| ashu |
Posted
on 14-Sep-01 04:07 AM
Namita wrote:
"Tina Brown is the chairman and editor-in-chief. It is the same Tina Brown who
put naked, eight month pregnancy Demi Moore on the cover of venerable New Yorker."
The scandalous picture that Namita talks about appeared on a cover of
Vanity Fair magazine, and NOT on that of the New Yorker. The New Yorker
NEVER puts photos on its cover, only sketches.
Tina Brown, a transplant journalist from Britain, was VF's editor at the
time, and, with such covers and splashy stories, she helped make VF
a smashing commercial success -- earning admiration and jealousy
all over.
Brown was later recruited to edit the New Yorker, with the publishers hoping
that she would make that magazine financially profitable too. She could not,
and, now, even with her being replaced by David Remnick (an excellent writer),
the New Yorker magazine still loses money, to the tune of millions of dollars
every year. (In the last three years, a number of books ABOUT the New Yorker magazine have appeared in the market, if anyone's interested.)
Talk magazine is bankrolled by the long-time friends of Brown, the Weinstein Brothers at Miramax. The mission of Talk, is to write about what people talk
about. That pretty much tells you what kind of magazine it is . . . sort of like
an extension of Ms. Brown's personality . . . bubbly, energetic, enjoyable,
totally fizzy and just plain effervescent.
Reading the rest of Namita's posting on Talk, I am surprised that such an intelligent person could show such naivete re: how magazines in the US operate
in terms of their content.
May I suggest that she start reading Columbia Journalism Review or Brill's Content on a regular basis? Both are excellent reader-friendly magazines that have done much to educate me aboue the media in the US. Or, failing that, since Namita already works at Harvard, maybe an occasional visit to
fascinating lectures at:
The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University
One Francis Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
telephone: (617) 495-2237
http://www.nieman.harvard.edu
should prove informative.
Thanks.
oohi
"NOT a journalist and NEVER studied journalism but quite used to all kinds of Nepalis who do NOT write for the public confusing me again and again for
being a journalist because of my writings"
ashu
ktm, nepal
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