Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ted Grant wrote: > > Harrison Mcclary wrote: > > > The last issue of LIFE magazine was long ago...what has been out there the > > past several years is a pretender "people" magazine with the LIFE head....>>>>>>> > > Right on Harrison!!! > > LIFE of yester year as you say, was put to bed many years ago. And this > mickey mouse art student designer resurrected rag deserves to be shut > down! snip > IT'LL NEVER HAPPEN!!! IT WOULDN'T MAKE ANY MONEY!!! I saw a segment on the demise on CNN and mostly they showed covers from 30 years or more ago. The problem for all magazines is that the need for the general purpose information journal has diminished. Now all is specialty mags to deliver targeted customers for the ads. That is economics. Remember a while back me discussing the NPPA magazine essay on Marc Riboud's North Viet Nam story in Look? It talked about how magazines in the 30s, 40s, 50s were about bringing the experiences of the common man to the common man. Now it is celebrity and the good life. Some good newspapers still do "real" people stories,at least from NPPA evidence, but even those are rare. The media is not owned now by the entertainment industry in order to inform people about the way things are in the world. Hardly. Spending time in a busy editorial picture agency yesterday I saw virtually no interest in political images or war or disaster, but there were three agency photographers on assignment to get pix of Leonardo Dicraprio's step brother with handcuffs on. (BTW, they did, scooping all other media! Bucks up.) If we go and tell people the real condition of the world, they won't buy as much. Just read Mother Jones and tell me if you feel like going to the mall. And that's life today. donal __________ Donal Philby San Diego www.donalphilby.com