Leslie Savan

Leslie Savan blogs for The Nation about media and politics. A three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist for her Village Voice column about advertising, Savan is the author of Slam Dunks and No Brainers: Pop Language in Your Life, the Media, and, Like...Whatever and The Sponsored Life: Ads, TV, and American Culture. She has been widely published, including in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, New York, Mother Jones, and Huffington Post. She has appeared frequently on TV and radio, and is very happy to be a talking head in Helvetica, a film about the font.

Articles

Glenn Beck's Own End Times Foretold (US Politics, Media)

Keeping Beck on might have complicated the Fox-GOP industrial complex’s ability to use government power on behalf of the moneyed interests.

Leslie Savan

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Olbermann's Suspension Was the Worst Person(nel Decision) in the World (US Politics, Media)

Keith Olbermann's suspension from MSNBC was only the most recent in a series of corporate disciplinary actions against journalists that usually redound to the right’s favor.

Leslie Savan

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Tasing Rick Sanchez: Jon Stewart's Jokes and CNN's Double Standards (US Politics, Media Analysis)

The cool kid bullied the uncool kids in the Stewart/Sanchez affair, while CNN, like a cowed principal, ran from the crossfire.

Leslie Savan

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From The Archive

On that chart (Government)

The article presents opinions several media persons on the media map chats issued by this journal. According to James Fallows, Washington editor of "The Atlantic Monthly," problem of media structure has been wonderfully portrayed in the chart. The more basic concern is the conversion of the news business to just another corporate operation, where whoever is in charge must be as driven by the demands of the financial market as theft counterparts in the banking and steel-making and fast-food industries. According to Peggy Charren, founder of Action for Children's Television, comments that the media map depicts the dawn of a new world where three or five or ten CEOs could determine who says what to whom in the U.S.