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| The Atlantic’s Nervous Breakdown |
| 2022-01-20 |
| by Christine Rosen Not quite like the American Stinker. [Commentary] The Atlantic is one of the most prestigious magazines in the nation—and almost certainly its most lavishly funded. When Laurene Powell Jobs (whose net worth is approximately $22 billion) bought former owner David Bradley’s stake in the magazine in 2017, she ushered in an era of almost unimaginable expansion for a publication created before the Civil War. Under its editor, Jeffrey Goldberg, the Atlantic has added 100 new staff jobs. The once-staid monthly is now a round-the-clock Web content provider that releases dozens of new items a day. The Atlantic’s prominence and seriousness—and the bottomless pockets of its multibillionaire owner—have made it a dream come true for literally hundreds of liberal American journalists who spent most of the past 20 years in a panic about the financial viability of their chosen profession. So why is the Atlantic an emotional train wreck of a publication? If the New Yorker’s annual cover model, the monocle-bearing dandy Eustace Tilley, is supposedly its personification, the Atlantic’s should be Munch’s Scream. Therein lies a tale. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #3 Jobs's idiot widow has turned The Atlantic into a laughingstock. It used to be the most literate and numerate of the mainstream highbrow publications -- like The New Yorker only less pompous and more concise; like The New York Review of Books but more balanced and less predictably lefty. During the Reagan era The Atlantic published much of the best analysis of US-Soviet relations, including lengthy pieces by Kissinger and center-right experts (to their credit they're still occasionally publishing excellent analysis by Kissinger now that he's turned his attention to AI's dangers). Now The Atlantic is hysterical, schizo and laughably predictable in its Woke hostility to Deplorables and normies. It makes The Nation look sensible. |
| Posted by: Merrick Ferret 2022-01-20 06:51 |
| #2 Try this link if you're still experiencing difficulty. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2022-01-20 06:32 |
| #1 You can't read the rest at the link. It's blocked by a paywall. |
| Posted by: Sheter the Lesser9291 2022-01-20 00:36 |