WA007: ORAL HISTORY—An Oral History

The Directors' Cut of a rather notorious 2011 feature for The Daily

Surely you remember The Daily? This was Rupert Murdoch’s attempt at an “iPad newspaper,” laid out like one across the screen, turnable, available by subscription . . . yeah, it didn’t last very long. But I did a handful of rather enjoyable pieces for them, the most instantly notorious—it even got a response piece by Gavin Edwards in The Observer! which itself was subsequently named by Salon as one of the most unnecessary oral histories of all time—was this result of a thinkpiece pitch gone awry.