tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11066657.post5975457467854945350..comments2024-02-08T09:27:27.492-05:00Comments on Canadian Magazines: Tearing down the crepe; Canadian magazines can fight back with factsD. B. Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13959665689155236724noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11066657.post-37714106579676865142008-11-05T19:32:00.000-05:002008-11-05T19:32:00.000-05:00Video killed the radio star....Video killed the radio star....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11066657.post-31607927135237353102008-11-04T10:27:00.000-05:002008-11-04T10:27:00.000-05:00as much as the magazine publishing industry's days...as much as the magazine publishing industry's days are seeming numbered, I'm surprised to hear that anyone still listens to radio at all.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11066657.post-14599590694520957702008-11-04T09:30:00.000-05:002008-11-04T09:30:00.000-05:00When it comes to Masthead's demise, we have no one...When it comes to Masthead's demise, we have no one to blame but ourselves.<BR/><BR/>We in the magazine industry did not support it financially in sufficient numbers.<BR/><BR/>The family feud between MagNet and MagsU did not help either.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11066657.post-73765745671588757142008-11-04T08:58:00.000-05:002008-11-04T08:58:00.000-05:00Nobody's immune from denial and there's no questio...Nobody's immune from denial and there's no question this industry is facing HUGE challenges. I would have thought you'd have taken the opportunity here to address some of those rather than dissing this forum as being inadequate. <BR/><BR/>As for starts and stops, I have looked back for 10 years at the data that Masthead has compiled and the average I quoted holds true for all that time. That is D. B. Scotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13959665689155236724noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11066657.post-30431340709674003842008-11-04T08:40:00.000-05:002008-11-04T08:40:00.000-05:00It may be that radio people have nothing to lose b...It may be that radio people have nothing to lose by seeing print decline, but I think it could also be argued that a lot of print people prefer to stay buried up to their necks in sands of denial. An equally self-serving proposition.<BR/><BR/>A few other useful "facts" in this line-up would have been how many of those new magazines have folded, and how many magazines are barely able to survive orAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11066657.post-55512720291765918322008-11-04T08:29:00.000-05:002008-11-04T08:29:00.000-05:00I just heard Barrie's climbdown on this a.m.'s bro...I just heard Barrie's climbdown on this a.m.'s broadcast. And he blamed...Marco Ursi! Typical CBC radio deflection. I recall that ponce Michael Crabbe, when he was hosting an arts program back in the 1990s, similarly trying to paint a bleak picture of the Canadian magazine issue, at that time around the issue of split runs. Unlike Barrie, however, he didn't at least offer a tepid nod to the truthAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com