In the End Neither Michelle O nor Batik Could Save the Ladies Home Journal

Michelle Obama's Mirror ^ | 4-28-2014 | MOTUS

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

Print magazines are dead.

(With the exception of Catholic Answers magazine, which is growing 8-)

[Seeing More Clearly Now]

There isn’t a single women’s or men’s magazine at the general news stands that is worth purchasing. In fact, even if they gave them away gratis (which a lot of the magazines wind up doing through airline and other loyalty points programs), they aren’t worth taking. They are beyond fluff to the downright inane. Again and again with the same diet and cloths and sex advice sprinkled among ads. If the editorial staff would have done focus groups, they’d have learned that American women don’t look up to Michelle Obama. Just the opposite. Her photo on the cover is a detriment. Featuring Lassie on the cover would have sold more.

[Fear The People]

Would it have helped if she were actually a lady?

POLL TO FReep

Is Michelle Obama a Man?
^{Complete with video and photographic evidence.}

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[niteowl77]

Oh, they’re Tom Harkin left-wing Democrats. Don’t kid yourself.

I remember quite well how Meredith was the holy grail for people who were at the point where they had gotten a little real-world experience and wanted to become art directors or editors in order to escape 8 hours of board work or copy writing for some middling manufactory in one of the minor burgs. More often than not, they got another form of drudgery- albeit with a "hip" address, Des Moines' pretensions to culture and an all-pervasive, elitist corporate culture.

One part of the latter was an attitude akin to the apocryphal Pauline Kael comment about not knowing anyone who ever voted Republican, the difference being that they DID know people who voted Republican, but they'd learned to keep their mouths shut about it.

Mr. niteowl77

[2ndDivisionVet]

Whenever some Urbandale, Clive, West Des Moines or Johnston snob would start making pretentious noises, I’d remind them of how recently their subdivision was a cornfield.

[V K Lee]

No women’s magazine has been purchased in this house since the Bent One and his wife attempted to make the general public swallow all the slop the two attempted to feed us during his most embarrassing episode....or her most embarrassing, as the case may be. Even Southern Living is no longer purchased....what a wonderful magazine can be when turned into a rag. Would not use it to potty train my dog. Family Circle, Woman’s Day, all purchased each new edition. Firstly, for the recipes and tips.....then as each pivoted more and more attempting to become full page liberals, refused to spend one thin dime on obtaining a

copy. A lonely voice of stand by principals, but just could not bring myself to give the dregs the time of day. Everything they touch turns to garbage. Does it ever change? Not as yet!!

[jonathonandjennifer]

Some authors are just as bad. I hate it when I’m happily reading a mystery, and here comes some environmental garbage or a sly slam against Reagan.