http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20030602;s=lazare “The New Yorker Goes to War.” The subtitle—“How a Nice Magazine Talked Itself Into Backing Bush’s Jihad”—neatly captures the tone of this piece. (The author’s first thought, when faced with The New Yorker’s (putative) change of heart, seems to be not that the magazine is wrong, but that it has let him down.)
“The New Yorker may be just one example of a magazine that has lost its bearings, but, given its journalistic track record, its massive circulation (nearly a million) and the remarkable hold it still has on a major chunk of the reading public, it’s an unusually important one. Where once it used its institutional heft to help broaden American politics, now it is helping to narrow them.”
I don’t think Lazare’s problem is that The New Yorker doesn’t broaden like it once did: it’s that the magazine is not as liberal as it once was. 14:33
