Posted
5:46 PM
by Gene
Today standing in line at
Dark Shadows and facing a rag devoted to ESPN Network's soaps, we thought, who reads this? An audience of none? That
Meredith is cutting the circ of Ladies' Home Journal tells me a lot of those copies go unread. Most rags are made to fit demographics, and their contents are an afterthought, written by the same pool of tired free lancers who couldn't spiff up their writing if
THE MASTER suggested a witticism. "Many magazines have cut rate base in recent years, including
Time,
Newsweek,
U.S. News & World Report,
Reader's Digest,
TV Guide,
Playboy,
Prevention,
OK,
Outdoor Life,
Star and
Woman's Day." Every last title ceased to amuse its readers decades ago. I repeat:
who reads these things?