Never subscribed - don't have the grey matter to digest it regularly.

But whenever I hit the library or Barnes & Noble, I read or buy it.

Just opened up the December 2016 issue and all I could think was "WTF
happened ??!!!".

Seemed pretty much unreadable except for the article on Clapper... more
like some sort of East or West Coast lifestyle mag.

Anybody know what happened?

Change of ownership maybe?
--
Pete Cresswell

On 2016-12-08, (PeteCresswell) wrote:

Change of ownership maybe?

We should be so lucky!

Wired is owned by Condé Nast, a modern media oriented publisher of
magazines and web-sites. Basically, a lotta young hipster-types
glomming onto the next big thing (read consumer).

I quit patronizing Wired's website when some dolt got hacked and Wired
spent months speech-ifying and whining about it. It was an obvious
ploy to get online readers and I got tired of it. They also acquired
--and ruined!-- Ars Technica, which I also no longer patronize.

nb

notbob wrote:

They also acquired --and ruined!-- Ars Technica, which I also no longer
patronize.

Condé Nast (or its parent company) owned Ars Technica for several years
before they dumbed it down. With Wired, the dumbing was not as
noticeable because it took place over a longer period and because Wired
was always pretty glitzy and TEDish. With Ars, the change was sudden and
much more obvious, somewhat like going from Byte to Cnet (although that
may be unfair to Cnet).

"(PeteCresswell)" wrote in
:

Never subscribed - don't have the grey matter to digest it regularly.

But whenever I hit the library or Barnes & Noble, I read or buy it.

Just opened up the December 2016 issue and all I could think was "WTF
happened ??!!!".

Seemed pretty much unreadable except for the article on Clapper... more
like some sort of East or West Coast lifestyle mag.

Anybody know what happened?

Change of ownership maybe?

Originally, IMHO, _Wired_ was a very good magazine. I subscribed. Then,
later, it changed its style and types of articles. It has done this
several times. I quit, resubscribed once when it improved and only cost
$12 a year, but now have given up on them so have not seen the latest
change you described.


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You know it's time to clean the refrigerator
when something closes the door from the inside.