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Joel Stein

January 19, 2024

Joel Stein (born July 23, 1971) is an American journalist who wrote for the Los Angeles Times. He wrote a column and occasional articles for Time for 19 years until 2017.[2]

Joel Stein
Stein at Beverly Hills High School for "Career Day", May 16, 2006
Born (1971-07-23) July 23, 1971 (age 52)
Edison, New Jersey
OccupationColumnist
NationalityAmerican
EducationStanford University
SpouseCassandra Barry (March 2002–present)
Children1[1]

Early life edit

Stein grew up in Edison, New Jersey, the son of a salesman.[3] He is Jewish.[4] Stein attended J.P. Stevens High School, where he was a writer and entertainment editor for Hawkeye, the student newspaper. He majored in English at Stanford University and wrote a weekly column for the school's student newspaper, The Stanford Daily. He graduated in 1993 with a BA and an MA and moved to New York City, and then to Los Angeles in 2005.

Career edit

Stein's career began as a writer and researcher for Martha Stewart Living. He worked a year for Stewart and later quipped that she had fired him twice in the same day. Stein did fact-checking at various publications before becoming a sports editor and columnist for Time Out New York, where he stayed for two years. While working at Time Out New York, he was a contestant on MTV's short-lived game show Idiot Savants. Stein joined Time in August 1997 and his last column for the magazine appeared on November 16, 2017. In signing off, he began, "Since my first column, 19 years ago, readers and co-workers have clamored to have me fired." He concluded, "There are times when society needs a punk who doesn’t care. There are far fewer times when society needs a 46-year-old punk who doesn’t care. I’ve always been guilty of hanging on too long out of fear of graduating college, ending relationships and transitioning from democracy to authoritarianism. I look forward to a future columnist who makes me laugh about that."[2]

Stein sometimes appears as a commentator on television programs such as I Love the '80s. He also co-produced three TV pilots: an animated series for VH1 and two for ABC. The animated show, titled Hey Joel, aired in Canada and later in South Africa, while the other two were never picked up. He was a writer and producer for the sitcom Crumbs.

Stein taught a class on humor writing at Princeton University before moving to Los Angeles in early 2005 to write for the Los Angeles Times. In 2012, he published a book, Man Made: A Stupid Quest for Masculinity (ISBN 978-0446573122).[5]

Notable columns edit

On January 24, 2006, the Los Angeles Times published an anti-war and anti-military column by Stein under the headline "Warriors and Wusses" in which he wrote that it is a cop-out to oppose a war and yet claim to support the soldiers fighting it. "I don't support our troops. ... When you volunteer for the U.S. military, you pretty much know you're not going to be fending off invasions from Mexico and Canada. So you're willingly signing up to be a fighting tool of American imperialism ...". He prefaced his argument by stating that he does not support the troops in Iraq despite supporting the troops being "a position that even Calvin is unwilling to urinate on."[6] Stein states he did three interviews about the column on the Hugh Hewitt radio show, with Tony Snow, and with a "liberal" in Oregon.[7] Mark Steyn wrote in a New York Sun opinion piece that Stein was to be congratulated for the consistency of his position: "Stein is a hawkish chicken, disdaining the weasel formulation too many anti-war folks take refuge in."[8] Warrant Officer Michael D. Fay wrote in The New York Times that Stein's comments made him feel "sad because they're so mistaken, sad because their voices are granted a modicum of credence in the public forum, and sad because they leave me feeling a little less at home."[9]

In 2008, Stein wrote an article for the Los Angeles Times titled "Who runs Hollywood? C'mon", which mocked the canard of Jews controlling Hollywood by feigning outrage over declining acceptance of the stereotype.[10][11][12]

In July 2010, Stein wrote a humor column for Time in which he expressed his discomfort at the impact immigration of Indians has had on his hometown of Edison, New Jersey. Stein initially took to Twitter to defend himself with a tweet saying "Didn't meant to insult Indians with my column this week. Also stupidly assumed their emails would follow that Gandhi non-violence thing."[13] Time and Stein subsequently publicly apologized for the article. Stein's apology read: "I truly feel stomach-sick that I hurt so many people. I was trying to explain how, as someone who believes that immigration has enriched American life and my hometown in particular, I was shocked that I could feel a tiny bit uncomfortable with my changing town when I went to visit it. If we could understand that reaction, we'd be better equipped to debate people on the other side of the immigration issue."[14] United States Senator from New Jersey Bob Menendez submitted a letter to Time stating that the column "not only fell terribly flat but crossed the lines of offensiveness toward a particular community that has dealt with violent hate crimes in the past. Mr. Stein's mocking allusions to revered deities in the Hindu religion are particularly reprehensible."[15] Kal Penn, actor and former associate director in the White House Office of Public Engagement, also criticized the column for its portrayal of Indian Americans.[16]

Slate magazine writer Tom Scocca wrote of the column, "To a charitable reader, it's clear that the piece was trying not to be offensive. Stein's description of his childhood small-town idyll before the mass immigration is deliberately fake-sentimental, describing lowlife white kids stealing things and getting drunk. He was trying to make more fun of white people than he made of Indian people." Nonetheless, Scocca wrote, many Indian-Americans received the column "as an unironic anti-immigrant rant."[17]

In May 2013, Stein penned a Time cover story titled "The Me Me Me Generation" about the narcissistic and immature tendencies of millennials, but how they will also "save us all."[18] The New Republic,[19] The Atlantic,[20] New York,[21] and The Nation,[22] criticized Stein for selective use of evidence, for making sweeping generalizations about the behavior of millennials, and for repeating claims that prior generations had made about the young people in their times.

Assessments edit

"I think he’s got the quirkiest sense of humor I see today," Walter Isaacson, the chairman and CEO of CNN News Group told Stanford Magazine. "Joel's honed that self-effacing self-indulgence to a great art form."[23]

"Stein can occasionally be funny," wrote Variety TV columnist Brian Lowry when Stein was writing his column for the Los Angeles Times. "But what really bothers me about his work is that none of the ideas seem to have the weight to sustain a column. They're more like random musings str-et-ch-ed to column length ... Somehow, every column keeps cycling back to Stein's favorite subject—Joel Stein, and finding employment opportunities for Joel Stein."[24]

Stein "is not funny," wrote Tom Scocca in Slate, arguing that his "lack of funniness is the key to understanding any phenomenon involving Joel Stein. He is a bad and incompetent humor writer, a writer who lacks the basic ability to control his tone and persona. I know no one under 50 who does not hate him because of this." Scocca concluded, "Joel Stein is a soft writer in a soft gig, dressed up in an older generation's clothing, with an expired comic license in his pocket."[17]

"In a magazine whose regular essayists include such deep thinkers as Charles Krauthammer, Margaret Carlson and Roger Rosenblatt, Stein's column is decidedly lightweight," wrote the Stanford alumni magazine in fall 2001. "No one would call Stein's commentary sophisticated." Stein acknowledged, "My whole goal is to use Time magazine to make important people do stupid things."[25]

In an online column for Vanity Fair, Juli Weiner characterized Stein as a "forgettable I Love the '80s participant and Time magazine humor (?) columnist."[26]

"I don't think I am a real journalist," Stein told Alex Kuczynski for The New York Times in 2000. "I feel like I am, well, whatever we all are now: I am a celebrity journalist." Kuczynski wrote that Stein's columns were marked by "bawdy humor, tasteless one-liners and something that can best be described as a sort of polished vulgarity."[27]

Depictions in popular culture edit

In 2000, The Onion spoofed Stein's persona in a satire whose headline was "Cocktail-Party Guest Cornered by Joel Stein."[28]

In 2014, Stein played himself on an episode of The Neighbors along with Lawrence O'Donnell and Bill Nye.

References edit

  1. ^ Stein, Joel (May 24, 2012). "What I Learned When My Son Was Born". The Huffington Post. Retrieved August 8, 2013.
  2. ^ a b Stein, Joel (November 16, 2017). "Hello, I Must Be Going". Retrieved October 8, 2018.
  3. ^ Black, D. Grant (June 15, 2012). "A wine-sipping, sensitive dad in search of real manhood". The Globe and Mail. Toronto. Retrieved August 8, 2013.
  4. ^ Stein, Joel (May 21, 2012). . Time. Archived from the original on May 11, 2012. Retrieved June 2, 2012.
  5. ^ "Authors@Google: Joel Stein". YouTube. September 28, 2012. Archived from the original on December 12, 2021. Retrieved January 19, 2013.
  6. ^ Stein, Joel (January 24, 2006). "Warriors and wusses". Los Angeles Times.
  7. ^ "Joel Stein chat transcript". Los Angeles Times. January 23, 2007.
  8. ^ Steyn, Mark (January 30, 2006). "Now We Know". The New York Sun.
  9. ^ Fay, Michael D. (March 27, 2006). "The Next 'Best Generation'". The New York Times.
  10. ^ Stein, Joel (December 19, 2008). "Who runs Hollywood? C'mon". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved August 8, 2013.
  11. ^ Marks, Lisa (December 24, 2008). "Why it's still great to be Jewish in Hollywood". The Guardian. London. Retrieved August 8, 2013.
  12. ^ Berrin, Danielle (January 6, 2009). "Joel Stein hates Torah (but loves that Jews run Hollywood)". Jewish Journal. Retrieved August 8, 2013.
  13. ^ Weiner, Juli. "Time's Joel Stein Tries to Fit All Known Indian Stereotypes into Single Column". Vanity Fair. Retrieved February 14, 2021.
  14. ^ Stein, Joel (July 2, 2010). . Time. Archived from the original on June 27, 2010. Retrieved July 2, 2010.
  15. ^ "Senator Menendez Press release". July 12, 2010.
  16. ^ Penn, Kal (July 2, 2010). "The "Hilarious" Xenophobia of Time's Joel Stein". The Huffington Post. Retrieved July 14, 2010.
  17. ^ a b Tom Scocca (July 6, 2010). "Joel Stein's Immigrant Problem". Slate. Retrieved July 8, 2010.
  18. ^ Stein, Joel (May 20, 2013). "The Me Generation". Time. Retrieved November 13, 2013.
  19. ^ Tracy, Marc (May 9, 2013). "Time Magazine Cover Story on Millennials Misses Mark". The New Republic. Retrieved November 13, 2013.
  20. ^ Reeve, Elspeth (May 9, 2013). "Every Every Every Generation Has Been the Me Me Me Generation". The Atlantic. Retrieved November 13, 2013.
  21. ^ Coscarelli, Joe (May 9, 2013). "'The Me Me Me Generation' vs. 'The Me Decade'". New York. Retrieved November 13, 2013.
  22. ^ Crockett, Emily (May 16, 2013). "Why Millennials Aren't Lazy, Entitled Narcissists". The Nation. Retrieved November 13, 2013.
  23. ^ "It's All About Joel". Stanford Magazine.
  24. ^ Lowry, Brian (February 6, 2009). "Why Joel Stein's Column Irritates Me". Variety.
  25. ^ Oxfeld, Jesse (November–December 2001). "It's All About Joel". Stanford Alumni Magazine.
  26. ^ Weiner, Juli (June 30, 2010). "Time's Joel Stein Tries to Fit All Known Indian Stereotypes into Single Column". Vanity Fair.
  27. ^ "Time's New Voice Sure Whines a Lot; Humor Columnist Gives Weekly A Truly Singular Perspective". The New York Times. January 10, 2000.
  28. ^ "Cocktail-Party Guest Cornered By Joel Stein". The Onion. February 23, 2000.

External links edit

  • Joel Stein's official site
  • at the Los Angeles Times
  • at Time
  • Joel Stein at IMDb
  • Rumpus interview with Joel Stein

January 19, 2024
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Joel Stein born July 23 1971 is an American journalist who wrote for the Los Angeles Times He wrote a column and occasional articles for Time for 19 years until 2017 2 Joel SteinStein at Beverly Hills High School for Career Day May 16 2006Born 1971 07 23 July 23 1971 age 52 Edison New JerseyOccupationColumnistNationalityAmericanEducationStanford UniversitySpouseCassandra Barry March 2002 present Children1 1 Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 3 Notable columns 4 Assessments 5 Depictions in popular culture 6 References 7 External linksEarly life editStein grew up in Edison New Jersey the son of a salesman 3 He is Jewish 4 Stein attended J P Stevens High School where he was a writer and entertainment editor for Hawkeye the student newspaper He majored in English at Stanford University and wrote a weekly column for the school s student newspaper The Stanford Daily He graduated in 1993 with a BA and an MA and moved to New York City and then to Los Angeles in 2005 Career editStein s career began as a writer and researcher for Martha Stewart Living He worked a year for Stewart and later quipped that she had fired him twice in the same day Stein did fact checking at various publications before becoming a sports editor and columnist for Time Out New York where he stayed for two years While working at Time Out New York he was a contestant on MTV s short lived game show Idiot Savants Stein joined Time in August 1997 and his last column for the magazine appeared on November 16 2017 In signing off he began Since my first column 19 years ago readers and co workers have clamored to have me fired He concluded There are times when society needs a punk who doesn t care There are far fewer times when society needs a 46 year old punk who doesn t care I ve always been guilty of hanging on too long out of fear of graduating college ending relationships and transitioning from democracy to authoritarianism I look forward to a future columnist who makes me laugh about that 2 Stein sometimes appears as a commentator on television programs such as I Love the 80s He also co produced three TV pilots an animated series for VH1 and two for ABC The animated show titled Hey Joel aired in Canada and later in South Africa while the other two were never picked up He was a writer and producer for the sitcom Crumbs Stein taught a class on humor writing at Princeton University before moving to Los Angeles in early 2005 to write for the Los Angeles Times In 2012 he published a book Man Made A Stupid Quest for Masculinity ISBN 978 0446573122 5 Notable columns editOn January 24 2006 the Los Angeles Times published an anti war and anti military column by Stein under the headline Warriors and Wusses in which he wrote that it is a cop out to oppose a war and yet claim to support the soldiers fighting it I don t support our troops When you volunteer for the U S military you pretty much know you re not going to be fending off invasions from Mexico and Canada So you re willingly signing up to be a fighting tool of American imperialism He prefaced his argument by stating that he does not support the troops in Iraq despite supporting the troops being a position that even Calvin is unwilling to urinate on 6 Stein states he did three interviews about the column on the Hugh Hewitt radio show with Tony Snow and with a liberal in Oregon 7 Mark Steyn wrote in a New York Sun opinion piece that Stein was to be congratulated for the consistency of his position Stein is a hawkish chicken disdaining the weasel formulation too many anti war folks take refuge in 8 Warrant Officer Michael D Fay wrote in The New York Times that Stein s comments made him feel sad because they re so mistaken sad because their voices are granted a modicum of credence in the public forum and sad because they leave me feeling a little less at home 9 In 2008 Stein wrote an article for the Los Angeles Times titled Who runs Hollywood C mon which mocked the canard of Jews controlling Hollywood by feigning outrage over declining acceptance of the stereotype 10 11 12 In July 2010 Stein wrote a humor column for Time in which he expressed his discomfort at the impact immigration of Indians has had on his hometown of Edison New Jersey Stein initially took to Twitter to defend himself with a tweet saying Didn t meant to insult Indians with my column this week Also stupidly assumed their emails would follow that Gandhi non violence thing 13 Time and Stein subsequently publicly apologized for the article Stein s apology read I truly feel stomach sick that I hurt so many people I was trying to explain how as someone who believes that immigration has enriched American life and my hometown in particular I was shocked that I could feel a tiny bit uncomfortable with my changing town when I went to visit it If we could understand that reaction we d be better equipped to debate people on the other side of the immigration issue 14 United States Senator from New Jersey Bob Menendez submitted a letter to Time stating that the column not only fell terribly flat but crossed the lines of offensiveness toward a particular community that has dealt with violent hate crimes in the past Mr Stein s mocking allusions to revered deities in the Hindu religion are particularly reprehensible 15 Kal Penn actor and former associate director in the White House Office of Public Engagement also criticized the column for its portrayal of Indian Americans 16 Slate magazine writer Tom Scocca wrote of the column To a charitable reader it s clear that the piece was trying not to be offensive Stein s description of his childhood small town idyll before the mass immigration is deliberately fake sentimental describing lowlife white kids stealing things and getting drunk He was trying to make more fun of white people than he made of Indian people Nonetheless Scocca wrote many Indian Americans received the column as an unironic anti immigrant rant 17 In May 2013 Stein penned a Time cover story titled The Me Me Me Generation about the narcissistic and immature tendencies of millennials but how they will also save us all 18 The New Republic 19 The Atlantic 20 New York 21 and The Nation 22 criticized Stein for selective use of evidence for making sweeping generalizations about the behavior of millennials and for repeating claims that prior generations had made about the young people in their times Assessments edit I think he s got the quirkiest sense of humor I see today Walter Isaacson the chairman and CEO of CNN News Group told Stanford Magazine Joel s honed that self effacing self indulgence to a great art form 23 Stein can occasionally be funny wrote Variety TV columnist Brian Lowry when Stein was writing his column for the Los Angeles Times But what really bothers me about his work is that none of the ideas seem to have the weight to sustain a column They re more like random musings str et ch ed to column length Somehow every column keeps cycling back to Stein s favorite subject Joel Stein and finding employment opportunities for Joel Stein 24 Stein is not funny wrote Tom Scocca in Slate arguing that his lack of funniness is the key to understanding any phenomenon involving Joel Stein He is a bad and incompetent humor writer a writer who lacks the basic ability to control his tone and persona I know no one under 50 who does not hate him because of this Scocca concluded Joel Stein is a soft writer in a soft gig dressed up in an older generation s clothing with an expired comic license in his pocket 17 In a magazine whose regular essayists include such deep thinkers as Charles Krauthammer Margaret Carlson and Roger Rosenblatt Stein s column is decidedly lightweight wrote the Stanford alumni magazine in fall 2001 No one would call Stein s commentary sophisticated Stein acknowledged My whole goal is to use Time magazine to make important people do stupid things 25 In an online column for Vanity Fair Juli Weiner characterized Stein as a forgettable I Love the 80s participant and Time magazine humor columnist 26 I don t think I am a real journalist Stein told Alex Kuczynski for The New York Times in 2000 I feel like I am well whatever we all are now I am a celebrity journalist Kuczynski wrote that Stein s columns were marked by bawdy humor tasteless one liners and something that can best be described as a sort of polished vulgarity 27 Depictions in popular culture editIn 2000 The Onion spoofed Stein s persona in a satire whose headline was Cocktail Party Guest Cornered by Joel Stein 28 In 2014 Stein played himself on an episode of The Neighbors along with Lawrence O Donnell and Bill Nye References edit Stein Joel May 24 2012 What I Learned When My Son Was Born The Huffington Post Retrieved August 8 2013 a b Stein Joel November 16 2017 Hello I Must Be Going Retrieved October 8 2018 Black D Grant June 15 2012 A wine sipping sensitive dad in search of real manhood The Globe and Mail Toronto Retrieved August 8 2013 Stein Joel May 21 2012 The Best Book I ve Ever Read Time Archived from the original on May 11 2012 Retrieved June 2 2012 Authors Google Joel Stein YouTube September 28 2012 Archived from the original on December 12 2021 Retrieved January 19 2013 Stein Joel January 24 2006 Warriors and wusses Los Angeles Times Joel Stein chat transcript Los Angeles Times January 23 2007 Steyn Mark January 30 2006 Now We Know The New York Sun Fay Michael D March 27 2006 The Next Best Generation The New York Times Stein Joel December 19 2008 Who runs Hollywood C mon Los Angeles Times Retrieved August 8 2013 Marks Lisa December 24 2008 Why it s still great to be Jewish in Hollywood The Guardian London Retrieved August 8 2013 Berrin Danielle January 6 2009 Joel Stein hates Torah but loves that Jews run Hollywood Jewish Journal Retrieved August 8 2013 Weiner Juli Time s Joel Stein Tries to Fit All Known Indian Stereotypes into Single Column Vanity Fair Retrieved February 14 2021 Stein Joel July 2 2010 My Own Private India Time Archived from the original on June 27 2010 Retrieved July 2 2010 Senator Menendez Press release July 12 2010 Penn Kal July 2 2010 The Hilarious Xenophobia of Time s Joel Stein The Huffington Post Retrieved July 14 2010 a b Tom Scocca July 6 2010 Joel Stein s Immigrant Problem Slate Retrieved July 8 2010 Stein Joel May 20 2013 The Me Generation Time Retrieved November 13 2013 Tracy Marc May 9 2013 Time Magazine Cover Story on Millennials Misses Mark The New Republic Retrieved November 13 2013 Reeve Elspeth May 9 2013 Every Every Every Generation Has Been the Me Me Me Generation The Atlantic Retrieved November 13 2013 Coscarelli Joe May 9 2013 The Me Me Me Generation vs The Me Decade New York Retrieved November 13 2013 Crockett Emily May 16 2013 Why Millennials Aren t Lazy Entitled Narcissists The Nation Retrieved November 13 2013 It s All About Joel Stanford Magazine Lowry Brian February 6 2009 Why Joel Stein s Column Irritates Me Variety Oxfeld Jesse November December 2001 It s All About Joel Stanford Alumni Magazine Weiner Juli June 30 2010 Time s Joel Stein Tries to Fit All Known Indian Stereotypes into Single Column Vanity Fair Time s New Voice Sure Whines a Lot Humor Columnist Gives Weekly A Truly Singular Perspective The New York Times January 10 2000 Cocktail Party Guest Cornered By Joel Stein The Onion February 23 2000 External links editJoel Stein s official site Biography at the Los Angeles Times Biography at Time Joel Stein at IMDb Rumpus interview with Joel Stein Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Joel Stein amp oldid 1178951925, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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