What the hell is MAMA Magazine?
What the hell is MAMA Magazine?Plus: Chris Black speaks, spotting fake journalists, and the “beige” food content creator allegedly bored with recipes.
Welcome to media_gossip, Embedded’s special weekly edition of … media gossip, sent every Friday. You’re getting this because you subscribe to Embedded, but you can opt out here. I personally love the way Shannon Keating is, intentionally or not, doing a serial memoir-via-blog over the years. Start your adventure here, then go here, and then read her most recent dispatch here. This is how A Tale of Two Cities was written, people! —Kate Nick’s Riff This WeekSix men on the last time they cried: “I can tell myself to appreciate what I had or to look on the bright side, but for my son I can only think of it as a senseless tragedy and an unimaginable loss.” Chris Black’s GQ FavoriteI was disappointed to learn that GQ unceremoniously canceled Chris Black’s column, Pulling Weeds, which I launched in my first few months there in an effort to inject more voice, authority, and life into the website. Chris, who would later make the shortlist for top editor at the magazine, was as fun and easy to work with as he was to read. I texted him to ask which of the columns he wrote was his favorite. As always, he wrote back right away. —Nick
What is MAMA Magazine, the website for the ‘sophisticated retard’?By Nick CatucciI made my unfortunate discovery of MAMA Magazine on X, where the brand’s short video about “The Rise and Fall and Rise of the Men’s Magazine” went mildly viral in late August. Juxtaposing racy early Esquire, GQ, Playboy and other magazine covers with later, more diverse, one might even say woke covers and stories from those magazines, the message was clear: Who needs a “Cut for men” when you can have a website that is a 1990 issue of Playboy with Donald Trump on the cover for men? MAMA (an oddly effeminate name, until you realize that it presumably stands for “Make American Manly Again”) does not include a masthead or author bios on its website—and some bylines, like “Barry Weiss,” that seem like they might be fake—but it does include an about page that describes it as “a magazine for the sophisticated retard.”... Keep reading with a 7-day free trialSubscribe to Embedded to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives. A subscription gets you:
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