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Editor's Note - August 2004
Sent to press right smack between the 2004 Democratic and Republican National Conventions, Citizen Culture Magazine is an astrological oddity: born to the public in early September, it would require about three weeks of calendrical fudging to make her a true Libra. Notwithstanding, the spirit of the scales is a running motif of the publication that our team is proud to present.
This past summer, director Michael Moore’s “exposé” Fahrenheit 9/11 sparked a cultural firestorm. Before that, The Passion of the Christ (an incendiary film that need not have been made during troubled times, but which became a civilizational hurdle in need of surmounting once it was) raised eyebrows and opened mouths around the world. Come November, we’ll know if the weirder and less polemical but more mainstream-noticeable Manchurian Candidate makes voting-age audiences across the country ask how much of our poli-tics are not just maneuvered, but machined.
At the sweltering core of each film? Credibility. In mid-2003, the venerable New York Times faced a crisis of it, and the corporate world—including every journalistic subsidiary—is forever struggling to maintain it. In café conversations like in the media, moviegoers nationwide of every political persuasion have been asking: “No doubt that Moore’s film uncovered some conveniently hush-hush excerpts from the facts, but how much of the material is real, and how much is the product of fancy editing?” Indeed, the National Conventions between which “our baby” has come to fruition vortex on the questions of honor, truth, and believability: Who has it, why, and what should they do with it?
Seems Citizen Culture Magazine comes on schedule.
We’re obsessed with those least-favorite progeny of literary journalism: balance and credibility. You’ll find no agenda here, no “tone”; our pages and e-mail inboxes are equally open to the dissenting and the compliant, the prolific and the shy-to-write, the casually entertained and the thought-provoked.
We have designed our magazine so that points run up against counterpoints; liberal and conservative politicos battle back-to-back for persuasion in our innovative section called “The Fence”; women and men are presented with equal fervor throughout. And most importantly, prize-winning authors, photographers, and critics must vie with talented newcomers—as they should have all along—for the privilege of being published, read, and remembered.
I wish you a thoughtful time.
Jonathon Scott Feit,
Editor-in-Chief
on behalf of Citizen Culture
