Salon.com Sex | When Playboy was hot

The overwhelming message these magazines give their readers is that they don’t believe the readers have either the interest or the mental ability to read articles. Ed Needham, the new editor of Rolling Stone and a former editor at FHM, put it a little more diplomatically in the New York Times recently, saying that he didn’t think that people had time to read anymore. The logical response to that statement would be that magazines shouldn’t be catering to the audience that doesn’t have time to read.