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To: mga <mga@napanet.net>
Subject: What happened to Road&Track?)
From: rfeibusch@loop.com (Richard Feibusch)
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 17:59:25 -0700 (PDT)
Don Scott from Northern California wrote:

>Fellow MG enthusiasts,
>
>I've subscribed to R&T since the '60's, and have a collection that goes back
>to the late '40's.  The de-evolution of this once fine magazine is very sad.
>At first it was just an amateur enthusiast newsletter; then it grew into a
>wonderful, informative and creative magazine.  Now, it is basically a sales
>catalogue
>for new cars with a few boring articles inserted between the ads.  When it
>arrives in the mail now, I find that I can read what I want in it in about 5
>minutes.  If I take a few old issues from my collection to read again, I
>could spend hours with them!
>
>I know it was bought and sold several times.  Did it get burdened with a
>debt service that requires that the thing be full of ads?  Is there a
>conspiracy to destroy everything that I like or love (family-owned
>businesses, old-growth forests, cars with personality, politicians with a
>heart, beautiful music, etc.)?  Or am I just getting old?
>
>Anyone have any comments on this?
>
>Don Scott
      mga <mga@napanet.net>

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Don,

It's the corperate buyout of the world - Read a magazine, watch TV, listen
to the radio; its all the same - my friend Dave Barry up in Santa Rosa, CA
calls them all advertizing delivery systems - no more, no less!

Cheers,

Rick Feibusch
Venice, CA




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