BigBadStang
04-26-2009, 10:22 AM
Well, fresh out of the mailbox is my latest Muscle Mustangs and Fast Fords!
I decide to sit down and take a gander through the 202 pages of Mustang glory! Upon opening up the magazine, I flip through multiple pages of ads before I get to the first page of any information. I read the Editors column and see where the staff and office of the magazine is moving from Jersey to Tampa...really, do the readers actually give a shit about this? During the read of this column, Evan (editor) lists the things he likes doing in his job, and one of the last things he mentioned were the readers. Maybe it's the Sunday morning funk, but that kind of chapped my ass a little that the readers (without them/us they would not have a magazine) rank that far down on his list, but I let it go, and continued on. After trying to turn the pages and having this effing magazine constatly open automatically to the GD pages where the damn subscription cards are glued in with the toughest effing glue known to man, I flip out, and start ripping them out of the mag. After removing these, and the other 700 cards that are inserted loosely in between the pages, I calm down slightly and start over again to attempt to read the mag. After the Editor's column, I turn no less than 5 or 6 pages of ads to get to the next page with any printed information pertinent to the mag. I grind my teeth a bit, and forge on. You guessed it, more ads! GRRRRR...DAMMIT!!! (maybe I should stop after the first pot of coffee, I seem a bit keyed up over this!)
Now I find myself wondering just how much fluff and bullshit is in this magazine. I set off from page one to count how many pages are ads. I counted full page ads and added together the 1/3 page and 1/2 page ads together accordingly. Doing this, I am floored to find about 122 pages of the 202 were ads!! :eek:
I know advertisements are vital in publishing a magazine, but between the Ed's listing the readers down on his list of "enjoyments" of his job, the GD cards, and the constant flipping through PAGES, and PAGES of consecutive ads for ways to Rice out your 'Stang with everything from Lambo doors, to M3 front fenders :rolleyes:, I find myself wondering, why on earth someone would pay the cover price of $5.99 for this? I guess I can tolerate this bullshit since I only paid $20 bucks for a years subscription, but damn man...it's aggravating as hell!
I often wonder if these guys realize how fortunate they are? They get to spend other peoples money building and blowing shit up, putting free parts on their cars, get free dyno/tuning time in return for mentioning the shops name, and on and on, while the paying customer has to flip through all the bullshit ads and pick up/tear out all the cards.
Oh well...Time for another cup of coffee!
Thanks for allowing me to rant! :lol:
I decide to sit down and take a gander through the 202 pages of Mustang glory! Upon opening up the magazine, I flip through multiple pages of ads before I get to the first page of any information. I read the Editors column and see where the staff and office of the magazine is moving from Jersey to Tampa...really, do the readers actually give a shit about this? During the read of this column, Evan (editor) lists the things he likes doing in his job, and one of the last things he mentioned were the readers. Maybe it's the Sunday morning funk, but that kind of chapped my ass a little that the readers (without them/us they would not have a magazine) rank that far down on his list, but I let it go, and continued on. After trying to turn the pages and having this effing magazine constatly open automatically to the GD pages where the damn subscription cards are glued in with the toughest effing glue known to man, I flip out, and start ripping them out of the mag. After removing these, and the other 700 cards that are inserted loosely in between the pages, I calm down slightly and start over again to attempt to read the mag. After the Editor's column, I turn no less than 5 or 6 pages of ads to get to the next page with any printed information pertinent to the mag. I grind my teeth a bit, and forge on. You guessed it, more ads! GRRRRR...DAMMIT!!! (maybe I should stop after the first pot of coffee, I seem a bit keyed up over this!)
Now I find myself wondering just how much fluff and bullshit is in this magazine. I set off from page one to count how many pages are ads. I counted full page ads and added together the 1/3 page and 1/2 page ads together accordingly. Doing this, I am floored to find about 122 pages of the 202 were ads!! :eek:
I know advertisements are vital in publishing a magazine, but between the Ed's listing the readers down on his list of "enjoyments" of his job, the GD cards, and the constant flipping through PAGES, and PAGES of consecutive ads for ways to Rice out your 'Stang with everything from Lambo doors, to M3 front fenders :rolleyes:, I find myself wondering, why on earth someone would pay the cover price of $5.99 for this? I guess I can tolerate this bullshit since I only paid $20 bucks for a years subscription, but damn man...it's aggravating as hell!
I often wonder if these guys realize how fortunate they are? They get to spend other peoples money building and blowing shit up, putting free parts on their cars, get free dyno/tuning time in return for mentioning the shops name, and on and on, while the paying customer has to flip through all the bullshit ads and pick up/tear out all the cards.
Oh well...Time for another cup of coffee!
Thanks for allowing me to rant! :lol: