• Slate, Friday, March 4, 2011 3:45 PM

No one, except for other journalists, writes Jack Shafer in an amusing Slate piece analyzing a new practice at the New York Times Magazine, starting this Sunday: putting an editor credit at the end of features.

Shafer claims it's just a ploy for new editor Hugo Lindgren to call attention to the redesign of the magazine.

And as for the pub's adding email addresses to the masthead, "I'd be a lot more impressed if the addresses were the unpublicized @nytimes.com addresses Magazine staffers use all day long, and not all suffixed "MagGroup"... which indicates that they were specially ginned up for public consumption," he writes. "Does listing a phone number for a phone that no one ever answers improve accountability or transparency?"

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