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SPY! NOT A VERY FUNNY MAGAZINE
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NEW YORK - Hunkered down in their warren of crowded offices
in Manhattan's seedy Soho district, the editors of Spy magazine are
debating a fine point of fact. A visitor has asked why Spy bothers
paying $60,000 to fact-checkers, and yet publishes recklessly
insulting epithets -- like "short fingered vulgarian" -- to
describe its favorite targets -- like real estate mogul Donald
Trump.
"There's no factual problem," insists Graydon Carter, one of
the magazine's three founders, star...
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IT'S SPY VS. ALL COMERS ZAPPING FOIBLES OF THE RICH AND FAMOUS
The Boston Globe
; NEW YORK - Imagine you're on a jury and you've just heard the prosecutor's closing argument. He's a master at his craft, and he's just delivered the most convincing and scathing plea -- not a red-faced rant, mind you, but a persuasive, impassioned, piece-by-piece assemblage of damning evidence. The
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New York regional titles go national; but while Spy flies high, Manhattan, inc. struggles to find itself.
Folio: the Magazine for Magazine Management
; New York regional titles go national New York City--Spy and Manhattan, inc., which focus almost obsessively on the rich, famous and powerful of New York City, are discovering a considerable audience outside of the Big Apple. But that's where the similarity ends. Two-year-old Spy, the current
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Spy Magazine To Fold; Irreverent Publication Succumbed to the '90s
The Washington Post
; Spy magazine, the '80s rebel that delighted in skewering the successful and self-important, has fallen victim to the sober '90s. Months after it seemed to run out of editorial gas, the magazine announced yesterday that it is also out of cash and ending publication after 7 1/2 years. "It was a spiky
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A great one remembered... SPY (1986-1998).
Folio: the Magazine for Magazine Management
; If Paris Hilton had been a New York fixture in the '80s, she would have been a Spy woman of the year, maybe every year. She is, after all, a retro artifact of the narcissistic decade that the magazine's editors loved to hate. All the crazy ostentatiousness and money culture of that time couldn't
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The Sharp Eye of Spy; The Magazine, Knifing the Rich and Famous
The Washington Post
; The editors of Spy ("The New York Monthly") are sitting around a corner table at a crummy deli on Prince Street (where one of them has actually ordered french fries with gravy), penciling in entries on a chart. The project at hand, editor Kurt Andersen explains, is "a massive family tree purporting
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