Jeff Gannon's Unavailable? Get Me Landesman!
We couldn't really believe it. Here, see for yourself:
Jay Roach is attaching to direct and Peter Landesman has been set to write an untitled film about W. Mark Felt for Universal Pictures and Playtone.
Could it be? Peter Fucking Landesman?
Landesman is a foreign correspondent for the New York Times Magazine who has set up several of his bylined pieces as films, including a U drama with Michael Mann that Landesman adapted from his article on shadowy Russian arms dealer Victor Bout. As a screenwriter, Landesman adapted the Bernard Henri-Levy book "Who Killed Daniel Pearl?" and scripted "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man" for Beacon and Harrison Ford.
Hmmm. For Romenesko junkies, that graf must seem a tad incomplete, no? Perhaps it deserves a squib or two about Landesman's big fat albatross...
You guessed it, his New York Times Magazine piece about sex slaves.
We assume that, even if you don't remember the particulars of the article, you'll surely recall Jack Shafer's 97-part series on it.* In the first installment, he wrote:
Landesman's supporting evidence is vague. Where it is not vague, it is anecdotal. Where it is anecdotal, it is often anonymous, too. And where it is not anecdotal or vague it is suspicious and slippery.
[Click the links and read Shafer's other pieces, too. There's a novella in there somewhere...]
Even Landesman's editor stepped into the fray, a tactic which was, frankly, a little desperate. What could Marzorati say about a piece that was laden with more bullshit than your average Stephen Hayes dispatch?
Not much.
So, what's the point?
Well, this a roundabout way of saying that Landesman is a mighty peculiar choice to write about Mr. Felt, a man deeply involved in one of journalism's finest hours.
*Spurred on Mr. Radosh. Landesman, by the way, threatened to sue the shit out of Mr. Shafer. We expect this will happen at roughly the same time Richard Perle sues Seymour Hersh.
MORE FROM RADOSH: ... whose headline sez it better than we can.
Jay Roach is attaching to direct and Peter Landesman has been set to write an untitled film about W. Mark Felt for Universal Pictures and Playtone.
Could it be? Peter Fucking Landesman?
Landesman is a foreign correspondent for the New York Times Magazine who has set up several of his bylined pieces as films, including a U drama with Michael Mann that Landesman adapted from his article on shadowy Russian arms dealer Victor Bout. As a screenwriter, Landesman adapted the Bernard Henri-Levy book "Who Killed Daniel Pearl?" and scripted "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man" for Beacon and Harrison Ford.
Hmmm. For Romenesko junkies, that graf must seem a tad incomplete, no? Perhaps it deserves a squib or two about Landesman's big fat albatross...
You guessed it, his New York Times Magazine piece about sex slaves.
We assume that, even if you don't remember the particulars of the article, you'll surely recall Jack Shafer's 97-part series on it.* In the first installment, he wrote:
Landesman's supporting evidence is vague. Where it is not vague, it is anecdotal. Where it is anecdotal, it is often anonymous, too. And where it is not anecdotal or vague it is suspicious and slippery.
[Click the links and read Shafer's other pieces, too. There's a novella in there somewhere...]
Even Landesman's editor stepped into the fray, a tactic which was, frankly, a little desperate. What could Marzorati say about a piece that was laden with more bullshit than your average Stephen Hayes dispatch?
Not much.
So, what's the point?
Well, this a roundabout way of saying that Landesman is a mighty peculiar choice to write about Mr. Felt, a man deeply involved in one of journalism's finest hours.
*Spurred on Mr. Radosh. Landesman, by the way, threatened to sue the shit out of Mr. Shafer. We expect this will happen at roughly the same time Richard Perle sues Seymour Hersh.
MORE FROM RADOSH: ... whose headline sez it better than we can.
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