How Jack Kliger Took Elle To The Web And Back Again [Magazines]

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Late Breaks: Real Beauty? Not So Much.
Published 5/8/2008 by jbercovici at Portfolio.com: Mixed Media
-Hachette Filipacchi Media laid off a large number of web staff at Elle.com and other sites. [Gawker] -How much retouching went into Dove's "Real Beauty" ads? Enough to make the brand look most hypocritical right about now, that's for sure. [Ad Age] -Congressional Democrats are calling for an inquiry into a Pentagon program to seed cable news with pro-military analysts. [Politico]Related Links Idle Chatter: Sumner 'n' Tom, Together Again Magazine Awards: The Breakdown, by Company Rita Cosby's $60 Million ...

Links for the Day (May 9th, 2008)
Published 5/9/2008 by Keith Uhlich (noreply@blogger.com) at The House Next Door
... from Women's Wear Daily and this one at Gawker . [ "I've just been informed that my position at Premiere.com is being terminated. What this means for this blog is still up in the air; I've got meetings this afternoon in which such things are to be negotiated. In any case, I now join the ever-growing ranks of film critics without staff positions. I very much hope to keep this blog going...and get some good freelance work, quick." ] *** ...

Glenn Kenny’s New Blog
Published 5/9/2008 by Karina Longworth at SpoutBlog
... thank you very goddamn much.” The title-title is Some Came Running, and in the first entry, Kenny explains what he hopes to do with it: “Consider this space the drunken boat we stand in, trying to pull either and/or both of these figures in. Not to be loopy, or maudlin, or anything. Just a fancy way of saying…let’s hang, my friends.” Related: “Hachette has always been an abortion of a magazine company,” writes Nick Denton at Gawker.