the councillor
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aah, the fabled c&c issue 10 8)
anyway nic, you make some valid, intelligent points, but because the whole thing annoys me so much i don't mind keeping the thread near the top.
the way i see it, you can't complain (and none of the magazine publishers are, it's just me moaning :roll: ) about it being a niche market, if you choose to publish a niche magazine in the first place :?
it's like, let's take half man half biscuit for instance... THE greatest band ever to come out of this septic isle, but they must be resigned now after twenty odd years to the fact that they'll not be troubling *the hit parade* and there'll be the same motley collection of freaks and weirdos at thir gigs, but then what do you expect if you pen songs about len ganley ?
same(ish) with the magazines... of course there are only a finite number of bus-owning or aspiring bus-owner magazine buyers (STOP READING IT IN SMITHS AND PAY THE 50p A WEEK :shock: ) but that applies to every publication doesn't it... i guess the publishers in their wisdom do the equivalent of a business plan before committing to starting up a new mag, and if there's a gap in the market for said publication then go for it... but if there isn't, why start a magazine and then compromise your USP for want of a better expression by including stuff which is so diametrically opposed to the stuff that the bulk of your readership is interested in ?
i love all cars, i really do... true i've lost interest exponentially as the 'modern' car becomes one big amorphous blob and i've got a little 3 year old friend who knows more of their names than i do, to my shame, but if i was visiting for instance the mercedes museum i'd expect to see the odd silberpfeile, the legendary mille miglia car, maybe a DTM classic or two... they're all racing cars... how about a C111... now if there was to be an unveiling, and there was a covered vehicle on a plinth, and a load of strobes and dry ice, and as it's clearly a fantasy unveiling of my own invention i'm gonna have brian eno there as well, maybe he's written a soundtrack especially for the occasion, and they've got the feller with the massive moustache whose name escapes me to whip the cover off, and it was a vito sprinter...
who wouldn't be a trifle disappointed :x
it's a great van, excellent load-carrying capacity and all the rest of it, you could probably even line it with ply, screw a few units in and call it a camper... but somehow, given the somewhat flamboyant nature of the unveiling... i expected more :?
that's kind of the feeling i get when i turn to *those* articles in the magazines... i'd really... *really* rather they had more adverts :roll:
aah, that was cathartic
*norbert haug
anyway nic, you make some valid, intelligent points, but because the whole thing annoys me so much i don't mind keeping the thread near the top.
the way i see it, you can't complain (and none of the magazine publishers are, it's just me moaning :roll: ) about it being a niche market, if you choose to publish a niche magazine in the first place :?
it's like, let's take half man half biscuit for instance... THE greatest band ever to come out of this septic isle, but they must be resigned now after twenty odd years to the fact that they'll not be troubling *the hit parade* and there'll be the same motley collection of freaks and weirdos at thir gigs, but then what do you expect if you pen songs about len ganley ?
same(ish) with the magazines... of course there are only a finite number of bus-owning or aspiring bus-owner magazine buyers (STOP READING IT IN SMITHS AND PAY THE 50p A WEEK :shock: ) but that applies to every publication doesn't it... i guess the publishers in their wisdom do the equivalent of a business plan before committing to starting up a new mag, and if there's a gap in the market for said publication then go for it... but if there isn't, why start a magazine and then compromise your USP for want of a better expression by including stuff which is so diametrically opposed to the stuff that the bulk of your readership is interested in ?
i love all cars, i really do... true i've lost interest exponentially as the 'modern' car becomes one big amorphous blob and i've got a little 3 year old friend who knows more of their names than i do, to my shame, but if i was visiting for instance the mercedes museum i'd expect to see the odd silberpfeile, the legendary mille miglia car, maybe a DTM classic or two... they're all racing cars... how about a C111... now if there was to be an unveiling, and there was a covered vehicle on a plinth, and a load of strobes and dry ice, and as it's clearly a fantasy unveiling of my own invention i'm gonna have brian eno there as well, maybe he's written a soundtrack especially for the occasion, and they've got the feller with the massive moustache whose name escapes me to whip the cover off, and it was a vito sprinter...
who wouldn't be a trifle disappointed :x
it's a great van, excellent load-carrying capacity and all the rest of it, you could probably even line it with ply, screw a few units in and call it a camper... but somehow, given the somewhat flamboyant nature of the unveiling... i expected more :?
that's kind of the feeling i get when i turn to *those* articles in the magazines... i'd really... *really* rather they had more adverts :roll:
aah, that was cathartic
*norbert haug
