Romenesko

Miami Herald
"Leonard Pitts writes: "As absurd, as over the top, as utterly outlandish as the New Yorker image strikes the more sophisticated among us, there is a large fringe out there for whom it will represent nothing more or less than the sum of their fears. Indeed, as I sat down to write these words, there beeped into my mailbox an e-mail with this subject line: 'WOW, The New Yorker got it exactly right, for once.' Said without a trace of irony."
> Connie Schultz: For a lot of us who don't live in NY, the cover isn't funny (PD)
> Publishing it "was a perfectly justifiable decision," says Tina Brown (NYP)
> "The New Yorker has weathered such bouts of indignation before" (WSJ)
> Jon Friedman expected a pro-NYer rallying cry from the media (MW)
> The cover sucked up all the attention that should have gone to Lizza (RO)