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Source: www.cjr.org --- 21 days ago
"What always impresses me are the people who are obsessed. People who are gifted, perhaps, but people who are obsessed. And they can't even imagine themselves doing anything other than covering the political campaign or writing about the war in Iraq or Afghanistan or, for that matter, writing fiction at the level of an Alice Munro or a George Saunders... ... Source: www.topix.com --- 5 days ago
In the summer of 1960, Norman Mailer took an assignment to cover the Democratic Convention in Los Angeles. ...
Source: blogs.abcnews.com --- 52 days ago
I just interviewed New Yorker editor in chief David Remnick for World News with Charles Gibson about the controversial cover of this week's New Yorker. "The intent of the cover is to satirize the vicious and racist attacks and rumors... ... Source: www.businessweek.com --- 51 days ago
In running its satirical cover of Barack and Michelle Obama this week, the New Yorker seems to have forgotten one important ingredient of really good satire. It has to be funny, as well as thoughtful. As any comedy writer... ... Source: www.guardian.co.uk --- 52 days ago
David Remnick said the image was meant to be seen as humour, poking fun at the smear campaign against the Obamas ... Source: www.huffingtonpost.com --- 51 days ago
Earlier today, the New Yorker released its cover for the July 21, 2008 issue — and the reaction was swift and furious. The cover by Barry Blitt, called "The Politics of Fear," shows Michelle and Barack Obama depicted as the worst of the prejudiced, smearing characterizations that have dogged them over the course of the campaign: Michelle Obama as a revolutionary in military fatigues, packing AK-47 and ammo; her husband dressed like the Muslim he is stubbornly accused of being. Both of them stand in the Oval Office, with a portrait of Osama bin Laden behind them over a fireplace, in which an American flag burns. Not very subtle. Some are not alarmed — Clarence Page, longtime Chicago Tribune columnist (and African-American) said the cover was "quite within the normal bounds of journalism" — but not everyone sees it that way. It's been described as "offensive" and "trash" and "disgusting" and "just as bad as Fox News." Why would the New Yorker publish such a thing? Why would they run a cover that could have run, irony-free, on the cover of the National Review? What were they thinking? We put these questions and more to David Remnick, the editor of the New Yorker. His answers are below. This cover has quickly become very controversial. The Obama campaign has called it "tasteless and offensive." Why did you run it? Obviously I wouldn't have run a cover just to get attention — I ran the cover because I thought it had something to say ... Source: www.huffingtonpost.com --- 49 days ago
I talked to David Remnick, editor of the New Yorker , about the magazine's controversial cover depicting Senator Barack Obama as a Muslim and Michelle Obama as a gun-toting revolutionary. Here is a part of that conversation: ...
Source: nymag.com --- 38 days ago
Lang Lang, the Chinese pianist profiled by editor-in-chief David Remnick in this week's New Yorker (sadly not online), is a rock star in his native country. When traveling around China, Lang is handed bouquets so often and must rid himself of them so quickly that during Remnick's nine days trailing the pianist, he says, "I felt like a maid of honor." Remnick's profile offers a fascinating view of a young man who proves that, when one is (as a caption puts it) "an avatar of the Chinese ascendance," it is still possible to get rich from classical music; Lang Lang earns as much as $250,000 for a single private recital. Lang's penchant for "moony gyrations and emotive expressions" while playing annoy classical-music critics, including the Times ' Anthony Tommasini, who walked out of Lang's Carnegie Hall debut in 2003. (Tommasini has since reviewed another Lang performance more positively.) In addition to offering plenty of food for thought about the ways in which the upcoming Olympics might change the cultural world — Lang is rumored to be the star of the opening ceremonies — Remnick's piece made even a classical-music dunce like us want to see him in action, wearing his crazy outfits and playing Chopin with an orange . The above clip, of Lang playing The Yellow River Concerto , makes clear that Remnick is not exaggerating either about Lang's piano-bench histrionics or about the lameness of this much-reviled Cultural Revolution concerto-b ... Source: gawker.com --- 48 days ago
[Jim Behrle's kitties explain today that everyone reads the New Yorker for the cartoons. Just like Gawker! Also more explication of how to mock Barack Obama. AND THE MOTHERFUCKING BATMAN. Click thru and watch!] ... Source: blog.oregonlive.com --- 16 days ago
Having just finished Lang Lang's highly readable autobiography, I was interested in David Remnick's recent New Yorker profile of the Chinese pianist. Remnick is pretty good at describing Lang's struggle to become China's "No. 1 pianist," his family's poverty and... ...
Source: tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com --- 16 days ago
Paul Krugman is understandably concerned about Russian actions in Georgia and questions, as many have, whether this portends an end to an era of peace among the great powers: [O]ur grandfathers lived in a world of largely self-sufficient, inward-looking national economies -- but our great-great grandfathers lived, as we do, in a world of large-scale international trade and investment, a world destroyed by nationalism. Some analysts tell us not to worry: global economic integration itself protects us against war, they argue, because successful trading economies won't risk their prosperity by engaging in military adventurism. But this, too, raises unpleasant historical memories. Shortly before World War I...[the] British author, Norman Angell, published a famous book titled The Great Illusion, in which he argued that war had become obsolete, that in the modern industrial era even military victors lose far more than they gain. He was right -- but wars kept happening anyway. It's that phrase, "as we do," that should stop us. As David Remnick writes in his commentary on Putin's Georgia gambit, "Every thing is what it is, and not another thing." Georgia in 2008 is not Prague in 1968. He might have added that global integration in 2008 is not like "international trade" in 1908. Then, integration was the product of the (more or less) free exchange of goods among a dozen or so great nation-states. Today, it comes from (more or less) op ... Source: www.mydd.com --- 52 days ago
I think this is interesting: New Yorker Editor David Remnick's thoughts on the cover. http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politic s/2008/07/14/tsr.Remnick.newyorker.cnn?i ref=videosearch We're a free society, still, sort of. The NY'er is a very pro-Obama magazine, the NY'er is a very liberal magazine, and breaks anti-Bush stories that no one else does, with Seymour Hirsch... As a subscriber I'd say: Let's get a grip. Honestly, I was offended when I first saw it, but then I realized that those who will take it seriously wouldn't vote for Obama anyway--probably half the country. But it does battle those for whom there is a subconscious narrative of the Obamas as dangerous and anti-American. I think this cover will do more good than harm, ultimately. Tags: New Yorker cover , David Remnick ( all tags ) ... Source: www.observer.com --- 17 days ago
It's not every Sunday that you pick up The New York Times and find Bill Keller's byline all over the paper. And, according to Mr. Keller, there might be a Sunday someday soon when there won't even be a paper for him to write in. Stealing a page from the David Remnick playbook, Mr. Keller decided to drop his editor's cap and rewind back to the good old days when he was a senior writer pointing his critical eye to far-off places. In yesterday's Times , Mr. Keller's byline appeared on the cover of Week in Review and Book Review sections for articles about the reemergence of China and Russia , and Nelson Mandela , respectively. It was the first time he had two pieces in the same paper on the same day since May 4, 2003 when he was a columnist and senior writer for the paper. (Incidentally, that was a week before The Times published its 7,000-word investigation about Jayson Blair—a story that would, among many other things, lead to his taking over the paper). read more » ... Find more results for David Remnick on RSSMicro.com |
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Truth be told we barely glanced at the Sunday Times this weekend mostly because we finally and totally got sucked into the Olympic Games. However, we did make note of this excellent Week in Review piece by Times head honcho Bill Keller . The Chinese have made their Olympics an exultant display of athletic prowess and global prestige without having to temper their impulse to suppress and control. From the dazzling locksteps of that opening ceremony, to the kowtowing international V.I.P.'s, to the carefully policed absence of protest, this was an Olympics largely free of democratic mess. Keller knows whereof he speaks having covered the last years of the Soviet Union for the Times . However, had we read a little further we might have noticed, as the Observer did , that Keller also had a piece in the Book Review section on Nelson Mandela. We like to refer to it as the David Remnick syndrome. Later on that same day the NYO caught Keller on the telly talking about the inevitable transition from print to web: "I'm the house optimist on this question. I don't think everybody will make that transition successfully, but I think The Times will. But, you know, I could not draw you a day-by-day road map to that destination." New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media ...
The New York Sun , known as much for its arts coverage as its right-wing views, is in desperate need of cash by the end of September. According to a letter to the editor written by founder and editor Seth Lipsky , the paper's "heroic" investors need to be broadened. Sure, if that's what you call burning through millions . Lipsky goes on to write, "[The Sun ] has succeeded in establishing journalistic credibility and a reputation for quality and verve, and in becoming a part of the local, national, and international conversation." And The New Yorker editor David Remnick called it "just plain good." The editor also namechecks the Boston Gazette , which "helped inspire the American Revolution, as well as mentioning that " Frederick Douglass ' North Star helped win abolition and emancipation," and " The Wall Street Journal helped defeat Soviet Communism." So there's that. Prepare for the inevitable slew of bad "Sun" puns. Yep, there's one now . Lipsky's full letter after the jump. continued... New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media ...
Hey, the opening ceremony has already happened! Though they won't be broadcast on NBC until tonight, the ceremonies apparently were a smashing success. NBC is pulling down YouTube clips left and right, but we found some on a international video sites. The Zhang Yimou–directed ceremony featured some of the scariest goddamned fireworks we have ever seen (at 3:10, above). And, as anticipated, Liberace-esque Chinese pianist Lang Lang performed , wearing, wire photos suggest, his silliest outfit ever. Our inner 12-year-old boy — and our inner 65-year-old woman — are totally excited to watch this. Lang Lang photos after the jump! Photos: Getty Images Earlier: David Remnick Profiles the Chinese Pianist Who Will Liberace Up the Olympics ...
Via the Observer we learn that the New York Sun is pulling an Oral Roberts and threatening to leave the temporal plane if it does not get money, possibly by late September. In a message to its readers today, after bragging about how great the Sun is -- even David Remnick likes it! -- and about how much its ad revenues have increased over the past few years, Editor Seth Lipsky announces that "the Sun has yet to achieve its financial goal of making a profit" after six years of operation. You'd think a paper devoted to conservative free-market principles would, after such a shameful admission, slink off to the dustbin of history. Instead Lipsky announces that "we are scrambling to find others who share this vision and the sense of possibility" -- that is, backers who wouldn't mind losing money to keep the Sun shining. Some might expect that the Sun will ask its upscale readership to pay more for it, but this conflicts with the paper's basic principles, which suggest an alternative course. In July of last year a Sun editorial praised "the economic growth set off by the Bush tax cuts," and said that the added income enjoyed by the government from capital gains enabled by the cuts proved "that a rate cut can more than pay for itself." Perhaps the Sun will follow its own counsel, cut the price of the paper, and wait for the ensuing windfall. ...