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Yesterday, Gawker reported on the demise of Suede magazine. And for a site that trades on snark, the tone was surprisingly empathetic, supportive even. Fast forward to today’s Globe and Mail, which is easily summed up as Canadian Flares Out by way of a front page story on Suzanne Boyd’s once promising New York publication. Why is this unfortunate mag sacking a cover story, TOist has to wonder. Why make a cover story of a talented editor who was felled by the notoriously fickle publishing world? Especially when Ms. Boyd’s mag may yet rise again, from its own psychedelic ashes. More interesting would have been a story that talked a bit about dismal ad sales, and why advertisers wouldn’t touch a mag that was geared to young, hip, black women, however well-executed it may have been. TOist votes more analysis, less schadenfreude.