But one needn't be an old-New Yorker cultist to feel uneasy about
certain other changes. Most noticeably, the magazine now runs heavily to
the kind of soft-focus "personality journalism" Brown specialized in at
Vanity Fair. Politically, the new "New Yorker" has also become a Clinton
house organ, its tone set by talented Clintonista writers Sidney Blumenthal
and Rick Hertzberg. (Brown knows which side her piece of bread is greased
on; in the 80s, Vanity Fair sucked up to the Reaganites.) Good investigative
pieces continue to appear -- when Republicans wind up as the goats. But
don't expect to read about those mysterious 80s drug flights in and out of
Mena, Arkansas.
-- Steve Badrich
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