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I read TM, am I a brailness twit?casingpoint wrote:Texas Monthly is an informationless piece of coffetable crap published for brainless twits of faux intellect for places like River Oaks and doctors offices. Most people only get as far as the pictures. Some don't get past the cover. There are fewer readers than buyers. This time, they were smoking too much dope at the editor's desk. Willie will love this cover. He probably has a copy in his bus now, waiting to "roll" again.
I read it as well. And while it does lean a little to the left, it's not like reading the New York Times. Being a lifelong Texan I enjoy the articles about our great State.txinvestigator wrote:I read TM, am I a brailness twit?casingpoint wrote:Texas Monthly is an informationless piece of coffetable crap published for brainless twits of faux intellect for places like River Oaks and doctors offices. Most people only get as far as the pictures. Some don't get past the cover. There are fewer readers than buyers. This time, they were smoking too much dope at the editor's desk. Willie will love this cover. He probably has a copy in his bus now, waiting to "roll" again.
The January 1973 issue. Some of our members weren't born yet.texas297 wrote:And the cover on this month's issue is actually a homage to the famous cover of National Lampoon's cover in the 70's that said "if you don't buy this magazine we'll shoot this dog".
The issue cost a whopping 75 cents.And there are different gradients of satire, as well. For example:texas297 wrote:It's called satire. After all if we can't laugh at ourselves we shouldn't laugh at others.
More poignant, but it's still not as funny as the original.Skiprr wrote:The January 1973 issue. Some of our members weren't born yet.texas297 wrote:And the cover on this month's issue is actually a homage to the famous cover of National Lampoon's cover in the 70's that said "if you don't buy this magazine we'll shoot this dog".
And there are different gradients of satire, as well. For example:texas297 wrote:It's called satire. After all if we can't laugh at ourselves we shouldn't laugh at others.
Only comment I have here is that I had a piece published in Texas Monthly back in the 70s, probably around 1978, and I don't think the Post folded until 20 years later. Wait; lemme go look this up...casingpoint wrote:The Post folded during the same era of Texas journalism that Texas Monthly began publication. Go figure.
I don't like it when a newspaper or Television bends the news to fit their own editorial slant, and while I'm literally a card carrying Libertarian, I wouldn't want to limmit my reading or information soley to that which mirrors my point of view. It would make a very small world for me. Molly Ivans writes for TM, She and I will probably never agree on much of anything, but she is a great writer, and very funny. More imortant she makes me think.texas297 wrote:
I read it as well. And while it does lean a little to the left, it's not like reading the New York Times. Being a lifelong Texan I enjoy the articles about our great State.
I am soooo glad to be informed of this. To think I have been wasting my time........casingpoint wrote:Txinvestigator and texas297, or course there are execptions like y'all to the Rule of Twits. By and large the magazine is a lightweight in journalism, a carmelized, BBQ'd version of The New Yorker Magazine. The basic formula is to go in and skewer, lambast and satarize anybody unfortunate enough to get on their radar screen. Then surround that with platitudinal articles on quaint subjects like the Shiner Brewery or some limestone creek in the Hill Country with an endangered populaton of swish tailed minnows, just like the ones working at Texas Monthly. And God forbid when those tea sippers come down on The Aggies. The infamous Texas journalist Molly Ivins once wrote the Houston Post was a piece of dog poop rolled up in newsprint delivered on your doorstep every day. The Post folded during the same era of Texas journalism that Texas Monthly began publication. Go figure.
