VITAMEDIAS
Glossy and Greedy: Real Page-Turners
There you have the new corporate magazine honcho - a man who comes away from his wife's death with a renewed fondness for firing his employees.
Perhaps other corporate magazine executives are not so crass - or so honest. But they all share a quality that distinguishes them from an earlier generation of magazine publishers, men like Time's Henry Luce, Esquire's Arnold Gingrich, even Playboy's Hugh Hefner: This new breed exhibits no passion about bringing their own personal vision of truth and beauty to magazine readers. They are mere managers, empty suits with spreadsheet souls. That's why most of their magazines are so timid, so tepid, so insipid.