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The Borowitz Report: Unsuccessful Pope Candidate Blames Media→
VATICAN CITY (The Borowitz Report)—This wasn’t how it was supposed to play out. For Cardinal Bonifacius Steuer, last night was supposed to be a time of celebration, when the Dutchman who had dreamed of being Pope ever since his boyhood days in Rotterdam would finally stand on the balcony at the Vatican, basking in the cheers of thousands of the euphoric faithful.
There are no cheers for Bonifacius Steuer today. Only empty silence, and time to reflect on what might have been.
Continue reading: http://nyr.kr/ZKy15v
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"The initial, heedless reactions to Ms. Sandberg’s book spoke to a larger problem, namely the pressures that the twenty-four/seven hamster-wheel pace of the contemporary media puts on writers: to speed up rather than to slow down, to shoot first and ask questions later, to create drama, and, sometimes, to operate from a place of bad faith and fixed biases."
— Anna Holmes weighs in on the backlash to Sheryl Sandberg and her book “Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead”: http://nyr.kr/12p6dcR(Source: newyorker.com)
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Borowitz Report - Rupert Murdoch Emerges As Winning Bidder for Richard III's Bones→
LONDON (The Borowitz Report)— “…Mr. Murdoch said that he plans to put Richard III on display at the News Corporation headquarters in New York, ‘where he will serve as an inspiration to all our employees when I’m not there.’” Continue reading: http://nyr.kr/VH2sfV
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A 2012 Media Highlight Reel: Ken Auletta on “The Central Park Five,” and this year’s other big media stories: http://nyr.kr/UaE6EW
Photograph courtesy NY Daily News/Getty Images/Sundance Selects.
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"The age of newspapers as cheap, mass-market goods—the throbbing pulse of any city worth the name—is fast disappearing. But that doesn’t mean that there’s no future for upscale publications like the Times and the Journal—or the Financial Times, or any other publishing entity that can engage the attention of people with plenty of disposable income."
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The rise of Elisabeth Murdoch
In this week’s issue, Ken Auletta talks to Elisabeth Murdoch, the daughter of Rupert Murdoch, about her family and the scandals that have recently embroiled them, her own rise as a television executive, and News Corp.’s future. Murdoch tells Auletta of her father: “Each time I tried to work with his company, he wasn’t impressed. I realized I just had to be myself.” Continue reading.
Photograph by Sofia Sanchez & Mauro Mongiello.
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Will the Romneys now, “finally, realize the value of straightforwardness”? Amy Davidson on the Bain Files: http://nyr.kr/QvCKRQ
Photograph by Evan Vucci/AP.
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"[A]sking why there’s such demand, expressed with slavering intensity, to see the idols of passion in the flesh or in the world and why paparazzi and their publishers respond to this demand is like asking why Prohibition and drug laws have been such failures. It isn’t that reality isn’t enough; it’s that we know reality to be bigger, deeper, wilder, and stranger than the life at hand, and we want more of it—even by way of shortcuts that cheapen it."
— Richard Brody on media scrutiny of celebrities: http://nyr.kr/MHCxPL(Source: newyorker.com)
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The media has treated the shootings in Oak Creek very differently from those that happened just two weeks earlier in Aurora… the massacre in Oak Creek is treated as a tragedy for Sikhs in America rather than a tragedy for all Americans.
Naunihal Singh on the reaction to the shootings in Oak Creek: http://nyr.kr/RO0c2H
Photograph by Jeffrey Phelps/AP Photo.
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The 2012 New Yorker Festival Approacheth!→
Got any plans on the weekend of October 5th through 7th? May we suggest marking your calendar for the thirteenth annual New Yorker Festival, our yearly celebration that puts New Yorker writers and editors onstage with leading cultural figures? Stay updated here, and be sure to follow @NewYorkerFest on twitter.
