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RANT! What date is on the magazine - its wrong!

22nd June 2007

RANT! What date is on the magazine - its wrong!

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Why are the dates on magazines always wrong? Is there a good reason why magazine publishers always date their magazines weeks or months ahead of the actual date? Do they think we are stupid?

I am sure that this has something to do with magazines on the shelves and some study of decades ago that said that people didn’t buy magazines from the bookstand if the date had passed. So now all of the magazines pre-date their magazine so that the date is essentially useless. All they have trained us to do is to accept that if we see a magazine that has today’s date then we know that it is yesterday’s news.

Publishers: PUT THE CORRECT DATE ON THE COVER OF YOUR MAGAZINE, WE KNOW YOU ARE ONLY PLAYING GAMES!

I am done with this topic for now but I reserve the right to rant more on it someday.

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  1. 1 On June 22nd, 2007, Is It Getting Warmer? » Wanna Pay $7 a Gallon? said:

    [...] First of all, I am not making up this date above.  I know that it is not July 2 yet but that is the date on the article.  I believe the date is representative of the issue of the printed magazine (and we all know that these dates are wrong). [...]

    posted on June 22nd, 2007 at 11:36 pm

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    [...] have to point out that this posting precedes that date of the publication but that is only because magazines follow the silly habit of post-dating their issues. The company features its environmental credentials in its marketing and has decorated its [...]

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