After more than 30 years at the New York Times, Frank Rich is departing the newspaper to write a column for New York magazine and its website. Rich has had a Sunday column for 17 years, which followed 14 years as a theater reviewer. [...]
The changes come as the NYT prepares a major overhaul of the Week in Review section. Rich’s weekly 1,500-word column (previously most columns were around 800 words) was part of an expanded Op-Ed page that the Times introduced in the Week in Review section in 2005.
Since then, the proliferation and acceleration of commentary on the web has called into question the role of a weekly opinion section. It’s also called into question the state of most weekly magazines, but for a variety of reasons—including its web sensibilities, New York magazine has been able to withstand those pressures (even Gawker’s Nick Denton has praised the publication).
posted by not_the_water
on Mar 1, 2011 -
56 comments
What If ... 9/11 Never Happened? "
The broader culture would have gone its own way, 9/11 or no 9/11—progressing effortlessly from the obsessions of
Gary Condit and
Survivor in summer ’01 to Brangelina and
American Idol in ’06. The Oliver Stone project of August ’06, however, would not be
World Trade Center, but, with exquisite timing,
Fidel."
One possibility from many in a collection of "could've-beens" compiled by
New York Magazine. Other contributions of note:
Tom Wolfe,
Fareed Zakaria, an alternate-future blog by
Andrew Sullivan, and perhaps best of all, a simple sketch from
Ex Machina's
Brian K. Vaughan.
posted by grabbingsand
on Aug 15, 2006 -
118 comments
Mel Gibson wanted Frank Rich's bloody entrails on a stick, wanted to kill Rich's dog. But now... In the buildup to his new film, Mel Gibson said, about Frank Rich,
"I want to kill him. I want his entrails on a stick I want to kill his dog" (The New Yorker, September 15) . Any american non-celebrity teenager who uttered such threats would have been immediately arrested, interrogated, and forced to submit to lengthy counseling. Yet to right wing US press media, it seems, the "entrails" threat was
immaterial. Indeed,
chirps WorldNet's Barbara Simpson,
"Gibson is the bravest man in Hollywood. Perhaps, he's the bravest in the country....Gibson's hell has been very public. " Now, on Leno, Mel has granted Rich
forgiveness and absolution for Rich's sin of criticizing "The Passion" :
"You try to perform an act of love even for those who persecute you", said Gibson to Leno.
posted by troutfishing
on Mar 7, 2004 -
39 comments
1 Mayor, 2 Guys, 1 Shih Tzu. NY Times columnist Frank Rich reports that NYC mayor Rudy Giuliani -- a Republican -- has been bunking frequently at the home of a gay couple as he goes through his divorce. "Has the mayor picked up any pointers on gay life? 'I taught him a lot of expressions... He didn't know what a Friend of Dorothy was.' " Tee hee. (Log in as metafi/metafi.)
posted by Tin Man
on Aug 4, 2001 -
24 comments
Death with Commercials is how the ever apposite
Frank Rich sums up the media-saturated McVeigh execution, the
ultimate reality show. Rich thinks all the hoopla my have served to turn more people away from punishment by death.
posted by caraig
on Jun 23, 2001 -
8 comments