Mark Goldblatt, the author, takes the New York Times to task for its spiteful reviews of The Devil Wears Prada. For those on another planet, or across the river, that's Lauren Weisberger lightly fictionalized account of work as assistant to Anna Wintour of Vogue. Goldblatt attacks Kate Betts, one reviewer, for glossing over her connection with the powerful Wintour: Betts was her prot g . And then the Times followed up with a demolition by Janet Maslin, all for a book that neither reviewer thought worth reading. "To say that the Times lacked good faith in reviewing The Devil Wears Prada understates the utterly unconscionable, and downright vindictive, way the paper went after the thing."
Mark Goldblatt on The Devil Wears Prada [National Review]