Re: TAN: Lights Out for Daytime???

In rec.arts.tv.soaps.abc on 10 Nov 2003 22:20:43 GMT  in Msg.#
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter J) wrote:

> >Donna L. Bridges [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >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. 

Well, they only hired her to do a one page column. But, she began
doing it shortly after the editorial leadership changed at WEEKLY. I
suppose just the passage of time could have been it. I mean Michael
Logan has worked for most everyone - by staying around in the
business, when others didn't necessarily. But, I really think it was
that someone was allowed to retire.

> >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. 

In the 90s I'd have said that Soap Opera Now was the best out there,
with Soap Opera News next up. I liked Weekly but only because Torchin,
whether I agree with her or not, seems to really be a tireless fan
with good analytical skills as well as being a good interviewer.
Doesn't hurt that she's well thought of in the soap community & has
lots of friends in the biz as well. Ever since she left I've liked it
less & less to the point of sometime hating it. SOD I've always liked
some of it & disliked some of it & that continues to this day. I
figure that there are people who like the features I don't - since I
am convinced that soap fans represent all level & kinds of diversity
in what we like & don't like!!

SID is just plain weird. I can't figure any way they ever make any
money. But, they, of course, will print anything & everything any soap
wants them to. Which means that they aren't going to be printing any
critique or containing any balance - just info & promo & pix. 

At one point I loved a little short-lived rag called SOAP DISH.
Everyone seemed real in it.


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DonnaB  <*>  8^>    "One of the few perks of being in hell: everybody smokes 
cigarettes - except TV executives & lawyers. They get to smoke Cuban cigars - for a 
job well done." - the ghost of Roger Smythe to Greenlee, AMC, 10-22-03