My Proposed Theory: Why Entertainment Weekly May Be Doomed

I hate to be the party pooper -- and being the Reaper, it's hard not to escape that role -- but I've thought long and hard about my Premiere eulogy, pondering whether Entertainment Weekly should be nervous.

I've decided that very shortly, I will show why any pop culture freak can get much of what is in Entertainment Weekly on the web, so why buy the magazine? I know this is going to get the people at Time inc. all worked up, sweaty and sending their PR people scouring for the culprit (be prepared for sub-zero temperatures, my friends). I know, it's terrible to be saying these things.

Now, I am not saying Entertainment Weekly is a bad magazine deserving to have its tires slashed. Oh, it's a good magazine -- used to be better -- now, I'm not quite sure you'd call it essential.

I look at Premiere, and I look at Entertainment Weekly, and I look at Premiere, and I look at Entertainment Weekly, and it's a fairly short jump to the same reasons why they may have both outlived their usefulness in this day and age.

We'll be back shortly to discuss our thesis.

Comments

[Tarna]

How can you think about EW when Hollywood Life still clings to this mortal coil. I do owe one small thing to HL...waiting for the death of this hideous rag keeps me breathing one more day. Without the promise of its demise and that of its vulpine publisher, I would be no more. Only until evil is extinguished may I finally rest!

TARNA

[Oksana Buliskayanovskyanovichavostokoranorskiski]

if Entertainment Weekly folds before Movieline's Hollywood Life, this world is going to hell in a handbasket (or maybe just the lamé bedazzled handbag Nicole Kidman took to the Oscars that will probably appear in in HL's advert - ahem, editorial pages). See you in HELL MHL!

[magluver]

i am a magazine luverr and i luv all magazines except i HATE Hollywood Life, it sucks and is full of boring fashun junk and makeup and chick junk, it was better when it had funny stories and made fun of movie stars. i wish they stop sending it to my trailer park!