For the third presidential election in a row, Slate has asked its staffers and contributors to tell the world who they’re voting for.
The winner? Democrat Barack Obama, who beat Republican John McCain with 55 out of 62 staffers asked.
Not voting for Senator Obama: Deputy Managing Editor and Copy Chief Read More
According to a heavily embargoed press release from The Washington Post Company’s reps, the company has acquired Foreign Policy, the magazine and Web site formerly owned by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
FP will become part of The Slate Group, which recently launched The Big Money, a business Read More
Slate has an essay by Election and Little Children author Tom Perrotta on the Republican vice presidential nominee, Sarah Palin, in which he writes, "Caribou hunting aside, Sarah Palin represents the state-of-the-art version of a particular type of woman—let’s call her the Sexy Puritan—that’s become a familiar and potent figure in the culture Read More
Spinoffs are well known in television. Sometimes they work: The Jeffersons spun off from All in the Family and ran for 10 years. Sometimes they don’t: Look at Joey. (You didn’t while it was on.)
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"I can’t remember a time when it had more urgency and relevance," Mr. Weisberg said. Read More
This week, Slate presents a special issue all about Geezers, those adorable folks in pastels and plaid you see walking aimlessly about your local mall and running for President of the United States.
Among the offerings, 80 over 80: The Most Powerful Octogenarians in America, which includes Mike Read More
Do undecided voters dream of aerial wolf hunts? Slate’s David Plotz sure hopes so.
After a series of disturbing dreams featuring Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, he’s inviting readers to contribute any and all dreams about Ms. Palin.
Here’s his call for entries:
Palin has gripped the American imagination in Read More
And it appears The Bulletin, the alt-weekly newspaper in Montgomery County in Texas that repeatedly repurposed other publications’ works, is apparently no more.
The paper’s publisher, Mike Ladyman, tells The Houston Press‘ Hair Balls blog: “It’s dead right now. I’m not bringing out another issue. I’ll just close it up.”
Yesterday Media Mob (and just about every other English language media and journalism Web site) wrote about Slate critic Jody Rosen’s investigation into The Montgomery County Bulletin‘s egregious and repeated plagiarism of his and other journalists’ works for their small-circulation alt-weekly.
Today, The Bulletin is no more. At least on the Web, where the Read More
The Slate music critic Jody Rosen has a simple question: "In purely statistical terms, do the articles in the Montgomery County Bulletin amount to the greatest plagiarism scandal in the annals of American journalism?"
You might ask: The Bulletin? What’s that? Also, why is Jody Rosen participating in media reporting?
Well, the Read More
Writing on The New Republic‘s Plank blog, Zvika Krieger alerts us to the fact that Bush 41 "Drug Czar" and so-called "Bookie of Virtue" William Bennett and former Bush 43 special assistant David Kuo are launching a conservative answer to Slate. (This comes via Gawker.)
According to Read More
