{"id":6131,"date":"2010-03-23T06:00:07","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T12:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=6131"},"modified":"2010-03-18T08:48:45","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T14:48:45","slug":"reports-of-my-passing-are-greatly-exaggerated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/reports-of-my-passing-are-greatly-exaggerated\/","title":{"rendered":"Reports Of My Passing Are Greatly Exaggerated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Magazines.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6136\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Magazines.jpg?resize=300%2C220&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Magazines.jpg?resize=300%2C220&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Magazines.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A recent Wall Street Journal article reports that newspapers and magazines still\u00a0are alive and kicking.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703940704575090120113003314.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;<strong>Magazines Team Up to Tout &#8216;Power of Print&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><strong> <\/strong>describes\u00a0a campaign\u00a0by publishers to\u00a0promote the value of\u00a0 print magazines. &#8220;The Internet is fleeting. Magazines are immersive,&#8221; according to an ad to run in May issues of selected magazines.<\/p>\n<p>Jann Wenner, the man behind the campaign, says that &#8220;just as TV didn&#8217;t kill magazines, the Internet was a threat only to publications that lost focus on what makes magazines unique. &#8220;In a certain way, this campaign is aimed at the magazine business itself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Magazine readership has actually been rising. Similarly newspapers are trying to get the word out that the readership of daily papers\u00a0is up.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Phelps is headlining the ads, so if you see his goggled face, check out the copy. It may surprise you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent Wall Street Journal article reports that newspapers and magazines still\u00a0are alive and kicking.\u00a0 &#8220;Magazines Team Up to Tout &#8216;Power of Print&#8221; describes\u00a0a campaign\u00a0by publishers to\u00a0promote the value of\u00a0 print magazines. &#8220;The Internet is fleeting. Magazines are immersive,&#8221; according to an ad to run in May issues of selected<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/reports-of-my-passing-are-greatly-exaggerated\/\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16,1],"tags":[3258,1106,499],"class_list":["post-6131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-magazines","category-reference","tag-magazines","tag-newspapers","tag-periodicals"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-1AT","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6131"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6144,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6131\/revisions\/6144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}