Hail, the absolutely unbiased and totally reasonable magazine devoted to the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman
Propaganda is common in America. It’s as expected as neverending breadsticks at the Olive Garden, and equally gross. But overt propaganda from another country is more unusual, at least in modern… Read more »
National Geographic are so totally woke now that they’ve admitted to being racist in the past, also, hey, check out this new racist cover
Great news, everybody! National Geographic, the grande dame of doctor’s office reading since 1888, has acknowledged the obvious fact that much of their content over the past 130 years has, in fact,… Read more »
Cryptocurrencies might solve an ad revenue problem for Salon, and book publishers should take note
All of the computer hardware in the world combined can do about 1.5 x 10^21 FLOPS per second (translation: roughly a fuckton). It reflects a huge uptrend in our ability to perform… Read more »
Texas Monthly staffers leave one by one in the face of total mismanagement
The landmark, award-winning magazine of the great Lone Star State, Texas Monthly, is in the midst of an identity crisis, and we can most definitely blame the new owner: Texan… Read more »
Samhita Mukhopadhyay is stepping in as executive editor at Teen Vogue
One after another, the editors of some Big Deal magazines stepped down from their posts this fall. Graydon Carter from Vanity Fair, Robbie Myers from ELLE, Nancy Gibbs from TIME,… Read more »
The Paris Review speaks out regarding Lorin Stein’s resignation
Last week, Lorin Stein resigned from his editorial posts at FSG and the Paris Review. His departure was announced just before the board of the Review gathered to discuss the results… Read more »
TIME names “The Silence Breakers” Person of the Year for 2017
Weeks after Donald Trump’s ludicrous and embarrassing claim that he “took a pass” on TIME magazine’s invitation to name him person of the year—an honor with which the President is… Read more »
Lorin Stein has quit his job, presumably to head off a meeting today at which his board will discuss a months-long investigation into his sexual misconduct
In October, we wrote about the “SHITTY MEDIA MEN” doc that had been making the rounds, unofficially tallying some names for possible inclusion in 2017’s crimson tide of men discredited by their sexual… Read more »
Support The Common by bidding on your favorite author’s… postcards
Although National Giving Day has already passed, there are still a bunch of very needy organizations out there trying to punch into the black for 2017. One of them is The… Read more »
Who’s gonna buy Rolling Stone?
Someone’s going to buy Jann Wenner’s Rolling Stone, and according to Peter Kafka at Recode it’s down to three bidders: “a publisher best known for trade magazines, another publisher that… Read more »