Always point your finger at the chest of the person with whom you are being photographed. You will appear dynamic. And no photo editor can crop you from the picture.

Auletta has written the "Annals of Communications" column for The New Yorker since 1992. 0: Microsoft and Its Enemies (2001). Between 1977 and 1993 he wrote a weekly political column for the New York Daily News.

Ken Auletta (born April 23 1942) is an American writer journalist and media critic for The New Yorker.