It's crazy how Laverne Cox appearing on the cover of TIME magazine changed everything for trans people and now nearly ten years later TIME magazine is completely irrelevant. Appearing on the cover of TIME would mean nothing now
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There are several magazines I shelve where its like watching a dead body that isn't being Weekend at Bernies'd or anything, it more that it is dead and it just can't be bothered to let that stop it so it still goes on in some sort of I Can't Believe It's Not Life as I wait for entropy to pop the weird temporal pocket it willed into existence.
I'm waiting for the day when whoever owns the rights to the name "Bell+Howell" buys the rights to the name "Newsweek" or something and gives us something like "Newsweek by Bell+Howell"
My personal wait, even though I know they're honestly the least plausible ones for it to happen to, is for all the American tabloid shit like US Weekly and In Touch to voltron together into something without a name and They Live shit on the front like MEGHAN MARKLE STILL EXISTS or NEW FORM OF ACCESSIBLY PSEUDO-TRANSGRESSIVE GENDER EXPRESSION JUST DROPPED (FOR RICH PEOPLE)
Yeah it's so hard to track magazine usage in a quantitative way because people don't usually borrow and return them. They either get read in the library or walk away forever, and that if course only counts as one circulation. There's so many where I have to wonder if we should even still be paying for it. Like I know Rolling Stone gets read as well as all the ones that are one step softer than softcore porn in terms of appeal. But TIME????? IDEK
Consumer Reports though, that thing's working on Portrait of Dorian Gray logic with the rest of the shelf because some days a middle aged cryptid comes in and just checks five years of the bastards out.
Oh and cooking magazines, those things circulate like the cookbooks, which is to say with frankly dizzying speed.
Ok yes I forgot about Consumer Reports that's like top 15 most popular reference questions lmao it's literally just product reviews I don't get it
Our cooking magazines never actually went out!! Weirdly enough. Even tho yeah cookbooks are crazy big for sure