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1. NY Magazine
A Very Familiar Magazine
By Kurt Andersen
6/6/05 issue
http://www.nymetro.com/nymetro/news/columns/imperialcity/11911/index.html

It's a little unfair to judge a magazine based on its debut issue. The Radar that appeared last week to considerable hoopla, however, was not, actually, its first issue but its third, following a two-year hiatus. And during those two years, Radar was mentioned so frequently in the Observer, the Times, the Post, and Gawker that it might as well have existed??”it was using up its precious media air supply. For that matter, the first first issue of Radar was a kind of de facto relaunch of Tina Brown's defunct Miramax magazine, Talk??”Talk's editorial director, Maer Roshan, is the founder and editor-in-chief of Radar.

Being simultaneously brand-new and yesterday's mashed potatoes is an awkward quantum state. Just as the magazine finally gets financed and starts publishing for real, Schadenfreudian New York media arbiters are inclined to declare this ingenue so over, a virgin and a whore.

But what about the actual magazine? Does it justify the kerfuffle? Is it any good? There are lots of good things in it. I loved the nude porn-magazine photo of Mrs. Donald Trump, and wanted more. I enjoyed learning that Jennifer Lopez hated the documentary that her record company hired D. A. Pennebaker to make about her. Concocting a cheap, deliberately stupid knockoff of Damien Hirst's shark-in-a-tank-of-formaldehyde was pretty funny. The pieces reported from Iraq were first-rate. And it was brilliant to ask 40 TV-news professionals whom they consider the stupidest, meanest, and vainest anchors.

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When the Meredith Corporation announced its purchase of Gruner & Jahr's women's magazines last Tuesday, Meredith said that Gruner's business magazines, Fast Company and Inc., were not "material" to the sale. What that means is that two magazines that sold for more than half a billion dollars four years ago now have a value of zero.

As it flees toward its exit from a billion-dollar experiment gone horribly wrong, Gruner & Jahr, a division of the German media giant Bertelsmann, may salvage a few dollars, if not its dignity, by selling Inc. But Fast Company, always more of an idea than an actual magazine, is probably gone for good.

The decline of these two business magazines may reflect management pratfalls - usually a good guess at Gruner - but the bottom line may be darker and broader than that. Business publications, which spent years as the ugly cousins of mainstream media, were transformed into prom queens when the Web took off and gorged on the deal flow until they became as over-inflated as the sectors they covered. After the market bust, the herd was winnowed and publications returned to earth, but something funny happened when it came to touch bottom: there was none.

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