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Media
January 13, 2009
David Carr Saves the Newspaper Business
David Carr has seen the future of journalism, and it looks like journalism two years ago. The New York Times's resident soothsayer—adamant about securing his place on top of the New Media Order—has mercifully supplied us with an antidote to the journo-pocalypse in a Sunday column entitled, "Let's Invent an iTunes for News."
Full article » | by Max Lakin
Media
January 8, 2009
Cabbie Terror Hoax
Young urban Jews are familiar with the pleas of their parents to "Come out to the suburbs and visit once in a while, so that we know you're still alive." But many were shocked this week to learn of a new event to go along with the bar mitzvahs, holidays, and elections that force them to leave the city—a supposed upcoming terrorist attack.
Sports
December 26, 2008
A Putz By Any Other Name
The New York media are already having a field day with how much of a field day they're going to have with the Yiddish meaning of the last name of a certain recently acquired Mets reliever. "It's Pronounced "Puts," Until J.J. Screws Up, At Least," declared an NBC New York headline. The New York Times ran an entire article about the challenges posed by the fact that "the word 'putz' is vulgar Yiddish slang for penis."
Internet
December 26, 2008
Tracking Trends
It's been a long time since John Lennon famously declared on March 4, 1966: "Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I do not know what will go first, rock and roll or Christianity…We're more popular than Jesus now." Long enough that now we have the tools to test its truth.
Full article » | by Jake Rake
Internet
December 23, 2008
The Twitter Echo Chamber
Recently, Mike Wilson garnered his 15 million pageviews of internet fame when he chronicled his exit from a burning airplane on the social microblogging site twitter. If there’s anything twitterers love to tweet about its twitter itself, and so Wilson’s act of citizen journalism (because other journalists aren’t citizens?) was replayed and retweeted ad infinitum, creating an echo chamber of self-congratulations. The mainstream press, for its part, was unsure how to react to this development and possible threat. Some highlighted the twitter aspect of the story, some ignored it, and the AP, somehow, did both. Below, Gelf presents our Twitter-style account of the event and the reaction to it in reverse chronological order.
Media
December 22, 2008
Yes Man: Like Liar Liar but Worse
Here's an idea for a new Jim Carrey movie. For part of the film, he's a sad sack, and for the rest of it, he's a manic idiot. At the end, he learns a valuable lesson and gets the girl. I'm pretty sure he'll be pretty good in the role, as he's played that exact same character in The Mask, Me, Myself & Irene, Liar Liar, and Bruce Almighty. Oh, wait. Never mind. It looks like Yes Man just came out, and it seems that all the writers did was change the title of Liar Liar and take out the witty and funny bits.
Varsity Letters
December 21, 2008
January 9: Gelf's Varsity Letters
Gelf's Varsity Letters sports reading series returns to New York on Friday, January 9, at 8 p.m. At this free monthly event at a Lower East Side bar, hosted by Gelf, John Capouya, George Kimball, and Seth Wickersham will read from and talk about their work, and take questions.
Media
December 19, 2008
Molly Shattuck: Cheerleader, Secret Millionaire
Back in 2005, Molly Shattuck was the subject of one of the most poorly received Rick Reilly columns to ever land in Sports Illustrated. At 38, the super-hot wife of a super-rich CEO was not only a super mom, she was also a super cheerleader for the Baltimore Ravens! Super awesome! Thank God someone was there to make her feel even better about herself by giving her head on the back page of a national magazine! Luckily, her well-deserved time in the limelight isn't quite over.
Media
December 18, 2008
An Instant Op-Ed on the Instant Op-Ed
The New York Times has never been a marker of avant-garde media innovation. But the waters are choppy and they've already had to mortgage their glorious West Side palazzo against itself, so they have apparently decided to go rogue, throwing caution to the wind by debuting a radical new online strategy. Dubbed "Instant Op-Ed," this new technology will reportedly allow the Grey Lady's online presence to post immediate expert viewpoints on breaking news. The paper is keeping tight-lipped on the logistics, but right now, Gelf is prepared to call this one the Game Changer.
Full article » | by Max Lakin
Arts
December 17, 2008
Analyzing the Romantic Comedy
As Gelf has noted, academic studies of the influence of successful Hollywood films on society at large are inherently problematic. Despite their best efforts, researchers often overplay their hands by trying to draw real cultural implications from terribly silly movies. Case in point: a recent study that finds that adolescents who expect their own relationships to resemble those of romantic comedies are "likely to be left disappointed."
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