When the Valerie Plame scandal was at its height, Norman Pearlstine, the then-editor in chief of Time Inc., appeared to be on the opposing side from special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, who was demanding that news organizations that received leaks about Ms. Plame reveal their sources.
But today, Mr. Pearlstine, who chose to cooperate with Read More
OFF THE RECORD: THE PRESS, THE GOVERNMENT, AND THE WAR OVER ANONYMOUS SOURCES
By Norman Pearlstine
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 282 pages, $25
Many years ago, long before he became the editor in chief at Time Inc., Norman Pearlstine wrote an exposé for The Wall Street Journal about mobsters Read More
To the Editor:
Having eaten at both the French Laundry and Per Se a couple of times, it seems that Moira Hodgson’s Per Se meal was not the $175 tasting, but the special meal for those head chef Thomas Keller wants to impress [“Two Months of Waiting Yields Five Hours in Foodie Heaven,” Dining Out, Read More
The last time the world saw Judith Miller—at least the part of the world that watches CNN—the New York Times reporter was in the back of a large, comfortable-looking, blue limousine-ish automobile, waving at her fans as she was driven off to jail. By refusing to give up the name of a source to a Read More
The last time the world saw Judith Miller—at least the part of the world that watches CNN—the New York Times reporter was in the back of a large, comfortable-looking, blue limousine-ish automobile, waving at her fans as she was driven off to jail. By refusing to give up the name of a source to a Read More
At lunchtime on July 11, as Time Inc. editor in chief Norman Pearlstine met with Time magazine’s Washington bureau, one reporter confronted him with a computer printout. It was an e-mail from someone who had been an anonymous source for the magazine in the past.
What it said, according to one staffer who was Read More
In
the old days, the Time “Milestone”
would have read like this:
DIED: Five years, six
months and 30 days after the conclusion of “The American Century”; the credibility of a once great publishing institution founded by Henry Robinson Luce; following decades of dunderhead leadership, complicated by footsying with Hollywood and Steve Read More
Is Norman Pearlstine a strategic genius after all? Time agrees to stop fighting the corporate part of the special prosecutor’s subpoena–leaving Matt Cooper to protect his personal agreement with his confidential source by his personal self in his personal jail cell. So as the locomotive of justice bears down on lonesome Cooper, the mystery source Read More
This week in the Observer:
Norman Pearlstine and Arthur Sulzberger Jr. take their separate high roads–both of which, for their reporters, lead up the river.
The Other Other Guy Who Knew About Deep Throat speaks!
Special two-week edition of the New York Times Pundit Standings
John Huey, the graying 54-year-old Georgian air-guitaring editorial director of Time Inc., who scares the living crap out of much of the population of 1271 Sixth Avenue these days, was hungry.
Most of his predecessors as the editorial elite at Time Inc. were club men, the kind of executives who signed little lunch orders with Read More
