No longer showing any faith in the project, Readers Digest beckoned the Reaper to take its Rick Warren magazine to its just fate after a mere four issues.
After moderating a Presidential debate, Warren was ready to step it up to religious superstar levels. Readers Digest, a nice sweet bankrupt publishing company that knows what middle America wants, snagged a deal with the minister for a magazine and web site. You know how things go when you preach against the Reaper and its wicked ways... the web site lives and the magazine dies.
Unfortunately, Reader's Digest is learning what multitudes of Christian bookstore owners learned to their detriment over the decades. The overly religious (and I'm including science fiction fans, who can be some of the most humorless and broken fanatics of all) make lots and lots of noise about how there just aren't enough movies, television shows, magazines, newspapers, and other entertainment suitable for their sensitivities. Then, when it's actually offered, the producers discover that their base is so cheap that it collectively uses both sides of the toilet paper. Rick Warren may have a great television viewer base, and he might even be able to convince his followers to go to the Web site, but buying subscriptions to his magazine AND contributing their regular tithes to him at the same time?
Posted by: Paul Riddell | November 04, 2009 at 05:35 PM
I guess you could say, Reader's Digest Association purposely drove this title into the ground.
Posted by: Ray | November 07, 2009 at 03:26 PM
God has no patience with faulty business practices. That's when He turns the matter over to Reaper.
Posted by: tangerine dream | November 09, 2009 at 03:30 PM
Response to Mr. Riddell- comic book fans, too.
Posted by: tangerine dream | November 09, 2009 at 03:31 PM
Tangerine Dream, I could continue with LOTS of examples. For instance, a friend regularly keeps up with and laughs about the number of goth and pagan businesses that open up in Salem, Massachusetts, and shut down three to six months later when the money reserves run out.
Posted by: Paul Riddell | November 11, 2009 at 10:21 AM
Wasn't aware that Evangelicals were literate.
Posted by: Turd Polisher | January 22, 2010 at 12:41 PM