Re: TAN: Lights Out for Daytime???

>Donna L. Bridges [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:



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>Well, Ken Corday put a boycott on SPW & kept it on long enough that
>its editor & creator, Mimi Torchin, was ousted. Escorted by security
>to her office to collect any personal items & then out of the
>building. No job. Poof. 10 years after she created WEEKLY.
>

What made them decide to rehire Mimi? That must have been a difficult decision
for her, particulary since the editor's page she once had incisive commentary
for is now filled with yammering and shrieking from generic talking heads. 

>....
>
>But, they don't say nothing. They just don't say enough or often
>enough. In SOD, for example, there have been plenty of multi-show
>articles that present reality instead of rose-colored glasses,
>interviews & Q&As where if you read what's there you see that the
>writer has just allowed that PTB enough rope to hang themselves, that
>on occasion there is editorial critique & that they always have the
>potential to have Thumbs Down, not just Thumbs Up. Plus, they
>regularly cover fan discontent & fan campaigns. In the past no
>magazine at all ever covered any fan campaigns!

I think SOD of two or three years ago was more balanced than they had ever been
in the 90's.