Satya RIP

The news that Satya will cease publication this summer is very sad. The Grumpy Vegan knows from producing The Animals’ Agenda magazine (1993-2002) that the world of independent publishing is a roller coaster of raising money, managing budgets, squeezing meager resources and working with some of the most wonderful people you’ll ever be lucky enough to meet. To this day, I still have Agenda readers tell me how much they loved the magazine. Sadly, there just wasn’t enough love to go around. And the Internet kid killed the independent press star–to plagiarize a line from a famous song. What Agenda set out to do in the late 1970s could only have been done by the intrepid few who foundered it. Today, anyone with a computer and a phone line can — and does — essentially fulfill the function of gathering and publishing information. Now, whether the editorial content is any good, well, that’s another matter.