Pop Culture Watch: That’s the Magazine Biz!
Imagine reading lots of other people’s stuff each week, writing up sly observations about what you read, and getting paid enough for it that you can eventually retire.
Yes, friends, before the citizen-journalism craze known as blogging, newspapers actually offered such jobs, and the people who held them were called columnists.
For more than a decade Peter Carlson had such a career at the Washington Post, reviewing all the pop culture and hype served up by our nation’s magazines. This week he retired, but not without a few parting shots. As a former magazine editor myself, I found his farewell summary of the bizarre trends he witnessed in my (now-troubled) industry well worth reading.
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