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Originally Posted by ram04
In my opinion most magazines have went the way of the advertiser, Years ago, when Dirt Bike magazine was run by a man called Rick Seimans ( Super Hunky ) you could believe what he told you, if a bike was a pig, thats what they called it. and this did'nt go over too good with the advertisers . For several years you could get the thruth, and then he either quit or was fired, my hazy memory fails me.I Read some of the mags out there, but take it with a grain of salt what they say.
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Wow that brings back memories. I grew up reading articles by Super Hunky and Ketchup Cox and articles on bikes and races like the Blackwater. I still think Ketchup is still in the magazine business though.
I wish the magazines and tv shows on off highway stuff weren't so so influenced by the almighty $ and could call a spade a spade. I think the internet is hurting the magazine business. Forums, You tube and web pages are getting information to the consumer for free and getting them a lot more information at the same time. I still buy some magazines but find it harder to find what I want to read about. Shootouts only have some of the UTVs, or compare unlike products where the heavy advertizer of the magazine usually wins. I wish they would do a shootout and allow $X to be used on the UTV eg CDI and tires. So when a $10,500 machine (+$2,500 in accessories) is compared to a $14,000 machine (eg BRP or KTM) the playing field is levelled a bit.
One of the other problems of the internet is anyone can post anything on the internet and it doesn't have to be factual.
The magazines are somewaht accountable for what they write.