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Knut, the Polar Bear Pictured With Leo DiCaprio in 'Vanity Fair,' Dies
By Ed Mazza - AOL NewsKnut, the Berlin Zoo's world-famous polar bear whose fragile psyche became an international obsession, died after several hundred visitors witnessed him falling in his enclosure. The four-year-old was raised by zookeepers after being rejected by his mother. The cause of death has not yet been determined. "It's terrible," Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit told a local paper, according to the Associated Press. "He had a special place in all of our hearts. He was the star of Berlin Zoo." As a cub, Knut was known as "Knut the Cute." But later he became known as "Knut the Nut" -- a bear with serious ...
Breaking the Sarah Palin Trademark Story: A Lesson in Journalism Ethics
By Suzi Parker - Politics DailySometimes a light bulb goes off. One night at 2 a.m. I was reading a story by Matt Lewis about Herman Cain, a possible 2012 presidential candidate from Georgia. Pursuing the Cain story further, I discovered that he had trademarked the phrase "The Hermanator Experience." Trademark? Hmm. I wondered if Sarah Palin had trademarked something with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. It seemed like something she would do. A quick search and voila! Indeed, her longtime family attorney, Thomas Van Flein, had filed two applications with the office for the names Sarah Palin and Bristol ...
Tina Brown and Cathie Black Tackle the Impossible -- Again
By Luisita Lopez Torregrosa - Politics DailyNEW YORK – With a double-barreled launching of female power, two celebrated media giants, Tina Brown and Cathleen P. Black, commanded the attention of this blasé city and the nation this week. In separate moves, each has agreed to take on daunting challenges that many regard as either lost causes or unfixable problems. Each has proved her mettle in media wars, and each can claim first-woman-ever titles in some of the toughest arenas of publishing and management. Tina Brown, who made Vanity Fair into a magazine phenomenon, has agreed to merge her news and political web site, The Daily ...
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Sarah Palin's Vanity Fair Profile Writer Admits Mistake
By Suzi Parker - Politics DailyThe October issue of Vanity Fair's 10,000-plus word story on Sarah Palin paints a portrait of a high-tempered, power-hungry woman who has become increasingly isolated as her star rises. The profile also contains a mistake. Writer Michael Joseph Gross acknowledged to the Associated Press that he confused Palin's infant son, Trig, with another baby, who suffers from Down syndrome, at a rally in Independence, Mo. Politico first reported that Gross mistook a child who was the son of conservative activist Gina Loudon for Trig. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch's blog Political Fix reported that ...
Sarah Palin Uses Sexual Metaphors in Blasting Mainstream Media
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailySarah Palin manages to make headlines even when she's trying to refute -- or should we say "refudiate"? -- someone else's. The former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate used sexual metaphors Wednesday as she slammed mainstream media reporters for using anonymous sources, CNN reports. "Those who are impotent and limp and gutless and they go on their anonymous -- sources that are anonymous -- and impotent, limp and gutless reporters take anonymous sources and cite them as being factual references," Palin said on Sean Hannity's radio program. "It just slays me because it's so ...
Sarah Palin's Dark Universe: Vanity Fair's Profile
By Suzi Parker - Politics DailySarah Palin is a 21st century enigma. She posts on Facebook and within minutes hundreds of people have either clicked "like" or left a comment, usually incredibly flattering, about Palin's message. She Tweets, the media writes. She has turned a losing vice presidential run into superstardom, becoming a political rock star in the vein of Bill Clinton. Palin could very well be pondering a presidential run. She visits Iowa later this month to headline the Iowa Republican Party's annual fall fundraiser. Vanity Fair, a haven for profiles of presidential wannabes, now gives Palin her turn. In ...
Vanity Fair Versus Sarah Palin, Round Three: A Blow-By-Blow
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Sept. 1) -- Does Vanity Fair have it in for Sarah Palin? In its October issue, the magazine -- which is generating a reputation as a chief Palin critic -- features "Sarah Palin the Sound and the Fury," an extensive profile by Michael Joseph Gross full of unflattering anecdotes about the former Alaska governor. A few examples: One friend of the Palins' remembers an argument between Sarah and Todd: "They took all the canned goods out of the pantry, then proceeded to throw them at each other. By the time they got done, the stainless-steel fridge looked like it had got shot up with a ...
Christopher Hitchens on the 'Stark Frontier' of Cancer
By Katie Drummond - AOL News(Aug. 11) -- Only one month after announcing he'd be undergoing treatment for esophageal cancer, Christopher Hitchens is recounting his ordeal in a column for Vanity Fair. The 61-year-old author, commentator and contributing editor at Vanity Fair first broke news of his cancer diagnosis on the magazine's website. "I have been advised by my physician that I must undergo a course of chemotherapy on my esophagus," he wrote in June, midway through a promotional tour for his memoir, "Hitch-22." Since then, he's been largely mum on the details of his bout. But now, the normally bombastic writer ...
Lisbeth Salander, the Girl Who Rocked the Mystery-Action Genre
By Luisita Lopez Torregrosa - Politics DailyWe are all a little in love with her. In this season of heat and sweat and languor, there's no escaping Lisbeth Salander. She is, of course, the enigmatic action hero of the sensational Millennium Trilogy -- "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo," "The Girl Who Played With Fire," The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest''-- the trio of dazzling mystery novels by the Swedish journalist Stieg Larsson, who died of a heart attack at the age of 50 in 2004, before his manuscripts were published and he could witness the worldwide phenomenon his books became in just a few years. Lisbeth Salander, 25, frail, ...
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