM

Actually, we didn't know the Associated Press was just for old people — we've been prematurely curmudgeonly since at least our early teens, so we're maybe not the best example — but apparently it is. How else to explain the need for a new, additional AP service geared toward young readers?

Media Bubble: Uncomprising Judy Miller Looks to Compromise

Jesse · 09/09/05 02:00PM

• Principled, uncompromising Judy Miller now in negotiations to compromise and get out of jail — which Reuters doesn't mention till graf six. [Reuters via HuffPost]
• Media continue to develop backbone, as newsweeklies say no to FEMA request for no corpse pictures. [NYP]
• CBS News's non-opinionated, non-ombudsman, non-media crit blog launches Monday. We don't know how we'll last till then. [Mediaweek]
• Craiglist could kill the newspaper classifieds biz entirely. Plus casual encounters! [SmartMoney]
• TWX honchos go to fashion shows, and chief Dick Parsons is sad there's not Tyra. [WWD]
• Henry Luce III, son of Time founder and longtime Time Inc. reporter and exec, dies at 80. [NYT]