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Article snippet: The New Yorker on Monday disinvited former White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon from the magazine's fall festival next month following outcry over his inclusion in the event. Bannon's scheduled appearance at the annual festival sparked significant backlash Monday as a number of attendees, including actor Jim Carrey and comedian John Mulaney, said they were withdrawing from the event. “I don't want well-meaning readers and staff members to think that I've ignored their concerns," New Yorker editor David Remnick said in a statement on Monday that was shared to the magazine's Twitter account. "I've thought this through and talked to colleagues — and I've reconsidered. I've changed my mind." Remnick said that he would not interview Bannon on stage during the event as previously planned, but said that "if the opportunity presents itself" in the future he would plan to interview the former Breitbart News executive "in a more traditionally journalistic setting." Remnick noted that those objecting to the interview argued that Bannon would “propel further the ‘ideas’ of white nationalism, racism, anti-Semitism, and illiberalism.” But Remnick maintained that “to interview Bannon is not to endorse him.” “By conducting an interview with one of Trumpism’s leading creators and organizers, we are hardly pulling him out of obscurity,” he said. “Ahead of the mid-term elections and with 2020 in sight, we’d be taking the opportunity to question someone who helped assemble T... Link to the full article to read more