Title: author disses nobrow -- but then joins the pack
Product review: Author Seabrook takes major potshots at (amongst others) Conde Nast's New Yorker Magazine, which he acknowledges has become less an intellectual exercise than a cultural monitor of our marketing state, which it was never designed to be. Here his assessment of what The New Yorker stood for is right on the money. He quickly points out that these changes are all thanks to the editor in chief Tina Brown, then brand-spanking new (and prior to her departure for Talk Magazine). Having spent many pages dissecting how The New Yorker has run itself into the ground by covering media-friendly topics (the antithesis of intellect) and hiring illustators to provide provocative art to gussy up their dreadfully dull covers, he then is cornered by Brown who gives him a Lowbrow celebrity profile assignment. AND HE TAKES IT! Thus buying into the behavior he classifies as Nobrow. ...
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