Ever-Larger Media Matt

Okay. The time has come to let you all in on some changes forthcoming soon in my life and on this blog. Most notably, I'm leaving my job at The American Prospect to take a position at The Atlantic Monthly where my primary responsibility is going to be . . . producing this blog. If you read Andrew Sullivan's site -- which is now part of the Atlantic web operation -- that's a very good model for how this is going to work. In short, however, there's actually relatively little to expect in terms of changes. The site will have a snazzy new design (featuring, among other things, Atlantic branding, but no cartoon) and a new URL, but the current URL will redirect you automatically to the new one, and people who subscribe to RSS feeds shouldn't need to change anything. You can expect the same eclectic mix of politics and other stuff that you've come to expect, though in exchange for a salary I think I'm going to try harder to avoid typos.

Logistically, I'm going to leave this afternoon on a trip to some undisclosed locations. You can expect posting to continue, albeit at a reduced rate, until Friday. Friday evening, the DNS propagation of the new URL will being, meaning that over the weekend more-and-more people will start getting redirected to the new site (which will incorporate all of the old site's posts, archives, etc.). By one week for today, everyone should be pointed to the new site and posting will be up to its usual pace as I start my first day on the new job.

Pulling away from the technical details, I should say that while I'm excited about the new gig, the downside will be leaving my previous home at TAP. The Atlantic's offer was far too good an opportunity to turn down, but it's been an honor and a pleasure to work these past three and a half years at a place filled with smart, wonderful people dedicated to advancing worthy ideas. I'm not by any means the first progressive writer who got my start at the Prospect, which has shown a unique and underappreciated commitment to building the next generation of progressive media, and thanks to what Ezra Klein's accomplished, I can leave certain that I won't be the last. At any rate, I think you'll really enjoy the new site once it's up and running. Obviously, none of this is possible without you, the readers, and I thank you all for putting up with yet another URL-and-format switch.

Comments

Congrats

Posted by: steve duncan on April 23, 2007 11:05 AM

Congratulations, hope you shake the Atlantic up! A lot. You do realize the kinder, gentler neo-con den you're walking into, right?

Posted by: David W. on April 23, 2007 11:06 AM

Are you sleeping with Sullivan? Cause he'll break your heart Matt and we might be around to pick up the pieces.

Posted by: Felipe on April 23, 2007 11:08 AM

"Logistically, I'm going to leave this afternoon on a trip to some undisclosed locations."

Last I checked, Dick Cheney doesn't live in Santa Fe.

Posted by: Petey on April 23, 2007 11:08 AM

And congrats on continuing to make the most of your first-mover advantage in the blogosphere.

Posted by: Petey on April 23, 2007 11:10 AM

Grats, plus grats on your book deal.

Posted by: j mct on April 23, 2007 11:10 AM

Congratulations. Now if they would only fire racist-enabling Ross Douthat (whom you unaccountably claim as a friend), The Atlantic would really be making some progress.

Posted by: Charlie Murtaugh on April 23, 2007 11:12 AM

A big loss for American Prospect.

Hope the pay is good.

I have the feeling someday in the future, like maybe in 5 years, we'll all be saying "I knew him back when he was some obscure blogger".

Posted by: DonB on April 23, 2007 11:12 AM

does this mean that you will finally have to use some sort of spell checker on a regular basis?

congratulations all the same -- even with the occasional misspellings, your blog is a good read.

Posted by: glenn on April 23, 2007 11:14 AM

1. Demand a cartoon. One with you dunking. No way should that fuck Sullivan get one when you don't.

2. Comments? Still happs?

Posted by: SomeCallMeTim on April 23, 2007 11:14 AM

Congratulations dude.

Posted by: golddog on April 23, 2007 11:16 AM

I would say you are a good fit for The Atlantic, which has consistently been one of the best publications in the English language for a long time (30 years in my memory, but possibly the entire 150 of their existence if my scanning of the archives is accurate). They need an infusion of fresh ideas at the moment though and your perspective should be a good one - as long as you are really up to dealing with their factcheckers!

Cranky

Posted by: Cranky Observer on April 23, 2007 11:17 AM

What about the book? I'm waiting for the Yglesias Doctrine ...

Posted by: Nicholas Beaudrot on April 23, 2007 11:17 AM

Comments will continue and work continues apace on the book.

Posted by: Matthew Yglesias on April 23, 2007 11:20 AM

It wouldn't be a new year if we didn't get a new URL for Yglesias.

My two hopes for the new site - comments remain enabled, and no spell- or grammar-checker.

Posted by: Al on April 23, 2007 11:20 AM

Congratulations, Matt. You better keep doing posts about how you can beat up any sixty-year-old.

Posted by: ogged on April 23, 2007 11:20 AM

Tell Sully we said hi!

Posted by: Flamethrower on April 23, 2007 11:21 AM

And congrats on continuing to make the most of your first-mover advantage in the blogosphere.

You're mean. In the real world, my blog only continues to grow relatively-less-prominent compared to other blogs.

Posted by: Matthew Yglesias on April 23, 2007 11:21 AM

Awesome, congratulations. But I advise you not to start proofreading. There's no way you'll catch them all, and the only reason people tolerate them is under the assumption that you just don't care. Once you start working at it, the wons that slip threw will be all the moore embarrassing.

Posted by: Sam L. on April 23, 2007 11:23 AM

which will incorporate all of the old site's posts, archives, etc.

BTW, this begs the question, WHICH "old site's" posts, archive's etc.?

Posted by: Al on April 23, 2007 11:25 AM

Congratulations.

Hope you do not lose your intellectual honesty like so many others before you who have gone on to become stenographers at mega salaries.

Posted by: gregor on April 23, 2007 11:25 AM

Why the hell no Terry Colon cartoon? Someone not reading the fine print on his contract?

Posted by: Brian C.B. on April 23, 2007 11:25 AM

i was under the impression that no one who lived in your house had a "job;" are they going to let you stay?

Posted by: howard on April 23, 2007 11:26 AM

i was under the impression that no one who lived in your house had a "job;" are they going to let you stay?

You consider producing this blog a "job", howard? I mean, it's something they will be paying him for, but still.

Posted by: Al on April 23, 2007 11:28 AM

"the DNS propagation of the new URL will being"

Congratulations. Looking forward to that new no-typo policy.

Posted by: politicalfootball on April 23, 2007 11:29 AM

Now if they would only fire racist-enabling Ross Douthat (whom you unaccountably claim as a friend),

Douthat's not the one filling in for Sullivan with the genuinely weird and troubling views on race. The Galt wrote yer classic "Poor oppressed rich white boys" post on the Duke matter a couple of days ago, in which she asserted that race wasn't issue in the justice system but relative penury was. (I'm always surprised when she turns out to much more SoCon than even pseudo libertarian. The contrast between her position on this and that of Balko--a sincere libertarian who is much less likely, I think, to find many Dem programs acceptable if not admirable than the Galt--is striking. And disappointing.)

Posted by: SomeCallMeTim on April 23, 2007 11:30 AM

"which will incorporate all of the old site's posts, archives, etc."

BTW, this begs the question, WHICH "old site's" posts, archive's etc.?

Actually, it begs no questions at all. Try to remember that you are talking to a philosophy major.

Posted by: pedant on April 23, 2007 11:32 AM

Congratulations Matt. Good luck and continued success at the Atlantic.

Posted by: Homer on April 23, 2007 11:32 AM

Congrats - I'm glad a wider audience will get to enjoy your political commentary. I do hope, though, that the gravitas of the Atlantic doesn't dissuade you from posts on indie rock, attack squirrels, Disney princesses, or DC's Chinese food infrastructure.

Posted by: Seth D. on April 23, 2007 11:33 AM

Awesome news. Remember your OBF.

Posted by: JP on April 23, 2007 11:36 AM

From someone who usually lurks: Congrats on this, a wonderful and big move. Looking forward to the redirect!

Posted by: Chris on April 23, 2007 11:38 AM

but no cartoon

Why?

Is it too late to change that aspect of the deal?

Maybe you need a better agent?

Demand a cartoon. It's the best thing about Sullivan's blog. Perhaps one of you fencing (or otherwise dueling) Marty Peretz...

Seriously - congrats on the new job and have a nice vacation/trip.

Posted by: SoCalJustice on April 23, 2007 11:39 AM

or DC's Chinese food infrastructure.

After that last thread, Reihan Salam recommended Mr. Chen's in Woodley Park, which turns out to deliver to my house even though I live nowhere near Woodley Park. It's totally adequate, i.e. excellent by DC standards.

Posted by: Matthew Yglesias on April 23, 2007 11:41 AM

"You're mean."

I prefer to think of myself as "acid tongued". But regardless, I think the fact that I root for your continued success makes up for it.

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And there's actually a real compliment in my remark. There are plenty of folks with first-mover advantages who don't make the most of it.

But seriously, I do hope you have enough awareness to know that no matter how much effort you have expended, you really were in the right place at the right time for it to pay off.

If you'd been born two years earlier or two years later, you simply wouldn't be Big Media Matt today.

Posted by: Petey on April 23, 2007 11:41 AM

Glad to hear the good news, Matt. I'm so happy that such intelligent people are finally getting a chance to display their talents on behalf of institutions that can better support their work. This happened to Glenn Greenwald a couple months ago, and now it's happened to another of my favorites. Congrats!

Posted by: Joe on April 23, 2007 11:43 AM

Congrats, MY. And excellent answer to Petey. Dudes, I remember those good old days when Drum, Matt & Reynolds owned the blogosphere readership...all seven of us.

Posted by: bob mcmanus on April 23, 2007 11:45 AM

That's good news, congrats

Posted by: graeme on April 23, 2007 11:46 AM

Wow Petey, your perspective on the universe is damned enviable.

Posted by: Bill on April 23, 2007 11:47 AM

Congratulations!

Posted by: Brian Ulrich on April 23, 2007 11:51 AM

Demand a cartoon.

I hate that cartoon.

Posted by: Matthew Yglesias on April 23, 2007 11:51 AM

Congratulations, Matt.

Posted by: apostropher on April 23, 2007 11:53 AM

Great news!

(Can you put in a word at the Atlantic to bring back the crossword puzzles by Henry Rathvon and Emily Cox? [I know you can get them online but it isn't the same...])

Posted by: Preston on April 23, 2007 11:53 AM

Surely you could demand a better cartoon?

Congratulations!

Posted by: Jackmormon on April 23, 2007 11:55 AM

Congratulations on the new job. You're an excellent blogger, and deserve to get paid for your work.

(Will blog commentors ever be paid for their work? What about those of us with "first mover advantage!!")

Posted by: Ikram on April 23, 2007 11:59 AM

Congratulations! I miss the Atlantic. I mysteriously got a free subscription for a while, but I think that ended. Might have to pony up for one.

Posted by: Fred on April 23, 2007 12:00 PM
The Galt wrote yer classic "Poor oppressed rich white boys" post on the Duke matter a couple of days ago, in which she asserted that race wasn't issue in the justice system but relative penury was.

SCMT: I'm not saying you're mistaken here, because I haven't been following Megan's guest-blogging stints, but this would be a big surprise, since not two weeks ago she was trying to explain to the right-leaning readers of her own site that "Hey! Racism is still salient!" To advert to a blog comments cliche, could you provide a link? I'm curious.

Posted by: Jim Henley on April 23, 2007 12:01 PM

Congrats! You should insist on a Boston office, or at least a gift card for a coffee shop with wifi somewhere in Harvard Square, despite the fact that the rest of the Atlantic has moved, I think down there with you in D.C.

While you are at the Atlantic, can you persuade them to offer up a few free articles now and again to those of us reading out here on the internets? Delay them for a month if you must, but release them eventually if you really expect them to make any wider impact. Maybe they would convince me, a former subscriber, to resubscribe. Maybe not, but it's possible, and far more likely than now with pretty much everything locked up on their site.

Posted by: ohiomeister on April 23, 2007 12:02 PM

Wow, it seems like only a few weeks ago that I followed a link to a blog by a college student named Matthew Yglesias, and I wondered if he was any relation to the teenage novelist, Rafael. And over the years, Matt graduated and has gone from one success to another and now is becoming a genuine bigshot.
And I'm still at the same job and still passing the time reading blogs.

God, I hate you, Matt.

Just kidding, of course. Congratulations! Along with being very smart and having most of the right positions on the issues, you're a master of the medium of blogging.

Posted by: peep on April 23, 2007 12:03 PM

While you are at the Atlantic, can you persuade them to offer up a few free articles now and again to those of us reading out here on the internets?

Suffice it to say that broader changes to the Atlantic's new media operation are under way, and my hiring is part of a larger picture that I'm fairly sure will also include more of the print magazine going free online.

Posted by: Matthew Yglesias on April 23, 2007 12:04 PM

Surely you could demand a better cartoon?

I'm totally against all cartoons of writers. Everyone should just learn to live with it, or else I'll need to deploy a bit of the old smacky-face.

Posted by: Matthew Yglesias on April 23, 2007 12:05 PM

Congrats! What about formal articles?

Posted by: mdo on April 23, 2007 12:05 PM

Hopefully there will be a lot of full-length print articles in the offing too. I look forward to seeing the stodgy old traditional readership's reaction to the enfant terrible.

Posted by: JP on April 23, 2007 12:08 PM

Good luck.

You've got a lot going for you---you're a smart dude who also knows how to write.

Since the journamalism folks only look at the latter, the former is highly undervalued.

Posted by: liberal on April 23, 2007 12:08 PM

Beaten to the punch.

Posted by: JP on April 23, 2007 12:09 PM

What's the problem, Matt? Did you have some kind of a traumatic incident with an amusement park caricaturist? Did the drawing make you look fat?

Posted by: peep on April 23, 2007 12:09 PM

Congrats, Matt. I have no doubt you'll do as a great a job for Atlantic Monthly as you did for American Prospect. They made a great choice.

Jeralyn

Posted by: TalkLeft on April 23, 2007 12:10 PM

Good for you, Matt. You and Josh Marshall are the two most consistently interesting progressive commentators at the moment.

Marshall may be in line for the Woodward/Bernstein of his generation with his Muckraker work. I wonder if that makes you the Broder?

Posted by: Andrew on April 23, 2007 12:11 PM

Congratulations!

Posted by: mrh on April 23, 2007 12:13 PM

Congrats, Matt; you'll go a lot farther than the Wiz.

But will you still be eponymous?

Posted by: Alan in SF on April 23, 2007 12:14 PM

What everyone else said. Many, many deserved congratulations. Douthat looks to be the main beneficiary of this move, as it seems he'll be getting at least some of your traffic. But will they make you loose the slogan? Will you still be proudly eponymous? Or will you formally and finally embrace your true nom de guerre (BMM) under The Altantic's masthead?

PS. To aver to Matt as the next Broder is to call him an asshole in the sincerest and most offensive way possible.

Posted by: sangfroid826 on April 23, 2007 12:16 PM

I think I'm going to try harder to avoid typos

Friday evening, the DNS propagation of the new URL will being

I guess the fact that two correctly-typed sentences intervened between these is a positive step.

Seriously, though, congratulations on your well-deserved new platform.

Posted by: matt m on April 23, 2007 12:18 PM

Congratulations.

I'm a non-commenting but loyal reader who started reading you when you were still writing from Harvard, was it. It's been a pleasure to watch your development.

I'm one of those liberals who has been shocked over the last several decades by The Atlantic's decided turn toward the right, especially in the cover stories they've chosen to feature. But I'm happy to see you accept this offer, even happier that they made it to you. This is what the left/liberal blogisphere has been all about - to be able to see young, unabashed, unbowed, and unapologetic liberals like yourself finaly make their way into the SCLM so that it will become less so-called...

Good news for all concerned.

Posted by: Leah on April 23, 2007 12:20 PM

I second or third the "which archives" question, and renew my suggestion (from the time of the last site move) that you simply get an intern to take care of a unified archives project.

Posted by: washerdreyer on April 23, 2007 12:20 PM

Oh yeah, well-wishes as well.

Posted by: washerdreyer on April 23, 2007 12:21 PM

I'm totally against all cartoons of writers. Everyone should just learn to live with it, or else I'll need to deploy a bit of the old smacky-face.

Careful, now. You may have just given Jonah Goldberg a new idea for a chapter in his book (he's still writing that book, right?) on the violent, fascistic tendences of progressive bloggers.

Seriously, though, if you do have lay down the law here, can you please do it in your traditional manner? The drunken knife fight.

Posted by: SoCalJustice on April 23, 2007 12:21 PM

Congratulations. Very well deserved.

Posted by: David Weman on April 23, 2007 12:21 PM

That's cool, although it's lame you're going to be working at the same site as the "Steve Saileresqe" (you know what I mean) Andrew Sullivan.

Also, can you make it so your RSS feeds have all the content, not just the excerpts, so I can read them in my RSS reader. You can put ads in 'em, you know.

Posted by: Chad Okere on April 23, 2007 12:24 PM

I want a cartoon!

Posted by: Benny on April 23, 2007 12:28 PM

Also, can you make it so your RSS feeds have all the content, not just the excerpts, so I can read them in my RSS reader. You can put ads in 'em, you know.

Well, obviously, this sort of thing is now going to be handled by the Atlantic Media Group's fine business team. I note that Sullivan currently has full-text RSS feeds.

Posted by: Matthew Yglesias on April 23, 2007 12:33 PM

What can I add to the chorus of adulation?

Many congratulations.

I hope you will continue to mix the criticism-of-US-foreign-policy posts and the can-you-suggest-books-about-americans-who-whore-abroad posts.

Don't go wobbly on bashing Peretz and his chorus.

And can we now have our Big Media Matt T-Shirts-&-Mugs?

Posted by: otto on April 23, 2007 12:34 PM

Is that the same Atlantic Monthly which gave Mearshimer and Walt the go-ahead to do an article on the Israel Lobby -- and then didn't have the balls to publish it?

Sigh.

They keep gobbling up all the blogs I like. It's almost like a ..er.. conspiracy.

Except that the New York Review of Books is still willing to publish pieces by George Soros. So the little guy and common man still has a voice.

Posted by: Don Williams on April 23, 2007 12:35 PM

Congratulations.

Posted by: CharleyCarp on April 23, 2007 12:40 PM

Congrats to Matt.

Posted by: Don Williams on April 23, 2007 12:40 PM

Screw you yglesias

Posted by: pimp hand strikes! on April 23, 2007 12:47 PM

Congrats

Love the Atlantic, another reason to continue forking over the money.

If Bob Wright doesn't mind, could you and Ross start some kind of BloggingHeads at the Atlantic so that the NRO version gets pushed farther down the list?


Posted by: a on April 23, 2007 12:49 PM

I am so happy for you, Matt. Wherever you are, i will find you to continue to enjoy your writing.
I hope you get a huge raise as well.
Congratulations.

Posted by: vwcat on April 23, 2007 12:50 PM

I've followed your insightful commentary through many iterations now. I always appreciate and enjoy it. Best wishes, Matt. I look forward to the next chapter. Keep up the great work.

Posted by: K Marcel on April 23, 2007 12:51 PM

Congratulations. You deserve it. Smart move from the Atlantic Monthly. Maybe this means that TAP is going to hire a woman, no?

Posted by: Dan Karreman on April 23, 2007 12:53 PM

Congratulations, Matt. It's quite an honor.

I read my first Atlantic Monthly when I was 15 -- in 1965. The magazine was my introduction to John Barth and Jorge Luis Borges, two fellas not that well-known at the time. I saved those old issues from the sixties -- they're fallin apart yellow at this stage, but I've kept 'em. My favorite is the yellow cover for Svetlana Aliluyeva's piece.

Have fun.

Posted by: John Navin on April 23, 2007 12:53 PM

I feel rather like the dumb parent who never graduated high school watching their smart kid graduate college. Of course, the fantasy is not helped by the fact that I am three years your junior.

In any case: Bravo, well done!

Posted by: Neal Murray on April 23, 2007 12:56 PM

Al, actually, i'm riffing off matthew's own use of the term "job" in the posting; i would say that this blog is a "job," but it's not "alienated labor" in the marxist sense!

PS. the things i do to distract myself from the Man U injury plague at fullback....

Posted by: howard on April 23, 2007 12:57 PM

I'm totally against all cartoons of writers. Everyone should just learn to live with it, or else I'll need to deploy a bit of the old smacky-face.

I'm in favor of cartoons of writers, and I will fight you.

Congrats!

Posted by: Adam on April 23, 2007 12:58 PM

Interesting move. Sullivan if I recall correctly is now a senior editor of The Atlantic Monthly or some such? Are you getting a simliar title, and contributing print peices to the magazine, or is it just going to the same blog except with an The Atlantic ticker on top?

Posted by: Korha on April 23, 2007 01:06 PM

As a conservative subscriber to the Atlantic I think this is a great move. Much better than the addition of Sullivan which has never made any sense to me.

Congrats Matt. Yours is my favorite lefty blog and one from which I have learned a great deal.

Posted by: Mark Adams on April 23, 2007 01:11 PM

This is good news indeed; congratulations.

Posted by: djw on April 23, 2007 01:16 PM

well played sir. Congrats on the new gig.

Posted by: Jake on April 23, 2007 01:20 PM

May your power continue to increase! At this rate, you'll have a Green Lantern ring by the time you're 40.

Posted by: Neil the Ethical Werewolf on April 23, 2007 01:22 PM

I hope your contract doesnt prevent you from running a sports blog on the side. Dont forget about our Zards!! Anyhoo, congratulations. As one above commentator mentioned, a little continued local flavor will add positive texture to the blog.

Posted by: DC on April 23, 2007 01:24 PM

Chapeau! Great news.

Posted by: roger on April 23, 2007 01:28 PM

Let's hope this means you get better quality trolls too.
Congrats,
-J

Posted by: John I on April 23, 2007 01:35 PM

The Atlantic *rocks*. You'll fit right in, Matt. Congratulations.

Posted by: nascardaughter on April 23, 2007 01:38 PM

Congratulations. As I said a long time ago, this was inevitable.

Please stop vlogging immediately.

Posted by: jerry on April 23, 2007 01:38 PM

Congratulations.

Posted by: Jasper on April 23, 2007 01:41 PM

Well done, Yglesias. The Atlantic is a good fit for you...

Posted by: RC on April 23, 2007 01:43 PM

Congratulations! That's the kind of thing that could make a guy want to shell out for a subscription again.

Posted by: DaveL on April 23, 2007 01:44 PM

Congratulations on a well-deserved change.

Posted by: yave begnet on April 23, 2007 01:51 PM

Congrats, we'll try and swing hits your way for your new venture.

Posted by: Mr.Murder on April 23, 2007 01:53 PM

Congratulations. I'm a longtime Atlantic subscriber, and I'm glad to see my taste in blogs is validated by their hiring you.

If, in your new position of closeness to power, you could maybe drop some hints to the managment about improving the magazine's current god-awfully-boring art direction (i.e, bring back the Guy Billout pieces), you'd be doing the world a favor.

(Disclosure: as it happens, I contributed infrequently as an illustrator to the Atlantic throughout the 1990s. I'm not begging for your intercession here on my part (although that might be nice too ;)))

Posted by: James "Giacomo Marchesi" Gary on April 23, 2007 02:00 PM

Congrats, congrats.

Also, the cartoon hates you back.

Posted by: Monstertron on April 23, 2007 02:04 PM

"Sleeping with Sullivan"? How rude!
Our Matt isn't into barebacking. And I trust he'll keep his distance from Patient Less Than Zero in any context.

Posted by: David Ehrenstein on April 23, 2007 02:05 PM

Giacomo-
You don't like Istvan Banyai?

Posted by: Preston on April 23, 2007 02:17 PM

Congrats from a Cavs fan who hopes this takes some of the sting out of the Wizards' troubles for you.

Posted by: Hot Plate Williams on April 23, 2007 02:23 PM

What you really need to do at the Atlantic is persuade them to put short fiction back in the book!

Posted by: danthelawyer on April 23, 2007 02:30 PM

One of the first tasks in your new job will be ..er..managing the expectations of your new bosses at Atlantic Monthly.

So point out to them that CBS paid $15 million for Katie Couric and --seven months later --their Evening News ratings are still deep in the toilet.

heh heh heh

See http://www.philly.com/inquirer/entertainment/20070422_Gail_Shister___CBS_evening_blues.html

Some money quotes:
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"CBS executives deny it, but there's a growing feeling within the network that Katie Couric is an expensive, unfixable mistake. "
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"It's a disaster. Everybody knows it's not working. CBS may not cut her loose, but I guarantee you, somebody's thinking about it. We're all hunkered down, waiting for the other shoe to drop."
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"Couric, 50, draws fewer viewers than did avuncular "interim" anchor Bob Schieffer, 20 years her senior. Much of the feature-oriented format she debuted with is gone, as is her first executive producer, Rome Hartman.

"The broadcast is an abject failure, by any measure," says Rich Hanley, director of graduate programs at the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University.
...CBS Evening News this season averages 7.319 million total viewers, down 5 percent from the same period a year ago, according to Nielsen Media Research."

Posted by: Don Williams on April 23, 2007 02:34 PM

Also, hopefully Matthew won't fall into the Katie Couric school of blogging:
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"Couric took another P.R. hit recently when it was revealed that her CBS blog, Katie Couric's Notebook, was written by a producer. The ghostwriting became public only when CBS fired the producer for plagiarism."
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Ha ha ha ha. What are the news ethics of hiring a guy to ghostwrite your blob and then firing him for "plagiarism"??

Posted by: Don Williams on April 23, 2007 02:42 PM

I have to dial down my screen a tad, so Matt's bright future doesn't burn out any circuits up in this joint.

Sunglasses advised for all Yglesias fans.

Posted by: ferd on April 23, 2007 02:42 PM

Matt,

Just remember that Henry James used to write for the Atlantic, and you'll never measure up to him.

Seriously though, congratulations.

Posted by: Bill on April 23, 2007 03:02 PM

Congratulations. This is sure to improve the Atlantic, which I had given up on since that God-awful French dude examines America piece.

Posted by: Dan F. on April 23, 2007 03:13 PM

Matt, congratulations. Just this past month I learned after all these years that Corby Kummer is a woman. I have yet to figure out how Benjamin Schwarz gets all his reading in. Maybe you could talk them into bringing back fiction -- at least fiction labelled as such -- or, at the very least, make the annual fiction issue part of the subscription package.

Posted by: CJColucci on April 23, 2007 03:24 PM

Can you and Sully fight now? That would be fun.

Posted by: MNPundit on April 23, 2007 03:30 PM

The thought of a Matt Yglesias cartoon was just too good. I couldn't resist.

(Oh, c'mon. The hoodie and 'Zards swag is damn funny.)

Posted by: sangfroid826 on April 23, 2007 03:31 PM

Cartoon suggestion:

http://www.stcustards.free-online.co.uk/mepic.gif

Hero to 2 generations. (Why not a 3rd?)

Posted by: Jeffrey Davis on April 23, 2007 03:33 PM

That's very nicely done, Sangfroid! Sara in the background is a nice touch.

Posted by: Neil the Ethical Werewolf on April 23, 2007 03:40 PM

Congrats. Atlantic Monthly couldn't have picked a finer blogger, unless they had picked me and I were actually a blogger.

As to the typos, it wouldn't be a MY blog without them. If nothing else, they will give future historians something to puzzle over when analyzing political commentary in the early twenty-first century.

Posted by: Royko on April 23, 2007 03:52 PM

Just remember that Henry James used to write for the Atlantic, and you'll never measure up to him.

Yes. Look behind you, you are still but a man!

Posted by: JP on April 23, 2007 03:53 PM

The thought of a Matt Yglesias cartoon was just too good. I couldn't

Awesome.

Posted by: Matthew Yglesias on April 23, 2007 03:55 PM

It's about time somebody snapped you up.

Big ups.

Posted by: ethan on April 23, 2007 04:03 PM

That's awesome, sangfroid. I particularly like the trash hoop. But where's the Agent Zero love?

Posted by: SomeCallMeTim on April 23, 2007 04:06 PM

Really? With two computers in the room the trash hoop kinda struck me as sort of anachronistic after the posting. What did you have in mind? An Agent Zero jersey on the wall?

Posted by: sangfroid826 on April 23, 2007 04:17 PM

but this would be a big surprise, since not two weeks ago she was trying to explain to the right-leaning readers of her own site that "Hey! Racism is still salient!"

Henley:

The Galt post I was thinking of was this one. To be honest, it strikes me as basically unobjectionable now, and not at all as I recall it. In specific, I remember a sentence specifically denying that race was much at work in the justice system; that's why Balko came so readily to mind. Either I misread Galt's post or it was changed. I can't find Sullivan in the Wayback machine, but I trust the Atlantic enough to assume I must have misread it. So, apologies to Galt.

Some other readers must have misread it in some similar fashion as well, or this bit in a later post seems curious and strangely irrelevant: "Race is a problem in the justice system, but class dominates race, which is why OJ got off, and a number of poor white defendants don't."

I don't read her blog much anymore, so I missed the post to which you refer. And I should note that, after she blessed the Padilla policy on the grounds that (as I recall, and paraphrasing) "some smart lawyer told me it was OK," I have a hair trigger inference interpreter with regard to her posts on civil rights and civil liberties.

But it really does look like I just misread the post. Huh.

Posted by: SomeCallMeTim on April 23, 2007 04:23 PM

What did you have in mind? An Agent Zero jersey on the wall?

Sara (I gather, from Neil) as Agent Zero! Matching affection with affection for double the affection! Also, where's the keg of water that he apparently drinks per day?

Posted by: SomeCallMeTim on April 23, 2007 04:27 PM

Well done, Matt. Good luck to you.

Posted by: ryan on April 23, 2007 04:54 PM

But TAP is so much cooler than the Atantic.

Posted by: Freddie on April 23, 2007 04:58 PM

I think Matt needs to open a CafePress store that sells hoodies with that image on them.

Posted by: Neil the Ethical Werewolf on April 23, 2007 05:00 PM

Congratulations! This is great news, very well deserved.

But you are *so* wrong about the cartoon.

If you don't want to use sangfroid's cartoon -- which you really could just use as is -- maybe we can pick up another suggestion of Neil the Ethical Werewolf's and have someone draw you as a cartoon with a green lantern power ring?

Posted by: Stephen Frug on April 23, 2007 05:11 PM

What about Yglesias, with keyboard, coming out of the Green Lantern ring? As the creation of it. I'm not sure who would be the Green Lantern who created MY, though.

Posted by: SomeCallMeTim on April 23, 2007 05:24 PM

I really dig the idea of MY as a comic book character--with his chief weapon being the keyboard. What does the keyboard do? Is it a superpowerful cudgel, wieldable like Thor's hammer? Or is it more of a omnipotent universal remote like Penny's notebook from Inspector Gadget? Is the hoodie really a brain amplification device that allows the wearer to make insightful analyses on intricate matters of foreign policy? The possibilities are endless. Who are the villians in a MY graphic novel? Goldberg is a given. Who are the trusty sidekicks? ("Power of ... Skullfuck!")

Jesus, it just hit me. Pandas! How could there not be pandas in a MY cartoon/logo? There should be a freaking panda frolicking out there with Sara.

Posted by: sangfroid826 on April 23, 2007 05:41 PM

The only problem with this cartoon is that there's absolutely zero reference to New York City. I don't think MY has completely abandoned his allegiances to his hometown, so there should be something to suggest that he's from New York.

Posted by: Nicholas Beaudrot on April 23, 2007 05:59 PM

Congrats, Matt. I'm sure you'll do great.

Posted by: jurassicpork on April 23, 2007 05:59 PM

There should be a freaking panda frolicking out there with Sara.

Or maybe a panda cub peeing on Strunk and White? (Yes, yes, I know that Strunk & White is disfavored by the fine young things. Maybe Fowler?)

Posted by: SomeCallMeTim on April 23, 2007 06:00 PM

Congratulations, Matt!

Posted by: Jrod on April 23, 2007 06:07 PM

Congrats, Matt: and you should grab the Terry Colon cartoon with both hands. Look where it got Ana Marie Cox. Oh. But still, y'know, Terry Colon is pretty cool in a 'dot-com boom nostalgia' way.

Posted by: pseudonymous in nc on April 23, 2007 06:44 PM

Sort-of-OT: Preston, I LOVE Istvan Banyai's stuff and have stolen many of his compositions for use in my own work :P. But overall, the design-and-art-direction level of the Atlantic is just nowhere near where it was ten years ago. If you want a good example, just look the current "How To Break A Terrorist" cover. I mean, please.

(PS. If the art director of The Atlantic happens to be reading this, be advised that I am not really Giacomo Marchesi, but someone posing as him.)

Back to the encomiums for Matt.

Posted by: James "Giacomo Marchesi" Gary on April 23, 2007 07:41 PM

It is only a matter of time before Enrique is writing for the Times and is totally divorced from reality. This blog was the high water mark for his relevancy. MY is dead, long live MSMMY.

Posted by: Ezra is better on April 23, 2007 07:59 PM

The site will have a snazzy new design (featuring, among other things, Atlantic branding, but no cartoon) ...

You need to polish your negotiating skills. In your position, I would have held out for a cartoon.

Posted by: Alan Bostick on April 23, 2007 09:31 PM

Congratulations, Matt, and great news for the Atlantic.

Posted by: John S. on April 23, 2007 09:31 PM

First CBS and Couric and now the Atlantic and you. Has management lost its universal mind? Apparently.

Posted by: Hoozie on April 23, 2007 10:10 PM

There are no bloggers more deserving. Congratulations.

Posted by: hermit greg on April 23, 2007 10:36 PM

Congratulations Matt. I had my doubts about you early on (2003), but you've surprised me by being the best blogger of the past year in my book.

I don't you don't need my validation, but keep it up.

Respect.

Posted by: Jimm on April 23, 2007 11:02 PM

Mazel tov on the new gig, Matt: looking forward to more fine quality product at your new home...

And just to provide a contrarian viewpoint: screw the cartoon if you don't want one!

Posted by: Jay C on April 23, 2007 11:04 PM

Down at 141, I'm wondering if I'll get read.

Nonetheless, here it goes:

With the new gig, can you upgrade the RSS feed to send the whole entry?

Posted by: Sean on April 24, 2007 09:23 AM

Congrats. Well-deserved.

Posted by: j.scott barnard on April 24, 2007 10:58 AM

Well, that's good news; I'd rather read you on the Atlantic's dime than any retread connected with "Unity 08."

Posted by: Mumon on April 24, 2007 11:21 AM

I'll add that Goldberg's attempts to smear you (Lindberg! etc) do not seem to have constrained your rise. A good sign for the discussion of US policy towards the Middle East in general. The move may make you a bigger target for Peretz and co. though. We will see.

Posted by: otto on April 24, 2007 12:02 PM

ummm... matt, aren't you on record as saying the atlantic is a terrible magazine?

Posted by: eb in nyc on April 24, 2007 03:52 PM

"ummm... matt, aren't you on record as saying the atlantic is a terrible magazine?"

Wow, eb in nyc, you either have a very good memory, or an uncontrollable urge to Google.

Matt wrote:

The Atlantic Monthly: This is probably one of these things that it's not good for one's career to say, but David Bradley seems like a man of integrity, so I'll say it -- this is a bad magazine.

Doesn't seem to have been bad for his career.

Posted by: Petey on April 24, 2007 04:13 PM

Good catch, Petey and eb in NYC.

Matt seems to get away with alot of things which "it's not good for one's career to say".

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David Bradley will tell you that, like most great men, David Bradley has had but one great idea and that idea is TALENT and The Atlantic will be the repository of The New 300, the cream rising to the top of the Intelligentsia Talent Pool, so congratulations on arriving. In the vanguard no less. What the Corporate Executive Board's done for 20-something MBAs The Atlantic can do for you...and will!

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