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George Lois Criticizes 'Magazine Establishment'

George Lois, the man who created the iconic and much-lauded Esquire magazine covers of the '60s "Golden Age of Journalism," spent his lunchtime speech at the American Magazine Conference "dressing down the illustrious magazine establishment of America" for its "boring, adoring, butt-kissing magazine covers." Mr. Lois' scathing critique of the state of magazine journalism came just one day after the American Society of Magazine Editors unveiled its top 40 magazine covers of the last 40 years. Three of Mr. Lois' Esquire covers made it into the top 10.

Read the whole story at Adage.com, October 18, 2005 »

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