Parody
After U.S. News editor James Fallows announced that the magazine's owner Mortimer Zuckerman had fired him, Zuckerman deputy Harry Evans went out of his way to tell reporters that it was he, Evans,...
...News from Jim Fallows (whom I really did fire...
...Tina will also take her first look at the federal budget, with an editorial headed "What's so bad about running a deficit...
...In fact, if you ask him, he will tell you he was busy that day playing minor league baseball, coaching the NYU football team, attending a reunion for Marines who stormed the sands of Iwo Jima, and completing his doctorate in neurosurgery...
...The decision to push out Tina was mine alone...
...Conde Nast CEO Steve Florio had nothing to do with it...
...Newhouse...
...Newhouse...
...I walked into the kitchen that evening where Tina was busy reading Soap Opera Digest, and I lowered the boom...
...I would like to reiterate that it was 1 alone who fired Jim Fallows from U.S...
...She wept, of course, but that is nothing to a powerful media mogul like me...
...Gave him the old heave-ho...
...In fact 1 was so pumped up from dumping Fallows that I came home and fired my wife, Tina Brown, from her job at the New Yorker...
...You'll be able to read all about this in the New York Times, whose owners have personally assured me that they will continue to follow the principle that all the news about Tina must be printed above the fold on page 1...
...News item FROM THE DESK OF HARRY EVANS ASSISTANT TO MORTIMER ZUCKERMAN FOR PUBLICATIONS ZUCKERMAN ENTERPRISES 37 ZUCKERMAN WAY, ZUCKUP, NEW JERSEY 12234 I am releasing this statement to respond to the vicious gossip going around that I am not in control, not making the important personnel decisions...
...Readers wil1 be invited to enter a special contest for a premium gift, "Nina's Kneepads...
...On a more personal note, I'd like to say how happy I am to announce that, after flirting with Miramax, Tina will be taking over the helm at the National Journal, whose former editor Stephen Smith left to take over U.S...
...Tina is also excited to be planning a double "Disgraced Journalists issue, featuring some wonderful pieces...
...The transcripts and hidden-camera photos of a one-on-one interview Bil1 Clinton gave to former Time correspondent Nina Burleigh on his titanic struggles to keep abortion legal...
...CNN's Peter Arnett will byline an article that he did not report, did not write, and should not be held responsible for...
...Former Boston Globe columnist Patricia Smith will reveal that she is the long lost daughter of S.1...
...Tina is looking forward to a new set of challenges, and I'm sure many of you wII1 be waiting for her first issue (it'll be the one with a risque Robert Reischauer on the cover and Roseanne Barr's fascinating look inside the General Accounting Office...
...News editor James Fallows announced that the magazine's owner Mortimer Zuckerman had fired him, Zuckerman deputy Harry Evans went out of his way to tell reporters that it was he, Evans, not Zuckerman, who had fired Fallows...
...News & World Report...
...For example: *Stephen Glass on the secret cult that worships S.1...
Vol. 3 • July 1998 • No. 43
