Michael Wolff

Scientology Apocalypse! Mark Bunker and Marty Rathbun Reveal Their Ties

Wise Beard Man makes a wild move​For Scientology watchers, a stunning development tonight that, not so long ago, we can hardly imagine happening. Mark Bunker, dean of the old time Scientology critics, has written a guest post on Marty Rathbun's blog this evening -- well, I would be hardly mor ... More >>

Roger Ailes of Fox News Thinks Sarah Palin Is a 'Stupid...Idiot...Loose Cannon,' ...or 'Smart'

​The cover of New York magazine this week features another Fox News/Republican party exposé from reporter Gabriel Sherman (see also: "Chasing Fox," Sarah Palin), this time focusing on the network's boss Roger Ailes, who never fails to make an interesting (and infuriating) subject with his pro ... More >>

Kate Middleton Independent Headline Just a Nerdy Media Hoax; Adweek Debuts With Typo

​This morning, a bullshit story started circulating not solely because it was nonsense, but because the URL on the Independent website called it out as such, reading "utter PR fiction but people love this shit so fuck it lets just print it," or in full: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/ ... More >>

Arianna Huffington as Prostitute: All the Gendered Words in One New Adweek Column

​In media circles Michael Wolff is notorious for pissing people off, thereby winning the attention he covets. It's sometimes masterful, in its way, but more often shameful. Today, Wolff relaunches the trade (don't-call-it-a-trade) publication Adweek, which he's merged with Brandweek and Mediaw ... More >>

That British GQ Story About Elaine Is Indeed a Nasty Piece of Work

​That British GQ story about Elaine Kaufman - the one in which writer Michael Wolff remembers the late restaurateur as a "Toscanini of crassness" - is now online. As promised, it is a nasty read. But it also says as much about its writer's failings as Kaufman's.

Dan Sinker, Founder of Punk Planet, Was @MayorEmanuel Twitter; Andrew Sullivan Leaving The Atlantic For Tina Brown

via Daniel O'Neal​Just about everyone on the internet (including us) has already praised the Twitter account @MayorEmanuel, which ended its journey when the real Emanuel won last week's election for Chicago mayor. That fanfare makes today's victory lap and collective celebration entertaining o ... More >>

The Daily Ditching iPad-Only For Android App ASAP; TBD.com Dismantled, Doomed

​After three weeks of publication as the world's first-ever iPad newspaper, reports are trickling out that News Corp. boss Rupert Murdoch's pet project, The Daily, will be migrating to a second platform, the Android tablet, in the second quarter of 2011. The news comes barely 20 issues since M ... More >>

Nikki Finke Photo Is Not Her, Says Nikki Finke, And It's Ugly; Did The Daily Do It For Buzz?

Finke?​Rupert Murdoch's iPad newspaper The Daily got its first attention for exclusive content (save a semi-viral James Franco graphic) this morning when it published a picture purported to be of Nikki Finke, the infamous Hollywood blogger and recluse behind Deadline.com, who refuses to be pho ... More >>

The 114 Most Important Lessons I've Learned at The Village Voice (Or: "2010, The Year I Ruined Your Media Outlet")

​After a 285-day stint, I am abdicating my post here at The Village Voice. I'm going to work for Esquire.com, so I may -- as one commenter noted -- continue my work as a "a twentysomething angel of death." Yet, while I was here, I learned some very important things, and had some very memorable mom ... More >>

Did Michael Wolff Set This Media Panel on Fire?

​We recently reported on I WANT MEDIA's Media Person of the Year discussion at NYU's Arthur L. Carter Institute of Journalism that took place earlier today, which ended with the building being evacuated by New York's Bravest, the good people of FDNY. But what's wrong with the picture we saw wh ... More >>

Press Clips: Does the New York Observer Have a Dealbreaker?

​The Village Voice's media column makes its triumphant return after a hiatus; contrary to non-popular belief, we have not been purchased by AOL or -- like every other media reporter in New York, apparently -- changed jobs. Press Clips, Day 10, Late Afternoon Edition, right here:

Press Clips, Day 6, Late Edition: The Beautiful Bedbugs of Elle Magazine

​Bedbugs! VICE! And can you "haz" a "dead" web? Find out in today, Day 6, of Press Clips.

The Way We Die Now: Great Mind Tony Judt Passes, Internet Solemnly Spreads Word

​Noted author and historian Tony Judt has died after a long battle with ALS, according to a growing chorus of online mourning, though his death has yet to be confirmed by his family or a traditional news outlet. That's not to say the reports should be doubted -- and may Judt rest in peace -- t ... More >>

Shots Returned! Tony Judt's 15 Year-OId Son Just Schooled Michael Wolff

​Yesterday, media pundit and Vanity Fair columnist Michael Wolff embarrassed himself when he accused the famed and controversial NYU professor, writer, and scholar Tony Judt of fabricating an Op-Ed piece in the New York Times written by Judt and his 15 year-old son on the grounds that no 15 ye ... More >>

Michael Wolff Accuses Tony Judt of Fabricating Conversation with His Son in the New York Times

​Infamous Newser-er and kinda-content stealer Vanity Fair-intern-sleeper-with-er media pundit Michael Wolff has accused Tony Judt -- the controversial NYU professor currently dying of ALS -- of fabricating a conversation with his son in this week's New York Times. And what forms the basis of t ... More >>

Shots Returned! Tony Judt Responds to Media Pundit Michael Wolff's Fabrication Accusation

​Earlier this morning, media pundit Michael Wolff decided to -- as he has a reputation for doing -- lob a very loaded water-balloon of a blog post against writer, historian, author, and NYU professor Tony Judt, accusing Judt of fabricating an article he wrote with his son for Sunday's New York ... More >>

Michael Wolff's Rupert Murdoch/CityFile/Page Six Conspiracy Theory: Shut Down!

​Earlier today, an interview with media critic Michael Wolff went up on The Guardian, in which Wolff essentially told an interviewer that News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch has taken steps to exercise a personal vendetta against him after the 2008 release of his book about Murdoch, The Man Who ... More >>

Andrew Breitbart vs. Oh No They Didn't: A Media Spat with Epic Potential

​The Internet has been especially testy as of late! Of course, it always is, but just in the last month or so:

BlogBeat: Sharon Waxman Won't Be Jacked by Michael Wolff

Michael Wolff will aggregate Sharon Waxman's smile. Sharon Waxman wants to mace Michael Wolff's face.​In this week's Monday BlogBeat, Hollywood blogger Sharon Waxman goes to war with Vanity Fair columnist and Newser entrepreneur Michael Wolff over getting her content stolen; a disgraced New Yo ... More >>

About Those Girly Men...

​The biggest aha moment regarding the Wall Street Journal's recent piece on girly men seems to have thus far focused on a portion of Arthur Sulzberger's ear and whether that snippet of ear was intended as a personal attack by Rupert Murdoch upon Sulzberger, as discussed by Michael Wolff in Van ... More >>

A Gift Guide for Rupert Murdoch's 79th Birthday: 79 Presents to Give the Chairman

​Happy Birthday, Rupert Murdoch! At the great old age of 79, the media baron's going to have to be gifted well. Who knows how many he has left? It's late in the day and you still haven't gotten him anything, and you don't know what to get him? Funny you should ask. We've got a few decent ideas ... More >>

"Top Cock" Kerik's Mug Shot, Jailing Unleash Media Schadenfreude

​"Kerik's Mug Shot is Released," says the New York Times. Well, guess even broadsheets are tabloids now. The Daily News has it too, and even bigger, and the Post headlines the "disgraced ex-police commissioner"'s incarceration story "Kerik in the clink." Also, Eyewitness News anchor Bill Ri ... More >>

Michael Wolff: Rupert Murdoch Could Forseeably Buy the New York Times

photos helpfully supplied by Michael D. Ayers Michael Wolff New York Press Club Penthouse January 13 "The journalistic community has been divided into two," began veteran journalist/Newser founder Michael Wolff last night at the New York Press Club Penthouse, a nice enough room over looking Time ... More >>

Rupert Murdoch Can't Hold His Chardonnay

Jack Anderson: An Appreciation

The muckraking outsider never gave a damn about entree

Criticism w/o Critique

Why some media writers aren't allowed to opine while others get to speak their minds

Loss Leader

What Eminem taught New Yorker critic Denby, after the fall

Wolves in Sheep's Clothing

The Journalists Who Would Be CEO

Black Interloper

Russell Simmons's 'Racial Contract' With Andrew Cuomo

Screen Savers

With Video, It’s Not All Tedium in the Dark

Screen Savers

Publishers Scramble to Make Electronic Books a Reality

Primal Screen

Don’t Touch That Dial

Cronkite Endorses Site for Socially Conscious Press Critics

Hiring Squad

Vanity Un-Fair?

All This Jazz

Virgin Territory

Burning Bridges

Totally New York

Year of Living Digitally