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Article: What Tina hath wrought. (New Yorker editor Tina Brown)(Column)
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- Commonweal
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- June 16, 1995
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The New Yorker was once one of my favorite magazines. It now ranks down there with People and Vanity Fair as an example of trend-chasing and celebrity fascination at its most shallow, though in its sophisticated pretense it is less honest than People. When Tina Brown went to the New Yorker from Vanity Fair, she cut back on both the quantity and the quality of the fiction, one of the magazine's former strengths, shortened the articles, carried more pieces on movie stars, and introduced photos of famous people we are supposed to be interested in (including a recent long section on the Simpson trial celebs). In a Los Angeles Times piece, Garrison Keillor--who wrote for the New ...
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Article: Tina Brown resigns as editor of New ...
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July 8, 1998 ;
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... ... 08-1998 NEW YORK (AP) _ New Yorker editor Tina Brown resigned today after six years ... publisher of Vogue - which like The New Yorker is owned by Conde Nast Publications ... at both Vanity Fair and the New Yorker.'' Conde Nast had no immediate ...
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