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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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Political Cartoons No Longer Front and Center

Power of the pen left behind in 20th century

Mar 1, 08 8:26 PM CST
(Newser) - Political cartoons remain, but they lost front page power and heft long ago, says U.S. News & World Report. Cartoonists like Thomas Nast could once sway elections—Ulysses S. Grant credited Nast's pencil to helping him win the presidency—but the ranks of full-time pen-and-paper satirists have thinned... More »

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newspaper • politics • John F. Kennedy • presidential politics • Richard Nixon • magazine • editorial cartoons • Doonesbury • Abraham Lincoln • Thomas Nast • Ulysses Grant • Gary Trudeau

Black Crowes Squawk at Sham Maxim Review

Magazine gives
2.5 stars to an album
it never heard

Feb 27, 08 2:42 PM CST
(Newser) - Pick a number, any number: Maxim's 2.5-star rating—out of 5—for the Black Crowes' latest album was little more than a guess, the magazine admitted yesterday. No advanced copies were released, the San Francisco Chronicle reports, but that didn't stop Maxim's critic from decreeing in the March issue... More »

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music • magazine • journalism • Maxim • reviews • Black Crowes • Chris Robinson • Warpaint • music review

Chavez Shows Supermodel Interviewer His Guns

Supermodel-turned-journo interviews Venezuelan president

Jan 8, 08 11:48 AM CST
(Newser) - Naomi Campbell has found a new calling: political journalism. The phone-flinging supermodel interviewed Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez for British GQ's latest issue, reports the Guardian. When Campbell asked the president if he would ever pose topless à la Vladimir Putin, Chavez replied: "Why not? Touch my muscles?" More »

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Condoleezza Rice • magazine • Hugo Chávez • Naomi Campbell • supermodel • GQ

Outdated Parade Cover Bares Bhutto's Death Fears

Chilling interview before her assassination

Jan 7, 08 3:03 AM CST
(Newser) - "Is Benazir Bhutto America's best hope against al-Qaeda?" asks the front page of this week's Parade magazine. The issue, which features an interview with the soon-to-be-assassinated Pakistani leader, went to press almost a week before Bhutto was killed. Faced with the choice of running the issue with the outdated... More »

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media • Pakistan • magazine • Benazir Bhutto • Pakistan elections • Zulfikar Ali Bhutto • Bhutto assassination • Parade magazine

NEW RELEASE

New Magazine Gives Voice
to the Past

History reprints itself in Lapham's Quarterly

Dec 31, 07 1:05 PM CST
(Newser) - After 30 years editing the high-brow Harper’s Magazine, Lewis Lapham has started his own, even higher-brow rag, appropriately titled Lapham’s Quarterly. Each issue focuses on a single topic, and then employs some heavy-hitting—and mostly dead—writers. Think Tolstoy, Lenin, or Thucydides. Lapham says he’s... More »

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magazine • Lewis Lapham • Lapham's Quarterly • Harper's Magazine

OPINION

More Jacko, Less Whacko

Jackon doesn't look creepy in 'timeless' magazine shoot

Dec 1, 07 5:16 PM CST
(Newser) - Jacko's comeback in this month’s Ebony doesn't make him “look like a creepy goofball,” marvels the Washington Post’s Robin Givhan. And it’s not just a rebirth for Jackson, Givhan says, but for the venerable mag itself. Flamboyantly dolled up in classic Jacko garb,... More »

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African Americans • magazine • thriller • Michael Jackson • African-Americans

Vogue Says Models Are Back  

Vogue teaches Tyra Banks how to really spot the next top models among us.

Apr 30, 07 1:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - Vogue's May cover spotlights the next top models—real ones, not the reality-show variety—and makes the case that models with star quality are making a comeback. Jonathan Van Meter speculates that  our cultural obsession with warblers who can't sing and celebrities who can't behave is about to expire. More »

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entertainment • fashion • Doutzen • magazine • Tyra Banks • runway • model • Vogue

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