Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/04/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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