Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/04/21

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Subject: [Leica] NPR story, now LIFE
From: jshul at comcast.net (Jim Shulman)
Date: Sat Apr 21 17:59:33 2007
References: <200704210053.l3L0rrQi028317@smtprh01.spirittelecom.com> <C24F2C73.54606%mark@rabinergroup.com> <200704220050.l3M0o8Kg016464@smtprh02.spirittelecom.com>

Why?
When Life was founded, television was still a laboratory toy.
Newspapers still had Sunday rotogravure picture sections.
Newsreels brought images of three-week old stories.
Life was a unique weekly photographic view of the world.

By the 1960s, television and the proliferation of other photographic and
celebrity magazines had supplanted it.  It died a slow, painful death in
1972.

By the 1980s, dozens of niche magazines and cable television had rendered
the reincarnation largely irrelevant.

By the 2000s, the dramatic circulation drops of major newspapers, plus the
escalating cost of newsprint, plus the draw of 24/7 internet, portable web
devices, etc. spelled the demise of the insert version.

What's LIFE today?  It's the LUG!

Jim Shulman
Bryn Mawr, PA
Who's just received ten rolls of Kodachrome 64 for a last K-14 fling.

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+jshul=comcast.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+jshul=comcast.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Tina
Manley
Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2007 8:50 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] NPR story

At 02:50 AM 4/21/2007, you wrote:
>Has LIFE been discredited?
>Mark Rabiner

LIFE bit the dust last week.  Granted it was a weak, much diluted 
version of Life, but they tried to include it with local papers and 
failed.  99% of the content was celebrity "news".  Nothing at all 
like the original Life Magazine.  It was a sad, pathetic end to a 
wonderful magazine.  :-( WHY!

Tina

Tina Manley, ASMP, NPPA
http://www.tinamanley.com 

tion


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Message from images at comporium.net (Tina Manley) ([Leica] NPR story)