Utne Reader

On The Daily Show last night, Jon Stewart lamented the closing of Conde Nast magazines Modern Bride, Elegant Bride and Gourmet, then produced a joke edition of his own fusion publication: Jon Stewart’s Pregnant Bride Gourmet Magazine. He says it’s a trend. Soon we’ll see such hybrids as Utne Reader’s Digest, a nod to the [...]

Jon Stewart’s monocular endorsement of the Utne Reader has inspired a new video promoting the magazine. Chuck Olsen of The UpTake and MNStories has outfitted Utne staffers, including High Times-reading editor David Schimke and Paranoia-perusing Jeff Severns Guntzel with the single lens spectacles… all in reference to a Daily Show gag in which a similarly [...]

In a clip on The Daily Show last night, Obama chief of staff Rahm Emanuel defended the release of secret Bush administration memos relating to extreme interrogations by stating that much of the details were already published elsewhere.  “It’s been written,” he said. “Go get The New York Review of Books. It’s there.”  To that, [...]