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Monday, June 27, 2005 |
OT: Man, That Sucks
For those who remember the online magazine Suck (whose bones are still online), a retrospective on that magazine's founding, rise, and demise. I won't bother synopsizing it; either you were there or you weren't, but just in case, I downloaded the whole friggin' site and have it on CDROM now. (Yes, I'm that much of a freak.) I will, however, give you this one gem, the one piece that really defined both the magazine and the reason why I loved it so:
The chokers, the people who pay for all this stuff. They don’t get it. You’ve heard it a million times—at the water cooler and in shot-through newsgroups—but it’s absolutely true.Come to think of it, that describes a lot of the sportswriters out there.They don’t browse. They don’t keep up. They read about the Web, fer chrissakes, in the New York Times and in the Wall Street Journal. They tell their flunkies to order up some presence and have no idea what they’ve done or what it should look like.
They’re virgins who’ve been told about sex and think they have a clue. They’re experts vicariously.
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