Last week the New York Press reported that Deborah Solomon fabricates her questions in the New York Times Magazine. After the jump, we investigate what she really asked this week to Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa.
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Media hottie Brian Montopoli stepped down from Public Eye today. He will now be a political reporter CBSNews.com. We sat down with our favorite ex-pundit to talk about CBS, Romenesko and his good looks.
Why did you decide to leave Public Eye?
I’ve been there two years, first as a writer and then editor. And before that I was doing a similar job at CJR. You just get a bit tired of doing the same beat after a while. Plus I’m really excited about the chance to do some good, old-fashioned political reporting.
How has the media landscape changed since you started working as a media pundit?
That question requires a 10,000 word answer which would probably bore the hell out of you. The short, still-probably-kinda-boring answer is that even as things have become more diffuse, the big media players like the New York Times have learned to adapt better than most people expected.
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We all know how to sell a bike on Craigslist, but how do you sell yourself? The Times article left us with more questions than answers, so we turned to our favorite prostitute, College Call Girl, to explain how the oldest profession works in the internet age.
How often do you use Craigslist to find clients?
I posted ads in the Erotic Services several times a week. My first ad was something like “College girl needs rent help.” I basically said I wasn’t a pro and I wasn’t a supermodel—just a cute, regular girl willing to utilize her talents in exchange for a donation to her “college fund.” Most of those ads [up there] are escort agencies, so I got tons of responses. I’ve also used it as a sex delivery service when I was looking to fulfill a specific fantasy or just too lazy to leave the house.
Would you have gotten into prostitution without Craigslist?
No chance. I don’t have the body for a high-end escort service or at least wouldn’t have had the confidence to approach one. Craigslist just made it so easy.
We know Noelle Hancock from her media gossip days at the New York Observer and party crasher extraordinaire for Gawker. You may know her for other reasons — blinding blonde locks, legs up to her neck, and her "decent-sized rack." (And she doesn't even work at Conde Nast!) Ok, let's just put it this way: she doesn't look like anyone's butt.
Noelle is now leading the tabloid blog revolution as the top editor of Us Weekly's blog, and cashing plenty Jann Wenner's checks by contributing to Rolling Stone as well.
We're not sure if we'd call Noelle up-and-coming … since she's pretty much up there in terms of media creds (she's got Cosmopolitan, the New York Post, and Blacktable under her belt, as well) but she's still fresh enough out of Yale to be more impressive than passe.
After the jump, learn how to live vicariously through her for a day by reading Amazon, eating cereal, and dreaming of living in France with a gay boyfriend. (Though her real-life beau actually is straight.) We hope it was worth waiting 'til Tuesday for.
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While a good many of our fun little Q+A stints have been with media gossips, we thought it was about time to chat with a fellow blogger who could care less about anyone in media. (Unless they're talking about him or offering some book deal or something, of course.)
You've probably heard of Michael Malice — but just in case you sort of live outside the blogger bubble, here's a brief rundown. The former Overheard in New York editor is now running a snappy little site called Overheard at College, has had a book written about him (well, a picture book, but still) and when he's not plotting his takeover of the world, can be found hiding out downtown with random New Yorker cartoonists or holed up in his apartment IMing Elizabeth Spiers.
Even if we aren't his ideal dinner company, we still find this quirky fellow somewhat fascinating — though it is mostly out of fear for the life of our editor (he lives right down the street!) that we are finally (after about a month of it sitting on it) running this interview. The inner psyche of the genius boy who actually reads Drudge for political news and spends his days making other people (including his own mother) look stupid, after the jump.
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We, unknowingly, have been circulating the same parties as Dylan Stableford for months. Since joining Mediabistro as the newsfeed editor and taking over as head Fishbowler when the mysterious Greg Lindsay and lovely Rachel Sklar moved on, Dylan's been hard at work serving the ever insatiable media gossips of New York.
How does the man who decides what everyone will read in the morning pick his newsfeed items? What does he do when he's not blogging? Who's actually in the fishbowl? Just for Jossip, the laid back University of Vermont grad turned media gossip and blogger spills it all.
From Asian porn consumption to other "guy shit" the feeder of the fish even goes so far as to blow up our favorite little drink spot — and for the record, he did not sway us into this Q+A by buying us rounds at literati Nolita hang-outs. For the full dish, complete with the media members who make him want to "puke blood" after the jump.
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