Posted 8:24 AM by Gene

One way newspapers and magazines can make themselves totally irrelevant is by being young and hip. New York rag has fired John Simon, and presumably his successor will be a good little boy and rave everything, and last three years, and thankfully there's no reason to read it anymore, or to consult its Web site.

To be honest, Mr. Simon was getting a little long in the tooth. But as John Podhoretz says, "today's critics have turned into toadies," so now it's easy to ignore all of them.

Someone should suggest Mr. Simon start a Web site. It would probably be more visible than NEW YORK'S.