Rolling Stone magazine, famous (or notorious, depending on whom you ask) for its oversized physical format, has just changed its size to match other magazines. This on the heels of The Atlantic's redesign and the Chicago Tribune redesign already mentioned in this blog.
Almost universally, the motive has been to "adapt to the times." Sure, that makes sense. But when that translates more pictures and less text, what does that say about society? Just by glancing at our media styles can we see the true meaning of "tuning out." What's next?
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It says a lot of us are lazy. But maybe they cut the size and added more pictures for economic reasons. Is it possible that smaller page size=less paper=cheaper to produce? And more pictures means they need to pay less writers for articles produced? Maybe this is saving them some cash.
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