{"id":683,"date":"2007-06-20T00:28:21","date_gmt":"2007-06-20T08:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/migrator.rab.olt.ubc.ca\/ross\/2007\/06\/20\/rip-punk-planet\/"},"modified":"2007-06-20T00:28:21","modified_gmt":"2007-06-20T08:28:21","slug":"rip-punk-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/2007\/06\/rip-punk-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P. Punk Planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"PP79_maxi.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/files\/2009\/02\/pp79_maxi.jpg\" width=\"130\" height=\"165\"><br \/>\nYesterday the publisher of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.punkplanet.com\/\"><em>Punk Planet<\/em><\/a>, a fiercely independent source of information on music, culture, and politics, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.punkplanet.com\/pp_blog\/punk_planet_magazine_r_i_p_p\">announced<\/a>  that is it closing it&#8217;s doors.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, I had just read the latest issue and made a note about blogging on two education related articles in the current issue (PP79), looks like PP80 will the last issue after 13 years of publishing.<\/p>\n<p>Independent magazines always have a rough go of it, but bad distribution deals, disappearing advertisers, and a decreasing audience of subscribers seem to have done PP in.<\/p>\n<p>While not mentioned in the PP announcement, the new USPS regulations on periodicals, which were basically written by Time Warner, are having a dramatic impact on independent magazines. In its service to media conglomerates <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/doc\/20070507\/stack\">the USPS has essentially attacked threaten the dissemination of information and thus democracy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Oh well, but PP79 is still on the newstands, check out the articles on the new SDS and on the No Child Left Behind Act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday the publisher of Punk Planet, a fiercely independent source of information on music, culture, and politics, announced that is it closing it&#8217;s doors. Ironically, I had just read the latest issue and made a note about blogging on two education related articles in the current issue (PP79), looks like PP80 will the last issue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[662],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}