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Hachette-Appointed Interim Editor John Owens' Leaked Car & Driver Editor's Column
Detroit, 5:25 PM
Thu Dec 10
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Tip your editors:
Editor-in-Chief:
Ray Wert | | AIM
Road Test Editor:
Wes Siler |
Weekend Editor:
Murilee Martin |
Associate Editor - Houston:
Associate Editor - Detroit:
Editor-at-Large:
Contributors:
John Krewson |
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Hachette-Appointed Interim Editor John Owens' Leaked Car & Driver Editor's Column |
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This is so awful I can't even believe it.
Seriously?? I honestly could write better Editor's Columns than this fool.
What idiot car magazine makes a non-carguy an EDITOR?
WHO DOES THAT?!
I mean, that's like hiring the CEO of Home Depot to run Chrysler! Look how well that turned out.
This is why I don't have a subscription to C&D.
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GOD. Agreeing with Wojzilla, complimenting Wert and almost complimenting Diddles, all in one week. You'd think I'd spent the week watching Hugh Grant movies, rather than the Dark Angel box set.
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Dark Angel?
Here, allow me to let you in on a little secret Guinness beer and The L-Word with no sound.
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Oh hell with it, I'll give you a link, I know you're busy.
[jalopnik.com]
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Usually you pay double for that kind of action, Cotton
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Seriously, C/D has long been my favorite car magazine, but recently it has been getting pretty difficult to maintain my enthusiasm. The most recent issue I received appears to be printed on newsprint, or perhaps tissue paper, and the lithography is so bad that I thought they were doing an old-timey effect on some of the photos of the S8.
Moreover, the article on the M3/911 contained two glaring typos (again rather than against, viscous rather than vicious, unless there is a viscous circle I am not aware of). Come on, guys, this is 3rd grade stuff.
The most galling thing, for me, is that my subscription renewal worked out to about 2 c. an issue. Seriously, C/D--if you are having trouble making ends meet, stop giving away the frigging magazine. I'd gladly pay a couple of bucks an issue if the ink didn't smear on my hands. Compared to Automobile (which has its own content issues), the quality difference is startling.
I'd like to abandon C/D altogether in favor of Jalop, but I can't take Jalop into the can without worrying about dropping my iPhone into the toilet, and as intoxicating as Siler's prose is, you guys still don't do instrumented testing, and I loves me some bench racing. Maybe I'll just replace it with Car.
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I pay $10 a month for CAR, and it's worth it.
What is up with the American rags? I just noticed that there is not a single American car magazine I can stomach, my monthly literacy drain has turned into [i]Octane, CAR,[/i] and [i]Classic Car[/i].
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This column looks like he just read a few back issues and talked to whoever happend to be hanging around the office.
Maybe C&D will at least get prettier pictures now.
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And 0-60 now, but that's cuz Ensign Wesley and The Postfather both write for them.
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With car magazines, I NEVER read them for the articles anyway. Just like another type of magazine.
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You know, the great thing about books and magazines is that there are lots of cool pictures.
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"The 2009 Camry: We give it 9/10 stars for perfect build quality, affordability, and reliability, but the je ne sais quoi of its essence conflicts with its sticky cornering and joie de vivre". What tripe.
Show me some pictures already, and I can imagine my own trite mumbling.
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It reads a bit more like a stream-of-consciousness outline than a true first draft, and when taken as such, it is far more acceptable.
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This just reeks of a paper written by someone who knows nothing about cars, so he picked a blatantly obvious topic -- particularly for a changeover at C&D, a car mag roundly criticised for its tendency to heap love and affection on BMW and Honda/Acura -- and interviewed his staff. The writing is weak, to be sure, and he broke multiple grammatical rules (which I routinely ignore in my comments, but then, I'm not getting paid, except in my COTD bottles of scotch), but more than that, he only said things that any enthusiast, reading his magazine, is already abundantly aware of. What? The G8 is good? Say it ain't so!
This would be fine for the AUTOS section of a local newspaper; not for C&D.
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Oh, and speaking of which. Jalopnik, you still looking for interns? I put on my big-boy shoes this morning and even fixed up my hair, pretty please?
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