New Criterion, September 1st, 1998
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 seism...
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