Re:Bagging on "Wired".... (Score 1)

I subscribed starting with issue #3, and bagged it sometime around 1997 or 1998. Too much of the ridiculous libertarian ethos, too many profiles of CEOs (as others have said), too much gushing over ephemeral trends. I can't remember when I thought the magazine had finally jumped the shark, but surely the Zippies cover and accompanying article http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/covers1994.html was a true, frog-in-the-well bit of embarassment, both for the magazine and the person (i.e., me) who had to lug that stupid thing around on the trains for a week. Tunnel vision, indeed. I picked up the John Stewart cover issue while traveling last month--first issue I've bought in many years. Being part of Conde Nast hasn't done much of anything for the magazine content-wise, and it seems to have declined, in fact. None of the frisson of the first couple of years, barring a stupid geek cover or two.

By the way, O'Reilly misunderstands the quote he offers from Wallace Stevens early on in the article. It's not the YES that cannot be broken, it's the PASSION for the yes that cannot be broken. A bit subtle, and it seems like he basically understands the thrust of Stevens' comment anyway, but let's get it right, shall we?