I find that this particular tip was a Kevorkian-style move from the magazine which could have assisted in the death of some newspapers across the country. What, may I ask, has this world come to when one media family member openly encourages the demise of another?
Here in Detroit in particular we have seen the demise of the 177-year-old Detroit Free Press as it scaled back home delivery (i.e., printing) of the newspaper to 3 days a week. Now it only prints on Thursday, Friday, and Sunday - but still offers online news 7 days a week. All over the country this is happening and it is dreadfully unfortunate.
I understand that new/emerging media often advance at the detriment to other media. We saw how telephone took away from telegraph, how television took away radio's audience, and how Internet mail has taken away from snail mail. But to openly encourage it? Blasphemous!
I would like to say to the editors of Ready Made magazine that they need to take a good hard look in the mirror.
- Newsprint is more easily recycled than 4-color, glossy pages of a magazine like theirs.
- Most newsprint today is made with recycled paper while magazines use virgin pulp - contributing to the deaths of more trees.
- You can just as easily get an online edition of Ready Made magazine as you can get an online subscription to any major newspaper (yet they didn't point that out did they - I guess they still want to sell print versions of their own publication :).
If Ready Made truly was worried about green living they should have put themselves on the chopping block first. It is hypocritical for them to take aim at newspapers. And honestly, to PROMOTE the demise of a fellow media family member is just wrong.
Even Kevorkian doesn't go around saying he wants to off his sister.
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