I was recently handed a devastated piece of news. This has shattered my world. As in, completely shocked. As in, had me crying, "No, no, NO! Say it's not true!"rnA death in the family, you ask? Well, sort of.rnYou see, one of my favourite magazines - and yes, we are allowed to read magazines besides MILITARY TECHNOLOGY - folded. This previously hilarious, yet politically very informative publication has been discontinued because the magazine "couldn't reach our benchmarks." "We cannot justify continued investment." "We have concluded that this economic market will not support our business expectations."rnBut just in case you haven't had your fill of morbid Summer scha-densfreude, the commonality among magazines folding - besides that they are no longer being published - is that they were some of the few titles to deliver seemingly solid performances in 2008. It's no secret that 2008 was a brutal year in magazines. On the consumer side, ad pages droppedrn11.7 percent in 2008 when compared to 2007, according to PIB. Of the more than 230 magazines tracked only 42 - or about 18 percent -saw ad pages increase for the year.
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