Eugene David ...The One-Minute Pundit |
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Monday, May 18, 2009
Magazines are headed for the recycling bin so long as they keep repeating themselves. The New! Improved! Zeitgeist is doomed because it's obvious JonBoy is happy with himself. Meantime SUPERADAM!!!! has unleashed a tiresome story about how wonderful our myriad digital distractions are, underlining two big problems with the magazine feature: 1. It disguises its tiresome thinking in a veneer of trendy iconoclasm, and 2. It takes 10,000 words to do so, which may lead to more reader multitasking. God knows what the solution is to magazines. Three-graf stories won't do. But neither will today's magazines.
(First link via MediaBistro)
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