Well, it's his job. I haven't read VF much since my mother-in-law quit subscribing, but I don't recall having much difficulty distinguishing it from (say) Communications of the ACM.
The New Yorker would have had nine.
The New Yorker would have said more things than could have been fit into a paragraph. Say five pages of use and four of tripe. Here it was a good 95% garbage and another 3% quoting other people saying garbage.
A master's in English isn't earned for nothing..
I found it quite entertaining, but that's because I'm a culture-snob too :p