They apparently do not know their audience.
Would conservative organizations like Concerned Women for America or The Eagle Forum invite a disgusting liberal like Kathy Griffin? No, emphatically not. Would Focus on the Family invite to their gala someone antithetical to their mission, like Noam Chomsky or Ellen DeGeneres? No, absolutely not.
Then why did The New Yorker make the huge mistake of inviting someone who opposes every facet of their worldview and who actively campaigns and cheers against everything they believe in? I think the fault lies with Mr. Remnick not being thoughtful enough about how his core audience would perceive it. The New Yorker is every bit as much of a socio-cultural institution on the left as the ones I named above are on the right, and they would never commit such an apostasy.
Do you consider that a bad thing?
This issue here is not why Mr. Remnic invited Bannon or whether he should have in the first place.
The issue is 'The Mob' forced him to withdraw the invitation.
Is that something you agree with?