Lex Anteinternet: The Demise of the Magazine

Back in November I ran this item:

 

Lex Anteinternet: The Demise of the Magazine: When I was young, I was an avid magazine reader. My father subscribed, when I was very young, to Life, Look, Time, Newsweek, Spor...

That included the sad news about the National Geographic, which the National Geographic Society had sold, but it also included this item:

Another magazine that's been in trouble for years and which I also doubt will survive has been in the news as well, that being the trash put out by an ossified freak whose main achievement is to help objectify women since the early 1950s.  I'm glad its in trouble, but  the reason that it is, is the same that the National Geographic is, the Internet.  Here the story is more grim.  The National Geographic has not declined and is simply the victim of free information.  The other magazine, on the other hand, helped take debasement out of the gutter and into everyone's homes and now it can't make a go of it, as the Internet allows trash to be circulated for free.  In other words, having helped pollute the culture, there's too much pollution everywhere in order for it to make a go of selling it.  

Well, I suppose its in the nature of gloating, but that journals effort at reviving its fortunes by finding a few clothes for the sad waifs who appear on and in it may not be working.  The entire company is now far sale.

So is the mansion where the perpetrator of this act against women lives, although even should you buy it for the listed $200,000,000 you have to let him keep living there. Regarding that location, I can't help but note that one of the frequent visitors on the location in its glory days was comedian Bill Cosby, who is now in trouble for allegedly acting in a way that seems hyper objectified women.  The mansion's owner expressed dismay over that early on, as supposedly one of the bad acts occurred on his premises (I've forgotten the details) but the shocking thing to me is that Cosby, who was so beloved, seems to never have had any compunctions about gong there, which when you consider that his reputation was somewhat family based, shows how far we've fallen.

Anyhow, if you buy the place, you have to let the guy keep living there.  I suppose at his advanced age you're just running down the clock, but so far it hasn't sold.

The rest of the business is for sale for $500,000,000.  It's interesting that the house has an asking price of about half the entire business.  It's for sale, as its doing badly.