The New Zealand Herald has an interesting story today about challenges facing women’s weekly magazines. While a good read about factors in the decline of the weekly in New Zealand, the article misses two key points – celebrities controlling more of their story thorugh their own blogs, Twitter feeds and the like and the thousands of celebrity blogs which offer magazine-like celebrity content for free.
Women’s magazines are full of crap, that’s why readers like myself – who used to buy pretty much them all – are sick to death of them. We can’t trust that the information is true. I’d rather go direct to the celeb and interact with them on Twitter/MySpace/blogs etc and find out what the truth is. Why pay money for lies, when you can find out the truth for free?