This article is within the scope of WikiProject Magazines, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of
magazines on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join
the discussion and see a list of open tasks.MagazinesWikipedia:WikiProject MagazinesTemplate:WikiProject Magazinesmagazine articles
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Journalism, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of
journalism on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join
the discussion and see a list of open tasks.JournalismWikipedia:WikiProject JournalismTemplate:WikiProject JournalismJournalism articles
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Media, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of
Media on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join
the discussion and see a list of open tasks.MediaWikipedia:WikiProject MediaTemplate:WikiProject MediaMedia articles
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Illinois, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of
Illinois on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join
the discussion and see a list of open tasks.IllinoisWikipedia:WikiProject IllinoisTemplate:WikiProject IllinoisWikiProject Illinois articles
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Chicago, which aims to improve all articles or pages related to
Chicago or the
Chicago metropolitan area.ChicagoWikipedia:WikiProject ChicagoTemplate:WikiProject ChicagoChicago articles
This article is within the scope of WikiProject African diaspora, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of
African diaspora on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join
the discussion and see a list of open tasks.African diasporaWikipedia:WikiProject African diasporaTemplate:WikiProject African diasporaAfrican diaspora articles
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Civil Rights Movement, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of
Civil Rights Movement on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join
the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Civil Rights MovementWikipedia:WikiProject Civil Rights MovementTemplate:WikiProject Civil Rights MovementCivil Rights Movement articles
Criticism of the content and language of the article
This article is padded and over-reaching. The section that describes how people buy magazines is highly superfluous, and the text regarding the back-story of the publisher belongs on his bio page, not here.
The feelings that the magazine may or may not evoke in its consumers is something that does not belong in an encyclopedia.
I do appreciate that someone that loves this magazine title wanted to make something more of it's wikipedia entry, but most of what has been added recently about it is neither informative nor relevant.
It would satisfy my curiosity if the article explained why the magazine is called "Jet".
— O'Dea (
talk) 12:28, 2 November 2012 (UTC)reply
Doubtless
Jet black (the hair color sense) but a confirming source will be needed, should be out there someplace.
72.228.190.243 (
talk) 23:52, 7 January 2013 (UTC)reply
That's what I would have guessed too, but Johnson said it's because it got the news out fast. I'm sure the pun was intended, but I can't find any sources that say it.—
alf laylah wa laylah (
talk) 01:40, 8 January 2013 (UTC)reply
One of those funny things where an agent enters a linguistic space which has its own laws of operation. I think everyone has always made the association, so what Johnson claimed, would, in that sense, be beside the main point of what it "really" refers to (i.e. Jet vs. Ebony). However that kind of truth doesn't play well here so as far as the content for the obverse, if there's a reliable quote that should be used, unless there's sourcing for the other (probably does exist).
Lycurgus (
talk) 07:03, 8 January 2013 (UTC)reply
According to an article I found about Jet in Ebony Magazine celebrating the 50th anniversary of Johnson Publishing Company, the magazine was supposed to symbolize "Black and speed."
Hanz Berry (
talk) 13:06, 10 December 2019 (UTC)reply
External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,
I have just modified one external link on
Jet (magazine). Please take a moment to review
my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit
this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.
This message was posted before February 2018.
After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than
regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors
have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the
RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{
source check}} (last update: 18 January 2022).
If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with
this tool.
If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with
this tool.
Shouldn't the history of the magazine be broken up into subsections? I only say this because the section would flow more easily and the sub-headings would allow more detail to be added.
Hanz Berry (
talk) 13:14, 10 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Jet magazine
My name is Eyvonne west
I have a 1969 magazine i was wontin to know
If it is worth anything my Gmail is Eyvonne.w59@gmail.com
99.74.25.59 (
talk) 23:08, 28 February 2023 (UTC)reply