Yet, today, 30, 35, 40 years later, magazines are losing. Readers, advertisers, subscribers. I used to get Time, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated (see my piece on their recent developments), Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, (am thrilled that Jann is finally gone) Travel+Lesuire, Esquire, Entertainment Weekly, and others long since forgotten.

There was a story out last week that hundreds of journalists have lost jobs, just since January 1. It is depressing to remember that in my lifetime (65 years) that newspapers have gone down in quality and size. You pay $750 for an obituary (and that's for one paragraph) in the Detroit Free Press and News, $400 in the Observer & Eccentric. It's outrageous. The Sunday paper is a joke, a shell of what it used to be. We had a TV writer, travel writer, general life columnists, even a series of disability columnists. Not anymore. Some of these writers are free-lancers, but get limited benefits. A few, like Mitch Albom and Nolan Finley, are mainstays. They'll be writing columns after they're dead.

Oh, and S.I. Newhouse brought back VF, so at least he did something right.