Coutorture founder Julie Fredrickson, who shot to Internet notoriety for this unscheduled Anna Wintour interview, sold her fashion blog network to PopSugar.com publisher Sugar Inc. back in October. The dollar figure that was paid to Fredrickson, who remains with the company, wasn’t disclosed. But it couldn’t have been that much — since she seems to be trafficking in hidden porn links on her personal blog.
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• With just a three-day schedule, the American Magazine Conference is forcing attendees to consolidate their “getting sauced” time if they want to attend any of the panels. Which means fewer people attending panels. [WWD]
• MSNBC talent Kristine Johnson was smart enough to defect to WCBS before Jeff Zucker took her job away. [IC]
• Now-former Reuters markets editor Joe Maguire confirms he was fired over his Ann Coulter book. First Amendment, Schmirst Amendment. [PFAW]
• President Bush’s tactic of hiring a a media insider as his talking head has worked: The major papers are said to have been going too lightly on Tony Snow. [NJ]
• Page Six should stay out of the business of reporting DUIs. Especially those of Daily News employees. [P6]
• Glamour sort of admits it screwed up when launching its “Don’tspotting” fashion feature, where readers got to trash the fashion sense of others. Now EIC Cindi Leive is reaching out to critical bloggers. And, it seems, to crazies: She’s asked for Coutorture’s Julie Frederickson to weigh in. [WWD]
• Seattle’s Stranger apologizes for a staffer writing music reviews while selling music ads. Bad, bad! [The Stranger]
Irin Carmon over at Women’s Wear Daily reports today on Glamour’s new Don’tspotted site. Specifically, the can of worms Glamour opens up when they ask readers to contribute photos which “mock fashion choices” without any editorial oversight. As Jossip reported on Friday, Conde’s second in fashion command wants everyone who catches a pedestrian looking “truly awful or truly chic” to snap a photo. Yet, with no black bars to protect anonymity of the fashion faux-paux victim, along with Glamour’s struggles with the rule stating “uploaders must own photo rights,” is rubbing some the wrong way.
Mainly, former Glamour intern turned Courtorture blogger/Melissa Lafsky stalker Julie Fredrickson.
… Julie Fredrickson logged on to find she had been Don’tspotted, with the help of four photos lifted from her own photo-sharing account. When she complained to Glamour that the anonymous poster didn’t own the rights to the photos, they were taken down. “I wouldn’t let the franchise be diluted this way by the public,” Fredrickson said. “It’s damaging to the Dos and Don’ts brand and makes Glamour look pretty bad.”
We wonder if Fredrickson would have had the same reaction if she had been “Dospotted?” Anyways, since we have nothing else left to contribute to the conversation, we’ll just give you Julie’s full email to her former Glamour gals. After the jump.
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• Anna Nicole Smith makes a fortune off her dead son. Props on this snag goes to the always classy tabloid In Touch.
• We imagine what it would be like to get it on with David Zinczenko. And then we stop, because we may have to do a TV spot with him someday.
• Michael Cooke gets his Chicago Sun-Times back. Keeps extremely obnoxious nick-name Cookie Monster.
• With Ken Baker around, the scandals just never stop.
• Head of Coutorture, Julie Fredrickson tells her fashion blogger peons to fuck off. But, at least she didn’t stalk them all.
• An X17 paparazzo almost ran over Cameron Diaz and Justin Timberlake. But, unfortunately, he missed.
• Megu gets kinky in the kitchen — sexual harassment never tasted so good.
Remember Julie Fredrickson? The FUCK ALL OF YOU queen of Coutorture? Well, it turns out she is not just psychotic when it comes to fashion blogs, Fashion Week, and Anna Wintour. She is also spending her days stalking down famous-ish bloggers at East Village coffee shops. A few weeks ago, she accosted Opinionista and Huffington Post contributer Melissa Lafsky at Theee Coffee Chamber on Bleecker St. (We blogged from there once. Obviously, never again will we take such a risk.) From Fredrickson’s other blog, Almost Girl.
A few days ago I watched a tiny brunette composing a post for HuffPo on boy???s magazines. As a girl who watches the girl rag trade pretty closely (well duh!) I felt compelled to say hi and ask about the Panopticist post on the subject. She responded in a rather unfriendly manner ???it was satire you know??? and promptly went back to blogging. Well duh I know it is satire.
I thought rather nothing of it because well heck I am just a regular joe blogger and I guess it is only a teeny tiny bit weird to have the blogger sitting next to you ask about your blog post …
Well it turns out that the slightly less than friendly woman sitting next to me was none other than Melissa Lafsky of Opinionista …
Psycho! A source close to Fredrickson says Fredrickson snuck into the coffee shop where Lafsky works to take paparazzi-style photos of her. When the Opinionista asked her to stop with the snapping, Fredrickson responded, “Why? You’re a celeb blogger!” (We bet there was a FUCK YOU! in there, too.)
When asked for comment, Lafsky responded, “I never said rude things to her like she claims in her post. She sat down next to me, started reading the Huffpo piece I was writing on my computer, and without introducing herself started commenting on it. It was totally awkward.”
And even if she was a little stan-off-ish, who wants some nut taking their picture while they’re working? At least give a girl a chance to put her lip gloss on!
When Bloggers Wished For Book Deals [Almost Girl]
We are going to go out on a limb here and guess that due to recent activities (described by some as mental breakdowns, and by her as a physical break-down) Coutorture’s Julie Fredrickson is escaping the personal hell that has been Fashion Week for fashion bloggers.
Julie’s away message:
From: Julie Fredrickson [Redacted]
To: [Redacted]Date: Sep 20, 2006 1:43 PM
Subject: Julie Fredrickson is On Vacation Re: [Redacted]
I will be on vacation starting September 18th and returning September 24th. I will be checking email but my regular reply times will be slowed. If you require an prompt response please email my partner Phil Leif at phil.leif@gmail.com
Otherwise, if you do not hear a response from me I would appreciate a follow up email next week if you would be so kind.
We’re going to guess that maybe this was written by her publicist (yes, she has one) instead of Julie herself. The original read: “I’m getting out of here bitches! Fuck you and your fucking little dog too!”
Earlier: Julie Fredrickson Tells Her Coutorture Bloggers to Fuck Off, Coutorture Bloggers Comply