An inside look at New York Magazine

Here is an article written by Chris Lehmann, a former staffer at New York Magazine, the magazine which wrote the article I linked to here.  The New York article catalogues the reactions of Wall Street after their Icarusian decade, and Chris provides an inside account of the magazine’s social insecurity. What is most striking to me, however, is that he interprets the New York piece as defending the monied class, whereas I assumed, given the absurd nature of the included diatribes, it was satire.  As Chris worked at the magazine and knows its orientation better than I, I defer to his interpretation.  Assuming he is right, it is incredible that this is the most sympathetic defense the oligarchs can muster.  And though Chris never states as much, surely the editors and publishers realize that they are not members of the same social class as their subjects but, rather, groupies anxious to experience the lifestyle.  Reading between the lines, the leaders of the magazine sound like high school journalists who wrote about football since they did not make it on the varsity team.