Posted on 09/07/2008 11:25:42 AM PDT by IndianPrincessOK
'Us' Readers Protective of Palin
TMZ is reporting that a large number of "Us Weekly" readers have canceled their subscriptions in protest of the magazine's treatment of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin: There were reports as many as 10,000 subscribers bailed..
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TMZ is reporting that a large number of "Us Weekly" readers have canceled their subscriptions in protest of the magazine's treatment of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin: There were reports as many as 10,000 subscribers bailed, but US told Page Six the number was closer to 1,000. Apparently the mag -- and to be fair just about everyone else in the media -- misjudged Palin's impact once she opened her mouth. Strangely, there has not been a concurrent spike in subscriptions to The New Yorker.
I'm not really sure how to feel about this. Less "Us" readership seems like good news at first blush, but I fer the end result will be a move from "low information voter" to "lower information voter," and finally to "Fox News Viewer."
"Us" brought this on themselves, to some degree. If they had gone with a headline like "Keep the Product of Your Rapist's Loins and Like it!" or "I Can See The Kremlin From Here, So I'm a Foreign Policy Pro," they might still have lost some readers, but gained my respect.
I read that it was actually around 1000 subscribers and they will just blow those people off as kooks anyway.
They just keep digging, without realizing they’ve already reached the bottom.
I called up and wanted to open a subscription and then said no thank you and told them they suck
JERK !
If you see this magazine in the store, put another (preferably unpopular) magazine in front of it.
Without sourcing, it makes you *appear* like a sleeper mole.
Do be more careful in the future when posting controversial information on a volatile topic.
Cheers!
The question is what took them so long? :)
I made it my life never to spend a cent on a lefty rag or movies or websites... That is my revenge.
If I must see it, the library :)
“I called up and wanted to open a subscription and then said no thank you and told them they suck.”
LOL!
Sorry IndianPrincessOK din’t mean you got to fast on the post key.
KOOK or not... I saw the cover of the magazine and Unsubscribed to their email messages. And I won’t buy their magazines.
I can’t imagine this rag even HAVNG 10,000 suscribers.
In the best of times it is trivial drivel appealing only to those without a real life of their own (and therefore focused on some “celebrity”).
Do people really read this crap? And what would make the publishers imagine they had some politial clout?
And I unsubscribed when I first saw that cover BEFORE I heard about this on the news.
More proof that out in Real America, people are not digging the Sarah Palin attacks...at all....
The folks who do the work out in America are not happy, I’m amazed that is hasn’t shown up in the polls yet, it will though of that I have no doubt.
The more the MSM attacks the Palins, the more people will Rally to Palin!
Sorry... suscribers = subscribers.
Off topic here, but I’m wondering why we cannot edit our own posts here. This would be a great feature.
So - can we not edit because of a built-in limitation of the software used for FR, or is there some other reason? Anyone know?
Hey...there’s an AOL poll on the right side of the page...several questions...
I saw the editor of this rag lying on FOX, claiming the cover wasn’t a hit piece on Palin. The reporter tore him to shreds.
Something I’ve often wondered: Does canceling a magazine subscription mean the subscriber receives a refund for the issues yet to be delivered? If not, why would someone call up the magazine to cancel instead of simply waiting for the subscription to run out and not renew?
I turned the magazine backwards at the super market checkout stand this morning.
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