​Alex Pareene

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Jan 11, 2022: The War On Cars: ​78. 311 is a Joke with Alex Pareene
Alex Pareene, a contributing editor to The New Republic and the author of The AP (Alex Pareene) Newsletter, joins the podcast to talk about his recent run of stories on cars, parking and the competition for scarce space on city streets. We discuss 311 — the non-emergency phone number for accessing municipal services — and what it tells us about how government works (or doesn’t work). What message are police sending when they fail to enforce illegal parking? As far as driving is concerned, does anything go? And how does Elon Musk’s insistence on beta-testing Full Self-Driving on public streets relate to it all?

Sept 14, 2021: Freddie Deboer: ​Let's Take the Alex Pareene Challenge
​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 politics like mine writing for newsletters like this one are in on some sort of con. And this is the only one of the common insults that bugs me at all, in part because for like a decade the book on me was that I was annoyingly sincere. So let’s just dive in, with the caveat that I understand that it’s a little nutty to write a direct rejoinder to something like this.

August 15, 2012:  Trump criticized Pareene on Twitter as a "lightweight reporter" who is a "total joke in political circles". Over the previous week Trump had been alluding to a "very, very major" surprise for the 2012 Republican National Convention that would be "unique and interesting". Pareene had written that Trump's surprise "is almost definitely just going to be some idiotic video where Trump 'fires' [a Barack Obama] impersonator." One day later, Obama impersonator Kevin Michel posted on his Twitter feed a picture of himself with Trump and advised his followers to "watch the Republican National Convention", prompting some news outlets to conjecture that Trump was upset that Pareene had accurately predicted his surprise.

Oct 31, 2018: Pareene op-ed critiqued the Washington Post: "A certain brand of swampy amorality has long defined the Washington Post opinion section under editor Fred Hiatt. It is a section that, to its credit, has habitually published writers representing a broader ideological spectrum than the voices featured in The New York Times, including actual avowed (democratic) socialists. But, much less to its credit, the other side of that spectrum has tended to include people like Marc Thiessen, one of George W. Bush’s many odious former speechwriters, who was hired at the paper immediately upon publication of his dishonest and morally repulsive book defending his former boss’ torture program.
So perhaps it is actually not that surprising that the Post published both Khashoggi and a few Blob denizens who were also on the payroll of the people who’d eventually kill him. The normalcy of that arrangement only highlights how profoundly unmoored elite Washington is from any coherent sense of virtue."

March 30, 2017: Adweek: ​Alex Pareene Will Head Up a New Politics Team at Fusion
Deadspin senior editor Alex Pareene is moving over to Fusion, where he will be politics editor for the site, heading up a new team that will also include Deadspin senior writer Hamilton Nolan and Ashley Feinberg, who has been a senior reporter on the special projects desk. Univision is the parent company for Fusion and Deadspin, which are both part of the Gizmodo Media Group.

Jan 14, 2015: Fishbowl NY: Gawker and Nylon Add Staff
Alex Pareene is rejoining Gawker as special projects editor. Pareene most recently worked for First Look Media. Prior to that he worked at Salon as a politics blogger. Pareene previously spent five years at Gawker.

Nov 25, 2014: TPM: Following Taibbi's Departure, eBay Founder Shutters Planned Site
The announcement will place some of New York's most popular Internet writers back on the employment market. In April, Alex Pareene bolted Salon to help lead Taibbi's project. Edith Zimmerman, founder of the popular women's interest website The Hairpin, joined Pareene and Taibbi in August.

Apr 28, 2014: Capital New York: Alex Pareene to join Matt Taibbi at First Look Media
Alex Pareene will join Matt Taibbi's in-development publication at First Look Media, the Pierre Omidyar–backed news organization, Capital has learned.

June 16, 2018: New Politics: ​Alex Pareene: Pundit of the Century
Alex Pareene, first of Wonkette, then Gawker, then Salon, then back to Gawker, then a stillborn First Run Media project, and now Splinter News is a great pundit.

April 10, 2010: Observer: ​Alex Pareene Leaving Gawker to Join Salon
​Well, we told you earlier today about the sudden activity in the New York job market, and here’s yet another move: Alex Pareene is leaving Gawker and joining Salon.
Mr. Pareene, 24, will be a blogger for Salon’s War Room blog. He was hired by former Observer staffer and current Salon political guy,