Andrew Sullivan today reignites his long-standing feud with Human Rights Campaign.
Flamers on!
Sullivan has previously taken on the gay non-profit’s queer membership numbers and their allegedly close relationship with Hillary Clinton.
Well, the latter topic got more traction last week when activist Mike Petrelis reported that many of HRC’s key leaders donated to Clinton’s late campaign, but gave absolutely zilch to Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic nominee whom a college intern! The trouble, of course, is that the fusion of gay rights with the Clinton machine - fatal to gay equality in the 1990s - has not exactly given the lobbying group much cachet with the next potential Democratic president.
Meanwhile, Solmonese’s record on Capitol Hill is, despite his breathless promises a while back, non-existent.
Somehow the travails of Buzz Bissinger v. Will Leitch, Jared Paul Stern v. Ron Burkle, Page Six v. Vanessa Grigoriadis, Cathy Horyn v. Giorgio Armani, Dale Peck v. Rick Moody, and Leonard Wieseltier v. Andrew Sullivan get boiled down to what's going on between Lauren Conrad and Heidi Montag: CONTINUED »
For a magazine that just moved from Boston to Washington, New York seems like an odd location for The Atlantic’s 150th Anniversary party. But as Andrew Sullivan says, “You can’t have a party unless it’s in New York.”
Fair enough. But that doesn’t explain The Atlantic’s venue choice: a theater in the village. With a full audience, the party was one-part open bar, one-part performance piece. While we drank, we couldn’t help but feel bad for The Atlantic fans in the crowd who had to watch a New York magazine photographer take pictures of Jared Kushner. The New Yorker festival seemed modest by comparison.
Goodbye Time, hello Atlantic.
That's the fourth-grader-with-ADD version of explaining the news that broke over the weekend with regard to Andrew Sullivan. The gay republican blogger – which, some might fairly argue, is an oxymoron wrapped in self-hate – is making the jump after more than a year of giving the Time Inc. website his devout following. Oh, did we mention there's lots of cash involved?
And even if there wasn't, it's nice to see Sullivan pull a Howard Stern and use his old digs to plug his new home:
That's what this blog, at its core and at its best, is about; it's what the readers of this blog care about; and it's what the Atlantic stands for. The prospect of being part of taking this deeply American institution into a new medium in a new century is, for me, an English immigrant, a real honor and privilege. The blog retains its complete editorial independence, of course. You have that guarantee. But it will, I hope, be part of something bigger as well: a voice in a new conversation, dedicated to the American idea, of no party or clique, in pursuit of freedom, national progress, and honor.
Also, in pursuit of more pageviews.
• Depending on who you ask, the Tribune Co.'s holdings are valued in the $8.2-8.4 billion range. David Geffen's LAT offer, meanwhile, tops out at $2b. [HWT]
• An English language version of Al-Jazeera is, supposedly, set to launch Nov. 15. Not that you'll be able to tune in. [PI]
• New MTV global digital media chief Mika Salmi's first duty: To get the brand's 100 properties in alignment. Cost cutting and job cuts, for sure, will go hand in hand. [NYP]
• Facebook would really appreciate it if the traffic scoring companies would stop telling potential buyers that its readership is declining. [BW]
• Blogger backlash: Andrew Sullivan turns on his own. [E&P]
• Big shakeups at LA Weekly. Calm down, Nikki Finke ain't going anywhere. [LAO]
• Michael Arrington is the power blogger that will make or break your little garage start-up. He could also get you the attention of Rupert Murdoch. [WSJ]
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