Word: yorkerism
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...official sources, not enough time to dig out the real story not enough blacks and women in newsrooms, not enough pay for anybody, not enough coverage of such causes as ecology and Gay Liberation. The session on the new journalism turned into a mudslinging match between The New Yorker's Renata Adler, who condemned the genre as no more than "zippy prose about inconsequential people," and New York magazine's Tom Wolfe, who claimed Boswell and Dickens as editorial ancestors. "We are doing a more complete job of reporting," Wolfe insisted, "including people's thoughts...
...would you believe that The New Yorker is today one of the most socially activist and politically polemical among major magazines? That it vibrates in tones of tough liberalism and occasionally radical outrage...
...Yorker has always run articles about public issues," Editor Shawn says; the magazine can cite such warnings as Rachel Carson's Silent Spring and James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time ten years ago. But Shawn agrees that both the urgency and frequency of political pieces have increased sharply. In his view, the turning point was the 1970 Cambodian invasion. Richard Goodwin, once a Kennedy speechwriter, wrote a denunciation of Nixon's "usurpation" of power; Shawn used it as an editorial. After that "Notes and Comment," once the fluffy lead-in to each issue, frequently became...
...change coincided with some of the roughest weather The New Yorker had ever encountered in the narrow, sometimes viciously choppy New York publishing pond. Back in 1965, New York had run Tom Wolfe's satiric attack on Shawn and his magazine. Though shallow and unfair, Wolfe's article generated talk and crystallized the notion that The New Yorker had become musty and irrelevant. Then, in the late '60s, like other magazines, it began experiencing a money crunch. It continued to be profitable, but income shrank dramatically...
Outsiders naturally assumed that Shawn's response to adversity was new politics for The New Yorker-an impression strengthened by an advertising campaign that emphasized the stinging prose. But Shawn and his staff insist that there was no connection. "Even when things were at their worst," Shawn told TIME'S Horace Judson recently, "I have never felt any pressure. I can't imagine what the pressure could have bee'n. I did hear murmurings in the background, people in the advertising community who thought we were too sedate in our appearance. But we liked...