I once heard that the magazine The New Yorker was so confident in its editors’ abilities that they had a policy that if any readers found a grammatical or spelling error, they could point it out and get a free subscription. Well, I found one. Maybe two.
Is that policy still the case? Or was it ever true to begin with?
I’ve read pretty much everything ever written about The New Yorker and I have to classify this as an Urban Legend.
They were never that perfect, even in the heyday of Ross and Shawn. And no free subscriptions will ever be given away in the present day ownership by Conde Nast.
Awww.
[Marge Simpson]
Aww, a rejection letter from the subscription department of The New Yorker.
[/Marge Simpson]
I’ve never heard of this policy either. In any case, they would have had to give out lots of free subscriptions when That Woman was editor. :eek: