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Article: A friend writes. (possible failure of The New Yorker)
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- American Journalism Review
- Article date:
- September 1, 1998
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Why we all have a vested interest in the survival of the New Yorker.
Assuming his head has stopped swimming by now, the estimable David Remnick is settling in as the fifth editor of The New Yorker. Remnick, a summa cum laude graduate of Princeton, has none of the bombast of the magazine's founding editor, high school dropout Harold Ross. Chances are he hasn't indulged in a decades-long shadow marriage, as did the second editor, William Shawn. He might seem to have more in common with the third, the cerebral Robert Gottlieb, although probably not the latter's kitsch interest in plastic purses. And if he has any of the party-animal pizazz of the fourth editor, Tina ...