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In the New Yorker...
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on August 28, 2010, 02:07:44 pm ---I'm not one to dis Tina Brown. I think she improved on what was already a great magazine.
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She did some badly needed updating. The world is no longer what it was when John Hersey's "Hiroshima" was an entire issue of the magazine.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on August 28, 2010, 08:41:15 pm ---She did some badly needed updating. The world is no longer what it was when John Hersey's "Hiroshima" was an entire issue of the magazine.
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Though if the United States, or anyone really, were to attack a city with nuclear weapons now, I would hope there'd be a modern-day John Hersey covering it and that the New Yorker would devote an entire issue again. I'd be willing to skip the movie reviews and James Suroweicki for a week, anyway. I think they more or less unofficially devoted at least one entire issue to 9/11, though by a multitude of writers, of course.
Front-Ranger:
The cover of that issue was so moving, and won an award for best magazine cover as I recall. It was a black cover, with the silhouette of the towers in black varnish.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on August 29, 2010, 02:35:52 pm ---The cover of that issue was so moving, and won an award for best magazine cover as I recall. It was a black cover, with the silhouette of the towers in black varnish.
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Maybe because we're getting closer to the anniversary, but I find myself thinking back on how various media organizations and figures dealt with it. The New Yorker, David Letterman and The Onion especially come to mind for handling their situations post 9/11 gracefully, though obviously all in very different ways.
Jeff Wrangler:
Over the weekend I read Adam Gopnik's essay on Winston Churchill and recent books about Churchill in the August 30 issue. I was fascinated to read the following:
--- Quote ---This faith in government as the essential caretaker led [Churchill] later to support the creation of a national health service, "in order to ensure that everybody in the country, irrespective of means, age, sex, or occupation, shall have equal opportunities to benefit from the best and most up-to-date medical and allied services available."
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So I guess our resident reactionaries will be dismissing Winston Churchill as a hopeless socialist. ;D
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