{"id":195462,"date":"2019-09-28T06:08:51","date_gmt":"2019-09-28T06:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=195462"},"modified":"2019-09-30T07:17:32","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T07:17:32","slug":"self-parody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=195462","title":{"rendered":"Self Parody"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Irish Savant \u2013 irishsavant.blogspot Sept 26, 2019<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/feminist-typical.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-195464\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/feminist-typical-768x545.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/feminist-typical-768x545.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/feminist-typical-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/feminist-typical.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h5>The media chattering classes are so insulated from reality, thanks to Stasi-like censorship, that they frequently descend into unwitting self-parody.\u00a0 Real-life <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TitaniaMcGrath?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\"><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">Titania McGraths<\/span><\/a>. Look at <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><a style=\"color: #ffff00;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2019\/sep\/11\/womens-magazines-are-more-progressive-than-ever-and-theyre-all-closing-down\">this<\/a><\/span> from a <em>Guardian<\/em> journalist &#8211; an oxymoron if there ever was one. Especially when said journalist is an affirmative action female from Nigeria. Logic, consistency and self-awareness are not to be expected from such people. But the following still takes some beating.<\/h5>\n<h5>Apparently women&#8217;s magazines have succumbed in reassuring numbers to the &#8216;get woke, go broke&#8217; fate. Readership has plummeted and many household names have disappeared down the tube. &#8220;<em>Cosmopolitan<\/em> saw its print circulation drop by a third in the last half of 2018; weeklies <em>Woman<\/em> and <em>Woman\u2019s Own<\/em> were down 20% and 19% respectively. Now magazine dropped 43%.&#8221; Now get this: &#8220;The closure of <em>Teen Vogue<\/em>\u2019s print publication was met with widespread outrage, after we had watched the magazine\u00a0<strong>mature into a politically engaged tome for pubescent readers<\/strong>\u00a0who cared about fashion, but also wanted to ensure that the climate crisis hadn\u2019t scorched the world in which it could exist.&#8221; Oh ma&#8217; achin&#8217; sides!\u00a0 &#8220;Although glossy magazines are the worst affected, online women\u2019s publications have not escaped \u2013 the <em>Debrief<\/em> and the <em>Pool<\/em> suffered the same fate. The closure of Lena Dunham\u2019s email-based <em>Lenny Letter<\/em> showed that even a famous CEO and acclaimed writers couldn\u2019t ensure a publication\u2019s longevity.&#8221;<\/h5>\n<h5>And this: &#8220;The sad thing is that the current<strong>\u00a0purge<\/strong>&#8221; &#8211; yes, she actually wrote that word &#8211; &#8220;is happening at a time when women\u2019s magazines are less sexist and more progressive than they ever have been.\u00a0\u00a0Last year\u2019s September issues made history with virtually every one featuring a black cover star.&#8221; After which it went bust. For the life of me I can&#8217;t imagine why.<\/h5>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/nelson-Simpsons.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-190212\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/nelson-Simpsons.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"258\" height=\"196\" \/><\/a>To such people hearing views not conforming to their own would be like the family dog giving his opinion on Brexit. Then again maybe some day they&#8217;ll get their pin-heads around this whole 2+2=4 thingy. But in the meantime we should rejoice and capitalise on their unfathomable ignorance and blindness. They represent a target-rich environment.<\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/irishsavant.blogspot.com\/2019\/09\/self-parody.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cosmopolitan sales were down by 33% in the last half of 2018. Now magazine fell 43% and online women\u2019s publications also suffered. Irish Savant ponders why  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":150,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-The_Media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/150"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=195462"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195492,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195462\/revisions\/195492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=195462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=195462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=195462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}