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< BACK TO Fresh Intelligence Jane on the Death of Jane NOT ACTUALLY THIS HAPPY Pratt (Photo: Getty Images) "It doesn't feel like the magazine I launched is shutting down," says Pratt, who now hosts a show for Sirius Satellite Radio. "For quite a while, and increasingly so, I've looked at the magazine as something very separate from me and from what I started out to do. There were still glimmers of things I started out to do. And I'm not saying what I was doing was necessarily better, but it definitely changed quite a bit. I'm sad for the people there, for sure." Might she be feeling just a touch of schadenfreude, considering the way she was, let us say, eased out (Pratt has always insisted it was entirely her choice to leave, other accounts notwithstanding) and, implicitly, blamed for the magazine's failure to prosper up to that point? "No, I don't really feel vindicated," she says. "A much more overwhelming emotion I have is a sadness that this thing I worked so hard and so long to build is not around anymore." "Does it make me feel like they could've tried harder to keep me around? Maybe. I don't think it was a foregone conclusion when I left that it would go under. Some people thought so, but I didn't. I think it could've been done in such a way that it could've really thrived. For example, getting somebody in there who was quite a bit younger, living the lifestyle, who would breathe fresh energy into it, and maybe keep me connected to the extent that I could still do some of the press for it." "I just had that conversation with someone a couple nights ago, when we were walking home from dinner. He said, 'I'm surprised Jane's still around.' People would say that to me all the time. 'Wouldn't it be great if it would just go away?' But I didn't think so! I wanted it to get better and stay around forever." 
Can you blame her? Everything I read says the magazine was doing well (ad pages and circulation) when Jane Pratt was at the helm. When she was pushed out and they redid the magazine it dropped a ton in circ and as pages. I can see why she feels the way she does, she started it and was pushed out. Mixed emotions would be how I would feel. However, the way you write the piece and the headline"MAGLOMANIA!" shows you have an angle and that you clearly do not like her. So, skewering her for how everyone in her position would feel is BS. I am an avid magazine reader and loved Sassy and Jane so I followed this closely, and anything written by you since Jane left has been negative about her. When Falling Out of Fashion, a book by her assistant came out that put Jane in a positive light you trashed that as well. Is it possible, that Jane is all bad? All right she is a bit of a star-f@#ker but you have to say that Sassy and Jane were pretty groundbreaking so, she must have had some skill. Getting checks from Conde Nast or just looking to get a job from them one day Karl I mean Jeff? Posted by: catatonic on July 10, 2007 11:08 AM I remember a couple years ago, when I was a teenager (I'm 23 now) picking up Jane for the first time and feeling so relieved that it wasn't another bullshit cosmo clone on 10 tips on how to please my man. It was sarcastic and sharp and honest and had all juicy gossip and stories I so badly craved. I can say the most disappointing this that ever happened was one day when I picked it up and, sure enough on the cover, was some crap about how to please my man, and the prettiest lip colour. I bought it anyways and mourned for the magazine I had once loved that had turned into a horseshit teenie bopper mag, and for Jane herself, as I knew she must have been further from the mag, because she never would have allowed that garbage to go out in her name. And thats my rant on the slow and painful demise of what was once my favourite magazine. RIP Jane. Posted by: chrissybop on July 10, 2007 9:13 PM Advertisement |
    
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