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Jorn Barger May 2005
The Huffington Post opened this week with dozens of celebrity bloggers I never heard of. So I started going thru it and annotating who they are and what topics they posted about.The list below is missing lots of posters, but tries to link every post by the ones listed so far.
Archives: May
Scorecard (or, Who are these people?)
the management
Arianna Huffington (hostess) [bio-Wiki]DeLay, DeLay/Cronkite, disputation vs revelation, editorial policies, Hillary-Newt, Greece
Jonah Peretti (HuffPo webmaster, Eyebeam hacker, Chelsea's brother) [bio-offsite]photo retouching, opening annc
familiar names
David Rees (Get Your War On cartoonist) [bio]
John Cusack (actor)
Harry Shearer (voice of Apu et al on The Simpsons, Derek in Spinal Tap) [bio]Eat the Press, Fox/Paula Abdul, newsreaders, CNN and 'fun', Dennis Miller, Dan Rather, Sean Hannity
Bill Maher (comedian)
Mike Nichols (director, Mr Diane Sawyer) [bio]
Walter Cronkite (ex-CBS newsman)
David Mamet (playwright) [bio]
Paul Krassner (satirist, Realist publisher) [bio]
Jerry Brown (Oakland mayor, ex-gov of CA) [bio]
Larry David (comedian)
Ellen DeGeneres (comedian) [bio]
Rob Reiner (director) [bio]
Arthur Schlesinger Jr (historian)
Ze Frank (web humorist) [bio]media cred, Whitehouse joke, Dennis Prager, Mamet/Simon, site design, comments, filibusters
Brad Hall and Julia Louis-Dreyfus (comedians) [bio]
Larry Gelbart (tv writer) [bio]
Quincy Jones (music producer)
offscreen talent
Peter Mehlman (Seinfeld producer) [bio]magazines, polluter parody, tabloid parody
Kevin Bleyer (tv writer) [bio]
Seth Greenland (playwright, novelist) [bio]overwritten, Farrakhan, Hollywood solutions parody
Adam McKay (screenwriter) [bio]
Bruce Cohen (producer, gay rights) [bio]
Haim Saban (tv producer, zionist) [bio]
Marshall Herskovitz (producer) [bio]
Jon Robin Baitz (playwright) [bio]gay marriage, Odets/HUAC, John Simon, Iraq casualties
Timothy Greenfield-Sanders (photograher/documentarian) [bio]
media
John Zogby (pollster) [bio]
Tina Brown (editor: Vanity Fair, New Yorker)
Robert Greenwald (produced "Outfoxed") [bio]
Michael Isikoff (investigative journalist, Newsweek) [bio]
David Corn (Nation editor) [bio]Iraq withdrawal, Springsteen's Jesus, DC terror alert, babies dying, W terror alert, DeLay rally
Joe Scarborough (tv talker) [bio]
Thomas de Zengotita (Harper's editor) [bio]
Byron York (National Review, etc) [bio]Clinton scandals, judges, exit polls [ditto]
Patt Morrison (LA journalist) [bio]
Mark Joseph (religion/rock pundit) [bio]
Roger Lowenstein (economics journalist)
Nathan Gardels (NPQ editor) [bio]
Walter Shapiro (policial journo, USAtoday) [bio]magazines, newspapers, threat-levels & Wall St, Bos-Wash corridor
Al Eisele (editor of The Hill)
Richard Bradley (writer on Harvard, JFKJr) [bio]Bolton, iPod, movies, gender imbalance, ROTC, Katie Couric, Mamet, posturing, anonymous blogs, enabling comments
Harold Evans (journalist/historian) [bio]
Michael Smerconish (Philly talk radio)racial stereotypes, Philly graft
John Fund (WSJ ed) [bio]Social Security, Bos-Wash corridor
Max Blumenthal (LA journalist) [bio-offsite]
Charlie Gasparino (Newsweek biz journo) [bio]
Robert Schlesinger (Wash Examiner ed, son of Arthur) [bio]Laura Bush, lexicon, DC hypocrisy, women in combat, base closings
Evan Smith (Texas Monthly editor) [bio]magazines, judges, DeLay rally, Texas gov, Dennis Miller, O'Rielly, Dennis Miller
Cable Neuhaus (Entertainment Weekly, People) [bio]magazines, runaway bride, Cheryl McCall, Aaron Brown, Penthouse
Rikki Klieman (CourtTV)
Greg Gutfeld (Maxim editor) [bio]
James Pinkerton (conservative columnist, Newsday) [bio]
Danielle Crittenden (writer, Mrs David Frum) [bio]DC vs Hollywood [ditto], Bolton parody
activists
Russell Simmons (hip hop activist) [bio]
Paul Rieckhoff (Iraq veteran and activist) [bio]Iraq toll, body armor, Halliburton/VA
Marty Kaplan (Norman Lear Center director) [bio]
Joan Blades (MoveOn.org founder) [bio]
Andy Stern (labor union president) [bio]
Charlie Cray (corporate watchdog) [bio]
Cory Booker (Newark lawyer/activist) [bio]
Jay Winsten (Harvard, media and health) [bio]obesity, avian flu, aging boomers
Dr Dean Ornish (preventive medicine)
Jay Gordon (pediatrician) [bio]black teens and asthma, prozac etc, toxic fish
Jamie Court (consumer advocate) [bio]W jury duty, energy task force, Hillary-Newt
Elizabeth Warren (Harvard Law prof) [bio]
Paul Loeb (citizen activist) [bio]
Debrah Constance (children's advocate) [bio]
Mike Frankfurt (lawyer) [bio]
Cheryl Saban (children's advocate) [bio]
Steven G Brant (sustainability futurist) [bio]
Eric Liu (mentoring activist) [bio]
Doug Heller (CA consumer advocate) [bio]
Laurie David (global warming activist, Mrs Larry David) [bio]
Dal LaMagna (Progressive Government Institute) [bio]campaign strategy, ambassadors, attorney general, fake poverty numbers
Sarah Stillman (Yale student activist) [bio]
political
Gary Hart (ex-senator) [bio]Iraq withdrawal, national security
Jon Corzine (NJ Senator) [bio]
John Conyers (congressman) [bio]exit polls, Blair memo, exit polls
Ed Markey (Democratic Congressman from Mass.) [bio]
David Frum (neocon creep) [bio]
Hilary Rosen (DRM advocate) [bio]
Michael O'Hanlon (Brookings Fellow) [bio]
Susan Rice (Brookings Fellow) [bio]
Norm Ornstein (American Enterprise Institute) [bio]accountability, pensions, DC terror alert
Kevin Hassett (American Enterprise Institute) [bio]Bolton, tax reform, exit polls
Andrei Cherny (Kennedy School of Government, speechwriter for Democrats) [bio]
Zack Exley (online liberal hack) [bio]
David Sirota (Democratic hack) [bio]wealth inequality, Democrats, compensation gap, Iraq coverage
Ari Rabin-Havt (Democratic hack) [bio]
Robert A George (black Republican) [bio]
misc
Chris Meserole (teaches in Austria) [bio]criticizing France, ground rules, site design
Chelsea Peretti (comedian, sister of Jonah) [bio]healthcare, Danny Stricker?, online petitions
'Melody' (bimbette?)
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