Magazine Editors: Hot or Not

Mediabistro's magazine editor hot or not contest is over, and some interesting observations came out of the 8,000 or so insider votes:

"Some voters did get the point. '(Cargo's Ariel Foxman) is younger and hotter than Jann (Wenner), but Jann could do much more for a rising editor's career,' wrote a respondent in the gay-man category, with exactly the sort of opportunism we were seeking. 'None of the guys appeal to me, but Graydon Carter could advance my career the most,' wrote a similarly strategic thinker, this time in the straight-man field. 'Maybe I could get my screenplay produced,' snarked another Carter voter."

The Corsair crumples a c-note and throws it on the dresser of Mediabistro.com.

Gawker comments:

"Evidently Harper's in-house email from the PR office for local crazy-man Lewis Lapham was unsuccessful (don't lie, kids, we saw the email), as Men's Health's David Zinczenko pounded Lewis and the other straight men."

Finally:

"All that out of the way, congratulations to the four winners of mediabistro.com's first Magazine Editor Hot-or-Not competitions: Spin's Sia Michel, who won a majority of votes in the woman category; Men's Health's Dave Zinczenko, whose pretty-boy rep was well underlined by his trouncing of his straight-man competitors; Rolling Stone's Jann Wenner, who at press time held a slim, 20-odd-vote lead over Cargo's Ariel Foxman (big surprise: the most action was among the gay men); and, finally, Playboy's Hugh Hefner, who won the legends race but�somewhat surprisingly, given his rep�wasn't too far ahead of Vogue's Diana Vreeland, who's been dead for 15 years."