Sport's Illustrated Exec Pulls Story On Trans Boxer From Print Edition

[Carolyn Marie]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2024/02/01/sports-illustrated-trans-boxing-story/

 

 

Carolyn Marie

[VickySGV]

Paywall

[Ivy]

Sports Illustrated has essentially been done in.  I heard they recently laid off the entire staff.  I think some hedge fund is running it now.

Perhaps they'll post some Taylor Swift pix.

[awkward-yet-sweet]

SI has had a couple of trans girls in their swimsuit editions in recent years, and it wasn't well-received.  Perhaps this decision was made because of that.

 

However, the decline in sales matches the general decline of print magazines. It's a dying form of media.  My GF used to have subscriptions to several car magazines.  CarCraft died a few years ago, along with a couple of others I don't remember. Hot Rod has been monthly for decades, and is now quarterly...likely to be discontinued in a couple more years.  Publications that still exist in print form now  have less content than the online versions.

[Carolyn Marie]

As long as they don't cancel National Geo I'll be OK.

 

Carolyn Marie

[Sally Stone]

I'm sure it has to do with my age and the era I grew up in, but I have always preferred the tactile experience a print magazine provides.  I have a couple of digital subscriptions because they are a lot cheaper, but often, I don't even look at them because they don't bring the same satisfaction print did.  It's hard to fault the media producers when digital magazine are so much cheaper to produce.  

 

 

[KayC]

On 2/2/2024 at 4:47 PM, VickySGV said:

Paywall

Vicky, here is another link that describes the SI story.  No paywall on this one.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/boxing/article-13038407/Executive-Sports-Illustrateds-publisher-pulled-story-transgender-boxing-Marchs-magazine-latest-controversy-crisis-hit-publication.html

 

16 hours ago, Sally Stone said:

I'm sure it has to do with my age and the era I grew up in, but I have always preferred the tactile experience a print magazine provides. 

I'm with you @Sally Stone🙂

[VickySGV]

@KayC Thank you.  I am going to have a headache here in a bit from shaking my head about this one. 

[KayC]

You're welcome @VickySGV! and I agree 🙂