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Michael Wolff Laments a Magazine Industry that is Dying of Self-Inflicted Wounds
DB Daily Update ^ | David Blackmon

Posted on 12/02/2019 7:49:05 AM PST by EyesOfTX

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1 posted on 12/02/2019 7:49:05 AM PST by EyesOfTX
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To: EyesOfTX

Funny, what that woman did to get fired..saying Trump would be tweeting and golfing..it was a stupid comment but I’m pretty sure the trip was kept secret and a lot worse has been said about him.

But to hell with her. :)

Unfortunately a Trump hating publication will pay her double to hire her based on this.


2 posted on 12/02/2019 7:58:24 AM PST by dp0622 (Radicals, racists Don't point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to make ends meet)
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To: EyesOfTX

“For another thing, Donald Trump is the one consuming subject, sucking all views and opinions into his void .....”

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I used to ride horses a lot. One of the lessons I learned was when to get off when a horse is “misbehaving” badly. Normally, you ride it out because if the horse “wins” by bucking, etc. you lose control & respect. You bail OFF when the horse is so crazed with whatever is going on, that it will inflict harm on itself (examples from experience: throwing itself down a ditch, slamming against trees, etc.) and thus, on you ... being dead/maimed is not worth sticking it out on a horse like that. This is where the Trump haters are .... so crazed, eaten up & blinded by hate, that they will destroy themselves to try & rid themselves of Trump. The non-crazed people in this country, voters, newspaper/magazine readers, cable TV watchers .... we’re all bailing off.


3 posted on 12/02/2019 8:04:42 AM PST by Qiviut (Support the country you live in or live in the country you support.)
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To: EyesOfTX

Because more people have abandoned the print medium in favor of quick answers through the internet. Many good magazines are dying, and this is a shame.

As for the fake news mags: newsweek, us snooze and world report and time, I wish them a speedy extinction. I see them in doctors’ offices but would never buy one.


4 posted on 12/02/2019 8:05:00 AM PST by I want the USA back (Media deliberately and intentionally chooses to lie, with full awareness and knowledge.)
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To: EyesOfTX
Donald Trump is the one consuming subject, sucking all views and opinions into his void

Sounds like a crack addict.

It is the media that has made Trump the only subject talked about 24/7

5 posted on 12/02/2019 8:05:47 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: dp0622

They all can’t go bankrupt fast enough for me.

All of them.


6 posted on 12/02/2019 8:07:34 AM PST by rlmorel (Finding middle ground with tyranny or evil makes you either a tyrant or evil. Often both.)
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To: EyesOfTX

Absolutely, the entire industry, well at least a good majority, are pandering to those who think like them. Problem is the real numbers prove that they are not pandering to the majority, but indeed the minority. Excellent piece DB.


7 posted on 12/02/2019 8:12:12 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: EyesOfTX

Dying? They’ve been dead inside for years, it’s just taking a bit extra for the corpse to stop moving.


8 posted on 12/02/2019 8:12:21 AM PST by chrisser
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To: EyesOfTX

Hot Rod and Super Chevy will be the last man standing !


9 posted on 12/02/2019 8:21:48 AM PST by Newbomb Turk
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To: EyesOfTX
Any sense of journalistic ethics were gradually tossed to the winds along with the jobs of researchers, copy editors and other quality control functions.

For at least 50 years, there has been very little "sense of journalistic ethics" in the fast majority of the Media.

What we are seeing is their desperation. For 50 years, the (Progressive) media essentially ran the nation as a Mediacracy.

As technology changed and awareness of their meddling took hold, we have reached a critical point where they do not have the power to keep control of politicians.

Donald Trump won because he did not fear the Media, and fought back. Many other politicians are learning that lesson.

A Republic, not ruled by a Mediacracy, will be much different than what we have seen for the last 50 years.

10 posted on 12/02/2019 8:26:08 AM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: EyesOfTX

Every Magazine including National Geographic, and Smithsonian have turned hard left. My wife cut subscriptions to her Women’s magazines including Good Housekeeping when they turned against President Trump. Who needs to pay for that left wing crap?


11 posted on 12/02/2019 8:32:51 AM PST by EC Washington
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I get my every so often copy of American Motors Owners Association magazine.


12 posted on 12/02/2019 8:34:03 AM PST by wally_bert (Your methods were a little incomplete, you too for that matter.)
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To: EyesOfTX

All very nice except for the fact that the sequence is out of order.

There were pretty damned few fact checkers left by 1986 and that was long before the Internet was grabbing revenue.


13 posted on 12/02/2019 8:35:22 AM PST by MrEdd (Caveat Emptors)
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To: EyesOfTX

Last 4 years? More like the last 60 years. “Dewey Defeats Truman”, anyone?


14 posted on 12/02/2019 8:42:03 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: EyesOfTX

This is true and it means all paid/salaried/contract writers are being pushed out into the ‘pitch for your lives’ world of content marketing. A few will be able to land long form assignments and all will be pitching their editor buddies for a book and most will end up in Amazon indie-world, hoping they have enough friends &/or name recognition to make some money.

I do believe they may experience real want, deprivation and fear. It will not awaken most, who will spew hatred at the very society they have helped create.

Welcome to the party....


15 posted on 12/02/2019 8:43:20 AM PST by reformedliberal
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To: EyesOfTX

If every mag or paper this clown has worked for has gone broke, maybe prospective employers should take that into account.

HE’S POISON!!!


16 posted on 12/02/2019 8:44:06 AM PST by IronJack
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To: EyesOfTX
The magazine industry is in fact dying a death by slow-motion suicide and Michael Wolff, a guy who made his living by penning highly-sensationalized fantasies in order to maximize clicks, is in fact one of the major culprits. If he can now really make himself “say nothing” on any subject as promised in that interview, he’d be doing his industry – and everyone else – a huge favor.

Another Darwin Award Winner!


17 posted on 12/02/2019 8:59:53 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Lincoln: The Founders did not make America racist or slaver. They inherited it that way!)
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To: rlmorel
There are still some specialty magazines that I hope survive for ever (Garden & Gun comes to mind). I subscribe to a newspaper (New Yorker Staats-Zeitung), even though I disagree with its politics, simply because it is the oldest continuously published publication in the United States since the Saturday Evening Post folded, and I hate to see history die.
18 posted on 12/02/2019 9:05:06 AM PST by Hiddigeigei ("Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
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To: EC Washington

“Every Magazine including National Geographic, and Smithsonian have turned hard left. My wife cut subscriptions to her Women’s magazines including Good Housekeeping when they turned against President Trump. Who needs to pay for that left wing crap?”

Years ago, when I began cancelling and not renewing subscriptions to mags, I had subscribed to for decades, my wife said how will you keep up on what’s happening.

I told her Free Republic and the internet. She just grinned.

Since, we elected President Trump and actually during the 2016 campaign, she stopped renewing the subscriptions to her mags.

Now, she is at zero subscriptions like me.

Besides her internet searches, she has 3 SIL’s, two nieces and a lot of conservative friends, who ping or copy her when they feel that she might be interested in an article or news.

We cut the cable 3 years ago and never watch any fake news.

Also, we have nixle and weather alerts to inform us if anything is happening that might involve us. Family, friends and other close people to warn us if PG&E may cut our power.


19 posted on 12/02/2019 9:15:23 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Lincoln: The Founders did not make America racist or slaver. They inherited it that way!)
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SHAME, at onetime both Nat. Geo. & Smithsonian were pretty decent


20 posted on 12/02/2019 9:34:36 AM PST by mason-dixon (As Mason said to Dixon, you have to draw the line somewhere.)
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