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From: Monica Edinger <monicaedinger>
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 10:22:00 -0400
I want to pick up on Leda's point about the broader celebrity culture out there. Just consider the brouhaha over Paris Hilton's jail time, for instance. For that I recommend yesterday's New York Times article,
"Celebrity Justice Cuts Both Ways for Paris Hilton" http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/09/us/09hilton.html) which makes you almost feel sorry for the girl until you go to the Op-Ed page and read Bob Herbert's scathing column, "School to Prison Pipeline."
(ttp://select.nytimes.com/2007/06/09/opinion/09herbert.html) Seems to me publishers are simply tapping into that larger culture as a way to survive. They are profit-making ventures, after all. Which makes me think of Emma Dryden's speech last summer at CLNE where she pointed out that doing these sorts of books gives publishers the space to also do the smaller ones, those that they can't promise are going to either capture the media and/or make tons of dough.
Monica
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 10:22:00 -0400
I want to pick up on Leda's point about the broader celebrity culture out there. Just consider the brouhaha over Paris Hilton's jail time, for instance. For that I recommend yesterday's New York Times article,
"Celebrity Justice Cuts Both Ways for Paris Hilton" http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/09/us/09hilton.html) which makes you almost feel sorry for the girl until you go to the Op-Ed page and read Bob Herbert's scathing column, "School to Prison Pipeline."
(ttp://select.nytimes.com/2007/06/09/opinion/09herbert.html) Seems to me publishers are simply tapping into that larger culture as a way to survive. They are profit-making ventures, after all. Which makes me think of Emma Dryden's speech last summer at CLNE where she pointed out that doing these sorts of books gives publishers the space to also do the smaller ones, those that they can't promise are going to either capture the media and/or make tons of dough.
Monica
-- Monica Edinger The Dalton School New York NY monicaedinger at gmail.com my blog educating alice is at http://medinger.wordpress.comReceived on Sun 10 Jun 2007 09:22:00 AM CDT
