The New Yorker has been a staple of the reading public's diet for almost 80 years. During this time it has tackled every relevant issue in New York City and abroad. It offers an upscale view theater, films, and books. Basically all of the top arts are covered, every month in the one hundred and twenty some odd pages. It covers may of the months topical events written by some of the most influential writes of our time and of times past. It is not just composed of articles it has cartoons too. Much like the lay out of Playboy magazine, The New Yorker has cartoons through out. Cartoonist like William Steig, creator of Shrek, is one of the better known. Over all the magazine has many points of importance and relevance but at times talks down to the reader who may not know all the ins and outs of this high brow society.
             Harold Ross once said, "I started to get out a light magazine that wouldn't concern itself with the weighty problems of the universe and now look at me." Katharine Angell White, Ross' fiction editor, who worked in tandem with him to create The New Yorker but was his total opposite in personality and background. She married E.B.White, another important figure in The New Yorker's history, who, in a Paris Review interview, said what Ross "lacked she had, what she lacked, he had. She complemented him in a way that, in retrospect, seems to have indispensable to the survival of the magazine." This has been the trend ever since. Although a high brow magazine it has kept a balance, a fairness about it. It is almost a perfect voice for the world's greatest city. The majority of New Yorkers feel as though they are better then the rest of the world because they are from NYC. Those who live in the commutable area around the city will defend it against others cities in the nation. The New Yorker is the aristocratic, better then you voice of the city. This trend can be seen from the articles ...