Magazines, like the rest of the media, are thought to be in trouble.
This is especially bad news for the conversation on which democracy
depends. For magazines are the place where news is put in perspective,
analyzed, considered in context and in depth.
By the time Antonio D. Martin left Kings County Hospital Center as executive director to lead the restructuring of the $6.7 billion New York City Health and Hospitals Corp., no one called the hospital by its old nickname, “Killer County.” “Even police officers now say they want to be taken to Kings County when they are shot,” Martin once told The Network Journal. .