On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 9:31 AM, Bob Jersey <[email protected]> wrote:
> > *Playboy*, for those who still get it in print, reportedly will still > include provocative photos of women, just no longer totally in the buff. > The change arrives next March. > > The NY Times > <http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/13/business/media/nudes-are-old-news-at-playboy.html?_r=0> > (link) blames editor Cory Jones for convincing Hef to make the change, who > in turn blames (of course) the far-greater availability of more-explicit > stuff online. > "In the end, Playboy crashed against two immovable barriers. First, the Internet made porn commonplace and Playboy’s brand of erotica or “pictorials” as tame as a church pot luck. Second, none of the major carriers of online content allow porn to be sold through their stores. The Disneyfication of online markets is to be expected – nearly every content provider has come down hard on the side of non-prurience except, notably, Reddit – and when there’s money to be made in the Newsstand app (but not the physical newsstand) it makes perfect sense for magazines like Playboy to change." http://techcrunch.com/2015/10/12/a-new-media-market-makes-playboy-drop-the-nudes/ -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
