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Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather come to bury Pitchfork, not to praise it. They overthink the role of magazines in their lives, and the ways in which the medium has, and hasn&#8217;t, managed to translate to a new media landscape.


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<h2>Further Reading</h2>
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<li>Some Magazines:
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<li><a href="https://www.wired.com/">Wired Magazine</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.nationalgeographic.com/">National Geographic</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.economist.com/">The Economist</a></li>
<li><a href="https://scoutlife.org/">Scout Life</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://www.etymonline.com/word/magazine#etymonline_v_2173"><code>magazine</code> etymology</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeuomorph">Skeuomorphism</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ys4pjR8hsfk">&#8220;Will E-Sports Ever Recover From This?&#8221; (YouTube)</a></li>
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