Mad Magazine: CNN's Emergency Card

[alp227]

found via http://richliebermanreport.blogspot.com/2014/11/mad-has-cnn-just-about-right.html

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. Great....

damn...we now live in a time when comics are more real than the news.

[ReRe]

2. I didn't even know that mag was still in print!

Will have to check it out. They sure have CNN pegged!

[Frank Cannon]

3. It's a pale shadow of its former self.

Mad was bought out by Time Warner several years ago. They immediately began running advertising (something former publisher William Gaines said he'd never do) and became relatively inoffensive, overall. After all, we wouldn't want the youth of America to grow up disrespecting authority and consumerism, would we?

They occasionally come up with something good, but sadly, it's not the great magazine that you and I grew up with.

[ReRe]

4. That's sad...

... I guess we're the only ones left who CAN'T be bought.

[alp227]

5. It sucks how corporate ownership often is the path to financial viability in the first place

for outlets like Mad that crumble & sell out. Is it because the owners are greedy, or the audience doesn't understand the saying "you get what you pay for"?

[Initech]

6. They forgot the scary realistic flight simulator coverage.