Slate Magazine Completely Copies Me

I wrote a blog entry about Esquire Magazine's slimy attempts to attract readers to its website by advertising nude photos (even when such nude photos didn't exist on its site.) Now weeks later, Slate Magazine writes the same article. Coincidence?

Esquire Web Site Seeks Perverts

I'm all for search engine optimization, but titling a web page this way feels a bit dishonest:


Look closely at the top...


No Nude Righetti Spaghetti Pics Here

It feels cheap, like a trick a softcore porn site would try to pull off. You go to click on "Nude Photos of Connie Chung" and there's one photo of Connie Chung fully dressed in a suit, surrounded by ads for "Extenz."

Not that I've ever done anything like that online...

Are magazines really getting that desperate that they're resorting to Porn website tactics to draw pageviews?? What's next? CNN titling their web pages "Hillary Clinton Bikini Pics"?

Ugh.

Megan Fox Is... Well, A Fox


Esquire magazine put together a borderline pornographic video shoot with Transformers star Megan Fox. While I can do without the book she's printed on her left side, I will say, if magazines are looking to drive readers to their websites, more of this kind of thing will certainly do the trick:

Wake Up With Megan Fox, Have A Beer, Go Swimming