It's a long, slow sunset for ink-on-paper magazines, but sunsets can produce vast sums of money.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I respect newspapers, but the reality is that magazine 'photojournalism' is finished. They want illustrations, Photoshopped pictures of movie stars.
Comics are printed on paper, which is expensive, making it tough to stay in business.
From that moment on, the newspaper became a highly lucrative investment for those with a talent for making money or for publishers wanting to gain a fortune.
The newspaper is a marvelous medium. It is extraordinarily convenient and cheap. Let's see. This one cost 75 cents. Now that's a little high. I bought it when I was downtown this morning.
I am probably exaggerating a little, but I owe my equilibrium to ink and paper.
I think if you're at the point where you're popular enough to sell your wedding photos to OK! Magazine then you don't need the money.
It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.
Veteran print editors and reporters at places like the 'Times' and 'The New Yorker' manage to feed and clothe their families without costing their companies a million bucks a month, and they produce a great deal more valuable reporting and analysis than the network news stars do.
Money is a kind of poetry.
You get quick money, it's beautiful, there's sunshine, but at the end of the day, you find out it's all a masquerade, baby. It's not what it seems.