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Apr. 14th, 2005 11:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pantryslutI have had an addiction to tales of internal magazine politics, ever since I worked at On Our Backs. I think the connection is obvious, and I won't elaborate any further.
Except to say that what's going down these days at The Source will satisfy my sweet tooth for a long, long time.
Short form: one of the magazine's heads resigned, then un-resigned, last weekend, for reasons that are hard to explain in a nutshell. Meanwhile, the former editor in chief filed a sexual harrassment lawsuit and announced it at the "Hip Hop and Feminism" conference that happened at my alma mater, also last weekend. She is getting the predictable slagging in response, along with the expected heretofore-silent voices of support and corroboration.
The long form is best documented in Jeff Chang's blog, and is otherwise all over message boards, press releases, and little news stories across the web and beyond.
Expect much, much more to come.
I have a non-prurient response to the lawsuit, too -- of course I am almost instantly on the side of Kim Osorio, the former editor in question. It's hard not to be when her opponent's main response seems to be "hey, she slept around the industry, what's she got to complain about?" Uh-huh.
Except to say that what's going down these days at The Source will satisfy my sweet tooth for a long, long time.
Short form: one of the magazine's heads resigned, then un-resigned, last weekend, for reasons that are hard to explain in a nutshell. Meanwhile, the former editor in chief filed a sexual harrassment lawsuit and announced it at the "Hip Hop and Feminism" conference that happened at my alma mater, also last weekend. She is getting the predictable slagging in response, along with the expected heretofore-silent voices of support and corroboration.
The long form is best documented in Jeff Chang's blog, and is otherwise all over message boards, press releases, and little news stories across the web and beyond.
Expect much, much more to come.
I have a non-prurient response to the lawsuit, too -- of course I am almost instantly on the side of Kim Osorio, the former editor in question. It's hard not to be when her opponent's main response seems to be "hey, she slept around the industry, what's she got to complain about?" Uh-huh.
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An odd thought
Date: 2005-04-14 10:25 pm (UTC)And I wonder what's happened to those. Some of it, I'm sure, is that I'm not connected to the scenes in which they occur. But some of it may have to do with the media in which people are working.
Which is why I was amused, upon reading Chang's blog, to discover that the retired/un-retired head promised, as part of coming back, not to write any more "diss songs" about Eminem. And I realized, with the resounding *thud* of walking into a very large fish, that I'd been completely looking past exactly where that had been happening, that kind of war of broadsheets or of letters.
Duh.
Excuse me while I go feel foolish for a while, and meditate upon how age confers respectability.
Re: An odd thought
Date: 2005-04-15 04:13 am (UTC)...which reminds me: You've heard the "The Night I Fell in Love" by the Pet Shop Boys, right? One of the best off-hand, back-handed bitch slaps I've seen.