Daniel Radosh
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Daniel Radosh is a New York based journalist and blogger whose writing has appeared in several publications, including Details, Entertainment Weekly, Esquire, GQ, Mademoiselle, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Might, New York Magazine, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Playboy, Radar, Salon, Slate, Spin, and Talk Magazine. From 2000 to 2001, he was a senior editor for Modern Humorist.
He is probably best known for his public dispute with journalist Peter Landesman, who wrote an article about sexual slavery in the Jan. 25 2004 issue of The New York Times Magazine titled "The Girls Next Door", and subsequently sold the film rights to the article to Roland Emmerich. (The film, scheduled for release in 2006, is also entitled The Girls Next Door.)
When Radosh challenged the facts of the article, Landesman threatened legal action against Radosh. Radosh consulted with the media critic at Slate, Jack Shafer. Shafer's article about the dispute turned the issue of the legal rights and responsibilities of blogs into one of the most controversial topics in journalism circles during the first half of 2004.
Much of Radosh's journalism is on lighter topics, however. (The byline for his blog is "Pop. Politics. Sex. So On."). In pop-culture circles, Radosh is best known for his obsession with tracing Huckapoo's attempts to infiltrate popular consciousness. He also runs the New Yorker Cartoon Anti-Caption Contest from his blog, a spoof of the New Yorker's reader's caption contest.
Radosh is the son of historian Ronald Radosh. Radosh graduated from Oberlin College in 1991, and currently resides in New York.
