Comment Re:Tired (Score 1) 116
I'm not as enthusiastic about _Wired_, though.
Ever since I first saw their prelaunch ads on SF buses in 1993-4,
they've seemed like the _Omni_ mag of high-tech.
I can't stand Wired. I was an early subscriber. Then I noticed that their covers were making various CEOs out to be folk heros (didn't save the covers, I wonder how many have been indicted meanwhile?). Finally, they had Newt Gringrich on the cover. Esther Dyson did a gushing, fawning interview with him. They never mentioned that she was on his payroll at the PFF (Progress and Freedom Foundation). Half the articles were by what's his name Kristol or some such, explaining why we should privatize everything (he got his wish, look at the mess we're in as a result). I canceled my subscription, wrote a letter calling them National Review on Acid (which they never published). I never bought another copy.
I can't stand Wired. I was an early subscriber. Then I noticed that their covers were making various CEOs out to be folk heros (didn't save the covers, I wonder how many have been indicted meanwhile?). Finally, they had Newt Gringrich on the cover. Esther Dyson did a gushing, fawning interview with him. They never mentioned that she was on his payroll at the PFF (Progress and Freedom Foundation). Half the articles were by what's his name Kristol or some such, explaining why we should privatize everything (he got his wish, look at the mess we're in as a result). I canceled my subscription, wrote a letter calling them National Review on Acid (which they never published). I never bought another copy.
