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Article: The willy Mr. Shawn.("New Yorker" editor William Shawn)(Review)
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- New Criterion
- Article date:
- September 1, 1998
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That The New Yorker has become a sacred cow for the American mainstream as well as for the cultural elite has just been demonstrated by the top-priority treatment given by the press to Tina Brown's departure from the magazine and S. I. Newhouse's subsequent choice of David Remnick as editor. The changeover was awarded a front-page spread in the Times and a Page Six cartoon in the Post, among other choice spots; it's hard to imagine any other periodical in this country arousing such curiosity about its behind-the-scenes doings. The whole fuss is nothing, though, compared with an even more seismic event in the magazine's life: its 1985 takeover by Newhouse, and his ousting ...
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