What is Funny?: Fallout from the New Yorker Obama Cover

It’s been 24 hours since The New Yorker‘s Barack Obama “Politics of Fear” cover hit newsstands, which means the print world has had time to weigh in. Also, FBNY readers!: 55% percent of the couple of hundred of you who voted found it more offensive than not, which may mirror the response The New Yorker got from its own readers. Says WWD: “readers have sent in a flood of e-mails weighted heavily toward angry complaint, save for a few who praise the cover” leading some inside the Conde halls to worry there may be some long-term advertising fallout as a result.

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