JO Magazine turns 5!

5 years of variety and dynamism
5 years of professional journalism
5 years of all kinds of topics, ranging from the Amman bombings to Drugs, from Night life and Night clubs in Amman to Honor crimes, from The Alternative Music movement in Jordan to Porn Cinemas in downtown Amman ... all covered in JO.
5 years of english-written magazines in Jordan (since JO was the 1st!)
5 years of the most serious magazine in Jordan, yet the most hyper dynamic.
5 years of the jordanian magazine that just makes you proud as a jordanian!

Yes, JO Magazine, turning 5 with their 61st issue this month, is a magazine that I'd like to follow up each and every month. And despite the fact that i sometimes (rarely) might not buy it, but like to follow it up. Simply because its a realistic magazine, and its probably the only English written magazine in Jordan that is not oriented towards the elite rich people in Jordan, and rather tackles all sorts of topics from the dynamic Jordanian society, with its goods and bads, and is just an overall looking window of journalism towards all sorts of political, social, economical, cultural, and even taboo issues in jordan. With an alternative professional vision, and many times different than what some people would imagine.

JO is also a good tool for representing Jordan! For example, in a technological conference i participated in here in jordan, I had the chance to meet a peer from the Czech republic, whom i gave JO Magazine. Later that year when i was at the Czech republic, and when discussing several issues about jordan with him, some information i was telling him were replied by him: “I know, I read it in the magazine you gave me, JO Magazine :)”. its realistic, its not telling the people reading it that we are Living Very Well, nor that we are enjoying Luxury in the Jordan Business, but it indeed shows the realistic view of jordan, and all sort of Jordanians more than a venture pulp in a nox :)

and maybe thats why Jordanian bloggers have always discussed about JO Magazine in their posts, and thus later came, as a logical result in JO's journalistic policy, their care in the Jordanian blogosphere in several features as well as their “Super Highway” monthly section.

JO Magazine's ignorance of the "Trust Bus Accident"

After the sad accident with Trust's Aqaba-Irbid bus, and the 25 lives lost in it.
and after several bloggers blogged about the accident and Trust Transport Co.... and others who deleted their posts for one reason or another!

I got a phone call from someone at JO Magazine, who was interested in making a feature about this accident, and asked me several question, some were already answered in my blog post, others were further explained, and yet other were exclusively said in that phonecall.

The person didnt call again, and unfortunatelly, when i bought this month's JO Magazine, the topic was totally ignored, not even a single printed line mentioned this accident, its life loses or any abstracts about the story ,,,, not even in the blogs reaction page!

Interesting!

I'm still wondering, what ever happened to the topic, who took the decision behind not publishing anything about it. Did the company or its owners have a hand in that!?

I wanna know!

Can anyone please tell me! ... or dare to tell me!
and i dont think an answer of "It wasn't that much of an important topic" is either logical or accepted!