Brill's Content, Volume 3, Number 2, March 2000
New York: Brill Media Ventures, LP. 2000. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Wraps. Format is approximately 9 inches by 11.25 inches. 116 pages. Wraps. Mailing label residue and scuffing on cover. Steven Brill (born August 22, 1950) is an American lawyer, journalist, and entrepreneur who founded monthly magazine The American Lawyer and cable channel Court TV. He is the author of the best-selling book, Tailspin: The People and Forces Behind America's Fifty-Year Fall – and Those Fighting to Reverse It. Brill's Content was one of the most innovative publishing initiatives. Steven Brill had a brainstorm: the public, he thought, was fascinated with news about highly visible media organizations, and this appetite could be converted into a business that would thrive as it revealed the mysteries and missteps of those organizations. In June 1998, Brill launched Brill's Content, a media watchdog publication that ceased publication in fall 2001. After sputtering for years, the vision died. Brill's Content magazine suspended publication, ending a three-year run of dissecting the personalities, obsessions and machinations of news organizations. The magazine caused a stir in its very first issue with Brill's article titled "Pressgate" charging that independent counsel Ken Starr and his office had been the source of much of the information for reporters regarding the grand jury proceedings about the Lewinsky scandal and that as a result Starr may have violated federal law or ethical and prosecutorial guidelines. More