Collier's Magazine coming back

[Bruce Wayne]

http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/m...?icid=main|htmlws-main-n|dl3|sec3_lnk3|196019

I don't know about you, but I would atleast look at the first few issues.

 

[dhermann1]

When I was very young (in the early 50's) my family took Collier's and Saturday Evening Post. They were always thoroughly read.
OT: It's kind of a shame that the term "Saturday Evening Post cover" has faded from the lexicon. The Post frequently had covers showing vast landscape images, and whenever one saw a beautiful view, especially one that included lots of trees, the fall season, and a small village with church spires sticking up, someone would always say, "Oh, just like a Saturday Evening Post cover."
Anyhow, I'm not so sure this will be a success. The formula for these publications was the general interest magazine. They had news oriented current events articles, popular culture articles (interviews with celebs, etc.) and they also published fiction, both short stories and serialized novels. These magazines featured first class illustrative art, and later on big photo spreads. The whole concept is basically very 19th century.
I think all these interest areas became very specialized a long time ago, both in magazines and in other media. I'd say the era of the general interest medium, whether magazine or TV show or whatever, is long gone.
I wish them luck, but I wouldn't invest money in the project.

 

[LizzieMaine]

It sounds like they're going in the same direction as the current incarnation of the Saturday Evening Post, which is much more a how-to-cure-what-ails-you magazine now than any sort of general interest publication. Apparently, once you pass 50 in the modern era, the media believes the only topics that could possibly interest you are your high blood pressure, your high cholesterol, and your fallen arches. One of the comments in the article actually asks "do you really think 'those people' are interested in investigated journalism?" Whippersnapper.

 

[Fletch]

It's the Invasion of the Brand Snatchers. Having failed to get bank account numbers, SSNs, or passwords out of the elder set by phone, they send in a simulacrum of long departed Aunt Nellie to lull their poor dementia-addled brains into all manner of rosy-tinted, nostalgia-scented, money-eating schemes.

Sad. Ironic but sad.