Watching ‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’ as an Elegy for Magazines
The film may be about fashion, but for some editors and writers, it gets a lot right about the dire state of fashion journalism.
“Do you remember when magazines were a thing?” In “The Devil Wears Prada 2,” one flippant rhetorical question from Emily — now a top executive at Dior but once the first assistant to the Runway magazine editor in chief Miranda — encapsulates the crumbling state of journalism.
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The traditional journalism business model has long since collapsed, and news organizations have shrunk or disappeared entirely. While a number of promising experiments are under way, the public has not shown a willingness to buy what news organizations are selling.