By Foster Kamer 8/14/12 2:06pm

MEDIA BRIEFS

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Power Lunch: Fareed Zakaria, Real Talk Update

A real-talking editor gets a really visible new gig. One Hollywood mag honcho may want to watch his shoes. Which uncorruptable writer took money from the Koch Brothers? Which Daily Beast editor changed her last name … on Twitter?! Which Fareed Zakaria conspiracy theory holds water? Is everyone out to get him? Is everyone out to get you? Is everyone out to get everyone? Maybe they are. Maybe they aren’t. Maybe you’re just projecting on these Tuesday Afternoon Media Briefs: Read More

By Staff, Staff, Staff 1/15/07 12:00am

Letters

You Started It

To the Editor:

Ron Rosenbaum’s recent article on Isaac Singer, in which he proposed yet a fourth point of view as to what the “Creator” is actually like, probably comes closest to the mark [“Isaac Bashevis Singer Comes Back From Dead as the Anti-Theist,” Edgy Enthusiast, Jan. 8]. I propose yet another Read More

By Staff 11/22/06 10:23am

In The Observer, Errata Edition

I have to begin, unfortunately, by correcting the record: In a story about Alan Hevesi in this week’s paper, I made the bone-headed error of attributing a number of quotes to Ken Sunshine that weren’t his. I didn’t interview him for the story on the record or off, and the inclusion of his name Read More

By Staff 6/21/06 4:55pm

Dan Rather Eats Lunch

Dan Rather and CBS News president Sean McManus had their end-of-the-Rather-era lunch today, as scheduled. The meal was at media hotspot Gabriel’s, on 60th Street and Broadway, and lasted two hours, according to a source with knowledge of the lunch. They were “amiable and engaged in energetic conversation” throughout. Both had the ravioli.

–Rebecca Read More

By Staff 3/31/06 3:23pm

ABC Suspends Producer John Green After E-Mail Flap

ABC News executives have suspended Weekend Good Morning America executive producer John Green for a month, after two politically charged personal e-mails Green sent to a colleague were leaked to the press, according to two network sources.

In one e-mail, sent during a presidential debate on Sept. 30, 2004, Green wrote, “Are you watching Read More

By Staff, Staff 2/06/06 12:00am

Letters

Precedent?

To the Editor:

Thanks to Ben Smith for the article about Al Gore [“Gore Is Bigger Than Ever!”, Jan. 30].

I had the pleasure of hearing him at the D.A.R. Hall in Washington, D.C., on Martin Luther King Day, talking about the Constitutional crisis in the communications monitoring by the government. Read More