By Sridhar Pappu 12/23/02 12:00am

So How Was 2002 For You, Media? Let’s Say Pungent

During the 2002 Year in Media, everyone took their hits. In April, The New York Times won a record seven Pulitzers-it even got Abe Rosenthal back in the newsroom for champagne-but by December, the paper plunged in the rough of Augusta. Details won a National Magazine Award, then published the wrong Kurt Andersen. The Wall Read More

By John Heilpern 3/01/99 12:00am

Off Your Knees, Times men! Broadway’s Beating the Brits

It always staggers me when New Yorkers-and New York theater critics, to boot-prostrate themselves before the altar of British theater, howling: “Thank you! Thank you! We are so inferior! Show us the way! Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you.”

To which the English, hurrying home with sacks full of awards and cash, reply: “No, Read More