Magazines biting the dust

Well, R/C'rs after many decades, RCM is a goner...and I just heard
from a R/C buddy in England that the venerable RCM&E (Radio Control
Models & Electronics) has also just folded. Probably hard to under
stand but either the sales of the magazines dropped off or management
was poor. As far as I am concerned, RCM had become a glossy magazine
full of glowing reports of everything, especially ARF's. In the past
there were interesting articles, things to build and such...but no
more...also they, and most others as well, didn't have the guts to say
a plane or something else they were reviewing was just plain junk.
Model Airplane News is also becoming another glossy product review
magazine catering to the advertisers and not necessarily the readers
(IMHO) and it is no longer interesting to read. Still there is Flying
Models which is interesting and worth reading, and even R/C Report
and Gordon Banks does have the guts to say something is deficient when
it really is.
I subscribed to RCM for years until it got boring and also MAN..which
I did not renew....
So much for my opinions...
Frank Schwartz AMA123
80 years young...still building and flying....70 years of
happiness....
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