Peter Lattman
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managing director of media, Emerson Collective; vice chairman, The Atlantic; formerly NYT, WSJ. Married to @isabelgillies .
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My 12-yr-old and his girlfriend broke up, but says they're still friends. "So what's changed?" we asked. "The emojis have changed," he said.
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Just took off from Newark, and there’s One World Trade Center standing tall above the clouds.
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The product genius at United who came up with this feature deserves a promotion
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"It's a hallucination." Two minutes of David Remnick on how we're already normalizing the Trump presidency.
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We might not have sports or restaurants or school, but we’ll always have insider trading.
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NYT hired lead reporter on this story 8 months ago. It's his 5th byline. Investigative journalism is time consuming, expensive. Pay for it!
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Wow,
@TheAmandaGorman
is about to reach 1M followers on Twitter and has 1.7M on Instagram (almost all from today), shattering the previous social media record for inaugural poets set by Robert Frost in 1961.
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Trump's newest lawyer, John Dowd, sent this email to a WSJ reporter during the Raj Rajaratnam trial. (
@PreetBharara
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“You want a table for four on Wednesday night? We have 5:30pm and 10pm available.” New York’s back, baby!
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Let’s rename it the “mask compartment.” (The “glove compartment” is an anachronism anyway.)
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That’s
@Chris_Meloni
with his TV wife and my real one,
@isabelgillies
, in 1999 on the very first episode of “Law & Order: SVU.” Congrats to
@Mariska
,
@warrenleightTV
, et al., on its 500th episode — 500th! — airing tonight.
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It's deja vu all over again.
I did not resign. Moments ago I was fired. Being the US Attorney in SDNY will forever be the greatest honor of my professional life.
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“Through all of the scandals and the crimes and the disasters of the past four years, Mike Pence was the man who pretended not to notice. And now there was a fly on his head, and he pretended not to notice that too.” —
@davidfrum
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It seems we've reached the "I hope this email finds you vaccinated"-opening-sentence stage of the pandemic
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Quite a photo taken by my colleague and former Clinton White House photographer,
@barb_kinney
. May 1994, US Botanic Garden. RIP Barbara Bush.
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Bob Dylan on Harry Belafonte, from “Chronicles” (1 of 2)
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Kasey Grewe, an intensive care doctor, filed these harrowing dispatches during the peak of the pandemic in NYC. If you need convincing as to how grave this is -- or just like good writing -- read them.
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Presidents used to design post offices.
My favorite post office, in Rhinebeck, NY. It was built in 1940, during the New Deal, and FDR, who lived down the road in Hyde Park, to a personal interest in its design. WPA murals on the inside!
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Huge congratulations to Caitlin Dickerson — and the entire Atlantic team — on winning a Pulitzer Prize for her story on the Trump administration’s family-separation policy.
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“[Trump] may not be good for America, but it's damn good for CBS.” — Les Moonves, Feb. 2016
David Zaslav, the CEO of CNN’s parent company, at the Allen & Co. media conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, on Tuesday:
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“It’s almost as if the president is unable to control his rage against women. It’s almost as if the president thinks he can bully women and silence them.” —
@MollyJongFast
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Here's what Barack Obama, writing in his memoir, thinks about Rick Santelli and his "Chicago Tea Party" rant from a dozen years ago.
#TeamSorkin
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Steely Dan’s Walter Becker died five years ago today; love this remembrance of him by his bandmate Donald Fagen. (
@baddantakes
)
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"...along the way, we have often lost sight of the core truth of the Trump presidency: For all its many dark secrets, there have never been any real mysteries about the Trump-Russia story." --
@davidfrum
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The US Open women’s finalists are Emma Raducanu (18), a Briton with a father from Romania and mother from China, and Leylah Fernandez (19), a Canadian with a father from Ecuador and mother of Filipina descent. Multiculturalism FTW
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This is as good as everyone says. (As the story notes,
@Martina
from ’82 - ’84 was unbeatable, the most dominant athlete I’ve ever seen.)
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For a dozen years, wife
@isabelgillies
played Elliott Stabler’s wife on Law & Order: SVU. After a decade-long hiatus, she might or might not be back tonight at 9pm for a very special Law & Order: SVU / Organized Crime crossover event! 🤐
#SVUxOC
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“The Supreme Court has become an institution whose primary role is to force a right-wing vision of American society on the rest of the country.”
@AdamSerwer
pulling no punches
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“More than any politician since the days of Lester Maddox and Orville Faubus, Trump made violence integral to his political appeal from the beginning to the end of his presidential career.” —
@davidfrum
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"Biden needs to remind Americans of what he’s trying to achieve—rescuing democracy from the threat of authoritarianism, both at home and abroad—and ask them to enlist alongside him in that cause." --
@MollyJongFast
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“More guns, more places, fewer checks, fewer protections: Since Sandy Hook, this country has plunged backward and downward toward barbarism.” —
@davidfrum
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“Unthinkable,” by The Atlantic. This is like a boxed set of his first two years. Topnotch writing here.
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I’ll never not think these supertall residential towers are grotesque stains on our city
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Special shout-out to The Atlantic’s Scott Stossel, who has now edited Pulitzer Prize-winning stories in two consecutive years — last year’s Sept. 11 essay by
@JenSeniorNY
and this year’s article by
@itscaitlinhd
on Trump’s family-separation policy
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“My friend
@PreetBharara
…tried to describe Vance recently and came up with ‘pathetic loser poser fake jerk,’ but that is a lot of words.” —
@RadioFreeTom
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If I ran a coffee shop I’d install a 24-second shot clock at the milk-and-sugar table. It’s a communal space, not your kitchen counter!
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"Unlike so many of his fellow senators, Rubio has no double face. He has no guile and no game. His face displays his feelings. And he is *feeling* this." --
@davidfrum
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My friend Rich Lynch died in the Sept. 11 attacks. I wrote this about him a decade ago. Remembering him and all those who lost their lives on that terrible day.
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Let’s hope that walking meetings — long a fixture in Silicon Valley — become a permanent part of NYC work culture
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Happy Hanukkah!
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We can only dream that the husband will be taking his wife's last name.
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The Atlantic published an up-and-coming journalist this morning; expecting big things out of
@JakeTapper
, who writes here on the prescience of “A Face in the Crowd.”
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Playing position: President of the United States
http://t.co/Vmy3ZENJlc
http://t.co/nI54Qf7reb
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Penultimate is a pretentious word and should always be replaced with second to last
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“Those bright, spiky points are nearby stars, but every tiny oval, every gleaming blob is a distant galaxy, a swirling creation brimming with stars and dust and planets.” —
@marinakoren
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The Atlantic has won its first Pulitzer! Congratulations to the entire staff for all of its brilliant work in 2020. And while
@edyong209
gets the hardware, a special shout-out to his editors
@slaskow
and
@andersen
, and editor in chief
@JeffreyGoldberg
.
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It took more than a decade (thanks to lenient debt terms), but some of biggest LBOs struck during private equity boom — Toys R Us, Clear Channel (iHeart Radio) — are just now imploding. Univision showing cracks, too.
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Noting that the cover of this year’s annual report from the Committee to Protect Journalists features a reporter covering a story in the United States. This would’ve been unthinkable four years ago.
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“Rush Limbaugh, Matt Drudge, and the trio of Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson, and Laura Ingraham have attained wealth and power by exploiting the fears of older white people.”
@chucktodd
, writing in The Atlantic
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Love reading the great Eric Schlosser, author of the muckraking masterpiece “Fast Food Nation,” in The Atlantic.
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How long will we be in sweatpants? How long until we shave? What lucid writing by
@juliettekayyem
during such a confusing time.
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2003 Wimbledon, the first time Serena and Roger won the same grand slam.
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The Atlantic has published poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on Paul Revere's Ride, Julia Ward Howe on The Battle Hymn of the Republic, Robert Frost on The Road Not Taken, and James Parker on Four Seasons Total Landscaping.
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It’s the busiest day of the year at Barney Greengrass, where boxes and boxes of smoked fish await their shipment across the country for Yom Kippur’s break-fast.
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“If you wake up on a Casper...work out with a Peloton...Uber to your desk at a WeWork, order DoorDash for lunch...Lyft home, and get dinner through Postmates, you’ve interacted with 7 companies that will collectively lose nearly $14B this year.” -
@DKThomp
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"It is still deeply challenging for so many people to accept the reality of what has happened—that a country has been captured by the worst of its history, while millions of Americans cheered this on." -- Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Steyer is like an omniscient narrator in a 19th century novel.
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“This is done. Going forward the dateline will say only Seoul,” tweets the great
@meslackman
, head of NYT’s international coverage. Aww yeah! 🇰🇷
I’m thinking the NYT should update its Style Manual and allow SEOUL to stand alone in a dateline as it does with LONDON, BANGKOK and BEIJING. Who’s with me!?!?
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My wife just texted me, “I’m having such a hard time.” I got worried, until I realized she was referring to Wordle.
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Harper Lee's editor, Tay Hohoff, has been the most undercovered character in this saga.
@jonathanmahler
profiles her
http://t.co/Q6wEWFrEBV
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Just watched
@JuddApatow
and Pete Davidson’s “The King of Staten Island.” Two big 👍🏻👍🏻. Loved this scene with Davidson’s real grandfather.
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"Meghan had, in fact, realized the highest aspiration of many married people: She had convinced her spouse that his entire family was a bunch of losers." Another epic surface-to-air missile from
@CaitlinPacific
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I’m thinking the NYT should update its Style Manual and allow SEOUL to stand alone in a dateline as it does with LONDON, BANGKOK and BEIJING. Who’s with me!?!?
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“But the American exception that bathes this country in blood and grief again and again and again is not that we are uniquely susceptible to racism or jihadism or veganism. The American exception is the unique ease of access to weapons.” —
@davidfrum
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“The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it.” — Vince Lombardi (via
@scaramucci
@patkiernan
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Telling the 16- and 17-year-old a story from the '80s involving call waiting. *blank stares* "What's call waiting?"
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Bob Dylan on Harry Belafonte, from “Chronicles” (2 of 2)
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Wrote this lead 15 years ago today for the WSJ. It’s kind of high concept but I liked it then and I still like it now!
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Hey look Ma! I’m the final source note in Bob Woodward’s new book.
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Excellent review by
@PreetBharara
of the new book "Truth in Our Times" by the great
@DavidMcCraw
(who used to lawyer my articles about Bharara's prosecutions)
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Breaking: Ralph Lauren stepping down as CEO of his company. His replacement? Stefan Larsson, the head of Old Navy and ex-H&M.
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"I spent the four years of his presidency getting asked by people to decipher why he was doing what he was doing, but the truth is, ultimately, almost no one really knows him." --
@maggieNYT
, writing in The Atlantic. Buy her new book now!
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Belated but big props to
@andrewrsorkin
for consistently and forcefully holding corporate America to account on this issue.
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Wow. Job interview technique from Charles Schwab CEO Walt Bettinger, from NYT's Corner Office. (HT
@ReformedBroker
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The modest
@JuliaAngwin
fails to mention it was her reporting in
@ProPublica
that led to this change.
Facebook says it will stop allowing users to target housing, credit, employment ads by race
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Roughly 50 percent of all Starbucks purchases are made at the drive-thru. I get it’s partly because I live in NYC, but I find this astonishing.
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Reread
@mckaycoppins
on disinformation and Trump from earlier this year; can't stop thinking about the two closing paragraphs.
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4. Everyone better get used to Mooch - I'll bet he uses this prominent platform to launch a NY political career. Sen. Mooch or Gov. Mooch
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"The Republican Party is, for now, more of a danger to the United States than to the world. But like the last Soviet-era holdouts in the Kremlin, its cadres are growing more aggressive and paranoid." --
@RadioFreeTom
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"The Islamic Republic’s four-decade history of brutality suggests that change will not come easily, or peacefully, or soon." Elucidating explainer by
@ksadjadpour
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NYT style guide uses “doughnut” and not “donut.”
But if the NYT runs a story in which six of the seven featured shops use “donut” in their name instead of “doughnut,” maybe it’s time to reconsider!
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Today's biggest stock-market winner? For-profit prison company Corrections Corporation of America, up some 35 percent. (via
@Jeffrey_Cane
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WSJ's
@bzcohen
with a great look at Dr. Craig Smith, the bookish and jockish Columbia University surgeon whose daily emails are "Winston Churchill’s radio speeches of this war."
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On a day Apple debuts a wearable computer, this is how we vote in New York state
http://t.co/5dlCWVeSa0
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It seems that it took its name both literally and seriously.
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The Atlantic’s
@JenSeniorNY
accepting the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for her story on Bobby McIlvaine and September 11. (Snapping the photo is Jen’s proud editor,
@SStossel
.)
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