Re: Arthur C Clark, [OT] Death of a journal

<john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Adrian Tuddenham wrote:
> > John Woodgate <jmw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > I read in sci.electronics.design that martin griffith
> > > <martingriffith@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote (in
> > > <98oqk11rb68gjodtkfme0jp9to495nn6ck@xxxxxxx>) about 'Arthur C Clark,
> > > geostationary stuff', on Wed, 12 Oct 2005:
> > > > A liitle bit of history
> > > >http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/discovery.shtml
> > > >
> > > >
> > > 'Electronics World' re-published in the October 2005 issue both Clarke's
> > > letter to 'WW' in February 1945 about peacetime uses of V2 and the
> > > article 'Extraterrestrial Relays'.
> >
> > Does anyone still subscribe to that admag?
> >
> > At the beginning of 2005, the new editor made it her policy to exclude
> > articles based on private research and to fill the space with consumer
> > product 'news' and other advertising puff from the marketing departments
> > of big corporations.
> >
> > I had a long-term subscription but I cancelled it and got my money back.

>
>
> Packed it in 2 months ago. Been buying it since late '60s.
> No way will I pay £4.20 to read worthless blather from worthless
> marketing and sales rep's. Told her so.
> Wished her well as final editor but asked that she let the mag' die
> with a little dignity.


I too was a reader from the 1960s and had collected many issues from
long before that.

It was sad to see an editor so far out of touch with her inherited
readership that she could write such a stupid editorial. She
effectively kicked loyal readers and potential contributors in the teeth
by saying that the things they valued most in that publication were
worthless. I first thought it was a tongue-in-cheek message to goad
people to rally and support the magazine ...until I saw the next issue.

Your reply to her was a lot more imaginative than my letter to the
subscriptions department, but I also took the trouble to let them know
the reasons why I was cancelling my subscription.

The article I was about to submit on a novel capsule-array microphone
design has never been completed because I can't think where else to
publish it.

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