Team 'Newsweek' Jumps On Howie Kurtz
The fight between the Newsweek Tumblr and CNN/Washington Post octopus Howard Kurtz is my favorite thing ever. Kurtz wrote a really iffy piece that rests, ultimately, on What It Means That Newsweek Is Keeping Secret About Its Potential Bidders, which… unlike every other sale process in history, which is oh-so transparent? Now he calls Newsweek "thin-skinned and defensive" for ripping on his piece. More fun please!
I could read Op-ed pieces getting ripped apart all day.
[passive, pls rework]
I could read ripped-apart Op-ed pieces all day.
[What does that MEAN?]
I like this.
Actually, Howie is right on this one. If the bidding process were going well, then the investment bankers at Allen & Co. would have leaked a few marquee names all over the blogs and media reporting beat as a way to drum up attention to the auction.
However, if it were Bloomberg alone as the sole viable bidder, then Allen & Co. would never reveal Bloomberg's interest as it might lose them their savior.
In other words, if the auction were going well, they could afford to piss off a few potential buyers. The fact that it's so quiet is a very bad sign…
Mr. Conflict of Interest at Kaplan TestPrep and Amalgamated Salvage NewsFisheries should keep his olfactory insights private.
LOVE the picture for this story.
I think the person who writes the Newsweek tumblr has not read Newsweek magazine in, gosh, ever! (IT IS AS BAD AS HOWIE KURTZ.)
Yawn. Even Kurtz at his most scandalous is still borrrrring
I do read Newsweek magazine! Though, um, it's my job. And I can certainly find many faults, which I would be happy to list.
Also: I disagree with the notion that, simply because we haven't heard of any marquee buyers, none exist. But I do think Sigerson's speculation has a lot more grounding than Kurtz's column.
Yeah, could we get a memeography of that toxic "You're not deep" self-hate run deep?