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Michael Wolff

January 31, 2000 | This Media Life
Mogul on the Verge

Can a strictly below-the-radar mogul take a group of creaky computer magazines and refit them (and himself) for the new economy?

February 4, 2002 | This Media Life
Failure Is Hot!

Talk, which saw itself as a great new vehicle of mythmaking, ended up becoming the embodiment of hype deflation. In an age of dashed expectations, Tina Brown is right on pulse.

October 9, 2000 | This Media Life
Runway Runaway

Fashion is media, and judging by the number of photographers, it's more important than the presidential election. Our columnist got a seat in the front row, but he still doesn't get it.

March 6, 2000 | This Media Life
Queen for a Day

Why does network television suddenly seem to be back in the fifties, with "Millionaires" and wannabes on every channel? Welcome to TV for losers.

January 13, 2003 | This Media Life
The Unspun

When the media decides it’s punishment time, no amount of spin-doctoring and TLC can shave the sentence. Especially when spin-doctoring and TLC got you into trouble in the first place (hello, Harvey!).

March 22, 1999 | This Media Life
Mediaticians

Political career begets media career begets political career. For today's breed of personal-identity professionals, public office and punditry are interchangeable career paths.

December 24, 2001 | This Media Life
The Metamorphosis

We tell ourselves we're different -- less frivolous, less selfish -- because the world's a different place. But our obsession with the change might just signal a different sort of self-absorption.

October 13, 2003 | This Media Life
Grin and Share It

The music industry’s lame lawsuits against MP3-loving kids aren’t going to put the file-sharing genie back into the bottle. As Martha might say, it’s a good thing.

May 29, 2000 | This Media Life
The Insiders

Two clever old-media guys just launched Inside.com, which has everybody in the business asking, "Does this change everything?" While they wonder, will they pay?

March 5, 2001 | This Media Life
Sullivan's Travels

Ambitious and self-absorbed, ex-pat Andrew Sullivan has made a career out of his personal and political contradictions -- and pissing people off.

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