Graydon Carter
Graydon Carter
Edward Graydon Carteris a Canadian-born American journalist and has served as the editor of Vanity Fair since 1992. He also co-founded, with Kurt Andersen and Tom Phillips, the satirical monthly magazine Spy in 1986...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth14 July 1949
CountryUnited States of America
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Magazine stories, the best ones anyway, are generally a combination of three elements: access, narrative, and disclosure.
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The shelf life of a movie actor or actress is so short, it's like milk.
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It could safely be said that Iraqis are dying at a faster clip since the American-led invasion and occupation than they did during the last decade of Saddam Hussein's rule.
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I might wear a dinner jacket once a year to our Oscar party - that's a big thing - but I don't go to parties. I'm social but I'm not a socialite person.
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I did a bunch of blue-collar jobs, because I knew I'd wind up with a white-collar job at some point, and I wanted to, I don't know, I just wanted to taste life. I dug graves for a while, I worked as a stock boy in a big department store, I worked in a bank.
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Issues such as transparency often boil down to which side of - pick a number - 40 you're on. Under 40, and transparency is generally considered a good thing for society. Over 40, and one generally chooses privacy over transparency. On every side of this issue, hypocrisy abounds.
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Let's face it, who among us wouldn't take a pill or potion that would make us better at our job? Goodness knows, we abuse substances for just about everything in our personal lives; why not in our professional lives as well?
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I really don't despise anyone. But there is a list of a half dozen people I would prefer never to hear from or see again.
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I always thought eating what you wanted was one of those aspects of adulthood to be looked forward to when you were a child.
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In America, the top 1 percent led the country into war and economic devastation, leaving the less fortunate to fight for one and pay for both.
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Magazines at some point become hostage to their own success.
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You have to give kids something to rebel against. You can't like their music - you have to call it noise. It's incumbent on a parent.
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Americans who grew up in the 1930s or 1940s still have some fleeting memory of what the country was like before it became the steroidal superpower it is today.
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As any journalist will tell you, there are few professional situations as vexing as when a friend becomes involved in a major story that you feel you must cover.