Model Forum / General / Rockets / December 2007

woopee.....

As Brent said - time to start culling the BAD magazines.
I've seen little improvement in ER over the last year.
I WILL NOT resubscribe till Brent starts putting in some effort to
earn my dollars.
Shoddy reporting, lazy editing, zero proof reading, the same old
photos and stories of his "hard" life moving from city-to-city are not
what make a good ROCKET magazine.
I've told him this before and have seen no improvment.

His recent reporting of Balls-16 had THREE errors in one sentence
regarding my team flight!!!  Two were factual and one proof reading.

Time to start sending a stronger message - I'm done with ER.

Hate to say nasty things about any rocket vendor...but enough is
enough.
Brent himself said that he doubted there was room for more rocket
magazines when LAUNCH started.
Sorry to say he was right - his is the one to go......
Wish it were not true - I love reading about rockets - I just never
feel get my money's worth from ER...never feel I get any effort from
Brent.

freda wrote:

i agree. there is nothing extreme about extreme rocketry, unless you consider paying $6.00 for a magazine that could have been published on a bar napkin extreme.

perhaps what is extreme is brent's use of the whole whitespace concept. other than the name extreme rocketry on the cover along with a photo, you are lucky to get one title. most magazines try to put as much on the cover as they can, to give an idea of how many articles are inside. wait, that must be the problem: there is nothing inside.

i remember the crap everyone used to give bruce kelly for pumping out magazines with nothing in them but filler, and it appears that is just what brent is doing now, so he can still claim to get his 'x' number of issues per year and then brag about it. who cares? when the total content from the whole year's worth of magazines wouldn't fill a single popular science, who cares? brent has found a way to make a living doing nothing but publishing a 8x11 booklet 9 times a year, and according to his editorials, it's not a very good living.

the magazine has went down hill since tim quigg left, which isn't saying much. looks like the only quality publication in the entire hobby is nar's sport rocketry. launch is good quality but it is not a hobby-only magazine.