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RE: To Clarify the Point

Dear GWL: I know you'll all throw brick-bats my way but this trend (reflected in Woman's Day) began some time ago, probably with the take-overs by the mega-corps who thought there was big money in publishing. It also hurt true garden writers  when various professional organizations--in a search to expand their budgets--opened  memberships to anybody who could write a complete sentence and, unfortunately, in that rush, included trendy people with TV looks and empty brain pans in the memership. As professionalism died, anybody with a quick wit and good hair, could fill the place of a gardener with experience. As a garden writer for Woman's Day when the marvelous Cynthia Kellogg was the editor (before gardening was mixed up with cake recipes and saving suburban sex-lives) and also the editor of  the "GWAA Newsletter" for four years in the early 1990s, I've watched these trends meld with the declines of English as spell-check made up for knowledge--with the predictable results.  If you doubt the fall of education, especially with the "trendy new folks," remember that even the RHS has chosen to continually flash-up its magazine, something probably not needed in a country with such dedicated gardeners. Even Gardens Illustrated is one-half empty space, space used to frame the sumptuous photos and it won't be long before  The English Garden follows the same path. Today I saw another newspaper in the Southeast, discharge its garden editor to be replaced with an extension agent, because the agents are free! Finally, I made more for a photo (now called an image) twenty years ago than today. Peter Loewer
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Sent: 4/12/02 12:18:53 PM
Subject: [GWL]: To Clarify the Point

Thank you all for your sympathy regarding my replacement at Woman's Day by
P. Allen Smith.  My posting was not to elicit sympathy, but to share with
you a trend that is taking place in our industry.  A couple of you have made
comments to this fact.  I'm wondering if we garden writers will need to
start endorsing, pandering or becoming part of corporate PR in order to have
a forum?  I'm also thinking that the hardcore garden magazines can't help
but benefit from this trend.  This is the kind of discussion I was hoping to
prompt.
Doreen Howard
 
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