• All Things D, Friday, February 17, 2012 3:42 PM

"If New Yorker editor David Remnick... had his way, each issue would be behind an online paywall," begins this post, an introduction to a 30-minute video of Remnick's Q&A with Kara Swisher.

Check it out if you're interested in hearing Remnick's measured, insightful views on a wide range of subjects, including the state of today's journalism and branding (he says he "tries not to vomit more than once" when he hears his pub called a brand).

We also like how he describes the likelihood  today of a gazillionaire's investing in The New Yorker (a publication with "stupid drawings on the cover, 14,000-word pieces about everything from Neil Young to China...")  as opposed to, say O magazine ("Every month, we're going to put on the cover the most famous television personality -- the most empathic, the most appealing  -- and we're going to call it by its first initial.")

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