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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
bnaivar
October 28th, 2005
at 4:14am
Yeah, Playgirl wasn't kind to me at all.
Anonymous
October 28th, 2005
at 9:23am
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
Anonymous
October 28th, 2005
at 9:25am
Or maybe you get it exactly and I need to have some tea before I respond to blog posts in the morning.
-Erik
Anonymous
October 28th, 2005
at 5:21pm
I documented the story that Forbes is referring to: http://wiki.vowe.org/RadicatiGroup It is more than a year old.
Anonymous
May 3rd, 2006
at 2:42pm
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?