More on the future of print

More musings on the Twitterization and the old guard from George Packer of the New Yorker.

Here's a sample in which he quotes from the newly revived Baffler:

“As the world careens one way we faithfully steer the other,” the editors state up front. “Print is dead, they say; we double down in our commitment to the printed word. Brevity is the fashion; we bring you long-form cultural criticism with an emphasis on stylistic quality.”

A little like the appearance of [William F.] Buckley’s National Review, whose original mission statement, back in 1955, declared that the magazine “stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it.”