Dayanamadim, New Yorker’a okuyucu mektubu yazdim…
Written on July 23, 2008 by alitor
…Obama cover’i ve yapmaya calistiklari “satire”‘ elestiren kisa ama oz bir mektup.
Belli ki coktan gelen kutulari dolmus tasmis, bana geri gelen automated mesajda o unlu “cover”i simdiden savunuyorlar. Ama hala satire adi altinda yuzeysel ve irrelevant kacmis bir savunma.
Mektuba cevap beklemiyorum ama onlarin “savunmasini” paylasmak istedim asagida:
“Thank you for writing. We appreciate your comments and, if you have a question, we’ll do our best to respond, although the volume of mail precludes our replying to every e-mail individually.
About our cover “The Politics of Fear”: Barry Blitt has combined a number of fantastical images about the Obamas and shows them for the obvious distortions they are. The burning flag, the nationalist-radical and Islamic outfits, the fist-bump, the portrait on the wall — all of them echo one attack on the Obamas or another. Satire is part of what we do, and it is meant to bring things out into the open, to hold up a mirror to prejudice, the hateful, and the absurd. And that’s the spirit of this cover.
In this same issue you will see that there are two very serious articles on Barack Obama inside — Hendrik Hertzberg’s Comment (http://www.newyorker.com/
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Thank you again for your letter, and for reading The New Yorker.”
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