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> The friction escalated with the arrival of Vidra, who is said to have complained to Foer that the magazine was boring and that he couldn’t bring himself to re

> The friction escalated with the arrival of Vidra, who is said to have complained to Foer that the magazine was boring and that he couldn’t bring himself to read past the first 500 words of an article. According to witnesses, Vidra did little to hide his disrespect for TNR’s tradition of long-form storytelling and rigorous, if occasionally dense, intellectual and political analysis--to say nothing of his lack of interest in the magazine’s distinguished history--at an all-hands meeting in early October. Why run a magazine if you're not even interested in the type of journalism it produces?

jonknee 12y ago
> Why run a magazine if you're not even interested in the type of journalism it produces? And poof, "problem" solved! With the staff gone and only 10 issues of print a year left (which I doubt actually will happen), that sort of pesky journalism will no longer be a bother to the young guns in charge.
msabalau 12y ago
>Why run a magazine if you're not even interested in the type of journalism it produces? Well, if your husband is a politician, owning a venerable institution has a cache that creating a media outlet from the ground up doesn't. You get Bill Clinton and Ruth Bader Ginsburg to show up for last month's 100th TNR anniversary. Doubt that would be the case for the one year anniversary of verticallyintegratedbuzzword.com