One for the Old-Timers

Posted on February 27, 2012 by Aunt B.

If you remember this, you’ll know why I laughed hard at this.

Filed under: America how can I write a holy litany in your silly moo

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9 Responses

  1. nm, on February 27, 2012 at 1:35 pm said:

    I’ll say one thing. Back when the OA was well-funded, it did a better job than it is able to do now. In many ways, including but not limited to dealing with race more thoroughly and with much greater nuance than it does now. I think Smirnoff is a boor, but I don’t think he’s stupid, and I think he’s secretly aware of that. So I don’t blame him for feeling resentful of the magazine that seems to have the money these days. But, um, editorializing about that resentment? Doubleplus ungood. I wish like anything that Grisham was still bankrolling the OA. But I don’t think that piece is a way to win advertisers.

  2. Aunt B., on February 27, 2012 at 1:53 pm said:

    I also thought it was unseemly to name the writers who had either left OA or were writing for both places. Like what were those people supposed to do? Writers have to write for paying places to get paid, obviously. If G&G is a better paying gig, you can’t blame people for pitching to them as well.

  3. nm, on February 27, 2012 at 2:11 pm said:

    Well, one certainly ought not blame them. One can also understand how a shiny magazine aimed at a rich white audience that erases complication gets more advertising money than a magazine that enjoys complication and thus is able to pay its writers better. And I repeat that one well might feel resentful about the whole thing. There are ways and ways of dealing with resentment, however, and your older readers do remember that Smirnoff doesn’t always choose the best of those ways.

  5. Aunt B., on February 27, 2012 at 2:45 pm said:

    Yeah, I certainly think that he’s spot on in his critiques. I’ve had my problems with the G&G content that seems to lean so heavily on “We’re just better” rather than “we’re different.”

    But lord knows his hands aren’t necessarily clean.

    I also think it’s strange that he‘s bothered by G&G. Aren’t they obviously looking to take on Southern Living, not the OA?

  6. Katherine Coble, on February 27, 2012 at 5:52 pm said:

    Heh. It’s fun watching a dick a hoist on his on petard.

  7. Anonymous, on March 2, 2012 at 12:52 pm said:

    I’m so happy this made it across your radar. I visited today specifically to see if it had. Have you seen G&G’s reply? http://mrmagazine.wordpress.com/2012/03/01/garden-guns-editor-in-chief-david-dibenedetto-to-samir-husni-we-are-not-in-the-business-of-bashing-other-magazines/

  8. Aunt B., on March 2, 2012 at 12:57 pm said:

    Oh, that is awesome. And classy. And the comments are hilarious. This is all going down just deliciously.

  9. Anonymous, on March 2, 2012 at 1:01 pm said:

    Squeee!

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