Does Wired's Drastic Weight Loss Point to Ill Health?

My, my, Wired magazine’s looking thin these days. Only a month or so ago I remember looking at a big fat dollop of paper, all health and bouncy. Today, however, when I went to get my post, my first thought went something along the lines of “Wow, this feels really lightweight.”

You might almost say it was gaunt.

The next thing that popped into my brain was “why?”

Knowing the way the magazine industry works, with lead times of around three or four months, I had a little theory: The January issue of Wired was put together in September or October–in other words, after the financial crisis. Was it the victim of the credit crunch?

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