Microsoft has again gone left in picking an Editor for its online magazine, Slate. Replacing the liberal Michael Kinsley will be the liberal Jacob Weisberg, an alternate delegate to the 1984 Democratic National Convention who, the Washington Post's Howard Kurtz noted, is now “helping” Clinton Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin “write his memoirs.”
Weisberg, a New Republic veteran who put in a stint as a Newsweek reporter in 1987-88, will run the online site from New York City and not out of Redmond, Washington.
Kurtz reported in the April 29 Washington Post: “Scott Moore, general manager of Microsoft Network news, says he picked Weisberg 'because he has a clear vision of what he wants to do with Slate, and is happy that [Deputy Editor Jack] Shafer is staying on” An Oxford graduate who started out working for Kinsley at the New Republic, Weisberg (who compiles 'Bushisms' for Slate) has also written for New York magazine and is helping former Treasury secretary Robert Rubin write his memoirs. He says Slate is now ‘mature' enough to have an East Coast editor.”
The Early Show With Bill Clinton?
“It's The Early Show with Bill Clinton and Jane Clayson. Now, from Trump Plaza in the heart of New York City, Bill Clinton.” Could we soon be hearing that every weekday? On Friday, the Time-Warner syndicated TV show Extra claimed that “inside sources at CBS tell Extra that Clinton is being seriously considered to replace the retiring Bryant Gumbel.” The show disclaimed that CBS will neither confirm nor deny their inside information. However, it’s a widespread observation that America's love affair with Bill Clinton started ten years ago, in the summer of 1992, when the then candidate for the Commander-in-Chief whipped out his saxophone on the late night talk show, The Arsenio Hall Show. And while the former President's people are shooting down the story, there's no denying Clinton meets many of the qualifications for the job:
• He lives in New York,
• He loves to wake up early, and
• He has countless hours of TV experience.
For the complete text of the weakly sourced Extra story, click here
(This update courtesy of the Media Research Center.)
