Re: (idm) slagging magazines

From jeff salamon
Sent Thu, Oct 22nd 1998, 18:26

Chaircrusher wrote:
> 
YOU try putting out an expensive
> color magazine, attract advertisers, and attract enough readers to justify
> your ad prices, etc.  When I read those mags, I'm struck not by their
> shortcomings, but by how much they GET RIGHT, despite being pulled several
> different directions at once by the forces that would put them out of
> business.

wooo! at last -- a note of sensible, hard-headed realism amidst the
fantasyland pontifications of all the authenticity-poseurs on this list! 
> 
> Look at it this way.  You may be the ultra-cool, tastefully pierced art fag
> who's down with the true players,

 uh... _art fag_? please ignore the compliment above.

  But I like Jockey Slut and the Wire, and appreciate the
> job they try to do.  If they aren't perfect, well, neither am I.

agreed.
jeff