Earlier this week Boston Globe media reporter Mark Jurkowitz said, of the New Yorker: "I was a Tina Brown fanyes there was more glitz, but, as good a job as Remnick does, I still liked her version a bit better." Today the National Post's Andy Lamey jumps on the Tina nostalgia bandwagon, with the argument that the New Yorker has gotten boring: "One recent cover featured 'Iraq's long, hot summer' (Anderson's latest go-nowhere anti-narrative); 'How to cure hypochondria' (yawn); 'The haves vs. the haves' (something about a golf course); 'Detroit's miracle car' (blah blah blah, it uses hydrogen) and 'The history of yarn' (actually, I made that one up — but give it time)."
The talk of the town no longer [National Post]