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Vanity Fair (1-year) | 
| Publisher: Conde Nast Publications
List Price: $59.40
Buy New: $15.00
as of 9/10/2010 12:27 MDT details
Rating:  reviews
Format: Magazine Subscription, Print
Type: Consumer magazine
Subscription Issues: 12
Subscription Length: 12 Months
Issues Per Year: 12
First Issue Lead Time: 6-10 Weeks
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 Hey, I'm a "Professional Subscriber"! September 3, 2010
annabelle
I just went online to see how much a year's subscription in Canada would cost me - it said $38.00. So how come I just received a notice to renew my subscription, with a threat that I need to act by Sept. 15th to "maintain my Professional Subscriber status"?? And my "special price" is only - you guessed it - $38.00. What a bunch of B...S.... you guys are peddling!! Come on - just be honest ok? So far, I've though you were a pretty classy magazine, but now?......###&&&%%%% Bet you won't post or print this.
 In Between the Luxury Ads--Journalism that Rhymes with Muckraking August 6, 2010
Groovy Vegan (USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Take a high profile controversial celebrity (e.g. Angelina Jolie) and offer to interview them about their latest book, movie, or charitable deed. Dig up all the dirt on them that you can. Take a high profile, controversial, end-stage terminally ill celebrity (e.g. Dennis Hopper) and do the same, getting their exclusive(!) last interview, and publish it immediately after they die. Spend a token two or three paragraphs or so talking about the book, movie, or charitable deed that was the pretext of the interview, and spend more time raking up all the muck you can of affairs, legal/health/financial troubles--anything juicy. Take a high-profile controversial celebrity alive (Tiger Woods) or alive + dead combo (Elizabeth Taylor) and just rake up everything you can of the above. Or take a high-profile, perfect-appearing dead celebrity (e.g. Grace Kelly) and dig up her secret hidden past of celebrity affairs and teenage virginity loss. Hence, the type of journalism of "Vanity Fair" starts with an F and rhymes with "muckraking."
The ____-raking articles are extremely well-written, engaging, and contain plenty of photos exposing the subject matter. For example, the Tiger Woods piece contained not just (mostly unflattering) photos of Tiger Woods, but extremely revealing full-page (and in 1 case, 100% revealing and 2 pages) photos of his mistresses, helpfully numbered with golf flags.
But ____-raking articles alone cannot make up a magazine. Hence we need filler articles on fashion, media or trouble at the expensive Getty Center art museum in Los Angeles, which are difficult to find amongst all the advertising of fancy cars, expensive watches, perfume, designer sunglasses, and spread-lipped/spread-legged young models who happen to be wearing designer jeans. To find the filler articles, it's best to start from the back of the magazine, as the table of contents is after many pages of nothing but advertising usually somewhere between pages 35 and 50. If you manage to find page 1 of the TOC, good luck finding page 2, as it is "continued on page X"--after a dozen or so more pages of nothing but advertising.
If you're not into celebrities and fashion or disclosing every detail of the Tiger Woods or David Letter scandals is there any reason to read the magazine? Yes, if you want a detailed understanding of financial scandals and the people behind them. I found the article dissecting the Bernie (and social-climbing, materialistic wife Ruth) Madoff Ponzi scheme extremely enlightening as well as the excerpt of Michael Lewis' book "The Big Short" offering a detailed explanation of the banking melt down.
I'm giving Vanity Fair 4 stars, because whether or not one agrees with what they do, they are excellent at what they do. I subtracted a star because their volume of advertising is excessive, even by magazine standards.
 Vanity Fair July 25, 2010
Corrina Ontiveros (Tucson, AZ)
VF covers relevant and interesting topics about people. Just the right mix of glamour and intelligence.
Beauty and brains July 21, 2010
decadentglamour (Hollywood, CA)
Vanity Fair looks good and has interesting articles to suit just about everyone's interests. I read all the articles, because they are so well and interestingly written. Vanity Fair is simply the best magazine in the world. The magazine makes me feel like I'm part of an open minded elite world.
HARD RO PUT DOWN!! June 28, 2010
IRIS K. MESSENGER
Excellent magazine, the articles are hard to put down, pictures and fashions are up to date!! This is a MUST HAVE!
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