Infamous Dive Magazine Sells

[archman]

Notwithstanding many of our opinions on the quality of Rodale's, it would be a pity if they went under. Constancy in printed dive magazines appears to be quite a big problem. I'm all for a buy-out, maybe it'll reinvigorate the thing and axe some of that saturating advertising... where are the articles?

 

[ScubaCrossing]

I just read that Rodale's Magazine was sold to F&W. I am hoping some things will change, less advertising, more reality content. here is the story.

Rodale's sold to F&W

 

[Scubaroo]

Another thread:

http://www.scubaboard.com/t51025.html

 

[Former FLL Now MSP Diver]

Here's what CDNN has to say:

Now there's a real "fair and balanced" resource.

Marc

 

[archman]

Now there's a real "fair and balanced" resource.
Marc

Oh come on, enough already on CDNN. I get great news from these guys. They usually don't write the articles themselves, but take them from newspapers and stuff.

 

[SubMariner]

Oh come on, enough already on CDNN. I get great news from these guys. They usually don't write the articles themselves, but take them from newspapers and stuff.

And don't bother crediting their source(s). Or put up stories as gospel that contain little verifiable information.

Sorry, but I have to agree with FLL Diver on this one.

 

[archman]

(s). Or put up stories as gospel that contain little verifiable information.

Er... is that the case with this particular thread?

 

[H2Andy]

it does bug me that CDNN does not credit their sources. also, they have very
clear biases.

i use them as a search engine: i look up what they are reporting, track down the
original source, read that. it's not hard with google.

 

[archman]

I backcheck a lot of their stuff too. Didn't use to till I joined this board, but I suppose a lot of you guys got burned so I became more cautious.

With the articles I normally am interested in from CDNN (ecological reports), I have almost never found their information to be incorrect. Most of the time it's simply cut and pasted. I would be interested in knowing what particular articles CDNN has posted which can be verified as non-factual. It would save me from Thorndike's Law of Primacy (I can't believe I remember that...).