recent Yorker editor on the magazine’s magic formula,a recent weekly radio show – and caution over Facebook contentDavid Remnick is meant to be talking about the recent Yorker’s weekly radio show, which launched this weekend. Yet his acknowledge to my opening gambit, and asking why the venerable (respected because of age, distinguished) weekly is going on air,starts with an unfathomable American expression about Texas and rice, segues through the cultural and economic impact of recent technologies via Dickens and Dostoevsky, or before quoting a 20th century mobster.“People used to request Willie Sutton why he robbed banks and he said: ‘That’s where the money is.’ That’s where the readers are. If they are online,if they are in print as they still are in enormous numbers, I want to be there.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com