Time Out: Time Out

Fagburn is genuinely sad to hear that Time Out is losing its gay listings section.
Silly decision, but that's the mad world of magazine publishing for you.
End of an era.
Won't say any more cause even if you heap praise on Paul Burston he takes it as a great insult.
The bigger the ego, the more fragile they are.
But thanks anyway, it was quite useful.

Time Out Sex Survey: Phwoar!

An amazing 60% of London’s women and 23% of the UK capital’s men either have had or would have a same-sex experience.
That means almost 42% of the city’s population are in to gay sex.
It’s the shock figure coming out of a Time Out survey... 

Gay Star News. 

No, dear.
It's a survey.
It doesn't tell us anything about Londoners, only about the people who replied to this self-selecting survey.*
How many nuns do you think filled this in? 
And further, there is no survey as unreliable as one that asks people about their sex lives.
Which was the only thing anyone ever really learned from The Kinsey Report.
You fool.

* I'm working on the assumption Time Out hasn't sexed-up the results, like some magazines I could mention. 

Newsweek: So Farewell Then...

Now moving online only.
You do wonder how many magazines - straight, gay, whatever - will be available in print in a few years time.
Maybe they'll follow Newsweek.
Or, like Time Out did recently, start giving the print edition away for free.
Which is fine by me - I could spend my life quite happily reading magazines, if only they weren't so damned expensive.
Or will they just do what The Word magazine did earlier this year - sadly, as it was Britain's most interesting and intelligent music magazine - and just throw in the towel?
Tick tick tick...

PS Newsweek was just a load of right-wing trash really, so I can't say this will be much of a loss to the world.

PPS Yesterday The Guardian strongly denied a Telegraph story that it was "seriously discussing" ending its print edition. Digital publishing may well be the future, but no-one's really worked out a way to make it pay yet.