Simon & Schuster EP: Reading a Candidate's Book Like 'Taking That Person to Bed With You'

From left to right: Jacob Weisberg, editor-in-chief of Slate; Jonathan Alter, senior editor and columnist at Newsweek; Ana Marie Cox, Washington editor of Time.com; and David Rosenthal, executive vice president and publisher at Simon & Schuster.

From Obama’s much-YouTubed “Yes We Can” speech and Hill and Bill’s Sopranos spoof to the unprecedented and unfiltered blog commentary, election coverage is relentlessly everywhere, all the time.

“It is the best of times and the worst of times,” said Newsweek columnist and senior editor Jonathan Alter, addressing a question on the ever-expanding media universe at last night’s NYU event, “Publishing and the Election: The Books, the Blogs and the Bold New Media Tactics.”

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