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When Did the GOP Lose Touch With Reality?

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Magazine - By HASH(0x131256b0) - Nov. 21 (Opinion) - "What if [Obama] is so outside our comprehension that only if you understand Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior can you begin to piece together [his actions]?" It’s a very strange experience to have your friends think you’ve gone crazy. Some will tell you

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President Obama Receiving Sycophantic Laughter

Fri, 08 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Magazine - Jul. 08 (Comment) - While President Obama certainly has an above-average sense of humor for a politician — easy-going, self-effacing, maybe a little corny at times — he's not known as one of the planet's foremost comedians. Yet photographic evidence compiled by Daily Intel indicates that Obama may, in fact, be the funniest person alive. Either that, or people are just overdoing it in an effort to ingratiate themselves to the most powerful person in the world. Could be either one.

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If I Take Down Fox, Is All Forgiven?

Mon, 23 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Magazine - By Jason Zengerle - May. 23 (Special Report) - David Brock has spent the last decade apologizing to liberals for his role in creating the vast right-wing conspiracy. Now he’s trying something more ambitious and hoping it gains him the respect he craves from the White House.

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AilesHas Extensive Influence On GOP Politics,Thinks Palin Is An "Idiot"

Mon, 23 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Media Matters - May. 23 (Special Report) - New York magazine is out with an extensive profile of Fox News chief Roger Ailes that details the significant role he plays in conservative politics. Furthering the evidence that Fox News is simply a campaign arm of the GOP, the piece quotes an anonymous Republican aide who states that "You can't run for the Republican nomination without talking to Roger," and notes that Ailes actively encouraged Republican Governor Chris Christie to run for president. Ailes also apparently doesn't think too highly of his employee, Sarah Palin, who, according to a source close to Ailes, he thinks "is an idiot."

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The Madoff Tapes

Sun, 27 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Magazine - By Steve Fishman - Feb. 27 (Special Report) - One evening, my home phone rang. “You have a collect call from Bernard Madoff, an inmate at a federal prison,” a recording announced. And there he was.

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Do We Want to Live in the Libertarians' World?

Sun, 26 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New York Magazine - By Christopher Beam - Dec. 26 (Opinion) - There’s never been a better time to be a libertarian than now. The right is still railing against interventionist policies like TARP, the stimulus package, and health-care reform. Citizens of all political stripes recoil against the nanny state, which is nannier than ever, passing anti-smoking laws, banning trans fats, posting calorie counts, prohibiting flavored cigarettes, cracking down on Four Loko, and considering a soda tax in New York. All that, plus some TSA agent wants to handle your baggage.

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Is espnW a Pink Hat in Internet Form?

Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New York Magazine - By Katie Baker - Dec. 16 (Opinion) - To serious female sports followers, the bedazzled pink baseball cap is a totem of all the ways we've been misunderstood and pandered to. Marketers' insistence that these initiatives are designed to draw in new female fans just leave the current female faithful wondering if they matter at all.

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Chasing Fox

Sun, 03 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Magazine - By Gabriel Sherman - Oct. 03 (News Analysis) - In the spring of 2006, a year and a half after he was hired to run CNN/U.S., Jonathan Klein went to his boss Jim Walton with an idea. CNN was in trouble. While the network remained a profit engine and an iconic brand, prime-time ratings were stalled. Fox News had surged ahead in the cable-news race, and now, alarmingly, Keith Olbermann was coming on strong. His anti-Bush broadsides were transforming his 8 p.m. MSNBC show, Countdown, into a bombastic counterweight to Fox’s Bill O’Reilly, and combined, both personalities were drowning out CNN’s Paula Zahn, the respected television veteran who was anchoring a standard newscast during the 8 p.m. slot.

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America Is a Joke

Sun, 12 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Magazine - By Chris Smith - Sep. 12 (Special Report) - Stewart made himself into the leading critic and satirist of the media-political complex, starting with “Indecision 2000,” The Daily Show’s parody of that year’s presidential campaign. His comedy is counterprogramming—postmodern entertainment but with a political purpose. As truth has been overrun by truthiness and facts trampled by lies, he and The Daily Show have become an invaluable corrective—he’s Cronkite, the most trusted man in America, although in keeping with the fragmented culture, he’s trusted by many fewer people, about 1.8 million viewers each night. Years ago, Stewart lost out to Conan O’Brien and Jimmy Kimmel for late-night network jobs, but the shifting media fortunes have made him the long-run winner, with vastly more job security and cultural influence than his conventional talk-show competitors—and most conventional journalists.

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Was Obama Ungracious to Bush Last Night? Or Too Gracious?

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Magazine - By Dan Amira - Sep. 01 (Comment) - Going into last night's Oval Office address on the end of the combat in Iraq, one of the big questions was how much credit President Obama would give to former President Bush for the surge that made withdrawal from a reasonably stable Iraq even possible. Obviously, Obama was a big opponent of the surge. Would he be admitting that he was wrong by thanking Bush for his tough decision? Does it even make any sense to thank Bush for fixing a disaster he helped to create in the first place? (Where is Bush, by the way? Is he hibernating to save up energy for his impending book-publicity marathon?) Ultimately, here's how Obama tackled the issue.

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Why Parents Hate Parenting

Tue, 06 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Magazine - By Jennifer Senior - Jul. 06 (Special Report) - As a rule, most studies show that mothers are less happy than fathers, that single parents are less happy still, that babies and toddlers are the hardest, and that each successive child produces diminishing returns. But some of the studies are grimmer than others. Robin Simon, a sociologist at Wake Forest University, says parents are more depressed than nonparents no matter what their circumstances—whether they’re single or married, whether they have one child or four.

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The Revolution Will Be Commercialized

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Magazine - By Gabriel Sherman - Apr. 26 (Special Report) - From the time of her infamous wardrobe selection, money had been an issue in Palin’s politics. Her relationship with the McCain campaign had been plagued by financial misunderstanding. In her book Going Rogue, she claimed that the McCain campaign had left her on the hook for her Troopergate bills. Palin was furious. “Deep down, she wanted to make money,” a McCain adviser says. “There was always financial stress. They’re not wealthy people.”

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About This Whole Goldman Sachs–Greece Thing

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New York Magazine - By Heidi N. Moore - Feb. 19 (News Analysis) - This week, Goldman Sachs won the dubious distinction of being the first thing that has united Europe in the past 50 years, or maybe ever. Politicians in the European Union, including those from Greece, Italy, France, and others, jumped at the chance, in unison, to blame Goldman Sachs for their countries' disastrously mismanaged finances, long-lost derivatives deals, and leaving the toilet seat up that one time. The Daily Telegraph in London even ran an article claiming that Italians think their country is controlled by Goldman Sachs — an impressive allegation coming from a nation that created the Mafia, and whose top politician, Silvio Berlusconi, also owns most of the television stations. (There are a lot of people and things waiting in line in the "controlling Italy" queue ahead of Goldman Sachs, is what we're saying.)

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New York Times Ready to Charge Online Readers

Sun, 17 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New York Magazine - By Gabriel Sherman - Jan. 17 (News Report) - The paper is close to ending a long, contentious debate over whether to stay free or move to a paid content model online.

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Why Harry Reid Is Just Not the Trent Lott of 2010

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New York Magazine - By Dan Amira - Jan. 11 (Opinion) - Michael Tomasky calls the comparisons between Reid and Lott "really amazing. One man is doing political handicapping. Another man is delivering an ode to an openly racist presidential candidate, saying the country could have avoided 'all these problems' if that man had been elected. These are the same thing?" [Guardian UK]

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Rupert Murdoch and the Art of War

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New York Magazine - By Unknown - Dec. 23 (Opinion) - This month, with the announcement that The Wall Street Journal would be expanding the scope of its coverage out of New York, Rupert Murdoch opens his most direct assault yet against his longstanding foe, the New York Times. Read more: Rupert Murdoch and the Art of War -- Daily Intel http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2009/12/murdochs_rivalries.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: nymag/intel (Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine)&utm_content=Google Reader#ixzz0aYKgegS5

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Why Declaring War on Fox News Could Be a Mistake for Obama

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Magazine - By Chris Rovzar - Oct. 13 (Opinion) - ... if Team Obama ignores Fox, it just gives the network's talent the chance to further caricature him as a socialist, foreign, effete, America-hating Other. It isn't a racist portrayal, necessarily, but is certainly one that gives actual racists a lot of comfort. Not countering that will help Fox viewers conveniently forget that Obama is intelligent and well spoken. George Bush, who certainly wasn't the latter, came across as human and likable in interviews. It was one of his greatest strengths (and for critics, one of his most confounding attributes).

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Can a Lack of Sleep Set Back Your Child's Cognitive Abilities?

Sat, 29 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Magazine - By Po Bronson - Aug. 29 (Investigative Report) - Overstimulated, overscheduled kids are getting at least an hour’s less sleep than they need, a deficiency that, new research reveals, has the power to set their cognitive abilities back years.

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Will Barack Obama's Media Ubiquity Be the Most Significant Aspect of His Presidency?

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Magazine - By Jennifer Senior - Aug. 03 (Special Report) - Barack Obama’s ubiquitous appearances as professor-in-chief, preacher-in-chief, father-in-chief, may turn out to be the most salient feature of his presidency.

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The Benefits of Distraction and Overstimulation

Mon, 25 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Magazine - By Sam Anderson - May. 25 (Special Report) - Over the last several years, the problem of attention has migrated right into the center of our cultural attention. We hunt it in neurology labs, lament its decline on op-ed pages, fetishize it in grassroots quality-of-life movements, diagnose its absence in more and more of our children every year, cultivate it in yoga class twice a week, harness it as the engine of self-help empires, and pump it up to superhuman levels with drugs originally intended to treat Alzheimer’s and narcolepsy. Everyone still pays some form of attention all the time, of course—it’s basically impossible for humans not to—but the currency in which we pay it, and the goods we get in exchange, have changed dramatically.

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Do You Own Facebook? Or Does Facebook Own You?

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Magazine - By Vanessa Grigoriadis - Apr. 08 (Special Report) - Zuckerberg made a bold move, aligned with Facebook’s corporate image: He turned the site into a democracy. He decided to reinstate the former TOS, then released a new version a week later that took broad latitude to use our content while we were on the site but fell short of claiming ownership, and that Facebook revoked its rights to our content when we delete our accounts. This version was open for user comments until March 29. Facebook will release its response to the comments by April 10 and put the entire document to a vote by all users during the week of April 20.

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Inside Obama's Economic Brain Trust

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Magazine - By John Heilemann - Mar. 23 (Special Report) - An agenda this transformative is bound to stir up criticism, and so it has—from the left and the right, Wall Street and Main Street, arch-Establishmentarians and hot-eyed populists in roughly equal measure. The complaints of these factions vary wildly, but they share a point of agreement: that the administration so far has badly mishandled the banking crisis; that it’s dithered, dawdled, and dinked around instead of delivering bold, decisive action. For Obama, confronting this issue poses a vexing dilemma. Saving the banks is the sine qua non for the country’s emergence from its ever-deepening miasma, but in doing so, Obama risks incurring a tsunami of bailout rage. If, on the other hand, he appeals too much to populism, he risks driving elites away. Either outcome could deny him the support he needs for the rest of his agenda. Getting the economics right may be devilishly difficult—but the politics are even trickier, and just as crucial.

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Columbia J-School’s Existential Crisis

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Magazine - By Erica Orden - Mar. 12 (News Report) - Part of the problem is the perception that the situation is a “a zero-sum game,” as one person put it, where adding lessons in video production or law for bloggers will dilute or displace the school’s long-heralded focus on journalism’s core precepts: concise prose, ethical reporting, and sophisticated editorial sensibilities. “There’s this big, huge, fundamental issue: How much of the skills do you teach?” says journalism school dean Nicholas Lemann. “You can go to the Learning Annex and take a Flash course. I don’t think what we should do is be replicating courses you can take at the Learning Annex. But you have to have some familiarity, or you’re not able to execute a website.”

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Should Gender Equality Extend to Drinking?

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

New York Magazine - By Alex Morris - Dec. 08 (Special Report) - As she drank more, her career advanced. “It was like a one-of-the-guys kind of thing. In terms of success, people wanted to work with me. They’d be like, ‘Ugh, I have to work with X,’ you know, another girl. But with me, it’d be like, ‘Oh, this will be so fun.’ ” Rather than trying to hide how much she drank, she realized that her party-girl image would make her more relatable. “You have to be a bitch to survive—and then they’ll call you a bitch. I think maybe for me the drinking let me balance out the kind of stern, bitchy attitude at work with, like, Yeah, obviously, when I’m not working, I’m really fun. It made me look a little more human.”

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What's Behind Barack Obama's Consideration of Hillary Clinton for Secretary of State?

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

New York Magazine - By John Heilemann - Nov. 22 (Opinion) - So it appears that we’re about to embark on a new chapter in the Obama-Clinton saga. Motivating the characters is a blend of cold-eyed calculation and gauzy idealism; selfishness and selflessness; the good, the bad, and the ugly—all the stuff that’s made the drama in which they have co-starred as operatic, twisted, and riveting as any in modern political history.

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