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Factual Reporting: HIGH
Notes: Esquire is an American men’s magazine, published by the Hearst Corporation in the United States that was founded in 1933. Covers a wide variety of topics including entertainment, fashion and politics. Politically, Esquire has a typical left wing bias. Has a fleet of editors to ensure they are factual and correct mistakes. (D. Van Zandt 11/3/2016)
Here is A critque of Esquire from the New York Times:
The ‘Esquire Man’ Is Dead. Long Live the ‘Esquire Man.’
Esquire magazine, long the man’s bible, looks to chart a new course in an era of transgender bathrooms and pink hats.
Jay Fielden, 48, is the new editor in chief of Esquire magazine.
Credit Andrew White for The New York Times
By Alex Williams
To that pocket-square-wearing, sidecar-sipping human known as the “Esquire man,” this was life as it was intended to be: a roomful of wags in natty suits throwing back cocktails and trading banter in one of Manhattan’s hottest restaurants, as willowy models and square-jawed movie stars circled the room.
At Esquire magazine’s“Mavericks of Style” dinner, held at Le Coucouon a rainy night this past November, spirits were so high, and consumed so freely, that it might as well have been 1966 — doubly so, since Gay Talese, Esquire’s living monument to the New Journalism of the 1960s, was holding court, dry gin martini in hand, a few yards away from Jay Fielden, Esquire’s new editor in chief.
“There was a period of time when Esquire had a real literary charisma, and there was a culture that responded to it,” said Mr. Fielden, 48, sounding nostalgic as he reclined in a banquette, wearing a steel-bluel Ferragamo suit and sporting what may be the best head of male hair in the magazine industry, a cascade of artfully coifed curls that calls to mind both the belletrist whimsy of Oscar Wilde and the gunslinger gusto of Wild Bill Hickok. “How do you make that urgent to a younger generation?”
Mr. Fielden circulating at an Esquire dinner at Le Coucou in Manhattan.CreditHilary Swift for The New York Times
The New Esquire Man
At Esquire’s Helm
Esquire was founded in 1933 with a mission “to be the common denominator of masculine interests.” Thirteen editors have tried to define what that means.
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