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Ridgeback:
What is a good article ?
I think that depends on what landrover your in to and how you use your landrover. I would like to see less commercial stuff and more journalism.
It cant be easy because they do need to make money, cover many different landrovers and still get the commercial stuff in, but I am not the only person I know that thinks companies taking up 4 or even 6 pages with the same adverts every month should not be allowed.
Saffy:
I just found this survey in the spam box of a redundant email account of mine, not sure why or how they used that address as I do not recall ever using it. I am not a member of their forum not do I read their (or any) magazine. :huh:
V8MoneyPit:
--- Quote from: Ridgeback on November 26, 2008, 10:51:18 ---It cant be easy because they do need to make money, cover many different landrovers and still get the commercial stuff in, but I am not the only person I know that thinks companies taking up 4 or even 6 pages with the same adverts every month should not be allowed.
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The physical cost of adding pages is negligable when compared to the advert charges. A 6 page ad in something like LRO will cost a couple of thousand Pounds every month. So they are easily paying for the extra paper! However, adding pages for editorial would rely on selling more copies as a result. A fine balance to be drawn, I think.
As you suggest, it's a difficult task to please everyone all of the time. If they had one article on an unmolested Series 1, another on a tricked up Disco, another on rock crawling in the US, etc.... the chances are only one or two might really interest any given person. However, if you publish loads of articles about fitting Scorpion kits or similar, you appeal very much to that specific audience. And this guarantees a loyal following from that group of people.
It must be very difficult to find the right balance in any publication.
davidlandy:
--- Quote from: MudRat on November 25, 2008, 14:15:42 ---i just done that as well, i said that i did not want to see so many of their ( the writers) land rover with their blatant bits of advertising features (free bits they get to 'test'), that winds me up, i want to see statements like " i got given these springs for free, but they are crap and i have given them back" thats journalism not what we get at the moment.
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sooo true
well said.
I havent bought or read it for ages now - have they reported the dimise of old scropion racking, or do the ads still exist in there?
Rich_P:
--- Quote from: davidlandy on November 26, 2008, 19:50:42 ---sooo true
well said.
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--- Quote from: davidlandy on November 26, 2008, 19:50:42 ---I havent bought or read it for ages now -
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Hmm, how can you make such statements if you haven't read it for ages.
--- Quote from: davidlandy on November 26, 2008, 19:50:42 ---have they reported the dimise of old scropion racking, or do the ads still exist in there?
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Scrapiron went under after the last issue hit the shelves, next issue has yet to go out, so funnily enough I don't think they have.
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