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George (magazine)
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Cover of inaugural issue of GeorgeGeorge was a glossy politics-as-lifestyle monthly magazine co- founded by John F. Kennedy, Jr. and Michael Berman with publisher Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S. in New York City in September, 1995. Its tagline was "Not Just Politics as Usual."
The debut issue featured a cover which received a great deal of attention for its photograph of Cindy Crawford dressed as George Washington.
George departed from the format of traditional political publications, whose audience was made up primarily of people in or around the political world. The general template for George was similar to magazines such as Esquire or Vanity Fair. The consistent underlying theme was to marry the themes of celebrity and media with the subject of politics in such a way that the general public would find political news and discourse about politics more interesting to read.
When it first appeared, George attracted great interest, and for a brief period had the largest circulation of any political magazine in the nation, partly due to the celebrity status of Kennedy, but it soon began losing money. Kennedy later complained that the magazine was not taken seriously in the publishing world.
George earned infamy in the conspiracy cyberculture, when an article slated to run in the October 1998 "Conspiracy Issue" on the top conspiracy writers was killed at the last minute by George editors. Titled "Princes of Paranoia," it would have highlighted writers and websites that were popular in the field of conspiracy theory and given their work exposure to a wider audience.
After Kennedy's death in a plane crash in 1999, Frank Lalli become editor-in-chief. In 2001, George was terminated by Hachette Filipacchi due to disappointing advertising revenues.
Critics called George "the political magazine for people who don't understand politics", assailing it for "stripping any and all discussion of political issues from its coverage of politics". In a feature in its final issue, Spy magazine asserted that the magazine's premise was flawed; there was no real convergence of politics and celebrity lifestyles.
On October 11, 2005, Harvard University, via their Kennedy School of Government, held a panel discussion entitled "Not Just Politics as Usual", which commemorated the tenth anniversary of the magazine's launch. The panel was moderated by Tom Brokaw and featured appearances by other journalists.
[edit] Trivia
In the Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode, Revenge of the Creature, Crow T. Robot is seen reading an issue of George.
In an unexplored plot point of the pilot episode of The West Wing, the 'current' issue of George features fictional Deputy Chief-of-Staff Josh Lyman on the cover. You can see the magazine on his desk during his character introduction. Later in the episode he signs the cover of the magazine for a woman who approaches him in a diner.
[edit] Notable contributors
Alfonse D'Amato
Al Franken
Stephen Glass
Norman Mailer
W. Thomas Smith, Jr.
Naomi Wolf
[edit] External Links
Princes of Paranoia -- Exposed! (Requires membership)
Can George survive without JFK Jr.?
IOP Honors George Magazine at Forum
Kennedy School Press Release: George Magazine Anniversary Forum
George Magazine To Fold In March
Without its founder, JFK Jnr's `George' folds
Transcript from Reliable Sources
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