[Fwd: Re: [Fwd: Re: NYP, It's Writers (Future and Present)]]

[Katha Pollitt]

Carl Remick wrote:
> 
> >you never hear a
> >column or story in NYP discussed outside its pages, and almost none of
> >its writers either (i think so far the most famous writer they've
> >developed is Amy sohn, who wrote a column about her sexual humiliations,
> >and went on to write for the trashy NYpost for about a minute.)
> 
> What! Amy Sohn lost her job at the NY Post?! (You see, Katha, there *are*
> limits to what I'll read.)  Sohn was certainly proof-positive that the NY
> Press is *not* what you might call your father's right-wing rag.  The NY
> Press's combo of (frequently but not exclusively) hard-to-starboard politics
> and prurient grunge is almost certainly unique.
> 
> Carl

 Well I thought i read that Ms Sohn got in trouble because she said
something raunchy about some football players? Can't remember, and I
don't read the Post often, but I thought she was out. 

  Any way, the right has a new face -- gentility and churchiness are
out, for media purposes, vulgarity and tantrums are in.  The new
generation  includes many raunchy fake-populists and "libertarians."
They are quite media-=savvy and  come across as very contemporary.

  As doug says, it's all fratboys and babes now -- and ms Sohn fit in
perfectly -- a needy nitwit who provided NYP's misogynists with a weekly
spectacle of a woman who would do anything to be permitted to give a guy
a blowjob. 

happy reading,
Katha