16 November - Launches & post-ponements

I ring a friend to to out on Sat and she's not coming out. At home moping as has had 2nd editor fired and first or third art director fired at the magazine where she works. In fact magazine not out yet and launch which had slipped Autumn to February is not slipping to September 2007. How can a women's magazine be 18 months in the making? Victoria Beckham may be dead by then and what would they write about then??? There go 20 pages a month (it's a weekly I believe). Am thinking of all those journalists preparing dummy issue after another, all their topical words which will go unused all those beauty products tested which it will be pointless writing about again in September as will have been superseeded. Wonder if the Ed has a blog where she laments what it's like to be owned by some murdochy-newscorp-skythingie conglomerate. What kind of a confidence knock can it be to be relieved of steering a magazine to publication after a mere few weeks on the job? How do they know she's not going to cut it? Mags, shmags, leaf through a few these days, read hardly any. Prada or Primark, it's all the same these days.