tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8007635024151290238.post2776376659176093913..comments2023-08-19T06:19:28.990-04:00Comments on the nytpicker: Whoops! Leggy Former Portfolio Editor Joanne Lipman Makes Mulitple Mistakes In Today's Op-Ed Whine About Women.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8007635024151290238.post-20624085713040038182009-10-29T05:21:30.612-04:002009-10-29T05:21:30.612-04:00And let's not forget Janet Cooke's Pulitze...And let's not forget Janet Cooke's Pulitzer! Gosh that high water mark was almost 30 years ago.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8007635024151290238.post-7128949690221318472009-10-28T19:09:55.009-04:002009-10-28T19:09:55.009-04:00Under what circumstances will *The Times* consider...Under what circumstances will *The Times* consider that the needs of men and boys merit attention? <br /><br />For two years male job loss has been four-times that of women, yet *The Times* simultaneously celebrates the resultant proportional increase of women in the work-force while characterizing them as victims. <br /><br />Boys account for only 40% of college seniors, drop-out of high school more often, outnumber girls 3-to-1 in learning disabilities, are three times as likely to be emotionally disturbed, expelled four times as much, eleven times more likely to end up in a correctional facility, six times more likely to commit suicide, and out-voted for high school student offices. <br /><br />Similarly, men are far more numerous among the homeless, represent 98% of battle deaths, have shorter life expectancies, account for over 90% of on-the-job deaths, far more numerous in dangerous jobs, and several times more likely to commit suicide although women attempt it far more often. <br /><br />The misandry at *The Times* is appalling.Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03823230422046782755noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8007635024151290238.post-61768242899104905562009-10-27T06:39:12.055-04:002009-10-27T06:39:12.055-04:00There is much of value in what Lipman writes but t...There is much of value in what Lipman writes but there also is too much carelessness, including a here description of the movie made about a journalist and the tobacco industry, Lipman claims that women at the Wall Street Journal "gained respect after one of our number won a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting on the tobacco industry." That would be Alix Freedman, who did great work on the subject. Lipman goes on to say: "Of course, when Hollywood made the movie about the investigation, her role was played by a man." Lowell Bergman, the then 60 Minutes reporter who was the journalist portrayed in the movie was not a stand-in for Freedman. The Insider was simply the story of Bergman's experience and the suppression of his tobacco industry story, rather famously, by CBS.Betty Medsgerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13023659373984139734noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8007635024151290238.post-44276059938707607222009-10-27T03:13:35.880-04:002009-10-27T03:13:35.880-04:00Lipman then claims that women "gained respect...<i>Lipman then claims that women "gained respect" at the WSJ only in 1996, when Alix Freedman won the national reporting Pulitzer for her coverage of the tobacco industry.<br /><br />What about in 1983, when the WSJ's Manuela Hoelterhoff won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism? Oh wait -- Lipman was still at Yale. What she doesn't know doesn't matter.</i><br /><br />What about in 1991, when the WSJ's Susan Faludi won the Pulitzer for Explanatory Journalism?<br /><br />Susan Faludi worked for the NYT in a special program for something like 18 months before being turned down for a permanent position. She went to the WSJ. Surely someone at the Times must have been aware of that as well.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8007635024151290238.post-50384022815972303692009-10-26T08:51:46.422-04:002009-10-26T08:51:46.422-04:00To add to the Lipman pile-on (I knew nothing about...To add to the Lipman pile-on (I knew nothing about her until the Gawker story came out), her matter-of-fact statements about 9/11 changing the perception of working women and "the war in Iraq tore America apart" are simply absurd. As the Gawker writer stated, opinions (not facts) like these are intellectually feeble and shockingly inaccurateNonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00156973512675086748noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8007635024151290238.post-16540619949747666602009-10-26T08:49:46.879-04:002009-10-26T08:49:46.879-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Nonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00156973512675086748noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8007635024151290238.post-8192314175830645302009-10-25T10:57:11.354-04:002009-10-25T10:57:11.354-04:00Anonymous #7 -- Thanks, you're right about Hux...Anonymous #7 -- Thanks, you're right about Huxtable and Genauer. We'll fix in the post.THE NYTPICKERhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14586823420394569667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8007635024151290238.post-86321007569446728212009-10-25T10:45:49.086-04:002009-10-25T10:45:49.086-04:00Not to nitpick or anything--it's not really a ...Not to nitpick or anything--it's not really a central point in your post--but I believe Ada Louise Huxtable was not only the first woman to win the criticism Pulitzer, in 1970, but the very first winner of the Pulitzer in that category. Emily Genauer of Newsday won it a few years later, so Manuela Hoelterhoff was not the first.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8007635024151290238.post-44403906429181100402009-10-25T07:15:22.730-04:002009-10-25T07:15:22.730-04:00RE: All Lipman would have to do is spend a few day...RE: All Lipman would have to do is spend a few days visiting today's high schools and colleges to see that girls are outperforming boys by a wide margin in the classroom. If you ask these girls about issues like equal pay and the glass ceiling, they would look at you like you are from another planet.<br /><br />Yes, but that does not mean those aren't problems they will face in a few years time.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8007635024151290238.post-55094681789638698562009-10-25T04:16:24.420-04:002009-10-25T04:16:24.420-04:00Joanne Lipman is not particularly tall and does no...Joanne Lipman is not particularly tall and does not have particularly long legs.<br /><br />To the first anonymous poster: She mentions being pregnant in the piece, so how carefully did you read it if you don't know whether she has children? She does.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8007635024151290238.post-91040155649473228442009-10-25T00:18:39.862-04:002009-10-25T00:18:39.862-04:00I'm not sure why the previous post dropped the...I'm not sure why the previous post dropped the second "9" in "12899," but here's the url again.<br /><br />http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/media/features/12899/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8007635024151290238.post-67330172219243293652009-10-25T00:15:01.095-04:002009-10-25T00:15:01.095-04:00In all fairness, here's what New York magazine...In all fairness, here's what New York magazine reporter Franklin Foer had to say about Lipman in 2005:<br /><br />The [lauch of the Wall Street Journal's Saturday paper was] so expensive and complex that Journal management [considered] it the most important gamble in the company’s recent history. Which is why [then Managing Editor Paul] Steiger had entrusted it to his loyal protégée, Joanne Lipman. The 44-year-old editor had already created the paper’s most financially successful innovation of the past decade: the advertising-packed Friday “Weekend Journal.” This success elevated her to the highest editorial post ever occupied by a woman at the Journal and made her likely to rise higher.<br /><br />http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/media/features/12899/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8007635024151290238.post-42300074305374679642009-10-24T20:20:33.716-04:002009-10-24T20:20:33.716-04:00This Op-Ed is such a great look into the addled mi...This Op-Ed is such a great look into the addled mind of Joanne Lipman. It's self-serving, historically ignorant, and hard to argue with because it's so poorly argued in the first place.<br /><br />Everyone who knows her assumes that this was written as an attempt to be considered for a job (the top spot at BW did just open--her "good friend" Steve Adler got the boot). Here's hoping that Norm looks at this and at her brief series of Editor's Desk columns at Portfolio when thinking about whether to tap her or not. There's a reason why NY Mag's Fishman didn't call her "brainy."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8007635024151290238.post-10255962511614906492009-10-24T11:09:58.367-04:002009-10-24T11:09:58.367-04:00Not knowing anything about Joanne Lipman until thi...Not knowing anything about Joanne Lipman until this morning, I was shocked by her Op-Ed piece in the Times. A few Google searches revealed why she wrote this article. She had a promising career at the WSJ which she left to start a new magazine which failed. Lipman now has a lot of free time and needs to resurrect her career. What better way than to write a biased particle that would appeal to the Times readership? <br /><br />Yes, the economy was bad when Lipman started Portfolio, but if you look at several articles in Gawker and this piece in the Post <br /><br />http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/portfolio_first_class_folly_m8sWLoLRzI1lJOYCKu1qhM<br /><br />Lipman had poor judgment, wouldn't listen to her subordinates and couldn't produce a magazine which appealed to readers.<br /><br />One final point: I wasn't able to find out if Lipman has any children. If she doesn't, that would explain a lot. All Lipman would have to do is spend a few days visiting today's high schools and colleges to see that girls are outperforming boys by a wide margin in the classroom. If you ask these girls about issues like equal pay and the glass ceiling, they would look at you like you are from another planet.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com