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Wow, there's a press release that's so desperately spinning so many claims of so many kinds (social, business, health, educational, tech, ethical...) that it's
by SiVal 7y ago
Wow, there's a press release that's so desperately spinning so many claims of so many kinds (social, business, health, educational, tech, ethical...) that it's almost impossible for me to figure out what they are even announcing. I didn't expect I would care, whatever they did, but I thought it might be some sort of "end of an era" historical thing. I didn't expect an announcement hidden so deep in the poo that I'm not sure I ever found it.
- smacktoward 7y agoPlayboy has been lost in a fog of mismanagement for something like forty years now, so incompetence at even basic tasks like writing a press release is not terribly surprising.
- sbuttgereit 7y agoWhat's perhaps more interesting to me is that a company that historically is a publisher, with aspirations of becoming a primarily digital publisher, needs "Medium" as a platform to get their message out. It's not necessarily dumb (I wonder how many of their properties are blocked by corporate content filters), but fascinating that they don't have a "corporate channel" with which to communicate this.
- true_religion 7y agoMost adult companies have a clean brandname that actually does thing like rent office space, pay checks, or put out company blogs. Playboy on the other hand always took the stance of erotica being nothing to be ashamed about, and was a key fighter for free speech during its early days. That era sadly, seems to be over.
- umanwizard 7y agoTotally agree with your assessment. As far as I can tell, the announcement is: the print version of Playboy Magazine is being indefinitely discontinued. The Playboy brand may decide to come out with some other printed materials sometime in 2021 or later.