: If Jill Abramson were a man...

She’s a source of widespread frustration and anxiety who is demoralizing, uncaring, morale-draining, and very unpopular. He demands excellence and relevance.

She is difficult to work with, unreasonable, impossible, stubborn. He has a strong vision and insists on seeing it carried out.

She is AWOL and disengaged. He attended Sundance and SXSW.

She is not a naturally charismatic person, not approachable, tough as nails. He is direct.

She is brusque, blunt, and dismissive. He does not like to waste time.

She is uncaring, unable to march forward or provide reassurance, and doesn’t make people feel good. He is not your mommy. 

She is condescending. He is the boss.

Pretty much. Via annfriedman.

"When you slip on a banana peel, people laugh at you; but when you tell people you slipped on a banana peel, it’s your laugh. So you become the hero rather than the victim of the joke."

Nora Ephron, as recalled by her son, Jacob Bernstein, in a heartbreaking piece about his mother’s final days in this week’s Times magazine

NY Times: Nora Ephron’s Final Act

"Even scientists are baffled by how Holly, a 4-year-old tortoiseshell cat who in early November became separated from [her owners] at an R.V. rally in Daytona Beach, Fla., appeared on New Year’s Eve - staggering, weak and emaciated - in a backyard about a mile from the Richters’ house in West Palm Beach."

EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS. (Also: Hooters puts out food for stray cats?) 

"The price tag for life’s basic necessities — everything from milk to haircuts to Lipitor to electricity, and especially housing — is more than twice the national average."

First world problems. But still.

NY Times: What Is Middle Class in Manhattan?

My piece in today's business section: How to Solve the Gender Wage Gap? Learn to Speak Up. (New York Times)

This is the kind of Bushmaster .223 assault rifle that was used to murder 20 children and 6 adults in Sandy Hook this week. It is also the same kind of assault rifle used in the DC sniper shootings, the recent shooting in Colorado, and by troops in Afghanistan. In Connecticut, each victim was hit more than once — and the medical examiner told the Times that the wounds were “all over, all over.” There is no reason that anybody needs a weapon of this caliber for anything but warfare.

Perhaps Gail Collins put it best:

“Every country has a sizable contingent of mentally ill citizens. We’re the one that gives them the technological power to play God.”

livelymorgue:

March 13, 1993: a powerful snowstorm with the “heart of a blizzard and the soul of a hurricane” rammed the East Coast, spawning tornadoes and 6-foot snowdrifts, killing 33 people and cutting power to 2.5 million homes. A week later, this photo, showing a woman struggling against the elements on 14th Street, appeared with a blurb about the reeling insurance industry, which struggled to cover the billions of dollars of recent storm damage. Photo: Suzanne DeChillo/The New York Times

"An earlier version misstated the term Mr. Vidal called William F. Buckley Jr. in a television appearance during the 1968 Democratic National Convention. It was crypto-Nazi, not crypto-fascist. It also described incorrectly Mr. Vidal’s connection with former Vice President Al Gore. Although Mr. Vidal frequently referred jokingly to Mr. Gore as his cousin, they were not related. And Mr. Vidal’s relationship with his longtime live-in companion, Howard Austen, was also described incorrectly. According to Mr. Vidal’s memoir “Palimpsest,” they had sex the night they met, but did not sleep together after they began living together. It was not true that they never had sex."

The corrections on the New York Times’ Gore Vidal obituary are amazing. (via theatlantic)

An army of mannequins stacked up in a warehouse in Long Island, 1970. From the @nytimes photo morgue. #photography #archives #nyc #mannequins (Taken with Instagram)

Beautiful, haunting NYT Mag piece by my friend and former Newsweek colleague Jeneen Interlandi, about her bipolar father and the merry-go-round mental health system that fails so many like him.

Did Men Really Invent the Internet?

So begins the lead of this New York Times piece, about the gender discrimination lawsuit shaking Silicon Valley. Kind of an odd way to start a piece about sexism, no?

—Lawsuit Shakes Foundation of a Man’s World in Tech

A Head of State, and a Boy’s Touching Request

This is an unfortunate headline, but this story makes me melt.

Tumblr does story about the NYTimes print archives. WNYC copublishes that story on its website. NPR plans radio piece about that copublished story. NYTimes does story about the original Tumblr story about the NYTimes. #OMG #META

wnyc:

It’s simply called “the morgue.” It is a cramped basement annex, stacked high with metal filing cabinets, full of three-fourths of a million pounds of old newspaper clippings and photos, going back 160 years. Welcome to the most extensive archives repository of the most respected newspaper in the world. Also read the written feature.

This story was written and produced by Jessica Bennett of Tumblr, in partnership with WNYC. Check out Tumblr’s new editorial blog, STORYBOARD.

Pretty proud of this one. Long live the Morgue! 

livelymorgue:

July 21, 1993. “Where Sharks Face Off With Gentler Souls,” read the headline on an article published that month about the New York Aquarium in Coney Island. “This is a bargain for those in search of the deeper perspective,” wrote the reporter, who traveled there with his son. Or maybe just a scare: “If you were to mix one drop of blood with a hundred million drops of salt water,” he noted, “a shark could detect that drop of blood as far as a quarter mile away.” Photo: Andrea Mohin/The New York Times