The New Yorker at 100

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Michael W @mawilps 3d This pop culture documentary was really good. The entire crew did a fantastic job on telling the history of the famous magazine, The New Yorker. It gives the viewers an insight to what the magazine wanted to be, compared to other magazines and how it changed the way we view the world. If you haven't seen this documentary yet, check it out sometime. It's a must see. See more Pamela S @Pamela37400 Dec 13 Oh dear. Where's the passion? The excitement? The OMG can't believe I work here. Where was Dorothy Parker and her gang of reprobates? Where was the round table in the Algonquin who made the mag a household name? What a disappointment. See more Michael D @MichaelX Dec 11 I’ve read and loved The New Yorker magazine for as long as I’ve been able to string two words together. I was once a reliable cliché: an urban guy with teetering stacks of unread issues on the coffee table, towers of guilt and aspiration, though nowadays, I read the magazine cover to cover on my iPad. My New Yorker subscription and AmEx card are amongst my longest relationships, both dating back to 1990. Thus is my dedication and devotion to the magazine. Marshall Curry’s "The New Yorker at 100" on Netflix takes us inside the offices for the lead-up to the March 2025 centennial issue, and it’s a treat to watch the sausage get made and to see faces of the names that have been rattling around our heads for decades. Five editors in a century is astounding, and the film reminds us how each left a mark with my soft spot remaining for Tina Brown, who shook the torpor off during her short tenure. If you love the magazine’s legacy, don’t miss this. See more Logan M @Loag.Bear Dec 9 The willingness to assume and act like everyone knows what "The New Yorker" even is, is why this is simply a long advertisement for the magazine. Using actors to "act" like these pages have changed their lives and is the most important magazine ever just shows the desperation they hold to make their writing out to be the pinnacle of perfection. Even when they "hold themselves accountable" it's quickly brushed over as just an inconsequential part of history. I'm not saying they're terrible, but to spend nearly the entire time gushing over how amazing the magazine is felt disingenuous. It's a magazine that targets a specific set of people and doesn't care how often opinion is stated as fact. You have fact checkers yet when your "facts" are proven to be just a political opinion, you shift to saying "we just reported the facts we had at the time". Which is another way of saying "we lied". I would have liked to see the view of people who weren't paid to sing the magazine's praises. See more Read all reviews

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