{"id":3237,"date":"2008-12-15T14:12:41","date_gmt":"2008-12-15T22:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=3237"},"modified":"2008-12-15T15:59:07","modified_gmt":"2008-12-15T23:59:07","slug":"print-media-on-the-rope-tow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=3237","title":{"rendered":"Print Media On The Rope Tow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/chartmdn1215b.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/chartmdn1215b.jpg','popup','width=400,height=325,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/chartmdn1215b-tm.jpg\" height=\"162\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Chartmdn1215B\" \/><\/a>Unless the action sports magazine category can buck a major media trend, 2009 could be pretty rough. And that comes on the heels of what <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediapost.com\/publications\/?fa=Articles.showArticleHomePage&amp;art_aid=96640\" target=\"_blank\">Media Daily News<\/a><\/strong> is calling &#8220;the worst year in decades for magazines.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Through the middle of December, consumer magazines are down 9.4% from last year, according to MIN Online; this compares with a 7.8% drop in 2001. Worse, magazines do not appear to be headed for a quick rebound like the last recession. . . . At this rate, 2008&#8217;s losses will almost certainly be compounded in 2009&#8211;bringing two straight years of declines, which will result in more magazine closures and layoffs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We&#8217;ll keep you posted.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediapost.com\/publications\/?fa=Articles.showArticleHomePage&amp;art_aid=96640\" target=\"_blank\">Media Daily News<\/a><\/strong><strong> via <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iwantmedia.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">I Want Media<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unless the action sports magazine category can buck a major media trend, 2009 could be pretty rough. And that comes on the heels of what Media Daily News is calling &#8220;the worst year in decades for magazines.&#8221; Through the middle of December, consumer magazines are down 9.4% from last year, according to MIN Online; this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3237"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3237"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3247,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3237\/revisions\/3247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}