84-443: The Oldie is a British monthly magazine written for older people "as a light-hearted alternative to a press obsessed with youth and celebrity", according to its website. The magazine was launched in 1992 by Richard Ingrams , who was its editor for 22 years, following 23 years in the same post at Private Eye . In June 2014, after Ingrams' dispute with the magazine's publisher had led to his departure, Alexander Chancellor became
168-620: A bursary award to Sydney Boys High School ) and the University of Sydney , where he read English and Psychology from 1957 to 1960, and became associated with the Sydney Push , a libertarian intellectual subculture. At university, he contributed to the student newspaper, Honi Soit and directed the annual students' union revue . He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in English in 1961. After graduation, James worked for
252-553: A professional association . Professional magazines may derive revenue from advertisement placements or advertorials by companies selling products and services to a specific professional audience. Examples include Advertising Age , Automotive News , Broadcast , The Bookseller , and The Stage . Being on the cover of certain magazines is considered an honor or distinction. Examples include Time , Rolling Stone , Vogue and Sports Illustrated . See, for example: See also cover art . The magazine cover indicator
336-487: A 3:1 ratio. Focusing more narrowly, MediaFinder.com found that 93 new magazines were launched during the first six months of 2014, while only 30 closed in that time frame. The category which produced the most new publications was "Regional interest", of which six new magazines were launched, including 12th & Broad and Craft Beer & Brewing . However, two magazines had to change their print schedules. Johnson Publishing 's Jet stopped printing regular issues, making
420-436: A course of eight episodes (each one chronologically and roughly devoted to one decade of the century, from the 1900s to the 1980s) discussions about world-famous people of the 20th century. Through the use of film footage, James presented a history of "fame" which explored its growth to today's global proportions. In his closing monologue he remarked, "Achievement without fame can be a rewarding life, while fame without achievement
504-450: A female audience, emphasizing the traditional gender roles of the 19th century. Harper's Bazaar was the first to focus exclusively on couture fashion , fashion accessories and textiles. The inclusion of didactic content about housekeeping may have increased the appeal of the magazine for a broader audience of women and men concerned about the frivolity of a fashion magazine. In the 1920s, new magazines appealed to young German women with
588-557: A few days" and that the continuing conflict in Iraq was "the Iraq peace". He also wrote that it was "official policy to rape a woman in front of her family" during Saddam Hussein 's regime and that women have enjoyed more rights since the invasion. In 2017, James contributed a chapter to a book on climate change published by the Institute of Public Affairs , advocating climate denialism . Describing religions as "advertising agencies for
672-453: A forum for public arguments by scholars and critical observers. The early periodical predecessors to magazines started to evolve to modern definition in the late 1800s. Works slowly became more specialized and the general discussion or cultural periodicals were forced to adapt to a consumer market which yearned for more localization of issues and events. Mass-circulation magazines became much more common after 1900, some with circulations in
756-405: A journal in the technical sense; The Wall Street Journal is actually a newspaper . The word "magazine" derives from Arabic makhāzin ( مخازن ), the broken plural of makhzan ( مخزن ) meaning "depot, storehouse" (originally military storehouse); that comes to English via Middle French magasin and Italian magazzino . In its original sense, the word "magazine" referred to
840-441: A long tradition. One of the earliest satirical magazines was Diyojen which was launched in 1869. There are around 20 satirical magazines; the leading ones are Penguen (70,000 weekly circulation), LeMan (50,000) and Uykusuz . Historical examples include Oğuz Aral 's magazine Gırgır (which reached a circulation of 500,000 in the 1970s) and Marko Paşa (launched 1946). Others include L-Manyak and Lombak . Publishing
924-506: A member of the trade (and likelihood of buying, for example, likelihood of having corporate purchasing authority, as determined from job title). This allows a high level of certainty that advertisements will be received by the advertiser's target audience, and it avoids wasted printing and distribution expenses. This latter model was widely used before the rise of the World Wide Web and is still employed by some titles. For example, in
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#17327829628081008-485: A monthly record of current events along with entertaining stories, poems, and pictures. The first periodicals to branch out from news were Harper's and The Atlantic , which focused on fostering the arts. Both Harper's and The Atlantic persist to this day, with Harper's being a cultural magazine and The Atlantic focusing mainly on world events. Early publications of Harper's even held famous works such as early publications of Moby Dick or famous events such as
1092-643: A new understanding of church-state relationships and the source of political authority. The Moniteur Ottoman was a gazette written in French and first published in 1831 on the order of Mahmud II . It was the first official gazette of the Ottoman Empire , edited by Alexandre Blacque at the expense of the Sublime Porte . Its name perhaps referred to the French newspaper Le Moniteur Universel . It
1176-557: A poet and satirist . He achieved mainstream success in the UK first as a writer for television, and eventually as the lead in his own programmes, including ...on Television . James was born Vivian Leopold James in Kogarah , a southern suburb of Sydney . He was allowed to change his name as a child because "after Vivien Leigh played Scarlett O'Hara the name became irrevocably a girl's name no matter how you spelled it". He chose "Clive",
1260-579: A product that doesn't exist", James was an atheist and saw it as the default and obvious position. He was also a patron of the Burma Campaign UK , an organisation that campaigns for human rights and democracy in Burma. In 1968, at Cambridge, James married Prudence A. "Prue" Shaw, also Australian, a graduate of the University of Sydney , the University of Florence and Somerville College, Oxford . Shaw taught Italian language and literature at
1344-719: A radio version of his book The Blaze of Obscurity on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week programme. In December 2009, James talked about the P-51 Mustang and other American fighter aircraft of World War II in The Museum of Curiosity on BBC Radio 4. In May 2011, the BBC published a new podcast, A Point of View: Clive James , which features all sixty A Point of View programmes presented by James between 2007 and 2009. He posted vlog conversations from his internet show Talking in
1428-529: A sensuous image and advertisements for the appropriate clothes and accessories they would want to purchase. The glossy pages of Die Dame and Das Blatt der Hausfrau displayed the "Neue Frauen", "New Girl" – what Americans called the flapper. This ideal young woman was chic, financially independent, and an eager consumer of the latest fashions. Magazines kept her up to date on fashion, arts, sports, and modern technology such as automobiles and telephones. The first women's magazine targeted toward wives and mothers
1512-419: A storage space or device. In the case of written publication, it refers to a collection of written articles . This explains why magazine publications share the term with storage units for military equipment such as gunpowder , artillery and firearm magazines , and in French and Russian (adopted from French as магазин ), retailers such as department stores . Print magazines can be distributed through
1596-899: A subsequent series launched the British career of singer and comedian Margarita Pracatan . James hosted one of the early chat shows on Channel 4 and fronted the BBC's Review of the Year programmes in the late 1980s ( Clive James on the '80s ) and 1990s ( Clive James on the '90s ), which formed part of the channel's New Year's Eve celebrations. In the mid-1980s, James featured in a travel programme called Clive James in... (beginning with Clive James Live in Las Vegas ) for LWT (now ITV ) and later switched to BBC , where he continued producing travel programmes, this time called Clive James's Postcard from... (beginning with Clive James's Postcard from Miami ) – these also eventually transferred to ITV. He
1680-620: A television presenter. An omnibus edition of the first three volumes was published under the generic title of Always Unreliable . James also wrote four novels: Brilliant Creatures (1983); The Remake (1987); Brrm! Brrm! (1991), published in the United States as The Man from Japan ; and The Silver Castle (1996). In 1999, John Gross included an excerpt from Unreliable Memoirs in The New Oxford Book of English Prose . John Carey chose Unreliable Memoirs as one of
1764-457: A variety of occasionally disastrous short-term jobs: sheet metal worker, library assistant, photo archivist and market researcher. During one summer holiday, he worked as a circus roustabout to save enough money to travel to Italy . His contemporaries at Cambridge included Germaine Greer (known as "Romaine Rand" in the first three volumes of his memoirs), Simon Schama and Eric Idle . Having, he claimed, scrupulously avoided reading any of
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#17327829628081848-608: A year as an assistant editor for the magazine page at The Sydney Morning Herald . In 1962, James emigrated to Britain, which became his home for the rest of his life. During his first three years in London, he shared a flat with the Australian film director Bruce Beresford (disguised as "Dave Dalziel" in the first three volumes of James's memoirs), was a neighbour of Australian artist Brett Whiteley , became acquainted with Barry Humphries (disguised as "Bruce Jennings") and had
1932-696: Is The Scots Magazine , which was first published in 1739, though multiple changes in ownership and gaps in publication totalling over 90 years weaken that claim. Lloyd's List was founded in Edward Lloyd's England coffee shop in 1734; and though its online platform is still updated daily it has not been published as a magazine since 2013 after 274 years. Under the Ancien Régime , the most prominent magazines were Mercure de France , Journal des sçavans , founded in 1665 for scientists, and Gazette de France , founded in 1631. Jean Loret
2016-421: Is a periodical publication , generally published on a regular schedule (often weekly or monthly), containing a variety of content . They are generally financed by advertising , purchase price , prepaid subscriptions , or by a combination of the three. In the technical sense a journal has continuous pagination throughout a volume. Thus, Bloomberg Businessweek , which starts each issue anew with page one,
2100-479: Is a magazine, but the Journal of Business Communication , which continues the same sequence of pagination throughout the coterminous year, is a journal. Some professional or trade publications are also peer-reviewed , for example the Journal of Accountancy . Non-peer-reviewed academic or professional publications are generally professional magazines . That a publication calls itself a journal does not make it
2184-683: Is a not-too-serious economic indicator that is sometimes taken seriously by technical analysts. Clive James Clive James AO CBE FRSL (born Vivian Leopold James ; 7 October 1939 – 24 November 2019) was an Australian critic, journalist , broadcaster, writer and lyricist who lived and worked in the United Kingdom from 1962 until his death in 2019. He began his career specialising in literary criticism before becoming television critic for The Observer in 1972, where he made his name for his wry, deadpan humour. During this period, he earned an independent reputation as
2268-548: Is no life at all." A fan of motor racing , James presented the 1982 , 1984 and 1986 official Formula One season review videos produced by the Formula One Constructors Association (FOCA). He attended most F1 races during the 1980s and was a friend of former FOCA boss Bernie Ecclestone . He also presented The Clive James Formula 1 Show for ITV to coincide with their Formula One coverage in 1997 . In 2007, James started presenting
2352-669: The 2015 BAFTAs , James received a special award honouring his 50-year career. In 2014, he was awarded the President's Medal by the British Academy . James is celebrated with a plaque on the Sydney Writers Walk on Circular Quay . It includes an excerpt on Sydney Harbour from Unreliable Memoirs . James's political views were prominent in much of his later writing. While critical of communism for its tendency towards totalitarianism , he identified with
2436-476: The BBC Radio 4 series A Point of View , with transcripts appearing in the "Magazine" section of BBC News Online . In this programme James discussed various issues with a slightly humorous slant. Topics covered included media portrayal of torture, young black role models and corporate rebranding . Three of James's broadcasts in 2007 were shortlisted for the 2008 Orwell Prize . In October 2009, James read
2520-798: The Edinburgh Festival Fringe : Clive James in Conversation and Clive James in the Evening . He took the latter show on a limited tour of the UK in 2009. In 1992, James was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM). This was enhanced to Officer level (AO) in the 2013 Australia Day Honours . James was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2012 New Year Honours for services to literature and
2604-718: The General Magazine and Historical Chronicle . The Pennsylvania Magazine , edited by Thomas Paine , ran only for a short time but was a very influential publication during the Revolutionary War . The final issue containing the text of the Declaration of Independence was published in 1776. In the mid-19th century, monthly magazines gained popularity. They were general interest to begin, containing some news, vignettes, poems, history, political events, and social discussion. Unlike newspapers, they were more of
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2688-839: The Inferno , but that it was more successful where Dante slows down, in the more theological and deliberative cantos of the Purgatorio and Paradiso . In 1980 James published his first book of autobiography, Unreliable Memoirs , which recounted his early life in Australia and extended to over 100 reprintings. It was followed by four other volumes of autobiography: Falling Towards England (1985), which covered his London years; May Week Was in June (1990), which dealt with his time at Cambridge ; North Face of Soho (2006); and The Blaze of Obscurity (2009), concerning his subsequent career as
2772-781: The Oxford Book of Essays (1992, 1999). The Metropolitan Critic (1974), his first collection of literary criticism, was followed by At the Pillars of Hercules (1979), From the Land of Shadows (1982), Snakecharmers in Texas (1988), The Dreaming Swimmer (1992), Even As We Speak (2001), The Meaning of Recognition (2005) and Cultural Amnesia (2007), a collection of miniature intellectual biographies of over 100 significant figures in modern culture, history and politics. A defence of humanism , liberal democracy and literary clarity ,
2856-646: The University of Cambridge , and at University College London where, since retirement in 2003, she has been emerita reader in Italian studies. She is the author of Reading Dante: From Here to Eternity . James and Shaw had two daughters, one of whom is the artist Claerwen James . In April 2012, the Australian Channel Nine programme A Current Affair ran an item in which the former model Leanne Edelsten admitted to an eight-year affair with James beginning in 2004. Shaw evicted her husband from
2940-410: The mail , through sales by newsstands , bookstores , or other vendors, or through free distribution at selected pick-up locations. Electronic distribution methods can include social media , email , news aggregators , and visibility of a publication's website and search engine results. The traditional subscription business models for distribution fall into three main categories: In this model,
3024-527: The 50 most enjoyable books of the 20th century in his book Pure Pleasure (2000). James developed his television career as a guest commentator on various shows, including as an occasional co-presenter with Tony Wilson on the first series of So It Goes , the Granada Television pop music show. On the show when the Sex Pistols made their TV debut, James commented: "During the recording,
3108-540: The Bourbon kings, but all eight ultimately urged support for the new government, putting their appeals in terms of preserving civil order. They often discussed the relationship between church and state. Generally, they urged priests to focus on spiritual matters and not engage in politics. Historian M. Patricia Dougherty says this process created a distance between the Church and the new monarch and enabled Catholics to develop
3192-493: The Library , including conversations with Ian McEwan , Cate Blanchett , Julian Barnes , Jonathan Miller and Terry Gilliam . In addition to the poetry and prose of James himself, the site featured the works of other literary figures such as Les Murray and Michael Frayn , as well as the works of painters, sculptors and photographers such as John Olsen and Jeffrey Smart . In 2008 James performed in two eponymous shows at
3276-514: The United Kingdom, a number of computer-industry magazines use this model, including Computer Weekly and Computing , and in finance, Waters Magazine . For the global media industry, an example would be VideoAge International . The earliest example of magazines was Erbauliche Monaths Unterredungen , a literary and philosophy magazine, which was launched in 1663 in Germany. The Gentleman's Magazine , first published in 1741 in London
3360-438: The United States. In 2019, People Magazine ranked second behind ESPN Magazine in total reach with a reported reach of 98.51 million. Professional magazines, also called trade magazines , or business-to-business magazines are targeted to readers employed in particular industries. These magazines typically cover industry trends and news of interest to professionals in the industry. Subscriptions often come with membership in
3444-635: The Wilderness of Westminster (1976) and Charles Charming's Challenges on the Pathway to the Throne (1981), and one long autobiographical epic, The River in the Sky (2018). During the 1970s he also collaborated on six albums of songs with Pete Atkin : Atkin and James toured together to promote both the final album, a "contractual obligation" collection consisting of parodies and humour numbers written over
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3528-563: The Year (1983), a verse-diary; Other Passports: Poems 1958–1985 , a first collection and The Book of My Enemy (2003), a volume that takes its title from his poem "The Book of My Enemy Has Been Remaindered". He published four mock-heroic poems: The Fate of Felicity Fark in the Land of the Media: a moral poem (1975), Peregrine Prykke's Pilgrimage Through the London Literary World (1976), Britannia Bright's Bewilderment in
3612-713: The Year Awards (TOOTY) is the magazine's annual awards ceremony, hosted by Terry Wogan until 2014, and Gyles Brandreth since then at Simpson's-in-the-Strand and more recently at The Savoy . The awards celebrate lifetime achievement, as well as "oldie" achievements and/or notoriety over the previous year, the whole ceremony being very much tongue-in-cheek. Past winners include Clarissa Eden, Countess of Avon , Dame Olivia de Havilland , David Hockney , Dame Eileen Atkins , Ian Paisley , Stanley Baxter , Peter Blake , Dame Angela Lansbury , Glenda Jackson , Sheila Hancock , Barry Humphries , Moira Stuart and Sir Ken Dodd . At
3696-610: The Year was offered to HM Queen Elizabeth II , but she politely declined to accept the award, stating that she did not meet the criteria since "You are only as old as you feel". The Oldie monthly Literary Lunches are also held in London (at Simpson's-in-the-Strand). Guests over the years have included Michael Palin , Clive James , Maureen Lipman , Mary Berry , Colin Dexter , Joan Bakewell , Matthew Parris , Chris Mullin , Erwin James and P. D. James . Magazine A magazine
3780-555: The book was listed among the best of 2007 by The Village Voice . Another volume of essays, The Revolt of the Pendulum , was published in June 2009. He also published Flying Visits , a collection of travel writing for The Observer . Until mid-2014, he wrote the weekly television critique page in the "Review" section of the Saturday edition of The Daily Telegraph . James published several books of poetry, including Poem of
3864-438: The conditions of a free market: there was no difficulty in recognising that notion as politically illiterate. But for some reason people did have difficulty in realising that it was economically illiterate too." In 2001, James identified as a liberal social democrat . His later views were more commonly aligned with the political right. James strongly supported the 2003 invasion of Iraq , saying in 2007 that "the war only lasted
3948-427: The country". The Oldie magazine is owned by Oldie Publications Ltd. It carries articles of general interest, humour and cartoons. Its contributors have included Gyles Brandreth , Craig Brown , Virginia Ironside , Stephen Glover , Barry Humphries , David Horspool , Melanie McFadyean , Sophia Waugh and Giles Wood. It is sometimes regarded as a haven for "grumpy old men and women", an image it has played up to over
4032-410: The course material (but having read widely otherwise in English and foreign literature), James graduated with a 2:1 —better than he had expected—and began a PhD thesis on Percy Bysshe Shelley . James became the television critic for The Observer in 1972, remaining in the role until 1982. Mark Lawson described a James review as "so funny it was dangerous to read while holding a hot drink". He
4116-500: The editor. Chancellor died in January 2017, and Harry Mount took over the editorship. That year, the magazine celebrated its 25th anniversary, and its circulation continues to rise. The magazine was founded in 1992 by Richard Ingrams , previously editor of Private Eye , together with Alexander Chancellor . The magazine aimed to contrast with youth culture. The Independent on Sunday described it as "The most original magazine in
4200-544: The family home following the revelation. Before this, for most of his working life, James divided his time between a converted warehouse flat in London and the family home in Cambridge. After the death of Diana, Princess of Wales , James wrote a piece for The New Yorker entitled "Requiem", recording his overwhelming grief. From then he mainly declined to comment about their friendship, apart from some remarks in his fifth volume of memoirs, Blaze of Obscurity . James
4284-924: The hundreds of thousands of subscribers. Some passed the million-mark in the 1920s. It was an age of mass media . Because of the rapid expansion of national advertising, the cover price fell sharply to about 10 cents. One cause was the heavy coverage of corruption in politics, local government and big business, especially by Muckrakers. They were journalists who wrote for popular magazines to expose social and political sins and shortcomings. They relied on their own investigative journalism reporting; muckrakers often worked to expose social ills and corporate and political corruption . Muckraking magazines–notably McClure's –took on corporate monopolies and crooked political machines while raising public awareness of chronic urban poverty, unsafe working conditions, and social issues such as child labor . The journalists who specialized in exposing waste, corruption, and scandal operated at
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#17327829628084368-399: The laying of the world's first transatlantic telegraph cable ; however, the majority of early content was trickle down from British events. The development of the magazines stimulated an increase in literary criticism and political debate, moving towards more opinionated pieces from the objective newspapers. The increased time between prints and the greater amount of space to write provided
4452-542: The left for much of his life. In a 2006 interview in The Sunday Times , James said of himself: "I was brought up on the proletarian left, and I remain there. The fair go for the workers is fundamental, and I don't believe the free market has a mind." In a speech given in 1991, he criticised privatisation, saying: "The idea that Britain's broadcasting system—for all its drawbacks one of the country's greatest institutions—was bound to be improved by being subjected to
4536-473: The magazine is sold to readers for a price, either on a per-issue basis or by subscription, where an annual fee or monthly price is paid and issues are sent by post to readers. Paid circulation allows for defined readership statistics. This means that there is no cover price and issues are given away, for example in street dispensers, airline, or included with other products or publications. Because this model involves giving issues away to unspecific populations,
4620-471: The magazine's 2011 awards, HRH Prince Philip was named Consort of the Year. In 2017, former prime minister David Cameron 's mother, Mary Cameron, was honoured with a "Mother Knows Best" award in recognition of her signing a petition condemning a decision by Oxfordshire County Council to close over 40 children's centres in the Conservative -run area while her son was prime minister. In 2021, Oldie of
4704-706: The media. In 2003 he was awarded the Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal for Literature . He received honorary doctorates from the Universities of Sydney and East Anglia . In April 2008, James was awarded a Special Award for Writing and Broadcasting by the judges of the Orwell Prize . He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2010. He was an Honorary Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge (his alma mater). In
4788-547: The middle and working classes. Periodicals were censored by the central government in Paris . They were not totally quiescent politically—often they criticized Church abuses and bureaucratic ineptitude. They supported the monarchy and they played at most a small role in stimulating the revolution. During the Revolution, new periodicals played central roles as propaganda organs for various factions. Jean-Paul Marat (1743–1793)
4872-423: The midnight voices of my own fate should be the music of Pete Atkin continues to rank high among the blessings of my life". In 2013, he issued his translation of Dante 's Divine Comedy . The work, adopting quatrains to translate the original's terza rima , was well received by Australian critics. Writing for The New York Times , Joseph Luzzi thought it often failed to capture the more dramatic moments of
4956-537: The name of Tyrone Power 's character in the 1942 film This Above All . James' father, Albert Arthur James, was taken prisoner by the Japanese during World War II . Although he survived the prisoner-of-war camp , he died when the American B-24 carrying him and other freed Allied POWs ran into the tail of a typhoon en route from Okinawa to Manila, and crashed into the mountains of southeastern Taiwan. He
5040-539: The poem "Japanese Maple" which was published in The New Yorker in 2014 and described as his "farewell poem". The New York Times called it "a poignant meditation on his impending death". In a BBC interview with Charlie Stayt , broadcast on 31 March 2015, James described himself as "near to death but thankful for life". In October 2015, he admitted to feeling "embarrassment" at still being alive thanks to experimental drug treatment. Until June 2017, he wrote
5124-461: The songs in the late 1990s, triggered largely by the creation by Steve Birkill of an Internet mailing list "Midnight Voices" in 1997, led to the reissue of the six albums on CD between 1997 and 2001, as well as live performances by the pair. A double album of previously unrecorded songs written in the seventies and entitled The Lakeside Sessions: Volumes 1 and 2 was released in 2002 and Winter Spring , an album of new material written by James and Atkin
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#17327829628085208-417: The state and local level, like Ray Stannard Baker , George Creel , and Brand Whitlock . Others, including Lincoln Steffens , exposed political corruption in many large cities; Ida Tarbell went after John D. Rockefeller 's Standard Oil Company . Samuel Hopkins Adams in 1905 showed the fraud involved in many patent medicines, Upton Sinclair 's 1906 novel The Jungle gave a horrid portrayal of how meat
5292-568: The statistics only entail the number of issues distributed, and not who reads them. This is the model used by many trade magazines (industry-based periodicals) distributed only to qualifying readers, often for free and determined by some form of survey. Because of costs (e.g., printing and postage) associated with the medium of print, publishers may not distribute free copies to everyone who requests one (unqualified leads); instead, they operate under controlled circulation, deciding who may receive free subscriptions based on each person's qualification as
5376-480: The task of keeping the little bastards under control was given to me. With the aid of a radio microphone, I was able to shout them down, but it was a near thing ... they attacked everything around them and had difficulty in being polite even to each other". James subsequently hosted the ITV show Clive James on Television , in which he showcased unusual or (often unintentionally) amusing television programmes from around
5460-847: The transition to digital format, though still printing an annual print edition. Ladies' Home Journal stopped their monthly schedule and home delivery for subscribers to become a quarterly newsstand-only special interest publication. According to statistics from the end of 2013, subscription levels for 22 of the top 25 magazines declined from 2012 to 2013, with just Time , Glamour and ESPN The Magazine gaining numbers. However, by 2024, some titles, notably outdoors magazines, appeared to be growing in popularity. The "seven sisters" of American women's magazines are Ladies' Home Journal , Good Housekeeping , McCall's , Woman's Day , Redbook , Family Circle and Better Homes and Gardens . Some magazines, among them Godey's Lady's Book and Harper's Bazaar , were intended exclusively for
5544-461: The views of their readership and thereby were major elements in the changing political culture. For example, there were eight Catholic periodicals in 1830 in Paris. None were officially owned or sponsored by the Church and they reflected a range of opinion among educated Catholics about current issues, such as the 1830 July Revolution that overthrew the Bourbon monarchy. Several were strong supporters of
5628-522: The world, notably the Japanese TV show Endurance . After his move to the BBC in 1988, he hosted a similarly formatted programme called Saturday Night Clive (1989–1991), which began on BBC2 but was popular enough to move to BBC1 in 1991. It returned in 1994 on Sunday nights, under the title Sunday Night Clive . In 1995 he set up Watchmaker Productions to produce The Clive James Show for ITV, and
5712-592: The years with such slogans as " The Oldie : Buy it before you snuff it", its lampooning of youth subculture , and what it sees as the absurdities of modern life. It was the first mainstream publication to break the Jimmy Savile sex scandal . Despite being called The Oldie , the magazine often stresses that it is not an age-specific publication, and has many readers in their twenties, thirties and forties. It has similarities to Punch , Viz , The Spectator , Private Eye , and The New Yorker . The Oldie of
5796-428: The years, and James's own Felicity Fark epic poem. James wrote the album sleeve notes, which mostly linked the songs with thinly disguised jibes at popular artists and trends. On stage James both read from his poem, and introduced the album songs. Despite the success of the tour, there were no more recordings by Atkin, who pursued other opportunities and eventually became a BBC radio producer. A revival of interest in
5880-546: Was "near the end". He said that he was also diagnosed with emphysema and kidney failure in early 2010. On 3 September 2013, an interview with journalist Kerry O'Brien , Clive James: The Kid from Kogarah , was broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation . The interview was filmed in the library of his old college at Cambridge University. In the extended interview, James discussed his illness and confronting mortality. James wrote
5964-641: Was a heavy drinker and smoker. He recorded in May Week Was in June his habit of filling a hubcap ashtray daily. At various times he wrote of attempts, intermittently successful, to give up drinking and smoking. He smoked 80 cigarettes a day for a number of years before giving up in 2005. (Prior to this, he had been successful in giving up smoking for 13 years, beginning in his early 30s.) In April 2011, after media speculation that he had suffered kidney failure, James confirmed in June 2012 that B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia "had beaten him" and that he
6048-541: Was a very expensive industry in colonial times. Paper and printer's ink were taxed imported goods and their quality was inconsistent. Interstate tariffs and a poor road system hindered distribution, even on a regional scale. Many magazines were launched, most failing within a few editions, but publishers kept trying. Benjamin Franklin is said to have envisioned one of the first magazines of the American colonies in 1741,
6132-527: Was able to read, with varying fluency, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian and Japanese. A tango enthusiast, he travelled to Buenos Aires for dance lessons and had a dance floor in his house. James was a fan of the St George Dragons and wrote admiringly of Rugby League Immortal Reg Gasnier who was a schoolmate at Sydney Technical High School. He guest presented one episode of The Footy Show in 2005. For much of his life, James
6216-498: Was also one of the original team of presenters of the BBC's The Late Show , hosting a round-table discussion on Friday nights. His major documentary series Fame in the 20th Century (1993) was broadcast in the United Kingdom by the BBC , in Australia by the ABC and in the United States by the PBS network. This series dealt with the concept of "fame" in the 20th century, following over
6300-756: Was at times merciless and selections from the column were published in three books – Visions Before Midnight , The Crystal Bucket and Glued to the Box – and finally in a compendium, On Television . He wrote literary criticism for newspapers, magazines and periodicals in Britain, Australia and the United States, including, among many others, the Australian Book Review , The Monthly , The Atlantic , The New York Review of Books , The Liberal and The Times Literary Supplement . John Gross included James's essay "A Blizzard of Tiny Kisses" in
6384-516: Was buried at Sai Wan War Cemetery in Hong Kong . James would later state that his life's works originated in his father's death. James, an only child, was brought up by his mother (Minora May, née Darke), a factory worker, in the Sydney suburbs of Kogarah and Jannali , living some years with his English maternal grandfather. He was educated at Sydney Technical High School (despite winning
6468-456: Was issued weekly. Takvim-i vekayi was published a few months later, intended as a translation of the Moniteur into Ottoman Turkish . After having been edited by former Consul for Denmark " M. Franceschi ", and later on by " Hassuna de Ghiez ", it was lastly edited by Lucien Rouet. However, facing the hostility of embassies, it was closed in the 1840s. Satirical magazines of Turkey have
6552-415: Was one of France's first journalists. He disseminated the weekly news of music, dance and Parisian society from 1650 until 1665 in verse, in what he called a gazette burlesque , assembled in three volumes of La Muse historique (1650, 1660, 1665). The French press lagged a generation behind the British, for they catered to the needs of the aristocracy, while the newer British counterparts were oriented toward
6636-615: Was packed, and, also in 1906, David Graham Phillips unleashed a blistering indictment of the U.S. Senate. Roosevelt gave these journalists their nickname when he complained that they were not being helpful by raking up all the muck. According to the Research Department of Statista , closures of magazines outnumbered launches in North America during 2009. Although both figures declined during 2010–2015, launches outnumbered closures in each of those years, sometimes by
6720-613: Was published in 1852. Through the use of advice columns, advertisements , and various publications related to parenting , women's magazines have influenced views of motherhood and child-rearing. Mass-marketed women's magazines have shaped and transformed cultural values related to parenting practices. As such, magazines targeting women and parenthood have exerted power and influence over ideas about motherhood and child-rearing. Religious groups have used magazines for spreading and communicating religious doctrine for over 100 years. Jehovah's Witnesses ' primary magazine, The Watchtower ,
6804-577: Was released in 2003. This was followed by Midnight Voices , an album of remakes of the best Atkin/James songs from the early albums, and, in 2015, by The Colours of the Night , which included several newly completed songs. James acknowledged the importance of the Midnight Voices group in bringing to wider attention the lyric-writing aspect of his career. He wrote in November 1997, "That one of
6888-454: Was started by Charles Taze Russell in July 1879 under the title Zion's Watch Tower and Herald of Christ's Presence . The public edition of the magazine is one of the most widely distributed magazines in the world, with an average printing of approximately 36 million per issue. Magazines publishing stories and photos of high-profile individuals and celebrities have long been a popular format in
6972-456: Was the first general-interest magazine. Edward Cave , who edited The Gentleman's Magazine under the pen name "Sylvanus Urban", was the first to use the term "magazine", on the analogy of a military storehouse, the quote being: "a monthly collection, to treasure up as in a magazine". Founded by Herbert Ingram in 1842, The Illustrated London News was the first illustrated weekly news magazine. The oldest consumer magazine still in print
7056-493: Was the most prominent editor. His L'Ami du peuple advocated vigorously for the rights of the lower classes against the enemies of the people Marat hated; it closed when he was assassinated. After 1800 Napoleon reimposed strict censorship. Magazines flourished after Napoleon left in 1815. Most were based in Paris and most emphasized literature, poetry and stories. They served religious, cultural and political communities. In times of political crisis they expressed and helped shape
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