On September 4, 2009
Note to ‘Vanity Fair’: This Isn’t How to Integrate Print and the Web
As some of my recent posts have indicated, I just returned form Ireland, meaning I had copious airplane time to sink into the current issue of Vanity Fair. Aaaaaaah. VF is a magazine that’s meant to be enjoyed in all of its print luxury, from Tom Wolfe’s new short story (see? it’s not a gossip rag, it contains lit-er-a-ture) to the stealth photo taken of Ruth Madoff sitting at the desk in her (former) penthouse, taken, seemingly, from the penthouse across the street. So, after reading about Farrah and MJ and Ruthie and Brooke (Astor), it was finally time to read the story titled “North Korea’s Dollar Store.” For a page, and exactly a page, it detailed a huge North…
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