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Magazines forgetting their audience…

 The entire staff of Sports Illustrated has just been laid off.  The. Entire. Staff.

“Some employees will be terminated immediately,” the statement continued, “and paid in lieu of the applicable notice period under the [the union contract]. Employees with a last working day of today will be contacted by the People team soon. Other employees will be expected to work through the end of the notice period and will receive additional information shortly.”

You can kind of trace the downfall from 2020 with men in women’s swimsuits and ‘plus size’ models on its famous covers. 

As Bonchie over at Red State says:

This is what happens when news outlets decide effecting societal change is more important than just giving their readers what they want. Sports Illustrated is a sports magazine. Instead of acting like one, the outlet’s editors and writers decided they’d rather cosplay as culture warriors. Men want news on football and baseball. They don’t want transgender models shoved into their faces and lectures about abortion. 

There are other magazines, such as Scientific American, who are going the same way (please remember that they endorsed Joe Biden for President in 2020–their first endorsement in 175 years).  Because they’ve lost their way and lost sight of their audience. 

The only thing this illustrates is that woke eventually equals broke.



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  2. Yep, men don't want politics….ANY politics, in their sports.They want their sports news to be about….sports.They want their women in swimsuits to look like women, not fat women…they want pretty, youngish, beautiful women. Fat ain't that. Scientific American jumped the shark a long time ago with Global Warming. Failed to do science in the science writing. They are also looking at closing.Odd, innit?Failure to give your audience what they are paying for leads to your downfall…..Who woulda thunk?

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  3. I don't read sport illustrated, boring as hell comes to mind. I used to read Scientific America, my parents subscribed it for me when I was a kid, National Geographic was my monthly read as a kid and later years, even Omni magazine. I don't read any of them anymore, all of them and more magazines have gone woke and I pray they go broke! Same with science based TV programs, they were faster in going woke, hell, even This Old House was a favorite and now, they jumped the shark, comparing housing problems to glowbull warming, climate change. Car magazines have jumped both feet into the wokism crap, I am reduced to reading the shampoo bottles and soap wrappers like we use to do before we could take sail phones into the john.

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  4. The problem I see in science for laymen, is that I don't think anyone ought to be a layman. The only reason there are laymen in science is that people have not heard of the way of learning fast–saying the words and going on. Then finishing the book in that way four times. Then going back to do review in depth. If people would do this, they would automatically become way above laymen level–even if the level of expert might till be a bit farther away

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  5. You know your screwed when the Human Resources department gets rebranded as the People Center.My grandfather was an original subscribe to Sports Illustrated and always gave my father a subscription for Christmas. I doubt either of them would even read a copy these days if they were still living.

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  6. At least Higlights still has puzzles

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  7. i shit-canned that rag years ago when they said the st. louis cardinal orgnization was objectifying women on one their promotional days.i.e. giving the women in attendance some do-dad. after the s.i. swimsuit issue just a few months earlier even my dumb old brain went “huh” ?

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  9. Yep, men don't want politics….ANY politics, in their sports.They want their sports news to be about….sports.They want their women in swimsuits to look like women, not fat women…they want pretty, youngish, beautiful women. Fat ain't that. Scientific American jumped the shark a long time ago with Global Warming. Failed to do science in the science writing. They are also looking at closing.Odd, innit?Failure to give your audience what they are paying for leads to your downfall…..Who woulda thunk?

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  10. I don't read sport illustrated, boring as hell comes to mind. I used to read Scientific America, my parents subscribed it for me when I was a kid, National Geographic was my monthly read as a kid and later years, even Omni magazine. I don't read any of them anymore, all of them and more magazines have gone woke and I pray they go broke! Same with science based TV programs, they were faster in going woke, hell, even This Old House was a favorite and now, they jumped the shark, comparing housing problems to glowbull warming, climate change. Car magazines have jumped both feet into the wokism crap, I am reduced to reading the shampoo bottles and soap wrappers like we use to do before we could take sail phones into the john.

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  11. The problem I see in science for laymen, is that I don't think anyone ought to be a layman. The only reason there are laymen in science is that people have not heard of the way of learning fast–saying the words and going on. Then finishing the book in that way four times. Then going back to do review in depth. If people would do this, they would automatically become way above laymen level–even if the level of expert might till be a bit farther away

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  12. You know your screwed when the Human Resources department gets rebranded as the People Center.My grandfather was an original subscribe to Sports Illustrated and always gave my father a subscription for Christmas. I doubt either of them would even read a copy these days if they were still living.

    Like

  13. At least Higlights still has puzzles

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  14. i shit-canned that rag years ago when they said the st. louis cardinal orgnization was objectifying women on one their promotional days.i.e. giving the women in attendance some do-dad. after the s.i. swimsuit issue just a few months earlier even my dumb old brain went “huh” ?

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