Tag Archives: publishing

News Corp To Block Google Indexing, Silences YouTube’s Liberal News Clippers

JMG reader Jon in DC is under attack by Fox News for his YouTube news clipping channel, which provides this and many progressive blogs with video proof of the right wing’s buffoonery. Several days ago Fox convinced Google to once again suspend Jon’s YouTube account, meaning that numerous posts in the JMG archives will have dead videos. So much for …

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The (Sort Of) End Of The Advocate

After a week of internet rumors and quasi-denials, Here Media CEO Paul Colichman has confirmed that The Advocate will now be shipped only in combination with sister publication Out Magazine, ending after 40+ years the stand-alone status of the nation’s most highly regarded LGBT news source. From Colichman’s letter published at Advocate.com yesterday: The recent closures of Gourmet, Portfolio, Genre, …

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Levi Johnston Signs With Playgirl

After fielding numerous offers from straight and gay porn outlets, Levi Johnston has signed on for a nude pictorial with Playgirl. To get ready for his close-up, Johnston is training three hours a day, six nights a week at an Anchorage gym with a local body builder. A formal agreement hasn’t been reached with the online magazine, but the photo …

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Conde Nast To Close Gourmet

The print death spiral continues. Today Conde Nast will announce the shuttering of its venerable Gourmet Magazine and three other titles. The magazine has suffered a severe decline in ad pages, but the cut still comes as a shock. There was speculation that Conde Nast would close one of its food titles — Gourmet or Bon Appétit — but most …

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Mormon Paper Refuses To Run Memorial Service Ad For Gay Suicides

The Mormon Church-owned Deseret News is refusing to run an ad for a memorial service for gay Mormons who’ve committed suicide. MediaOne, which handles advertising for both the News and The Salt Lake Tribune , accepted payment from the nonprofit Foundation for Reconciliation to run an ad, announcing a memorial service this Sunday, in both papers. But on Wednesday, a …

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Pre-Orders Send Palin’s Book To #1

Pre-orders for Sarah Palin’s coming memoir, Going Rogue, have sent the title rocketing overnight to #1 on the bestsellers lists of book merchants nationwide. Just two days after HarperCollins announced that Palin’s “Going Rogue” had been moved up from the spring to Nov. 17, preorders Wednesday night for the former Alaska governor’s memoir made it No. 1 on both Amazon.com …

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Sarah Palin’s Going Rogue!

Sarah Palin has “written” a 400-page memoir titled Going Rogue: An American Life. HarperCollins will launch the book with a 1.5M hardcover initial press run, the same number as Ted Kennedy’s posthumously released memoir. SRSLY. Palin “collaborated” on the manuscript with a woman named Lynn Vincent.

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Time-Warner Selling Time Inc

One of Time-Warner’s biggest shareholders has revealed that the company is planning to spin off its namesake magazine publishing unit. “Time Warner just spun off their cable division, they are going to sell their print division, they are going to spin off AOL and they’re just going to be Warner Brothers, HBO and the Turner Networks,” said Crawford, managing director …

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France: Let’s Put Health Warnings On Airbrushed Models

A coalition of 50 prominent French politicians wants to require that advertisers place “bold notices” on airbrushed images of models. The pols say that women need to know when the photos have been digitally altered and that trying to become one of those skinny bitches can be bad for your health. Campaigning MP Valerie Boyer, of President Nicolas Sarkozy’s UMP …

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Fake NY Post Hits Streets

Repeating what they did to the New York Times earlier this year, today a progressive group called The Yes Men has given away almost 100,000 copies of a faked New York Post. Most thought they were getting the real thing. Read it here. (Via – Gothamist)

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Bankruptcy For Massive Media Company

Freedom Communications, a sprawling media company comprising eight TV stations and more than 75 newspapers, including 30 dailies, is expected to declare bankruptcy this week. Freedom’s most well-known property is the Pulitzer-winning Orange County Register. The company will continue to operate as it reorganizes under bankruptcy protection. It’s just nonstop bad news for print anymore.

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Gay Man Makes Cover Of UK’s Soldier

An openly gay decorated Iraq veteran is on the cover of the current issue of the official British army title, Soldier Magazine, the first such appearance for a gay man. JUST ten years ago it was illegal to be gay in the UK Armed Forces. But since 2000, following a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights, homosexual men …

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Carrie Prejean, “Author”

You knew this was coming. Disgraced Miss California USA Carrie Prejean has landed a book deal with Regnery Publishing, the publisher announced Monday. The book, titled “Still Standing,” will tell Prejean’s side of the controversy surrounding her reign as Miss California USA and her answer at the Miss USA pageant against gay marriage. Specifically, the announcement claims, Prejean will answer …

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NYT Launches TimesReader 2.0

$3.45/week for the entire New York Times downloaded daily to your laptop “in seconds.” That’s a lot more than the proposed $5/month to read the Times online, which we heard about last week. Still, it’s a lot less than buying the paper on the LIRR platform every day and you don’t need to be online to read it. Opinions?

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NY Blade Suspends Publication

Two days ago we learned that HX Magazine has been sold. Today comes word that its HX Media stablemate, the New York Blade, is suspending publication. The New York Blade, one of the two major gay and lesbian newspapers in New York City, has laid off its editor in chief and suspended publication, the chief executive of its publishing company …

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HX Media Spins Off Namesake Mag

In yet another sign of the woes of LGBT print media, HX Media, owner of the New York Blade (among other properties), has sold its namesake title, HX Magazine, the famed weekly guide to Gotham’s gay nightlife. An investment fund that owns a stake in HX Media was forced into receivership in February. “HX Magazine and the web site hx.com …

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The End Of Gay Porn Mags

Boy Culture is reporting that Mavety Media Group is ceasing the publication their lengthy stable of gay porn magazines, some of which have been around for decades. Among the titles gone are one-time one-handed standards such as Mandate, Honcho, Torso, and Inches. Boy Culture author Matthew used to work for Mavety and has some fascinating memories of his time there. …

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David Geffen Wants To Buy The NYT

Openly gay movie mogul David Geffen is angling to buy the New York Times, which is sure to inspire even more wingnut cries about the gay mafia running the nation’s MSM. David Geffen, the former record executive who made an offer for the Los Angeles Times two years ago, now wants to buy the New York Times, according to people …

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2009 Lambda Literary Noms Announced

The nominations for the 2009 Lambda Literary Awards are out. Our pal Joel Derfner just got a nomination in for his book Swish: My Quest To Become The Gayest Person Ever, which you may recall was a hotly desired swag prize here on JMG last year. Congrats to Joel! Check out the rest of the nominations here.

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New York Post Hits New Low With Outrageous Racist Sean Delonas Cartoon

Achieving the impossible, scumbag New York Post cartoonist Sean Delonas has outdone even himself with today’s cartoon combining yesterday’s bizarre “monkey critically injures woman” story with a reference to Barack Obama and the stimulus bill. Outrage has been immediate and widespread as thousands of news stories condemning the cartoon have already been posted. Al Sharpton, never a fan of the …

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