Missing New Yorker magazines are a real mystery

By Sally Kalson, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette While the nation argued last week about what The New Yorker's editors were thinking when they printed that satirical cover of the Obamas, Pittsburgh readers had a different question: Where the heck is my copy? Dozens of the magazine's subscribers with ZIP codes beginning with 152, as well as those in other postal areas, have told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that they never got their issues with the now-infamous cartoon depicting Barack Obama as a Muslim radical and his wife as a black revolutionary. In addition, several newsstands said customers have been looking for replacement copies for the magazine that didn't arrive only to be told that the edition had sold out. "The last time this happened was with Lindsay Lohan's Marilyn shoot in New York magazine," said a store employee who's... [read full story]