Rotten Apples and a skiing(?) dog

Rotten Apples - a food culture magazine

Well this certainly looks different. A dog standing (skiing? trampolining) on beefburgers.

Rotten Apples magazine is a new title about ‘the extremes of Food Culture’.

Thankfully, says editor Ed Vaughan, ‘We are not suggesting that the funny little Pup is in any way a delicacy or should be eaten a la cheeseburger’. (Simon Winchester once wrote about eating dogs in the Far East and we had strrange phone calls asking for his phone number for months afterwards.)

Rotten Apples is published in Bristol and costs £3.95 (about the price of a pint, says the editor, but then beer’s expensive in Bristol).

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Condé Nast Traveller to land in India

Condé Nast is planning to launch Traveller magazine in India in October as part of a push that could see a Vogue Café restaurant in Mumbai and the launch of up to six other magazine titles over the next three year, says the Financial Times.

Divia Thani Daswani was appointed editor of Traveller in April for the October launch.

The company launched Vogue in India three years ago and GQ a year after that.

It is estimated that there are 2m households in India with an income of more than $100,000 a year and the country – with 350m readers – offers the second-biggest print market in the world, after China.

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IPC to sell Loaded

It is a moment in magazine publishing. IPC is set to sell Loaded.

The pioneering lads’ mag – now selling just 53,591 copies after sales slumped  by almost a quarter in the latest ABC sales result, is being stalked by Vitality, publisher of Attitude and Women’s Fitness.

IPC, for decades the largest UK magazine publisher and is now owned by Time Inc, told the Financial Times it was also considering the potential sale of other titles.

Censorship in Venezuela

A Venezuelan court has cited the to protect the “psychic and moral integrity of children and adolescents” in banning newspapers and magazines from publishing images of violence in the country.

The Guardian quotes the ruling: “For the next four weeks, no newspaper, magazine or weekly of the country can publish images that are violent, bloody, grotesque, whether about crime or not.”

While there may be truth in the logic, the damage it does to free reporting should be given more weight.

Roy Greenslade says: “Chavez argues that newspapers are deliberately splashing images of violence in order to give his government a bad name.” Isn’t that what newspapers are for?

Censorship is alive and well, it just finds new justifications.