...and on Newsweek’s fawning profile of Huffington, which declares that “The Huffington Post may have figured out the future of journalism.” And that future -- though Newsweek will not say it, and barely even acknowledges this fact -- is that journalism will be the purview of the idle rich, and not a field in which anyone should ever again expect to earn a living. Daniel Lyons’ puff piece on Huffington opens with some apple polishing about the millions of visitors HuffPo gets and how it is “one of the most important news sites on the Web.” Following that is some sycophantic swooning about Huffington herself: It’s a humid July afternoon in New York—Huffington’s 60th birthday—and she’s sipping San Pellegrino water and nibbling on apple slices in her tiny office on the third floor of a building in New York’s SoHo. Minions rush in and out,...
- 7/26/2010
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Legendary tech blog Fake Steve Jobs (some content Nsfw) is being turned into a real TV show. Well, "real" -- it'll be on little-known cable channel/VOD service Epix. But still: author Daniel Lyons' Silicon Valley satire is headed to the small screen. According to Mike Fleming at Deadline Hollywood,"The show’s lead character, Tom Rhodes, is a composite of Jobs and other Silicon Valley titans, and the comedy is described as a savage satire, a study of ego, power and greed." Oooh. Comedy god Larry Charles is producing iCON, and if it's half as good as its...
- 3/16/2010
- by Margaret Lyons
- EW.com - PopWatch
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