Digital shop enjoys slaughtering magazines
Carrot Creative, a digital shop in Brooklyn, is using Halloween to celebrate the media industry's woes. It posted this photo on Twitter, showing "digital" stabbing to death magazines like Domino, PC Magazine and Blender. Granted, I doubt we'll find many mourners for Cookie. I'm completely biased considering my job, but the glee with which digital people welcome the supposed demise of "traditional" media is perturbing. Yes, the industry is going through a wrenching transition and paying a heavy price for a business model that should have been transformed many years ago. That's meant lots of layoffs and even magazines and newspapers with storied histories shutting altogether. It's a sad picture. I'm not suggesting we hold a candlelight vigil for Condé Nast or get the government to bail out newspapers. Still, it can't hurt to keep the giddiness in check just a bit. |
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October 30, 2009 in Digital, Halloween, Magazines, Morrissey | Permalink |
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Man is that silly. And wrong headed. Maybe these guys were at Cronkite's funeral celebrating in clown suits?
Posted by: CampfireSteve | Oct 30, 2009 1:51:15 PM
Nothing like ditching the one who brought you to the dance. Agree that too many are too glib about something that impacts so many.
Posted by: Scott Bauman | Oct 30, 2009 1:55:01 PM
Brian, I totally agree.
What "digital" doesn't understand is that there is still great value in magazines and newspapers. Good journalism and creative article writing for instance, but also financial value too. The naysayers that stoke the fires and crow about say, the decline of newspaper circulation numbers, may also be short sellers in the stock market or companies who specialize in buying companies and stripping out their most valuable pieces and profiting from reselling them - the New York Times is one property that seems to be being stalked by these vultures.
The meme, 'print is over or dying,' then spreads and becomes gospel and then becomes trivialized as in the Carrot Creative unfunny example. I think that print media and newspapers have to find a way to turn things around and I too don't believe in hand outs, but they should not be vilified just for existing...
Posted by: Dave Allen | Oct 30, 2009 1:57:58 PM
It's Halloween. Do all the balloon boy costumes mean the world is insensitive about fame whoring parents and their now disturbed offspring? Do slutty nurses and zombie astronauts mean our space program is now buffeting on brains and our medical system is run by women of the night?
Is that really a giant preying mantis with boobs in the Village Parade?
It's Halloween.
Posted by: kelly | Oct 30, 2009 2:21:43 PM
I'm a digital person and I don't think this does us any favors. Besides, for a creative company, this isn't very creative or unique.
Posted by: Dan | Oct 30, 2009 2:22:47 PM
Kentucky Post? I was born and raised in KY and never heard of that one.
Posted by: Mo P | Oct 30, 2009 2:56:49 PM
Boy, the level of "just-not-getting-it-ness" us off the scale here.
Posted by: Phil K | Oct 30, 2009 4:00:45 PM
Meanwhile this article in Slate says "Newspapers aren't doing as badly as you think..." http://www.slate.com/id/2233849/
Posted by: Dave Allen | Oct 30, 2009 4:17:33 PM
Meanwhile this article in Slate says "Newspapers aren't doing as badly as you think..." http://www.slate.com/id/2233849/
Posted by: Dave Allen | Oct 30, 2009 4:17:34 PM
Yikes. I guess Carrot has zero interest in working with any clients from the media industry? Cause it ain't gonna happen now...
Posted by: Les Media | Oct 30, 2009 4:40:30 PM
Yikes. I guess Carrot has zero interest in working with any clients from the media industry? Cause it ain't gonna happen now...
Posted by: Les Media | Oct 30, 2009 4:40:31 PM
So, a bunch of interactive guys get together for a old-fashioned shoot to talk about the demise of traditional media?
Shouldn't it have been a facebook group or some shit?
Posted by: Cyooot! | Oct 30, 2009 4:41:39 PM
C'mon now, on Halloween this type of thing is supposed to be FUNNY! It's the exact same as my company's president coming to work yesterday as a failed stock broker w/ slit wrists. Disturbingly hilarious if you ask me.
Posted by: Stride Forth | Oct 31, 2009 10:40:40 PM
Halloween yes, but it is only funny when most people laugh.
Posted by: @GuerrillaComm | Nov 1, 2009 8:02:56 AM
