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Flanagan will no longer be contributing to The New Yorker, a well-substantiated report heard around these parts some months ago. As you know, I’m not in the business of rumor-mongering, hence the non-mongering of said rumor. But I’m quietly, not meanly, glad. Flanagan’s not an idiot, but she doesn’t belong in The New Yorker. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!
Some days later: I think the official word is that she’s no longer on staff, but will still be contributing occasionally. I stand by my first post! And to the reader who wrote asking why I’d refrained from mongering, maybe I should address that in a separate post. Aren’t there enough media gossip sites? Not a rhetorical question, necessarily—I really want to know.
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“She’s done the math, and it’s not really worth it for her,†said Benjamin Schwarz, Ms. Flanagan’s editor at The Atlantic. “She’s rewarded extremely handsomely for her book-writing, and no magazine can compete with that. Any work she’s doing for a magazine, she’s doing for charitable purposes.â€
(Ah, TNY, my favorite charity case!)
Well, good day to her! I’m just grateful she wasn’t around in time to influence my impressionable mother into staying home, as I’d surely be wearing a very longsleeved jacket and living in a padded cell by now. )
Flanagan not an idiot? Well, I suppose there’s a better word for someone with her “ideas” and attitude—a word that I would also apply to Bill O’Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, and others of that ilk.