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“The prospect of change was, of course, bound to provoke a measure of consternation. In my first few weeks, I became used to baleful glances and swiftly closing doors. People were suspicious, and had a right to be. There was so much to defend, and so much that was worth defending. Even if its readers had begun to drift away, the New Yorker remained a citadel of literary culture. But retreating behind the moat and closing the siege doors on the world was, I believed, a self-defeating way to champion the New Yorker's values, and I soon discovered that I was not as alone as I imagined.”
-- Tina Brown, in her farewell column in the July 27 New Yorker. Brown stirred controversy during her six-year reign at the stuffy weekly by introducing photographs, splashy covers, bylines in the Talk of the Town section and other innovations. Brown resigned to help start a publishing venture at Miramax.

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		`Q U O T E--O F--T H E--D A Y` The people's editor “The prospect of change was, of course, bound to provoke a measure of consternation. In my first few weeks, I became used to baleful glances and swiftly closing doors. People were suspicious, and had a right to be. There was so much to defend, and so much that was worth defending. Even if its readers had begun to drift away, the New Yorker remained a citadel of literary culture. But retreating behind the moat and closing the siege doors on the world was, I believed, a self-defeating way to champion the New Yorker's values, and I soon discovered that I was not as alone as I imagined.” -- Tina Brown, in her farewell column in the July 27 New Yorker. Brown stirred controversy during her six-year reign at the stuffy weekly by introducing photographs, splashy covers, bylines in the Talk of the Town section and other innovations. Brown resigned to help start a publishing venture at Miramax.