| Subject: RE: Vanity Fair |
| From: "Sterling & Ross Publishers" <drew@sterlingandross.com> |
| Date: 1/19/10, 21:45 |
| To: "'Barrett Brown'" <barriticus@gmail.com> |
No no,
go for it. Please don’t let my inability to grasp the basics influence you in
the least—you’ve been doing very well on your own to date.
From: Barrett
Brown [mailto:barriticus@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010
9:41 PM
To: Sterling & Ross Publishers
Subject: Re: Vanity Fair
Well, Vanity Fair has asked me to write about this
because NYT Magazine is running a major piece on the same general subject this
weekend, focusing on this same conflict between Johnson and McCain and
Johnson's other adversaries. I'm sorry that I've failed to convince you of the
necessity of all of this; feel free to give me a call if you'd like to discuss
it further or make suggestions. I'm supposed to turn it in by morning so that
they can run it ASAP and scoop the NYT. Let's chat.
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at
9:26 PM, Sterling & Ross Publishers <drew@sterlingandross.com> wrote:t
BB- Call me nuts but I
can’t help but see this as a “teach the debate” kerfuffle. No one is interested
in what you have to say, just how
nutty, snarky and vitriolic the debate has become. And aligning yourself in
major print media with CJ, which the left won’t link to anyway, while fighting
the right, which the right will never link to, is coverage suicide IMHO.
You know how I feel
about this stuff. You’re going to throw so many bombs that no one will take you
seriously or want to be associated with you, no matter how much sense you make.
Your piece for VF about Mr Major Name got spiked. Do you really think they care
about you, Charles Johnson and Rbt Stacy McCain (a guy that I out-Google by
600%)?
But if you think you know what you’re doing, go for it.
Drew
From: Barrett Brown
[mailto:barriticus@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010
5:20 PM
To: Sterling & Ross Publishers
Subject: Vanity Fair
The editor now wants me to write a 1,000 word-account of what's been
going on with me, Charles Johnson, and this whole Robert Stacy McCain thing, as
NYT Mag is apparently running a piece on some of this in next issue this
weekend and they want to scoop them. Will be a good chance to get me in the
center of things, and will include footer bio with link to both books.