R.I.P. Vibe magazine

[6souls]

oh how I didn't even know you were still around

http://entimg.msn.com/i/150/News/June09/vibe_150.jpg

June 30, 2009, 6:35 PM EST

Vibe magazine has become another victim of the recession. The urban-music magazine, which was founded by Quincy Jones in 1993, is shutting down.

The last Vibe to hit stands was the June/July 2009 issue with Eminem on the cover.

Danyel Smith, Vibe's editor-in-chief, released this statement on Tuesday:

"On behalf the Vibe content staff (the best in this business), it is with great sadness, and with heads held high, that we leave the building today. We were assigning and editing a Michael Jackson tribute issue when we got the news. It's a tragic week in overall, but as the doors of Vibe Media Group close, on the eve of the magazine's sixteenth anniversary, it's a sad day for music, for hip hop in particular, and for the millions of readers and users who have loved and who continue to love the Vibe brand. We thank you, we have served you with joy, pride and excellence, and we will miss you."

Vibe magazine shutting down - MSN Music News

[Pirian]

And nothing of value was lost?

[Ivve]

Now what will I read while my husband gets his hair cut? Blender? Ugh.

Spoiler: show

Just kidding, those are both horrible choices.

[Correction]

What's more surprising is how many other print magazines are still in business this far into the age of RSS/smart phones. I boggle how big the periodicals section every time I visit a bookstore: "That piece of crap is still around?"

There are 10x more magazines in circulation than need to be.

[Not Kuno]

And nothing of value was lost.

[Pikarya]

And yet nothing of valu... nevermind

[Vandole]

And nothing of value was lost.

/thread

[Qalbert]

What the fuck?!? THIS IS BULLSHIT!!






NOW I HAVE TO GO BACK TO NEWSPAPERS FOR LINING MY BIRD'S CAGE

[ZarakiKujata]

Shit all black men will have to read now is Jet and Ebony. And everybody knows Jet is just a poorly designed pamphlet.

[Mizango]

NOOOOOOOOOOOO

[Arnwulf]

Now what will I read while my husband gets his hair cut? Blender? Ugh.

Spoiler: show

Just kidding, those are both horrible choices.

Blender went out of business about 4 months ago. It was so major no one even noticed.

[Dimmauk]

Shit all black men will have to read now is Jet and Ebony. And everybody knows Jet is just a poorly designed pamphlet.

Black people read?


Seriously, um....Black people read?

[Alleya]

What the hell is a magazine?

Edit: OH those books of advertisements they have at the dentist office. People read those???

[Dimmauk]

Blender went out of business about 4 months ago. It was so major no one even noticed.

I was wondering why I stopped getting issues LOL. I was getting them for free, maybe giving away too many free magazines is why they went out of business?

[Absolutely Virtue]

What am I going to do with forty subscriptions to Vibe?

http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/image...34557128_2.jpg

40 subscriptions to vibe, Office Space, Ron Livingston, Peter Gibbons, Sound Bite

[Isiolia]

What will become of Peter's 40 subscriptions?

edit: gah, beaten

[ZarakiKujata]

Black people read?


Seriously, um....Black people read?

Well they can read(look at the big butt girls) in black magazines, everyone knows they can't read white people magazines that have no pictures like The Economist and Newsweek.

That white man makes a fine magazine.

[Mizango]

Ho shit.

[AoE]

http://pics.livejournal.com/ryogavee/pic/00028th1

[Ivve]

How has this thread been allowed to denigrate the great paragon of intellectual standards on BG forums that is General? Seriously.

I won't miss magazines in the least even if every last one goes out of print. Soon the only ones left will be gossip rags anyway.