Alex pareene biography

Alex Pareene (born 1984 or 1985) is an American journalist, writer, and editor.
Alex Pareene is an American journalist, writer, and editor.
Biography Alex Pareene is known for I'll Believe You (2006), The Politics of Everything (2020) and The Young Turks (2005).

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The AP (Alex Pareene) Newsletter

One of the most formative publications of my upbringing, MAD Magazine, had no advertising at all until the 21st century. It had no ads both because having ads would potentially limit the magazine's satirical purview and because they just didn't want to deal with advertiser complaints and expectations (like, say, expensive full-color printing). Principle and convenience sometimes walk hand-in-hand, at least when you don't have to worry about going broke following your principles.

Of course, when people bemoan the death of the 20th-century journalism model, they are mostly not talking about MAD Magazine. Some of them are just talking about a perceived mainstream monopoly on what "the news" and "the truth" are for America writ large. Others miss the way that regional audience monopolies forced advertisers to subsidize a wide variety of journalism, across the entire country, giving (some) citizens access to vital information about the workings of government at every level, providing a check on corruption and malfeasance

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Where the Wild Things Are

It’s hard to imagine a worse election cycle for this sort of project. McKay Coppins, a political reporter with BuzzFeed News, has produced, in The Wilderness, an expansively reported preview of the 2016 Republican-primary campaign, focusing on people generally considered by the smart set to be the most likely contenders for the nomination. But Coppins began work on his book years before the first primary vote would be cast, and it was released a month before the Iowa caucuses. Meanwhile, over the course of 2015, former reality-television personality Donald Trump, having reinvented himself as a sort of Twitter-era Joe McCarthy by way of Don Rickles, has exploded the carefully laid plans of both the GOP establishment and the insurgent-outsider wing of the conservative movement—which at this point is nearly as established as the GOP’s “grown-up” leadership caste, or at least equally well funded.

Coppins has sort of tried to write a Game Change (the gossipy postelection best seller–turned–franchise launched by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin after

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Freddie deBoer

This Alex Pareene newsletter post is in part a dig at people like me, Substack bros. (Inspired by the more successful ones rather than me, I’m sure, but it’s a category in which I’m frequently placed.) There’s so much fucking metadiscourse about independent publishing and the supposed insincerity of those within it already that I’d like to wash my hands of it all. But the fact remains that there is very little space at all within traditional media for those who are critical of establishment liberalism and the Democratic party, other than Republican shitheads like Bret Stephens or Jennifer Rubin who are disdained by regular conservatives. (Breitbart et al. are their own separate world, a deeply unpleasant one.) The claim that writers like me are just in it for the money inevitably redounds to the benefit of the gatekeepers of progressive media, who I am confident Pareene does not support. Pareene is also himself writing from Substack, which makes it more interesting. But among other things he’s certainly alleging insincerity, the notion that people with politi