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Posted by John Quinn In passing, it's quite noticeable that the Letters to the Editor column never contains anything remotely critical of the magazine itself - in contrast, may I say, with the MusicWeb message board, which is a proper forum. Though I didn't mention it in my original posting I too have found the "bright and cutting edge" design of the magazine a major stumbling block in recent years, and especially in the last twelve months or so. The page design is bitty and unhelpful, especially in the review section. I can't understand why the layout is such that very often a review which could easily have been accommodated on one page spills over onto a second simply so that more reviews - or the start of them - are contained on a single page. And in recent months there has been a tendency to squeezing in items such as "future releases" or short interviews with artists into very thin, long columns within the review pages. Whatever one's stance about the quality of the content of Gramophone - and I'm sure there are some readers who are perfectly comfortable with it - I find it hard to imagine that many readers find its jumbled pages easy to read.
on January 6, 2007, 12:15 pm, in reply to "Re: The Decline of Gramophone"
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I'm glad Raymond Waud has raised the issue of design with the Editor of Gramophone - and I share his lack of surprise that he has received no reply. I have thought more than once about writing in similar vein, especially when I allowed my subscription to lapse last autumn. However, I decided my views would be dismissed as negative - whereas, in fact they're intended to be helpful, as Raymond's were - so, rightly or wrongly, I didn't bother.
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