Girlie-man article? I stopped reading this LA Magazine expose regarding the Schwarzenegger-American Media connection because it becomes quickly obvious that Slate.com is correct in claiming the article doesn’t hold up when simple logic is applied in scrutinizing it.
Quote from Slate.com:
The article concludes that the tabs’ reluctance to go after the actor (previously one of their favorite targets) helped him win the race to replace California Gov. Gray Davis. It also implies that the money Schwarzenegger receives through his partnership with AMI compromises him as governor. Neither of these conclusions stands up to much scrutiny. The mainstream media were all over Schwarzenegger’s sex scandals, and the magazine itself admits that his AMI profits are going to charity. The deal between Schwarzenegger and AMI is interesting, but it’s hardly damning—and it’s not worth the pages of windup that chronicle the entire history of the tabloid industry.
Vaporzines galore: Some of these I’ve already mentioned, but trend central rounds up several magazines about to launch, including Giant, K-Maxx!, Mynt and Vitals. I think there’s also a link to some news about H&M launching a customer magazine in 22 countries, although I couldn’t find it. I did find an item somewhere else via Google News about the H&M publication, however.
Quote:
H&M will launch its debut magazine next week. The Swedish high street retail giant produced an initial print run of almost 500,000 copies of the 60-page debut issue, which features numerous layouts by top photographers and stylists who mixed their favourite designer pieces with the latest H&M offerings.
(via BuzzMachine)
Discussion search beta: Via Gary Price, I ran across a beta from Lycos called Discussion Search that “aggregates results from ‘thousands’ of online discussion boards including Yahoo Groups.” An interesting way to search another neighborhood of “the world live web.”
Those crazy magazine readers: David Mason got angry with a photograph he saw in a pornographic magazine, so he ripped out the page and set it on fire. Oh, wait. I left out something: He was on a flight from Norway to England at the time.
Is the magazine interview dead? The SF Chronicle’s David Kipen reviews Lawrence Grobel’s The Art of the Interview : Lessons from a Master of the Craft.
Quote:
Grobel’s chapter soliciting wisdom from editors at Rolling Stone, Details, Us, Playboy, Penthouse, Movieline and other outlets compels attention, if only for the light it sheds on why general-interest magazines are so bad nowadays. (Hint: Advertising is soft, publicists are hard and most magazine hands assume that readers’ attention spans are as short as theirs.)…Perhaps as a consequence, Grobel’s roundtable bull session with his fellow scribes consistently provokes and amuses. When he asks them for any stock questions that they ask of everybody, Kristine McKenna ponies up with, “Why does love die?”
Come to think of it, the only recent newsworthy magazine interview I can recall was newsworthy solely because it appeared during a regulatory “quiet period.”
(via iwantmedia.com))
