Print is dying......

[Newport 66]

Another one bites the dust! Received my last print issue of Motorcyclist magazine yesterday. Been a subscriber for almost 45 years.....no longer. Prefer to turn pages than click and scroll.....

 

[Newport 66]

Forgot the picture.....

 

[Newport 66]

What the heck??

 

[azblackhemi]

And I read this morning that Mad Magazine is also going out of business.

 

[bluefury361]

And I read this morning that Mad Magazine is also going out of business.

That's just crazy.....!

 

[Zymurgy]

I hate this trend and it's not going end
until there's no magazines. No small town newspapers anymore the bigger cities are nothing like what they used to be and have pricing themselves out of business too.

 

[rkrochen]

Sad to see some of these magazines closing up these were very informative and a good read. However for local news papers or gossip rags I am not worried about it. Most of the content is slanted bias reporting. Gone are the days when reporters just reported fact. Now most of the columns are “opinions”. I read my news online and simple pick and choose what I want to read.

 

[66Fury383]

You don't get the feel of a real paper online, plus I'm on this damn computer too much anyway!

 

[ayilar]

for local news papers (...) I am not worried about it.

I respectfully submit that we should all be worried about local newspapers, even if the only thing we cared about is our collective pocket -- see Financing Dies in Darkness? The Impact of Newspaper Closures on Public Finance (FTR, the academic journal where this research paper was recently published is one of the very top outlets for research in finance; I have read the paper myself and can vouch for the authors' methodology).

 

[Rapidtrans777]

The ISP's can't track what you read when it is in print. They promote digital subscriptions as more cost effective ( which they are) and then collect the data on what you read vs what you skip over and sell it. This way you only see what they determine interests you. People that can't think for themselves don't get opposing/differing views and become hyper biased.

 

[rkrochen]

The ISP's can't track what you read when it is in print. They promote digital subscriptions as more cost effective ( which they are) and then collect the data on what you read vs what you skip over and sell it. This way you only see what they determine interests you. People that can't think for themselves don't get opposing/differing views and become hyper biased.

I won’t disagree with you on that. They won’t get much out of me as I don’t read much news at all. My problem with today’s world and how things are portrayed is that it’s all about the drama. Everyone wants to find fault with something and we don’t get real facts anymore. My wife loves watching the news but I avoid it as much as possible. Unfortunately today’s world will dictate that we loose things like magazines etc.

 

[GBsPanhead]

I got my last issue too. On top of cover was a notice that this was my last issue...and to renew so I don't miss another issue! Right lol.

Any remaining issues will roll over to Cycle World. They changed their format too. I don't like it!!

 

[mrfury68]

Mad Magazine ceasing publication?! "What, me worry?" What will happen to the "usual gang of idiots" on MADison Ave? Roger Kaputnik should be about retirement age by now. Will Spy vs. Spy finally call a truce? I feel bad for future adolescent boys in this country. Mad Magazine was like a rite of passage. Sadly this trend in print media will continue its downward spiral.

 

[thrashingcows]

I was at a store killing time a few weeks ago and grabbed a Mopar Action or was it Mopar Muscle to flip through?? Man the paper was cheap, I have held newspapers with more substance.

 

[Fratzog]

Here in southern Ontario Canada Torstar Corp that has a strongly leftist editorial policy has taken over most of the small papers so it is hard to avoid all the identitarian sob stories. This is being reinforced by our Federal government dangling $600 million to "protect" Canadian media when in fact it is a thinly disguised attempt to buy off the media prior to this fall's general election. Locally there is only one small independent paper that I still read.

 

[Don Stolfi]

We are cleaning out our storage unit (rented it when finishing our basement in 2017!) & I ran across a box of Car Exchange magazines from the mid-late 1980s...anyone think there is any value to them?

 

[MarPar]

And I read this morning that Mad Magazine is also going out of business.

@69CoronetRT

 

[69CoronetRT]

@69CoronetRT

Sorry to see that. I stopped buying them in 1993. I just complete the run (1-322) after 55 years of collecting.

 

[69CoronetRT]

Mad Magazine ceasing publication?! "What, me worry?" What will happen to the "usual gang of idiots" on MADison Ave? Roger Kaputnik should be about retirement age by now. Will Spy vs. Spy finally call a truce? I feel bad for future adolescent boys in this country. Mad Magazine was like a rite of passage. Sadly this trend in print media will continue its downward spiral.

The irreverent satire and parody “us against the system” mentality that made the magazine famous is so prevalent now that there is no shock value. You can’t piss off people that grew up with the magazine. Couple that with print media dying and the end is inevitable.