November 7, 2013

The cover originally looked like the New Yorker’s Eustace Tilley mascot, but with a bird for a head, the magazine explains in a “cover trail” feature. But lawyers were “not into it,” and the next step was to “pretend it’s 1920, when people were full of class and sophistication, and we imagine we’re Henry Luce doing a cover about bird fancying or something.”

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Andrew Beaujon reported on the media for Poynter from 2012 to 2015. He was previously arts editor at TBD.com and managing editor of Washington City…
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