This is the date that I would have normally reprinted an article from the bi-monthly Miata Club of America magazine, only there wasn’t one this time. There wasn’t one again in December either. This is what becomes the end of both the national club and the magazine.
Here is an excerpt from the Masters Miata Club’s October meeting that sort of explains the situation:
We held the General Discussion portion of the meeting while we ate. We generally talked about the state of affairs between the Miata Club of America (MCA) and Mediasource Publishing Group (MPG,) the publishers of Miata Magazine. Now that MCA has stopped sending money to MPG and is withholding the member database, MPG will not send the Miata Magazine to MCA members after this issue. The MCA has been promising that members would receive a different magazine from them. MPG then filed a restraining order against the MCA from publishing a competing magazine (something that is forbidden in the contract between them, when MCA sold the Miata Magazine to MPG several years ago.)
Here is another look at the Miata Magazine problems. It comes from the St. Louis area Miata Club’s newsletter:
Recently, Vince and Norm sold the magazine to Barbara Beach. She went into “hock” to buy it, and N & V agreed to give her $6 per year per member to support the venture. (What the other $23 per member per year goes for is your guess). Due to a dispute over her wanting to take the magazine to the newsstand, they have been refusing to pay even the $6 for some time. Barb has been using her own resources to continue to publish. She has been sending the magazine to the printer, and MCA has been sending the mailing list names to the printer, where they are merged. Now, N & V have an issue with some of the editorial content in the up-coming issue (remember, Barb OWNS the magazine) and they are refusing to send the mailing list to the printer.