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Caruso gets another mag
Michael Caruso, the editor of Los Angeles while the magazine was owned by Disney, is taking over the top spot at Jann Wenner's Men's Journal, the New York Post says. Caruso was last the editor of Maximum Golf.
After his last gig went bust in September 2001, he spent seven months in Southeast Asia, where he's been mountain climbing in Nepal, sea kayaking in Vietnam, motorcycling across Thailand, and scuba diving off the coast of Myanmar (the former Burma).
Caruso was the editor at Los Angeles who killed a critical story on Otis Chandler -- some say because the ex-Times publisher phoned up Disney chairman Michael Eisner to complain. (Actually...click on Comments and see what ex-Los Angeles senior editor Mark Horowitz has to say about the Chandler-Eisner claim. In short, he was there and remembers the Chandler story died of its own failings. Updated Friday 1 a.m.)
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This story is absolutely false. I know because I was an editor at Los Angeles magazine at the time and I was one of the editors who insisted that we kill it. The story was killed because it was bad, pure and simple. There was no reporting, no interviews with any of the subjects, and what little there was of interest turned out to paraphrased (I'm being polite here) from David Halberstam's The Powers That Be. Further proof that the story was unpublishable is that it was never subsequently published anywhere else. The disgruntled author has been proposing this alternative version of events for years now, but he should know better. That the sad, old Otis Chandler endorsed the idea in the pages of Vanity Fair, should be taken with a grain of salt by all concerned.
Posted by: Mark Horowitz at November 20, 2003 02:52 PM