Thread: The Death of Print Media

I found a few old National Geographic magazines today in a box with some old photographs. Got to thinking about my childhood. We were a house of readers. We had subscriptions to Time, Newsweek, Life, Paris Match, National Geographic, The Saturday Evening Post, Reader's Digest, The New York Times and The Washington Post.

Sunday morning battles over who got which section of the paper and when, trading Time to one of my siblings for Newsweek, doing the vocabulary quiz in Reader's Digest, checking out Nat'l Geo for tit shots.

No more.....I presume these (or some of them) still exist, and can be accessed on-line, but it just isn't the same.

I imagine other posters will recall periodicals from their childhood, many of which I may not recognize as my list is admittedly primarily US-focused.

^Wow. Sweet deal!

There will always be the Bangkok Post!

Originally Posted by Dragonfly94

There will always be the Bangkok Post!

It keeps getting thinner every year.

My parents had subscriptions to Life, Reader's Digest and National Geographic.

I was a big fan of Mad starting in 1957. I loved their cartoonists and got me started on the path of being a commercial artist/designer. Later in life I actually got sued by William Gaines, the publisher of Mad, for using his trademark in an illustration.

Originally Posted by Humbert

My parents had subscriptions to Life, Reader's Digest and National Geographic.

I was a big fan of Mad starting in 1957. I loved their cartoonists and got me started on the path of being a commercial artist/designer. Later in life I actually got sued by William Gaines, the publisher of Mad, for using his trademark in an illustration.

Did he win the lawsuit?

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We had subscriptions to National Geographic and Reader's Digest. Dad would buy a Mad Magazine every month for us kids. (Sure, Dad!) It was our favorite.

We had Reader's Digest too, in the loo...

& all the Xmas football annuals that piled up over the years.

I also miss the glossy Xmas editions of Razzle; can't beat print media.

I work in print media and can confirm that, yes, it is indeed going down the shitter.

Originally Posted by somtamslap

I work in print media .

Originally Posted by Humbert

Later on in life my wife and I had subscriptions to Newsweek, Time, Cuisine, Vanity Fair, Esquire, Martha Stewart Living, Interior Design and Architecural Digest and Golf Digest. Boy how times have changed.

Later in life, I liked Men's Health. Some good workout tips and informative health articles.

Originally Posted by Davis Knowlton

Later in life, I liked Men's Health. Some good workout tips and informative health articles.

Yes, interests change and magazines chonicle one's interests. I forgot that I had subscriptions to Runner's World, Windsurfing and Ski as I took up those sports.

Originally Posted by somtamslap

I work in print media and can confirm that, yes, it is indeed going down the shitter.

Haha. Very fucking funny mutha fackers.

I'll have you know I do my round a bicycle. A good bicycle. With a bell and spokey-dokeys. And it goes reallllllllly fast.

Originally Posted by somtamslap

I work in print media and can confirm that, yes, I love going down on blokes shitters.

Without overdoing the working class thing, we simply could not afford things like magazine subscriptions. My parents were born in the early 1920s and wer e both intelligent and articulate.
My print media experience came from the Daily Express motoring columns and later, the copies of National Geographic and Readers Digest found in the doctors and dentists waiting rooms.
As an adult I subscribed to NG and Yachting Monthly, and more recently The Spectator.
During my service career, especially when I was based overseas, The Sunday Times was my guide to world events.
Part of my 2005 degree course was a regular session on Experiential Learning which we dubbed 'Coffee and Papers'. Sifting through a weeks worth of newsprint and picking out debating materials for global stories on how the other half lives and learns.

Originally Posted by Humbert

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And to think just the other day my good Bud Bert was telling me here that he'd help me out with any online 90 day questions?

What happened to our Love, Bert?

Originally Posted by somtamslap

I work in print media and can confirm that, yes, it is indeed going down the shitter.

You was telling the truth then mate when you said you was returning home for a career in sales

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

I received a Lifetime Membership to National Geographic when I was 16. Think my parents paid a whopping $100 bucks for it and it's really paid off. Followed me all around the globe and seldom missed a copy. It's still a great magazine today as it was when we were kids looking at nekkid African women! The most recent issue deals with the planet (or sub planet) Pluto.

A great value of any era!
Lifetime subscription - $100.


Mind you, NG has always enjoyed assorted government subsidies and corporate foundation maintenance since their inception.....prime reason for their survival within the diminishing print world.

I think it's a good thing. We are deforesting the planet at a rate of knots anyway, but at least a decline in print consumption will slow it down a bit.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

I think it's a good thing. We are deforesting the planet at a rate of knots anyway, but at least a decline in print consumption will slow it down a bit.

Yes....and then there is that.
A worthy and valuable comment, Harry.


You're missing the larger picture, Mate.
It's all about mindless, needless, blinded consumption and production - fuck the consequences.