Tag Archives: surf media

Don’t Blame the Brands

Here’s the conspiracy theory:  American surf media produces banal catalogs because of the brands.  Those greedy bastards only care about selling more threads to the masses, which means surfing must be packaged in a sunny, positive, healthy wrapper for the conservative hoards.  The brands control the media, because without the advertising dollars of the major [...]

Oh, Lindsay - Love Hurts.

If we in the surf media want to be taken seriously, we have to step up our game and take our cues from the real media: more investigative journalism, more hard-hitting exposes of corruption, and more speculation about Lindsay Lohan's sex life.
Budding surf media magnate CJ Hobgood is already hip to this - on his [...]