Dear Manhattan-meet the rest of the country. Or at least, the lucky titles still surviving at a Wal-Mart in rural Alabama, visited this weekend by Folio. Last week, the superstore cut from its shelves more than 1,000 magazines, including the New Yorker and Better Homes and Gardens. Happy hunting, folks. Or flexing. Or both! Click the image for a closeup. [Folio]
We do not know how soul-deadening it must be to work for a media company based in suburban Connecticut. Nor do we know how frustrating it must be to work for a trade pub covering a beat — magazines — that is comprehensively and aggressively covered by a phalanx of widely read daily reporters. But we can develop a strong hunch with today's news that Folio: senior editor Dylan Stableford has chosen to leave his Connecticut-based trade mag and instead join the huddled masses at Mediabistro. He'll be managing editor/media news for the job-listings service, in which capacity he'll be "covering all media as well as events and features — in addition to a ton of other stuff."
Most folks, we imagine, would just as soon forget the last year in magland. (Falling circs, plummeting ad sales, layoffs.) But the fine folks at Folio:, who subsist entirely on a diet of Vitamin Water and back issues, have chosen to remind us all of the year that was.
Folio's Simon Dumeneco thinks media world shenanigans are the stuff of movies. "Soap operas" seems more accurate, but we'll go with it. (IWantMedia did this a month ago with TimeWarner execs.) Dumeneco's casting choices? Meryl Streep as Tina Brown; Penny Marshall as Bonnie Fuller; Catherine Zeta-Jones as Anna Wintour; and Anthony Hopkins as Graydon Carter.
Glossies, the Movie [NY Mag]
