From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Skewing the curve
Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 22:02:39 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Jablow" <ejablow at cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2003 9:48 PM
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Skewing the curve

>
> On Wednesday, May 14, 2003, at 02:13 PM, Michael Walsh wrote:
> >
> > "Time Out New York readers are single, affluent, educated
> > professionals =
> > <begin bold> that purchase 18 books a year!" <bold off>
> >
> Time Out, New York, and the other fancy-shmancy New York magazines for
> the
> rich have as their target audiences the shallow and morally deficient.
> People with
> more money than sense.  Newage types.  Astrology, Botox, and Clubs.
>
> They buy books so they can say they bought them, not because they will
> read them.
>
> New York Magazine hasn't been readable since Mary Ann Madden left.

I originally read NEW YORK when it was the Sunday publication of the NY
HERALD-TRIBUNE and I was a charter subscriber to the magazine itself.
There was a time -- the late '60s -- when it had the freshest and best
writers and was well-designed.  I gave up on it in the mid-'70s.   I have
no idea when Mary Ann Madden left.

--Ted White