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Post by Deleted on Nov 15, 2016 22:52:41 GMT
Hey everyone,
With Tom Spilsbury's rather frank admission about Class not receiving the cover treatment on Twitter, to revealing that Colin Baker set conditions for his interview in #489 and publishing Peter Davision's comments about the other Doctors, has Doctor Who Magazine become too personal? |
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Post by mark687 on Nov 15, 2016 23:08:17 GMT
Hey everyone,
Has Doctor Who Magazine become too personal? You mean in terms of the type and depth of questions it asks its interviews recently?
No as long as the interviewee is comfortable with a question in the first place.
I actually appalled it for asking wide-ranging questions and printing the in-depth responses.
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TS's comments are his own, and all published content of the magazine is at the publishers/ editors discretion, they know what's safe to print without legal trouble.
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Post by jasonward on Nov 15, 2016 23:10:26 GMT
Too personal? You need to expand on that, do you mean that they are too close to the stars? That they have become like "Hello" magazine? That's its approach to readers is too personal? That they are too close to you? That readers regard the magazine as a personal friend? That the magazine regards the readers as personal friends? That the magazine has become the personal play thing of the editorial staff?
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Post by paulmorris7777 on Nov 15, 2016 23:15:13 GMT
Hey everyone,
Has Doctor Who Magazine become too personal? I don't get a Christmas card anymore! |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 15, 2016 23:21:14 GMT
Just edited my OP. Head's a bit foggy from a cold, sorry, everyone.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2016 0:56:49 GMT
I don't read DWM anymore so I don't know... but I don't see any problem with the three items mentioned in the opening post. There's nothing wrong with honesty!
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Post by icecreamdf on Nov 16, 2016 3:07:05 GMT
I don't think so. Some of the best interviews are the ones like the one Davison just did.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2016 6:59:53 GMT
Sounds like it's become more serious and grown-up rather than being a kids magazine trying to play up to fan expectations of these actors as heroes.
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Post by Timelord007 on Nov 16, 2016 8:32:51 GMT
I enjoyed the Davison interview but if you start censorship it opens up a whole new can of worms.
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Post by bobod on Nov 16, 2016 9:05:24 GMT
Hey everyone,
With Tom Spilsbury's rather frank admission about Class not receiving the cover treatment on Twitter, to revealing that Colin Baker set conditions for his interview in #489 and publishing Peter Davision's comments about the other Doctors, has Doctor Who Magazine become too personal? I don't how you sleep at night with so many questions floating round your head.  |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2016 9:08:39 GMT
I'm not sure I'd call things like Class getting a cover "personal". Tom's the editor so has to have an editorial voice. I often think his decisions are baffling - Class, among other things was a new story starring The Doctor, makes no sense not to have the cover when a dead spinoff got it instead - but they're his to make.
Remember DWM is not the BBC, Tom works for Panini. There's no requirement to be a DW-puff piece. The interviews with Peter D and many others over the past few years have been wonderful and a lot franker than the magazine has been at times. I'd also say there was nothing controversial about Colin's interview - it was the social media fireworks after that made waves not the interview content so it's not on DWM.
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Post by shutupbanks on Nov 16, 2016 9:56:36 GMT
Those instances sound more like frank disclosures and admissions of conflict of interest in order to allow the reader to make up their own minds about the content. Just responsible/ sensible journalism explaining editorial choices.
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Post by bobod on Nov 17, 2016 14:33:57 GMT
Hey everyone,
Has Doctor Who Magazine become too personal? I don't get a Christmas card anymore! I do!! |
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Post by muckypup on Nov 17, 2016 17:28:16 GMT
i think the magazine has got better in the last few years, we get proper in-depth items and not the big pictures little words that so many magazines do these days.
i have enjoyed the recent BIG interviews, which have been interviews and not extended 5 minute phone conversations also i feel they are what has been said and not the interviewers interpretation.
its not always objective about things often taking the fanboy approach but mostly entertaining & informative.
personally i could live without the comic which i find jars with the tone of the rest of the magazine & the reviews are often a bit tame taking the we don't want to upset anyone approach.
on the whole its much much better & informative than the genre magazines like SFX & SciFi Now, also a whole lot better than other magazines of its type like star wars insider.
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