Requiem for a Playboy Centerfold
As FT's Gary Silverman so rightly points out, the elimination from Playboy of nudity is not even the half of it.
If Financial Times U.S. national editor Gary Silverman were to ever list his “turn-ons” and “turn-offs,” a mention of one of today’s most dominant digital media trends would almost certainly appear in the latter category.
In a brief but discerning take on this week’s momentous decision by Playboy to phase out female nudity from the U.S. print edition, Silverman mourns the passing of a primary newspaper and magazine consumption pattern of old. The joys of unexpected content juxtaposition, he argues, have been hijacked by the juggernaut of narrower specialization:
The newspaper reader’s eye would jump from an article about politics to one about gardening.
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