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The Johnny

Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on August 08, 2015, 10:11:39 PM

Apparently, once upon a time, Penthouse contained actual journalism? This seems like a *really strange* article lineup for a girlie mag.

It makes sense though.

Shitty sensationalist newspapers come from the motivation to entice readers.

If you entice your readers with pornography you have a captive audience, so no need to be sensationalistic.

OR something  :? :?
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Rococo Modem Basilisk

Quote from: The Johnny on August 09, 2015, 01:44:13 AM
Quote from: Roko's Modern Basilisk on August 08, 2015, 10:11:39 PM

Apparently, once upon a time, Penthouse contained actual journalism? This seems like a *really strange* article lineup for a girlie mag.

It makes sense though.

Shitty sensationalist newspapers come from the motivation to entice readers.

If you entice your readers with pornography you have a captive audience, so no need to be sensationalistic.

OR something  :? :?

Maybe the Jonestown Massacre and Jerry Falwell turn some people on, but Penthouse readership always seemed pretty vanilla.


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Cain

Apparently the founder/owner/editor Bob Guccione chose for the magazine to have that investigative journalism focus, though whether it was out of personal interest or to differentiate it from Playboy is hard to say.

Chelagoras The Boulder

Oddly enough i remember Playboy having some pretty top notch short stories buried in there. I think Johnny's right they just let their writers write like actual journalists and authors because they know their audience will at least buy it for the centerfold.
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Quote from: Chelagoras The Boulder on August 10, 2015, 01:29:50 AM
Oddly enough i remember Playboy having some pretty top notch short stories buried in there. I think Johnny's right they just let their writers write like actual journalists and authors because they know their audience will at least buy it for the centerfold.

Playboy did in fact have some good writing in it.  Hunter S Thompson, among others.
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hooplala

Quote from: Cain on August 10, 2015, 01:39:10 AM
They did also have RAW though

Pretty sure he only edited the letter column.
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Rococo Modem Basilisk

Playboy seems to have had a lot of pretty good *fiction*.

(In other news, today I learned that Wikipedia has a 'pornography portal')


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Rococo Modem Basilisk



I am not "full of hate" as if I were some passive container. I am a generator of hate, and my rage is a renewable resource, like sunshine.

Trivial

Sexy Octopus of the Next Noosphere Horde

There are more nipples in the world than people.