Another awkward disclosure by Slate media something-or-other Jack Shafer: "[Mark] Feldstein is a friend -- not as good a friend as David Corn, but a lot better than Michael Isikoff."
Which inspired FishbowlDC to rank Jack's friends. David Corn comes out on top, but there are a couple other Shafer friends left off the list. Here's a start:
- Gregg Easterbrook (friend for 20 years)
- Ana Marie Cox (friend as of 2004)
- James Surowiecki
- Bill Powers
- Joel Achenbach
- Michael Isikoff, circa 2003 ("sometime friend")
- Alex Star (Friend, "not such a good friend" that Shafer wouldn't trash him)
- Matt Cooper
- Nick Gillespie
- Jim Brady
- Matt Miller
- Glenn Simpson
- Chuck "News of the Weird" Shepard
- Anne Applebaum
- Dennis Cauchon
- Unnamed American Prospect magazine staff
- Dave McKenna
- Jonathan Chait
- Jeff Riggenbach ("old friend")
- Eric Boehlert (friend for 15 years, despite having met a couple weeks ago)
- Mary Jordan and...
- ...Kevin Sullivan
- Jeffrey Goldberg
- Rachel Zimmerman
NOT A FRIEND
Jack Shafer's Friend Ranking, Version 1.0 [FishbowlDC]
Full disclosure: Patrick Gavin is a friend. We don't really consider Jack Shafer a friend (though we once did call him a friend), but he did invite us to crash Michael Isikoff's upcoming wedding with him.
