New York Magazine

Eric Kallgren    Boulder, Colorado USA

Posted at 2:29pm on Thursday, April 30th, 2009

New York Magazine will eliminate two issues during the summer of 2009, saying that the weeks are "simply not popular with advertisers." Folio magazine reported the story on April 29, 2009:

"New York magazine is cutting two issues from its publishing schedule.

The weekly title is anticipating that advertisers, who traditionally pull back during the summer months, will pull back more so in a recession.

The issues dated June 22 and August 17 will not be published.

“We’ve looked, and found that these are two weeks simply not popular with advertisers,” said Serena Torrey, New York Media's executive director of business development and corporate communications. “It’s a hard decision, but is something we decided to do to ensure the company’s future.”"

Eric Kallgren    Boulder, Colorado USA

Posted at 12:08am on Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

Chris Lehmann, who writes for a blog called The Awl and evidently once worked at New York magazine, finds that the latter subject gives him diaper rash:

"My ill-starred tenure at New York magazine was, among other things, a crash course in the staggering unselfawareness of Manhattan class privilege. Sure, there was the magazine’s adoring, casual fascination with the “money culture” — a term deployed in editorial meetings without the faintest whiff of disapproval or critical distance. But more than that, there was the sashaying mood of preppy smugness that permeated nearly every interaction among the magazine’s editorial directorate — as when one majordomo tried to make awkward small talk with me by asking what it was like attending an urban public high school, or when another scion of the power elite would blithely take the credit for other people’s work and comically strategize to be seated prominently at the National Magazine Awards luncheon."

Read the bilious blog post if you dare:
http://www.theawl.com/2009/04/rich-people-things