Rob? Seein' as you have the odd article published in F&C (just a slip of a thing really?) could you get Colin - or whoever is editing it these days - NOT TO PUT THE BALLY THING IN A PLASKITATED BAG? I like to check out contents and CHOSE if I want to buy a particlar issue. With three kids at Uni, I, like everyone else, am counting the pennies. To lash out a fiver on an issue, on the basis of the 'hook' line on the front cover, increase the environmental cost by chucking the plaskit wrapper(only 1000 year longevity, remember) and then find that the article doesn't live up to the headline hype of the cover is frustrating ](*,) . At least with BW and GW and any other W you can think of, a quick scan establishes the provenance and usefulness of the future reading and you can buy or reject appropriately.
If F&C come back at me, making a case that 'they can't sell the mag without the support of the advertisers whose catalogue is the necessity for the plastic bag', then that to me is a fundamental statement about the magazine's viability. Which in turn, is a statement about it's content, editorial style and - last, but not least - percieved market.
My God, just proof-read this; I started this with a wee, sly, dig at Rob's preference (he's a smashin' fella Lads, met him once) but I seem to have gone either horrifyingly 'Grim' or deeply philosophical - and it's only Tuesday. :shock:
Sam