Boston To Larry Platt: You’re Out Of Your Element, Donnie
City magazines: They’re the new newspapers! Hot off the news of the Boston magazine layoffs and the awkward insertion of PhillyMag editor Larry Platt (pictured) up there — awkward insertion is pretty much the name of the game at Herb Lipson‘s Philadelphia and Boston magazines — there’s a big story in The Boston Globe today about how this is all pretty much foolish business. Obvious reveals: Platt doesn’t know dick about Boston, neither does Lipson (even though he’s owned the magazine since the 1970s) and we’re just gonna go ahead and guess that the new editor from Minnesota doesn’t know too much, either. As the story wears on, the Globe kinda lets Platt go, and spends a lot more time painting Lipson as a giant conservative asshole, but you know that because you’ve been (not) reading his dickbag editorials for years now. Here’s the irony, though: While Boston is just superfucked — and in the long term, PhillyMag probably is, too — the most recent issue of PhillyMag has a better “Summer Guide” (complete with Recession Fun!) than we’ve seen either of the alt-weeklies here do in forever, maybe ever, proving that every once in a while, these magazines can push something out that’s worth a damn, service-y or not. Go figure.
