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[GWL]: FW: Organic Style Magazine (was: Gardening magazines)

I have seen a number of responses to the new Organic Style magazine
recently, but this one was so striking I thought it was worth forwarding to
the list.
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To: OGL@LSV.UKY.EDU
Subject: Organic Style Magazine (was: Gardening magazines)
Date: Sat, Sep 1, 2001, 4:43 AM


I received a copy of Organic Style the other day and can't remember when
I've felt so insulted -- certainly never before by a publication.

I can't seem to find it at the moment (maybe I didn't even keep the awful
thing), but the Editor's Letter ----- well, let me just say it makes me
sputter to even think about it. The gist was something like, "I really
don't know all that much about simple living or organic anything, and my
family and friends are making fun of me for moving out here to the
boondocks to take this job, but I'm here to prove that living organically
is more than tofu and birkenstocks."  I mean it was that blatant. Those are
ALMOST quotes. The whole thing was simultaneously patronizing and a
put-down.

The guts of the magazine was virtually indistinguishable from a
consumer-oriented women's magazine.  And no, Martha Stewart "look and feel"
it wasn't.  I'll take Martha any day over this monstrosity. If this is
where the organic / simple living philosophy and movement are going, I want
none of it! I guess it's the further commercialization (co-optation) of
Rodale. Shame, shame, shame on Maria.

I mean, I was REALLY aghast.

Patricia



At 07:48 AM 9/1/01 -0600, you wrote:
>Raven, a lot of magazines have perished recently, and I think more will.
>Many times you will have to mentally translate growing instructions to your
>climate or translate from non-organic to organic. If you subscribe to
>Organic Gardening magazine now, that's an "iffy" proposition. I just
>received my copy of OG, and it's a slender reed on which to balance an
>empire. Articles are quite good, but there's not enough advertising to
>sustain it. They're trying to change their focus to "Organic Style"
>whatever that is, and compete with Martha Stewart, et al, so there'll be
>six issues of OG and six of OS, apparently, per year. Were I you, I'd
>subscribe to Horticulture or Garden Gate or Fine Gardening and do some
>mental shifting and translating. Maybe look into Country Living and/or
>Mother Earth News.
>The latter may be the only one with an emphasis on veggies. Margaret L

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