People Are Shocked, Shocked! By Tom Ford

The debate rages on Romenesko today: is Tom Ford’s “guest-edited” Hollywood portfolio in Vanity Fair just what the magazine needed, or a case study in misogyny destined for women’s studies classes? For the defense: the Washington Post’s Peter Carlson: “Did Ford succeed in pepping up the moribund Hollywood issue? The answer is: Yes. And he did it the old-fashioned way — by persuading the stars to get naked and/or do weird things on camera.” For the prosecution, Salon’s Rebecca