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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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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But Steve Bannon isn't the news anymore. He's no more relevant than Milo.
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The optics are so bad as to make that argument moot. Bannon should be shamed back into the greasy goo he came from.
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You don't think part of this was vanity? Remnick believed that he's smarter than Bannon, he could beat him in a debate and get Bannon to admit he's wrong, or at least discredit Bannon in the eyes of his followers? Like in every courtroom movie ever?
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you say "old newhound" "old fashioned"reporter and the old part really shows, not in reporting skills, which defenders praise, but in the cluelessness of it all: giving a prized spotlight to someone who wants POC out of the USA. ANYONE who's been awake could have predicted this.
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meaning, for all his reporting acumen, Mr. Remnick doesn't seem like someone who has been awake. Bannon wins either way, getting exposure and alt-cred that "the establishment is against hime." The New Yorker is humiliated and loses, and it was all totally predictable.
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You're being charitable. The festival is not a new entity, and no one expects breaking news from an event like this. Selling tickets to an event divorced from the mag's storied fact-checking process doesn't square with the newshound instincts he (and you) are claiming.
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Another story is the power of elite-level pitches within the media, despite the subject; Bannon is clearly on some publicity tour and whoever's pitching him around managed to demonstrate that TNY is as buzz-hungry as anyone else despite the veneer of intellect and decorum.
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