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Attack of the Magazines

After talking to a few random people, I figured out the following:

  • Some magazines now use articles as a weapon, unleashing swarms of critics on their rivals.
  • The print-driven haters have formidable allies amplifying their tirades to a potential worldwide audience of 900 million.
  • Attack magazines are but a sliver of the rapidly shrinking periodicalsphere.
  • A magazine columnist can go out and make any statement about anybody, and you can't control it. That's a difficult thing.
  • Even some magazine columnists see the harm they can pose.
  • Yet magazines edit and censor print content all the time – to protect their own interests.

Damn. I gotta start staying away from magazines.

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5 Comments

Yeah, Playgirl wasn't kind to me at all.

You miss another point about magazines, and just about any other media. They aren't above publishing/broadcasting outrageous crap in order to stir up controversy and attract attention.
Does it work? Well, it seems like bloggers all over the place are writing about Forbes now.
-Erik

Or maybe you get it exactly and I need to have some tea before I respond to blog posts in the morning.
-Erik

I documented the story that Forbes is referring to: http://wiki.vowe.org/RadicatiGroup It is more than a year old.

you're right about the crap in the printed media Chris, but what about emagazines sold in digital newsstands like zinio or concayo? do they actually know/are aware that some of the contents sold in their didigtal suscriptions help their mass only to get involved in what editor´s advertisers want to? they should mention it don´t you think?

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