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From:
martin burbridge
To:
IDM
Date:
Thu, 22 Oct 1998 15:22:01 -0400
Subject:
RE: (idm) slagging magazines
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<000301bdfdf1$3e8214e0$acfba8c0@insite5.cdicorp.com>
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jeff salamon wrote:
quoted 15 lines Chaircrusher 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? i guess i just woke up cynical today. -martin