Steve Bannon, US President Donald Trump's former chief strategist. Photo / AP file
The New Yorker, which controversially invited former White House strategist, Steve Bannon to its annual festival, has now disinvited him after an online backlash.
The New Yorker had planned to interview Bannon. The former Donald Trump aide was supposed to be a featured guest during a prestigious gathering that over
the years has drawn some of the world's most prominent artists.
The magazine's editor David Remnick told AP that should he interview Bannon in the future it would be in "a more traditionally journalistic setting."
Remnick earlier seemed to have anticipated the backlash that would stem from inviting Bannon to the magazine's prestigious autumn event.
"I have every intention of asking him difficult questions and engaging in a serious and even combative conversation," Remnick told the New York Times. "The audience itself, by its presence, puts a certain pressure on a conversation that an interview alone doesn't do," he added. "You can't jump on and off the record."
