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GLOSSIES

8 Days That Shook the Financial World

James Stewart on the week that Lehman failed, and meltdown loomed

Sep 16, 09 9:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - James Stewart’s reconstruction of the 8 nail-biting days, a year ago, in which the federal government stepped in to stop the collapse of the world financial system—published in the New Yorker this week, just as Fed chief Ben Bernanke was declaring the recession officially over—makes riveting, tense... More »

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Ben Bernanke • New Yorker magazine • Goldman Sachs • Henry Paulson • Morgan Stanley • Bear Stearns • Merrill Lynch • Lehman Brothers • AIG • financial crisis • Timothy Geithner • James Stewart

McCain to CIA Chief Panetta: Retract Cheney Slam Now

Panetta said Cheney almost seemed to want attack on US

Jun 15, 09 1:16 PM CDT
(Newser) - Sen. John McCain called today on CIA director Leon Panetta to “retract immediately” his suggestion that Dick Cheney might want another attack on the US, the Hill reports. Panetta told the New Yorker that “it’s almost as if” Cheney is “wishing that this country would be... More »

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John McCain • Dick Cheney • CIA • New Yorker magazine • attack • Leon Panetta • CIA director

'Bloodthirsty' New Guinea Tribesman Sues New Yorker

Tribe complains they were wrongly portrayed as murderous rapists and pig thieves

Apr 22, 09 4:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - A Papua New Guinea tribesman portrayed as a bloodthirsty, revenge-driven killer in a New Yorker article is seeking payback from the magazine, Forbes reports. A $10 million lawsuit charges that the story wrongly accuses Daniel Wemp and another tribesman of rape and murder when they had only been recounting traditional... More »

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New Yorker magazine • Papua New Guinea • lawsuit • tribes

New Yorker to Run Excerpt
of Wallace's Last Book

In Pale King, deceased writer 'didn't want to do the old tricks'

Mar 1, 09 4:43 PM CST
(Newser) - David Foster Wallace fans can get a glimpse of the deceased writer’s unfinished novel tomorrow, when the New Yorker publishes an excerpt from The Pale King, the Washington Post reports. Wallace, who killed himself last fall, had been working on the book for years. The magazine will also run... More »

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suicide • New Yorker magazine • author • writer • novel • book • David Foster Wallace

Marketers Have Inauguration Fever, Too 

Companies tie products, events to Obama's big day

Jan 15, 09 9:20 AM CST
(Newser) - Marketers for products from cognac to commemorative coins are looking to cash in on Barack Obama’s Tuesday inauguration, the New York Times reports. “Obamabilia” includes bottles of Hennessy with a “44” on the label, special magazine issues, and Tshirts galore. Other companies, like Quaker Oatmeal, are hosting... More »

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Barack Obama • newspaper • advertising • Washington DC • New Yorker magazine • marketing • Pepsi • Ikea • inauguration • President Obama

 Downturn Hammers 
 Magazine Industry, Too 

Condé Nast, Time, McGraw-Hill cut jobs as ad dollars slow

Oct 31, 08 2:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - The economic downturn is taking its toll on magazines, forcing layoffs and budget cuts as publications face fewer advertising dollars, Women’s Wear Daily reports; the trouble is compounded as production costs soar while readers turn to the Internet. Magazine ad revenue fell 5% in the first three quarters of... More »

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New Yorker magazine • Vogue • Conde Nast • magazine industry • magazine publishing • McGraw-Hill • Portfolio

Most Americans Lack Basic Political Knowledge: Survey

Less than 42% know Condi runs State; acumen better among highbrow-mag readers

Oct 16, 08 3:36 PM CDT
(Newser) - Only 18% of Americans can correctly name the current secretary of state, Britain’s prime minister and which party controls the US House, a LiveScience survey finds. Among the survey’s 3,612-person sample, more than half correctly said that the Democrats have a majority in the House, while 42%... More »

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education • New Yorker magazine • Gordon Brown • news • Public Knowledge • NPR • The Atlantic

OPINION

New Yorker Endorses Obama's 'Uplift and Realism'

After 'disaster' of Bush, he offers 'both uplift and realism'

Oct 7, 08 12:21 PM CDT
(Newser) - At a critical moment in its history, the United States "needs both uplift and realism, both change and steadiness"—and Barack Obama is the man to deliver it, writes the New Yorker in a 4,000-word endorsement. After George W. Bush, whose presidency has been "the worst... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • New Yorker magazine • newspaper endorsement • endorsement • Election 2008

 Late-Night Stars Go Undercover 

Stewart and Colbert recreate the controversial cartoon for EW cover

Sep 25, 08 2:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - Taking their spoofing of TV into print, Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart grace the cover of this week’s Entertainment Weekly in imitation of the Obamas-as-terrorists New Yorker cover that set media of all kinds afire in July. The stunt surely threatens to obscure the question-and-answer session it’s intended... More »

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Barack Obama • Michelle Obama • New Yorker magazine • Obama 2008 • Jon Stewart • The Daily Show • Stephen Colbert • The Colbert Report • Entertainment Weekly

Scientists, Artists Dominate MacArthur 'Genius' Grants

25 innovators receive this year's $500 prizes

Sep 23, 08 2:29 PM CDT
(Newser) - Of the 25 recipients of this year's MacArthur Foundation "genius award," 13 are scientists and eight are artists, the New York Times reports. This year, they are “people working on the very edge of discovery and people at the edge of a new synthesis,” says the... More »

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New Yorker magazine • innovation • MacArthur genius • artist • MacArthur Foundation • scientist

 Cindy McCain, 
 Lonesome Cowgirl 

Candidate's wife likes her privacy, and her past isn't easy to unravel

Sep 10, 08 3:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - Cindy McCain is a classic Western loner who chose to raise her kids as a self-styled “single parent” in Phoenix rather than join John in Washington as he served in the Senate. She may be a size zero, but she has "unusual grit": she drives a race car,... More »

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John McCain • drug addiction • New Yorker magazine • privacy • Cindy McCain • Election 2008

INTERVIEW

New Yorker Pop Critic Admits 'Indie' Gaffes

Says his peers are loath to concede
critical mistakes

Sep 1, 08 10:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - You may have missed it, but the New Yorker pays attention to pop music. Flip past articles on dead American poets and you might find insightful, sometimes scathing, music critiques by Sasha Frere-Jones. The musician and critic sat down with Gelf Magazine to discuss the problems with defining indie rock—... More »

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music • New Yorker magazine • pop culture • critic • Sasha Frere-Jones • indie rock • interview

Superbugs May Push Us Into World Without Antibiotics

Return to 'preantibiotic era' may be inevitable

Aug 7, 08 1:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - Antibiotic-resistant microbes don’t just open us up to dangerous illnesses—they also cost the American economy well over $5 billion annually, the New Yorker reports. And one expert says around 70% of the antibiotics produced in the US wind up in agriculture: "We've created a petri dish in... More »

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New Yorker magazine • antibiotics • drug-resistant bacteria

 VF Spoof Bumps New Yorker 

McCain's on a walker while Cindy cradles drugs in Vanity Fair illustration

Jul 23, 08 9:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - Vanity Fair has taken a jab at the New Yorker, posting a spoof of the magazine’s controversial Barack Obama cover on its website. VF’s "cover" shows a doddering John McCain gripping a walker and fist-bumping his wife, Cindy, who cradles a pile of prescription drugs. In the... More »

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Barack Obama • satire • Michelle Obama • New Yorker magazine • Vanity Fair

OPINION

Obama Cover Misses Point of Satire

It supported a lunatic idea, without slamming an established one

Jul 20, 08 6:28 PM CDT
(Newser) - The now-infamous New Yorker cover depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as Muslim extremists rankled readers because it is not satire, Lee Siegel argues in the New York Times. Satire tackles "social rottenness once it has become a visible and established part of life," writes Siegel. But the New ... More »

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Barack Obama • satire • Michelle Obama • New Yorker magazine

Analysis

 Does al-Qaeda
 Do the Fist-Bump? 

Forget fist-jabbing, it's hugs that give terrorists away

Jul 16, 08 12:36 PM CDT
(Newser) - Terrorists aren’t big on fist-jabbing or bumping—they’re all about kissing and hugging, writes Juliet Lapidos for Slate in the aftermath of the New Yorker's depiction of knuckle-knocking Obamas, a move referred to by Fox News as a “terrorist fist-jab.” Al-Qaeda members, she writes, are... More »

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Barack Obama • New Yorker magazine • Fox News • Osama bin Laden • IRA • FARC • al-Qaeda

GLOSSIES

 How Chicago 
 Made Obama 
 a Politician 

Dem learned to navigate the system, not foster ideals

Jul 15, 08 3:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Behind the New Yorker’s fist-bumping Barack Obama cover, Ryan Lizza chronicles the Democrat’s political education in Chicago, where competing imperatives from the city’s fundraising elite, black urban base, and Daley-down political hierarchy taught him how to massage the system—and learn the kind of political evasion that... More »

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Barack Obama • Chicago • New Yorker magazine • Obama 2008

OPINION

Pundits Cringe at 'Irony Deficiency' in Cartoon Flap

Cynicism has killed satire, perhaps even humor altogether, in post 9/11 age

Jul 15, 08 1:28 PM CDT
(Newser) - Many writers are scratching their heads at the incensed reactions provoked by the New Yorker’s Obamas-as-terrorists cover. Here’s some rebuttal:
  • Liberals “have come to regard all images or texts that contain negative stereotypes as too politically dangerous to run,” Gary Kamiya writes in Salon. “
... More »

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Barack Obama • satire • New Yorker magazine • racism • cartoon

Obama Camp Rips New Yorker Caricature

'Offensive' drawing features Barack in turban, rifle-toting wife

Jul 14, 08 3:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama's campaign has ripped an "offensive" New Yorker cover illustration depicting the candidate in a turban, fist-bumping his afro-sporting, AK-47-toting wife, Politico reports. The cover, intended by the magazine to lampoon the cartoonish image of Obama propagated by some of his right-wing critics, has sparked a flurry of... More »

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Barack Obama • satire • New Yorker magazine • turbans

 How to Win the Caption Contest 

Don't be too funny, urges Patrick House in Slate

Jun 5, 08 6:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - Want to win the New Yorker's cartoon caption contest? The first rule: Don't be too funny. So says recent winner Patrick House, who lays out his can't-miss strategy in Slate. Keep in mind that reading the New Yorker is an introspective pursuit, one of "lonesome withdrawal." Which means... More »

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New Yorker magazine • humor • magazine • jokes • cartoon caption contest

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