The New Yorker

The New Yorker magazine was one of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's most tenacious media critics. Shortly after the attack at Pearl Harbor, the New Yorker wrote an expose on how woefully unprepared the United States Navy had been on December 7. It followed that article with an examination of the missteps at Wake Island. In February, 1942, it lambasted the War Department for the untested Mark XIV torpedo and it subsequent unreliability in combat. In March, the New Yorker published its last critical article, questioning the administration's claims to have sunk German u-boats and the loss of American ships in the Atlantic. The New Yorker was shut down by the FBI shortly after.