The New Yorker At 100 Trailer

The New Yorker At 100 Trailer - official movie trailer HD

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00:00The New Yorker publishes a 15,000-word profile of a musician one week,

00:05or a 9,000-word account from southern Lebanon with gag cartoons.

00:10So with the 100th anniversary coming up, the fact that this exists and is thriving, that's amazing.

00:19These writers are the writers that are at the forefront of thought and literature in our culture.

00:26The New Yorker to me is still this awe-inspiring institution.

00:30There aren't that many places that do this kind of super labor-intensive journalism.

00:36The wonder of magazines, I think, which is a little bit lost in the digital era with the kind of doom-scrolling.

00:41I get between 1,000 and 1,500 cartoons in my inbox, and then we end up buying anywhere between 10 and 20.

00:50I'm very drawn to things that are very dark but also very funny.

00:54She likes The New Yorker.

00:57It chews well.

00:59I think almost everyone who works with The New Yorker is obsessed in some way.

01:03It's a little bit like whack-a-mole.

01:05You think you're done, but all these little things keep popping up.

01:09We fact-check everything that is published in the magazine.

01:11Yes, cartoons get fact-checked.

01:13The cat's names are Tiger, Loverboy, and Gummy Bear.

01:17Is that correct?

01:18People want fairness and fact-checking, and they also want some media outlets that aren't knuckling under.

01:30A cover needs to speak to the moment but also be a timeless piece of art.

01:36I never got this whole Eustace Tilly thing.

01:41They should have jettisoned it in 1935.

01:44It's only 100 years old.

01:46Look what it's done.

01:47It takes a lot of people.

01:48It takes a lot of argument.

01:49But it's worth it.

01:52Well, that was easy.

01:53Eustace Tilly

02:05Eustace Tilly