Citizen Media Critic: Chicken Soup for the Soul Magazine

Elizabeth Spiers checks out the new heartwarming Chicken Soup for the Soul Magazine, and as I predicted, it makes her feel all warm and fuzzy:

The opening letter from Chicken Soup for the Soul co-founders Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen in the debut issue of Chicken Soup for the Soul magazine (which hits newsstands tomorrow) begins with the salutation “Dear Friend,” and ends “With love” “from Jack and Mark.” As a reader who prefers that her magazines maintain a polite Economist-like I-don’t-know-you-and-you-don’t-know-me distance, the assumed intimacy is a bit disconcerting.

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