Random Media Notes

Stephen Elliott bio ↓  ·  December 10th, 2008  ·  filed under Other

A reader writes: In this week’s New Yorker there’s a strange Editor’s Note: “On the Contributors page fo the December 1st issue, the book ‘In Sickness and in Power’ attributed to the New Yorker writer David Owen, was in fact written by a different David Owen.” Unless I’m missing something, this means that either a guy faked his bio or the New Yorker wrote a bio for him and didn’t know who they were working with. Gawker investigates

Illinois Governor Blagojevich shook down the Chicago Tribune. The Tribune denies misbehavior.

Firing Judith Regan cost Newscorp $10.75 million dollars. Here and here.

NPR cuts jobs, cancels programs. They’re projecting a shortfall of $23 million. An angry mob should be able to get Judith Regan to cover at least half of that.

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Stephen Elliott is the author of seven books, including the memoir The Adderall Diaries, the novel Happy Baby, and the erotica collection My Girlfriend Comes To The City and Beats Me Up. He is the editor of The Rumpus. Sometimes he twitters. More from this author →

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