Quote, unquote: Remnick on cultural serfdom

“I think this business of getting people to write for free is obscene, and it’s a kind of cultural serfdom that’s wrong, especially for places that can find a way to pay."

-- New Yorker editor David Remnick, speaking to New York University students...(he then clammed up when someone pointed out that his owners, Conde Nast, was ending internships.)