Romenesko

Huffington Post
New Yorker editor David Remnick says he ran the controversial cover with Barack and Michelle Obama "because I thought it had something to say. What I think it does is hold up a mirror to the prejudice and dark imaginings about Barack Obama's -- both Obamas' -- past, and their politics." He tells Rachel Sklar that "normally I'd want the work to speak for itself ...[but] in this case, since I see that it's stirred the pot somewhat, and some people have misinterpreted it very quickly, I'm talking to you."
> Pols don't like satire because it's subject to differing interpretations (LAT)
> "It certainly will be candy for cable news," writes Mike Allen (Politico)
> Read Rehnquist's Flynt vs. Falwell opinion before getting too upset (Time)
> Page: "It's just lampooning all the crazy ignorance out there" (CNN.com)
> Maybe this kind of satire doesn't work, no matter how well it's done (CBS)
> Poniewozik: "I don't think the cover is, net-net, damaging to Obama" (Time)