http://greeleysghost.brian-fuller.com/2008/08/13/now-the-decline-of-magazines/ Brian Fuller's blog on the state of media and communications Mon, 18 Jul 2011 21:03:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://greeleysghost.brian-fuller.com/2008/08/13/now-the-decline-of-magazines/comment-page-1/#comment-567 Loring Wirbel Thu, 14 Aug 2008 01:29:00 +0000 http://brian-fuller.com/blog/?p=352#comment-567 But why is the highest ad-page count at Elle, GQ, Allure, Maxim, FHM, Glamour, Lucky? (Lucky is particularly insidious because it is a magazine <i>about</i> shopping, where it is impossible to distinguish ads from content). People are <i>demanding</i> the dumbed-down. Flipping through pages is ok vs. scrolling through web pages, provided one doesn't have to think. And everyone in Ellegqalluremaximfhm is so pretty. But why is the highest ad-page count at Elle, GQ, Allure, Maxim, FHM, Glamour, Lucky? (Lucky is particularly insidious because it is a magazine about shopping, where it is impossible to distinguish ads from content). People are demanding the dumbed-down. Flipping through pages is ok vs. scrolling through web pages, provided one doesn’t have to think. And everyone in Ellegqalluremaximfhm is so pretty.

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