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Alright, not so much a "report" as a series of discursive little observations and bits from NY Mag/The Guardian's "Media at War" conference last Thursday. (I wasn't there for very long.)
1) I'm so disappointed that I missed meeting Conde Nast editorial director James Truman. I could have had my very own James Truman spotting. Goddamnit. I may be forced to sneak into the 4 Times Square building again.
2) Sitting behind lefty columnist Eric Alterman is fun because he spontaneously yells things during panels. It's like the media critic's version of Tourette's. You call it odd; I call it entertainment. ABC reporter John Donvan remarked, during a discussion about embedded reporters and civilian clothing, that some of the embeds "liked dressing up." Alterman: "So did the President!"
3) Media critic Michael Wolff [right] reminds me of someone. (But maybe it's just me.)
4) Highlights from the panel: The Post reporter Jonathan Foreman remarked that several of the journalistseven the experienced oneswould get overly excited and refer to a single bomb being dropped as relentless "carpet bombing." ABC's LeRoy Sievers's response: that happens in stories all the time.