The magazine’s decision to give the former Trump adviser a platform was irresponsible – but the editor’s non-apology shows it still doesn’t understand why
Steve Bannon is an abhorrent bigot whose worldview is absent of intellectual or moral fibre. Nevertheless, one has to admire the skill with which Donald Trump’s former chief strategist manipulates the media. The man is adept at deriding “liberal global elites” and the “mainstream media” while using them to amplify and legitimise his repulsive ideas.
Exhibit one: the infuriating events that transpired on 3 September, when Bannon (who in March told supporters of the National Front in France to wear the term “racist” as a “badge of honour”) was announced as the headliner of the New Yorker’s annual festival. David Remnick, the magazine’s editor, explained he had “every intention of asking him difficult questions and engaging in a serious and even combative conversation”.
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