Marie Claire Recycles from Colors Magazine

Have you ever seen the credits for an article in of your faviourite magazine?

No?

Well open your favourite glossy, find a good article, press down really hard where the two pages meet the spine and then magically you'll see some extra small type explaining the where the article was sourced.

Why would a glossy magazine do this?

So that they can recylce old articles and pass them off like new.

Take this article my wife spotted (she's so cool!) from the March 2006 edition Marie Claire magazine. According to Marie Claire it's a "special report" on having a fat bum. Special report my Butt! How about recycled report? Or how about special report Colors magazine’s butt?

I’ll let you be the judge...

This is the opening page to the artcile in Marie Claire March 2006

This is the opening page to an article in Colors Magazine April 1998 (the Fat issue)

This is the second page of the Marie Clare article about the difficulties involved with "taking a trip", "using a toilet" and "being sick".

Here's the original "taking a trip" section from the Colors magazine article

Here's the original "using the toilet" section from the Colors magazine article

Here's the original taking a "being sick" section from the Colors magazine article

This is the third page of the Marie Clare article about the difficulties involved in "going to a movie", "getting through turnstyles" (joining the crowd) and "having fun".

Here's the original going to a movie section from the Colors magazine article

Here's the original "getting through turnstyles" (getting home) section from the Colors magazine article

Here's the original "having fun" section from the Colors magazine article

And of course the text is recycled too almost word for word. Read for yourself here... colors_vs_marie_claire