When it comes to best-selling covers, the weeklies win with fatalities and flesh, reports the New York Post. Aside from special issues, like "Sexiest Man Alive," People magazine's best-selling issue in 2007 dealt with the apparent suicide attempt of Owen Wilson. So far, their best selling issue of 2008 was the…
Over on Portƒolio.com, Jeff Bercovici writes about Asra Nomani, a former Wall Street Journal reporter and People contributor who thinks that responsible news organizations must lay off Britney Spears because she is mentally ill. "By exploiting Spears' moment of vulnerability, media companies have crossed the line of…
As an antidote to what it describes as the tyranny "of lantern jaws, bulging biceps and Seacrest hair" in People magazine's latest Sexiest Man Alive list, Salon has come up with its own list of sexy dudes and it's predictably politically correct and decidedly not hot. The list isn't entirely off-base (we've already…
Nelly Furtado is so very proud of her (self-purported) stylish ways, that she opened up her fashion scrapbook to share her 10 fave looks of the past year with People.com. Sounds innocent enough, we know — but the exercise all but burned our retinas from the trauma of it all. So to work through our issues, we've…
There are two things that People magazine does really well: suck up to celebrities and chronicle the lives of inspirational cripples. When it comes to service journalism though, their grip is a tad less firm, as demonstrated by their holidays inspired Ultimate Gift Guide, which could double as a handy way to…
