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[quote=Anonymous]I watched the CNN show about JFK Jr. They downplayed it and had friends saying nice things about him, but reading between the lines, George was ill-conceived and magazine publishers knew it and didn't want it. They got taken by Hachette-Fillapacci because they wanted to capitalize on his visage and name. I'm sure the expectation was that Conde Nast would rake it..He had a falling out with his partner who sounded like the one with some smarts and soon after, HF was about to pull the plug. It was not an interesting magazine. Vanity Fair had been covering politics and celebrity successfully for years and that was the closest thing to it. George was not unique enough: not glossy enough like VF and did not have quality political journalism like say, The Atlantic or New Republic.

I think for many people of his generation (and mine), running a cool magazine seemed like the coolest job at the time. There were some great ones in that era. I think he was not interested in it beyond "wouldn't that be cool to do?" He came off in the doc like a lightweight who had no real passion for it and didn't understand what to do with it. He was no Tina Brown or Graydon Carter, in other words. And if he had been, the magazine would have been picked up by Conde Nast--the publicity if it were good would have sold many copies. They were the power nexus of magazine publishing at that time and spent a ton of money of writers, photographers and editors. He was not taken seriously and that's because he was a dilletante with little more than a cool idea. Lots of people have those.[/quote]

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