1. It's easy enough to say that Remnick messed up here. What's more interesting is why he messed up. To push Clyde Haberman's point a bit further I think its precisely because Remnick is a great journalist that he misjudged handling of this.https://twitter.com/ClydeHaberman/status/1036763538042306565 …
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5. Under Remnick, even New Yorker fiction has become more journalistic and topical, as
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6. Now you give an old newshound like Remnick a chance to interview a former White House advisor and he's going to jump on it. A chance to really dig his teeth into the news.
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7. The mistake Remnick made is that the New Yorker Festival of Deep Thought (or whatever it's called) is not a place for journalism. It's a place for high-end consumption, a cash cow where the magazine trades off its brand to rich audience.
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8. At the New Yorker Feast of Intellectuality, the paying customers are given a vicarious taste of the magazine by meeting writers of magazine & people of the sort the magazine celebrates.
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9. This gets at the crucial issue. If you headline Bannon at the New Yorker Festival of Ideas, you're giving the magazine's imprimatur to Bannon, almost like inviting him to be a writer (as opposed to the subject of a profile) https://twitter.com/SuzanneNossel/status/1036775347180711936 …
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10. Anyways, I think Remnick messed up but he shouldn't be defined by this. For a good appreciation of Remnick's tenure as editor, go to
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I think it's Remnick's being a news guy that makes him favor grotesque Barry Blitt Trump covers every couple weeks - a terrible practice in my view - can you imagine his predecessors, who saw the cover space for its other possibilities, using it for demented cartoons so often?
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Remnick explained it: he wants to go down in history with Dick Cavett and Oriana Falacci. His mistake was in thinking this audience would appreciate being present for it.
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I'm concerned that people like you are unwilling to acknowledge the implicit racism in his actions. He touted a known white supremacist as a headliner of a festival without thinking to consult or even inform the many poc participants. Racism isn't Nazi flags and uniforms.
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It reminds me of journalists inability in the last couple of years to call Trump's lies "lies." All the hedging and equivocation over access to sources and party invites. There's a lot of privilege in these quick takes.
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