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From:
jeff salamon
To:
martin burbridge
Cc:
IDM
Date:
Thu, 22 Oct 1998 16:41:28 -0600
Subject:
Re: (idm) slagging magazines
Msg-Id:
<362FB498.5FB0@bga.com>
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martin burbridge wrote:
quoted 23 lines jeff salamon 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