… and here’s a good synopsis of their conversation:
[Thx, Pitchfork!]
Slate’s Big Money had an interesting take on Twitter yesterday: That the dumb, narcissistic microblogging site knows it has to monetize sometime, but it’s playing Peter Pan and avoiding growing up into a real live company for as long as it can. And hooray for that. To wit:
Because Twitter is so resolute in its nonmonetization, [...]
It’s the morning. Which means Dunkin’s. Which means standing in a line and watching the gerbil wheels whir inside the hosts of Fox and Friends and summoning the restraint to keep from hurling cans of Red Bull at the TV.
The topic of the day was, “Response to the debate: What is the liberal elite saying?” [...]
Tags:Death of Newspapers·Esquire·New York Times·Overheard·Rupert Murdoch·Sarah Palin·self-referentialism
Chris Jones’s portrait of John McCain in September’s Esquire [not online at the moment finally gracing the internet with its presence] is noteworthy because of how drastically it differs from the scene Ryan Lizza painted back in February.
In one, McCain crawls back from oblivion by inviting reporters to crowd around his table, ten at a [...]
Tags:Esquire·John McCain·New Yorker