Why Magazines Will Never Die

I think they will Michael.

Shorter article: Detroit Sucks
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Why would the Weekly Standard publish something that told us what we already know? Perhaps the following gives us a clue:
"But with all the problems facing the city, the council still found time to pass a nonbinding resolution supporting the impeachment of George W. Bush."
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Hoping to land at the WS after you get the heave-ho here? It would be a good fit.

Uhmmm MSNBC just announced a minute ago that Kevin White will sign Burris' certification. I want my damm internet bucks!

Very interesting article. No, I think magazines are here to stay. We're in a tight spot, and some magazines may very well go under, but the industry will survive.

Right-wing rag dumps on Detroit! Stop the presses!
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I'm waiting for Scherer's next post – a link to a hard-hitting Richard Simmons analysis of chocolate chip cookie dough.

I did read the article and wondered why it had been recommended. It was nothing special to me and wouldn't recommend it to anybody. My question now is what is the point of this blog? That magazines will never die? Based on that article? It sure won't win a Pulitzer.

See my explanation above formerlyjames. Also, Labash seems like Scherer's fellow traveler:
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Matt Labash: I don't see how the media could be growing more liberal than they've been in the past, considering that these days, there are seemingly hundreds of full-time beat cops on liberal media bias patrol.

Does Scherer think that the Weekly Standard is a for-profit enterprise that relies on quality content for its survival? That's *adorable.*

I'm about 2/3rds of the way through the article and thought I'd check in...
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so, what else is new?
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To echo Flownover@#5: Conservative journalist* visits big city of {Detroit, Baltimore, Chicago, St. Louis, etc.} and freaks out about the living conditions of poor people. Expresses tremendous respect for colleague who is "in the trenches". Vows to make a difference after next cocktail party.
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What is truly sad about this entire situation, is that, while virtually all large industrial companies have been incentivised, through NAFTA, to ship jobs overseas (where "labor is cheaper"), we continue to have hundreds of thousands of people in major cities, Appalachia, and rural America who would be happy to have the jobs that are leaving the US of A.
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This is kbang...still in MoTown...MyTown.

Oh, and by the way...
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The State Motto is: "If you Seek a Pleasant Peninsula, Look About You"; not, "We hope for better things; it shall rise from the ashes."
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Dweeb.

Oh please the GOP's agenda to strangle cities in hopes (I think because I can't prove) that all the people of color get knocked off in the process has been in full force for the last 40 years and if no magazine figured that ou then perhaps it is time for the industry to die.

I say this in grave fear of being ridiculed, but I thought the article was quite well-written and wrenching. No, it's not surprising. But just because we already know cities and people are suffering doesn't mean we shouldn't talk or write about them. I thought it was a tribute to the folks who love the city still, in spite of its many and deep-seated troubles. In fact, it reminded me of the conversations I had with people there when I visited last summer.
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Thanks for linking to this article, MS.
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So...off with my head?

There is no reason to link to this garbage. It's starts out with about 10 lies and then sinks a few feet lower. This is terrible Michael. Please let us know why you thought it post worthy.

Suzie- Where do you want your head to go?

If the Weekly Standard went to Detroit and didn't die, well, I guess anything's possible.

Suzie, I wouldn't think of ridiculing you. I remain silent, but with a smirk on my face. I am happy you enjoyed it. I did too, for about the first half. It only went downhill from there.

One more hot item on Detroit. I have long heard only bad things about the place. A few years ago, I was at a resort in Mexico full of Canadians and met some people from Windsor. Expressing what I heard they objected and claimed that they enjoyed visiting the place, that it was very nice. True story, I have no basis to comment further.

Why Magazines Will Never Die
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To support that you link to a magazine that has never made a profit?

Fax machines died despite transmitting some truly great faxes.
 
You do writers a disservice by tying their fate to failing business models. Magazines will die due to unromantic reasons wholly unrelated to the skills of their writers.

OT- this may explain why Norm Coleman needed "help" from Nasser Kazeminy.
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"U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman and his wife, Laurie, have refinanced or changed the terms of their mortgage on their St. Paul house 12 times in the past 14 years."
"Their house on St. Paul's Osceola Avenue has a 2009 estimated market value of $615,000, according to property tax records, suggesting they may owe substantially more than the property is worth."
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http://tinyurl.com/6tpq3n
(Star Tribune link)

This article would have mattered if it presented a fuller picture of the city. I don't fault the author for coming up with every cultural cliché imaginable to make sure the reader knows he's focused on making black people solely responsible for all of Detroits ills. My problem is that he failed to include any real positive contributions. If you. An judge a city's worthiness by assessing its sports teams, then why not include it's artists community, museums and green space among it's potential attributes. If not number one, it has got to be among the top ten locales for family reunions. I've only had a few opportunities to explore beyond the airport but I managed to get a brighter picture than this reporter. MS you seem to consistently gravitate towards mediocrity. A
It begs the question are you inept, or on a mission to justify the assumptions you hold. This article seems like it was written by that reporter in the HBO series the wire who was pretty much basing his stories on a few facts and making the rest of this stuff up.

I just skimmed through some other Matt Labash stuff. Small wonder MS enjoys him.
Sophomoric republican "wit" seems to be his style. Like about 100 other writers on the right.
Same tone every time.

There's also this:

Labash was sued by new age guru, author, and spiritual-advisor-to-celebrities Deepak Chopra, after Labash wrote an article in the July 1, 1996 issue of the Standard exposing alleged inconsistencies between the healthy moral lifestyle advocated by Chopra and his real-life dalliances. Included in the exposé were accounts from call girls, substantiated by credit card receipts, allegedly showing Chopra had paid for their services. The article also delved into allegations that a Chopra book plagiarized the writing of others and that Chopra sold mail-order herbal remedies with high amounts of rodent hairs. Eventually a settlement involving an undisclosed amount of money was paid to Chopra and the Standard issued a complete retraction on June 1, 1997.[4] [Link]

So what have we learned? The reason Why (some) Magazines Will Never Die is that Rupert has deep pockets.

this is a well-written, but horrendously structured, article.
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its actually (and given MS's headline, ironically) about an old school newspaper journalist -- but the actual subject of the piece doesn't come up until you read 1746 other words about how bad Detroit is.
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(to give you some idea of how much drivel that is, I pasted it into MS Word's default margins page -- its nearly four pages of single spaced, 12 point Times New Roman text.)
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But once you get through all that detritus, its actually quite good. Just go to the second page, search for the word "LeDuff", and start reading from that point.
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Because the LeDuff part of the piece actually treats people in Detroit with compassion, perhaps it requires nearly 1746 words of an anti-Detroit screed to provide enough racially tinged anger momentum for the average Weekly Standard reader to invest the time necessary to read the whole thing. But those 1746 words destroy the piece for the rest of us --- its like watching a double feature of Triumph of the Will and Sophie's Choice.