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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 25 Sep 2018

      Jeet Heer Retweeted Cara Buckley

      1. So, this letter on behalf of Ian Buruma raises an interesting question but doesn't persuade because it fails to grapple with why Buruma was actually fired (or perhaps forced to quit).https://twitter.com/caraNYT/status/1044594319951351811 …

      Jeet Heer added,

      Cara BuckleyVerified account @caraNYT
      1/ Just received email of letter from 110 NYRB contributors protesting firing of Ian Buruma “His dismissal in these circumstances strikes us as an abandonment of the central mission of the Review, which is the free exploration of ideas.” pic.twitter.com/XI84Fkwrob
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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 25 Sep 2018

      2. The letter writers have a theory of what happened: Buruma published a controversial article, there was public backlash & as a result he left the NYRB. What this leaves out is there was also something else: a staff revolt.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 25 Sep 2018

      3. Publishing that inaccurate, badly written & self-serving Ghomeshi piece was a stupid move. But is publishing a crappy article really a firing offense? No. Under founders Barbara Epstein & Bob Silvers, NYRB sometimes did that (Molotov cocktail cover, Strauss-Kahn defense)

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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 25 Sep 2018

          4. Any editor can publish a bad article and move on. What makes an editors position more precarious is if he or she loses the trust of the staff. That's what happened here.

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 25 Sep 2018

          5, The NYRB is a really small operation, especially for a magazine that publishes every 2 weeks 100,000 words or more. Judging by masthead of a recent issue, it's the main editor Buruma and a handful of people with actual daily editorial jobs.

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        4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 25 Sep 2018

          6. Now, from what I've heard founding editors Barbara Epstein & Bob Silvers put in a lot of hands-on time in editing, but even they were heavily reliant on small staff to keep production on even keel.

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        5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 25 Sep 2018

          7. When Buruma became editor (first new one since founding of magazine 54 years earlier) he inherited a staff that had much more hands on experience of editing than he did (not surprising since he really never edited a journal of this sort).

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        6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 25 Sep 2018

          8. Becoming editor, Buruma said Silvers ran magazine like “a monarchy” but he Buruma he would make NYRB “a slightly more democratic operation.” But with Ghomeshi article, he ran roughshod over other staff, which provoked revolt.

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        7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 25 Sep 2018

          9. If you read NYRB's statement on Buruma's departure, it's clear that beyond contents of Ghomeshi article, staff was unhappy that article was pushed through without their imput & then described (in Slate interview) as a collective, agreed-upon choice.pic.twitter.com/ALExPisMti

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        8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 25 Sep 2018

          10. Now it's important to think about the staff revolt as a practical problem. NYRB is highly niche magazine. If the people who actually put it together leave, it would be very hard to hire replacements. Nor was Buruma (a green editor) in position to train a new staff.

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        9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 25 Sep 2018

          11. So NYRB publsiher Rea Hederman was faced with a real dilemma: staff had lost confidence in Buruma & staff was essential. That's as much a trigger for Buruma's departure as the specific contents of Ghomeshi.

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        10. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 25 Sep 2018

          12. The other thing about NYRB that people aren't factoring in is that it's a commercial enterprise. It actually makes money! But that also means that owners can't indulge in capricious reader-alienating behavior of, say, a Rick MacArthur (with his foundation $$)

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        11. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 25 Sep 2018

          Jeet Heer Retweeted Patrick Iber

          13. There were some rumors that big university presses (which are a cash cow for NYRB) were unhappy but there's much less evidence for that than there is for staff revolt.https://twitter.com/PatrickIber/status/1044783547419103232 …

          Jeet Heer added,

          Patrick IberVerified account @PatrickIber
          Replying to @HeerJeet
          Wasn't there word of a revolt by Big University Press too, threatening to pull ads? There is maybe an actually interesting angle there about the relationship of NYRB to its major source of revenue.
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