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New York Observer says:
Last spring, the publication was the talk of the National Magazine Awards after it won the best magazine section award for its how-to guide....
But ultimately, the magazine’s downfall is being framed in the same way as its success was back when it was a darling of the New York media world.
“I don’t want to speak ill of the dying, but what is the plausible audience in such a magazine?” author and editor Kurt Anderson told The New York Times today. “It was too kind of nitty-gritty and old-fashioned, back-to-the-land hippie magazine for the food-farm porn market, and yet too ‘What about the dairy situation in the Philippines?’ for people who are really raising chickens for a living.”
Both the success and failure of Modern Farmer demonstrate that while an unlikely product makes for a good narrative, it is still a difficult sell. And all the praise and publicity in the world can’t change that.
Read more at http://observer.com/2015/01/r-i-p-modern-farmer-medias-favorite-farming-mag-folds/#ixzz3Px5rHlIr
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