While the internet is fantastic in so many ways, and has enabled the proliferation of good information and facts (obviously as well as bad) I think one of the downsides of it is it has killed or is slowly strangling the life out of many print media outlets -one of the biggest shames is the degradation of newspapers, but I digress.....
It's been inevitable, and I don't see a rosy future for any print media (well unless they somehow have some way of generating income online). So.... I don't have any mags. I admit to loving Cycling Plus some years ago, but it has been prohibitively expensive to buy over here.
At one time many many years ago I did buy "Bicycling" (a.k.a. "Buy" cycling) magazine -an American magazine but the level of journalism was just appalling and even at a very cheap price, it wasn't worth it (in fact, wouldn't have wanted to have been given it for free either). I do think the internet caused them to increase the ads and it became actually time consuming to find an article -plus add in contradictory reviews by writers who seemingly weren't even using the products and I'd had enough. But.... years later I was curious and picked up a copy to flip though at a supermarket magazine section. I wish I hadn't; they had writers reverting to use words such as "rad", "dude", "shreddin'" every other paragraph, it just made me cringe so much to a point of embarrassment. Shortly thereafter it disappeared from even the supermarket magazine section. Can't say I was bothered and don't even know if it's still published now.
