Re: (idm) slagging magazines

From jeff salamon
Sent Thu, Oct 22nd 1998, 21:37

martin burbridge wrote:
> 
> jeff salamon wrote:
> >
> > 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!
> > >
> 
> and i guess the above sentiments have nothing to do w/ hanging around said
> list of authenticity-poseurs and summarizing what they were rambling about
> for one of those commercial magazines for a living, now would it?
> 
> -martin

touche'.
jeff