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Subject: Shop Etc. folding? The latest .... - August25, 2006


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1. Jossip
August 25, 2006
http://www.jossip.com

Inside Shop Etc.'s Closing: Cathie Black Brought The Troops

Shop Etc.'s staffers learned of their demise in the most Hollywood of publishing industry ways: Hearst chief Cathie Black marched into the office on 1790 Broadway, unannounced, and flanked by Hearst exec John Hartig and publishing director Michael Clinton. She called for the staff to be rounded up and summarily delivered the news about the magazine's shuttering. Shortly after Black gave the noon-time news to Shop Etc.'s 40-odd staffers and corporate cousin Weekend, we spoke with Shop's executive editor Charla Krupp, who was devasted over her magazine's closure.

"This magazine is really on a roll," she tells us. "People are gaga over this magazine. They love it. The women who read it are obssessed with it. ... We just came back from focus groups, who reported it was an A+." But don't confuse Krupp's cheerleading the editorial - staffers "really killed themselves to come up with something new" - as any sort of naivety about the numbers game: "It wasn't a hit with advertisers. ... If you're not a million circulation [magazine], a lot of big companies" don't have any interest. At "just" 675,000 readers, Shop didn't hit that target.

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2. Frinktank.com
National Geographic's Intrepid Expedition to Bergdorf Goodman
August 23, 2006
By Not Shitashi @ 9:22 am
Native boob shots notwithstanding, the venerable National Geographic magazine's chief value is its ability to transport readers to the most remote and dangerous places on the globe. Apparently, that now includes Darkest Fifth Avenue.

Not that that particular locale isn't fucking frightening in its own way, but Jeezus Effing Christ. In her intro, Cathy Newman spends about 3 seconds on the musty socio-archaeological stuff before cutting to the chase:

"Every shoe tells a story. Shoes speak of status, gender (usually), ethnicity, religion, profession, and politics (the Russian writer Maxim Gorky said a strong pair of boots 'will be of greater service for the ultimate triumph of socialism than . . . black eyes')."

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