Thursday, October 07, 2004
Group A and B
In New York one may find every class of paper which the imagination can conceive. Every grade of society is catered for. If an Esquimau came to New York, the first thing he would find on the bookstalls in all probability would be the Blubber Magazine, or some similar production written by Esquimaux for Esquimaux. Everybody reads in New York, and reads all the time. The New Yorker peruses his favourite paper while he is being jammed into a crowded compartment on the subway or leaping like an antelope into a moving Street car. -- P.G.Wodehouse - Psmith Journalist
Still true, of course, with the caveat that nowadays half of the specialty market is for pornography. And even more disturbing, but along the same lines of "a magazine about group A, written by possibly group B, but probably group A or indeed C, for group B" are shelter magazines. Group B being the folks lusting after what they haven't ready access to, at least not until they make a bunch of money or get out of jail.
# posted by nick @ 1:50 pm 
