Posted on 11/16/2009 11:21:49 AM PST by GoldStandard
Gay newspapers in several U.S. cities, including the Washington Blade, shut down on Monday, as the company that owned them, Window Media, abruptly went out of business. Window Media had been in serious financial trouble, but employees said they had expected a reorganization or sale, not a liquidation.
“We found out when two of the corporate officers were waiting for us when we got to work this morning,” said Kevin Naff, editor of the Blade, a 40-year-old paper that was one of the most important publications written for a gay audience. “It’s not a complete surprise. The abruptness of it was what was surprising.”
The paper’s roughly 20 employees “are determined to come back and make of a go of it as an independent entity,” he said. “Our first meeting is tomorrow.”
Employees at Southern Voice, an Atlanta-based gay paper owned by Window Media, found their offices locked on Monday, and a note posted on the door saying that the company had ceased operation. It told the workers to return Wednesday with boxes to collect their belongings.
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But the Chess Magazines are shooting for a specialized international audience; rather than a limited city audience. If the Chess magazine were confined to a local market segment - it too would be doomed. That's the difference.
Hmmmm, I wonder how the internet would affect a magazine like that? My wife and I contribute to FR because we would rather give our newspaper money to Jim, than to a Liberal rag.
No kidding.
BYE !!!
Out of print, out of business...
HA-A-A-A-TED I-I-I-T!!!
It sucks, but they’ll swallow their fate.
IN OTHER NEWS: Sales of Barbra Streisand albums have taken an unexpected dive.
You have a point there with regards to papers catering to sexual fetishes. Porn's free on the internetz.
You’re probably right. Lord knows there were very, very few Mormons reading these papers. Must have been a boycott organized at the top level of the LDS.
There’s porn on the internet?
Free market at work.
It’s all about market penetration in the end.
“they had expected a reorganization or sale, not a liquidation. “
I thought they lived for liquidation?
The same way the Ditsy Chix had sold out concerts that played to empty stadiums.
Somebody bulk bought the stuff.
i bet they cwied
Hey, horsewhisper.
You still there?
I said: The Ditsy Chix had sold out concerts that were played to empty stadiums, pass it on!
Oh, and several gay oriented papers just went belly up.
After loyal bulk buying readership vanished.
(Air America redux..)
Some conservative publications aren’t doing so well themselves. To celebrate this shutdown, consider subscribing to a pro-family publication or ordering material from or donating to a worthy group.
Several months ago I was all set to embark upon the three-hour drive necessary to go to a rodeo in my State, and I was quite excited because I look forward to it all year. The day before the event I checked the schedule again and noticed that there had been an 'update'....on the date I was planning to attend, it was now the date for their 'pink rodeo', as they described it.
Naturally, I went on a different day. I wonder, however, how many patrons didn't necessarily know that a 'pink rodeo' means a 'queer rodeo' and were horrified at the events and the other patrons of that day? People who didn't check the schedule carefully or people who didn't understand the terminology and thought that perhaps a 'pink rodeo' was a kids' rodeo for young girls would have been in for quite a shock, I would imagine.
Forcing themselves upon the mainstream culture in this rather underhanded way is not going to gain them a greater level of tolerance from the normal folks.
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