"Men's Health" believes it has its finger on the pulse of what guys want: more sex, six pack abs and the ultimate cardio plan. So sure are they in this formula, that the magazine almost completely recycled the cover of their October 2007 issue, which featured British tough guy Jason Statham, for this month's issue, starring young American werewolf Taylor Lautner.
Men's Health editor-in-chief David Zinczenko addressed the odd strategy in a statement which, others have pointed out, doesn't make much sense, So, for clarity, we'll paraphrase what we think Zinczenko was trying to say:
Because the 2007 cover had proved to be an attention grabber, it was reused only for magazines destined for the newsstand. The 80 percent of the latest issue that was sent to subscribers features a completely different cover layout with different titles.
All we know is that this duplicated cover just reminds us that in the past two years we've achieved neither the perfect abs nor the great sex life "Men's Health" so boldly promised.
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Saturday 12 December
By Marshal
What I've noticed the last few years as both a subscriber & ex-subscriber is that Men's Health recycles their articles A LOT!
This time they were caught with the most obvious recycle, with those articles in the exact same order as that one 2 years ago. But if you pay any attention at all you'll notice they put the same kind of teasers on the magazine cover from one month to the next. I've got a stack of em in a closet to prove it.
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Sunday 13 December
By splintercottage
sad isn't it. There are people with someting to say and people with something to sell. People who build lives. People who buy them. And publishers like Rodale Press who have contempt for everything but their own contention that they are smarter than their readers and can get the to buy anything.
Real pity that honest, interesting journalism will never occur at that sort of sleazy publishing corporation.
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Sunday 13 December
By jeff
How many ways can you re-package the same old stuff?
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Sunday 13 December
By Mark
People who repeat stuff should be banned.
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Monday 14 December
By NightOwlEd2
So Mark, because you repeated yourself, you should be banned! Men's Health: I expected the covers to have the same picture, not the same articles!
Sunday 13 December
By Mark
People who repeat stuff should be banned.
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Sunday 13 December
By Joe Shea
Covers are costly to shoot and print, so my guess is they're going broke. Were the articles the same ones advertised in teasers on the cover in 2007 in 2009? I'm an editor, formerly at Esquire (where I was a "research editor" or :fact checker," and I know how hard it is to come up with fresh ideas. I had about a dozen of mine turned into stories (and one turned into a book by another editor!), and could never imagine using the same one twice in my own newspaper, The American Reporter, although I occasionally change the wording of headlines to extend the lifetime of good stories that I want to keep before our readers -
nbor suffer from the poverty of imagination that New York editors do. Thank God and 33 years without television for that!
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Monday 14 December
By AALDO
DONT THEY KNOW THAT EVERY GUY SAVES THESE MAGAZINES ?
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Monday 14 December
By Havaneezer
People actually remember magazine covers from 2 years ago? Geez, I'd like to have a memory like that!
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Monday 14 December
By WildlyUnruly
There are days it's hard to remember if I brushed my teeth before leaving for work.
Monday 14 December
By Mark Justice
I am surprised they were busted. Most guys I know are morons. Some woman must have been cleaning out a closet, noticed it and said something.
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Monday 14 December
By explorer249
Men's Health became a boring, tedious repeat publication. I finally dropped my subscription.
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Tuesday 13 April
By Our Healthier Living
Very interesting topics.I am looking this type of topics, I need more informations because everyone knows "Health is wealth" is very much known to all and everyone wants good health.That means no one wants to leave this wealth. So, Let us build a food habit discipline, keep pace with work, rest and or exercise to Achieve good health, The ultimate wealth.
Our Healthier Living
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