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TODAY I have another piece in Salon, this one about the folding of New York magazine into a biweekly, and the resulting conversation about where the media is (and isn’t going.) HERE<\/a> it is.<\/div>\n
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People trying to be “counterintuitive” are framing this as a win for journalists and journalism, since more people will read New York related copy on the blogs (some of which are quite good.)\u00a0It’s like saying musicians — or music — are thriving because more people listen to their songs on Spotify than ever did in the old record label-and-album model.<\/div>\n
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If you work in journalism, or the media business, you know that the phrase, “we’ve moving online” is typically a code word for de-professionalization — something the creative class has gotten awfully familiar with. David Carr in the New York Times had the right take, I think.<\/div>\n
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The magazine also plans to bulk up its print publication with more fashion and luxury coverage, at a time when most Americans \u2013 among them, the new mayor tells us, a lot of New Yorkers — continue to emerge only gradually from the Great Recession. (The Bloomberg operation will reportedly cover the arts, despite firing its arts staff, as a subset of luxury.)<\/p>\n

New York magazine \u2013 which has always combined the smartly serious with conspicuous consumerism, Frank Rich alongside frivolity \u2013 is not the only publication that is upping its fashion and luxury \u201ccontent.\u201d The way high-end fashion coverage, celebrity-worship and house porn continues to replicate in magazines three decades into flat middle-class wages is a paradox a greater critic than I will have to tackle. But whatever is driving this, it\u2019s not something most Americans should celebrate, especially journalists, who increasingly toil to remain in the middle-class instead of buying $50,000 watches.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Like the David Lowery piece that ran yesterday, this gets into stuff I investigate deeper in my book Creative Destruction<\/i>, which comes out next year.<\/div>\n

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