Posted on 09/05/2017 10:58:29 AM PDT by ForYourChildren
'Something posing as objective data is actually rigged'!
Conservative authors long have charged the New York Times with skewing its best-seller list against them, but now, citing the Times’ low ranking of Dinesh D’Souza’s latest best-seller, a major publisher is severing its ties with the “paper of record.”
Regnery, pointing to Nielsen BookScan’s figures, based on actual sales through major retailers, contends the Times is rigging its list, ranking D’Souza’s “The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left” below books with half as many sales.
“There’s been a lot of talk about the New York Times being fake news, but now we can see the New York Times best-seller list is also fake,” D’Souza said in an interview with WND.
Over the past four weeks, D’Souza’s book – which, as WND reported, contends fascism is a left-wing ideology that has been falsely labeled extreme right – was either No. 1 or No. 2 in sales, according to BookScan, but shows up at No. 7 on the upcoming Times list.
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How is this going to help them? Now they will be completely whitewashewhitewashed.
NY Times Fake news BUMP
Yep, fake news.
Your article dove-tails nicely with this one:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3583181/posts
God bless Regnery.
Looking for a changing of the guard, not only in government, but in the media, in education, and in the arts and entertainment.
Changes also afoot in religion, especially Christianity which really isn’t a religion.
Good things ahead.
Amazon gives actual numbers that are accurate and not tainted. There are others.
Delegitimize the NYT.
The New York Times is rapidly self destructing so soon it will not matter. How many Times employees are left now?
I guess self destruction is a common reaction to the end of profitability, and the business model under which the dead tree media thrived is no longer viable.
I suspect the drug cartels which now own the Times will extract their pound or six of flesh from the Sulzbergers when the paper prints its last.
ping.
Ask Hitlery, she knows rigged, for sure.
Maybe the Times "Best Celler List" is a Hitlery campaigner ?
Maybe he didn't get the message :" .. we'll all hang, together "
and thinks that "The NY Times" is still relevent ??
Interesting comment. What do you suggest it is? Every major religion has its sects, differences in beliefs and practice, "heresies" left and right, and (at times lethal) rivalries.
Authors will still use them, but we all know NYT is garbage.
I have had two books sell over 55,000 copies each. Neither appeared on the Times list.
They couldn’t ignore “Patriot’s History” because it was shipping an astounding 19,000 A DAY at its peak!
We have been fighting the studios trying to get them to fund “middle America” movies using the Kendrick Brothers as a model.
“War Room” was made for a measly $13m and last I looked had grossed $67m. So even if you allow $5m for prints & advertising, and you sort out the “studios’ cut” the film still made $35-40m profit-—in other words, ROI of anywhere from 3:1 to 4:1.
They won’t even discuss. “These are Christian movies.” “yes, we say, but the MODEL can be expanded to the whole middle America. Many want to go to movies that are NOT overtly Christian, but which are not offensive to all “normal” Americans who don’t want vulgarity, homosexual sex, or gratuitous violence. They will accept romance, and some violence if it fits the plot-—as seen in “Passion of the Christ,” one of the most gory movies ever made.
Again, they don’t want to hear it.
Just saw this posted on Facebook. Interesting...
Regnery, a conservative publisher, took a bold step yesterday in criticizing the methodology of the New York Times best sellers list. Regnery was criticized heavily with the prevailing response being, “Regnery books don’t sell and nobody reads conservative books,” which are both false assertions.
The Times list has long been a point of frustration for me. In 2008, Tyndale published a biography about Sarah Palin by Kaylene Johnson. This is the New York Times list for October 2008 in rank order. The sales numbers are actual scanned sales by BookScan. 1. Three Cups of Tea - 15,750 2. Eat, Pray, Love - 11,176 3. The Audacity of Hope - 6,976 4. Dreams from My Father - 7,581 5. A Long Way Gone - 5,488 6. The Duchess - 7,767 7. 90 Minutes in Heaven - 4,712 8. I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell - 4,270 9. Musicophilia - 4,379 10. The Zookeeper’s Wife - 4,717 11. The Shock Doctrine - 4,356 12. Sarah (Kaylene Johnson’s Palin bio) - 9,393 13. The Nine - 4,537 14. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle -2,967 15. The Glass Castle - 4,083.
As you can see, with nearly any methodology, at worst it should have been No. 3, not No. 12.
In 2011, Tyndale published a book with Auburn football coach Gene Jonna Nicely Chizik Chizik. During its debut week it was No. 11 in actual sales (BookScan) and thus made the Publishers Weekly list. The New York Times had 25 slots for NY Times best sellers and it made ZERO slots. Of course we complained but we were told, as we are always told, “our formula is proprietary.” The Times hinted it was because of lack of geographic distribution to which I responded, “Book sales in Seattle aren’t any more important than book sales in Birmingham.”
In 2010, Tyndale published Drew Brees’s Coming Back Stronger. It was No. 1 on the Wall Street Journal list and No. 1 on the PW list but only No. 3 on the Times list, even though it again sold the most copies (hardcover nonfiction) in the country that week. That snub was one of the most disappointing of my professional career as I had seen the Bookscan sales earlier that day and fully expected it to be No. 1. It ranked No. 3 on the Times list in spite of outselling the No. 2 book by more than 5,000 copies.
Joel Rosenberg is another author who is consistently downgraded by the Times methodology. We even started calling it the “Joel Rosenberg penalty,” and it is often 5-10 spots lower than actual sales.
In 2011, a Francie Rivers book was the sixth best selling fiction book during its debut week. It was No. 18 on the Times list (there aren’t even that many spots any more) and sold MORE THAN 6,500 copies than the two books immediately ahead of it on the list.
You may call it sour grapes if you want but please understand that the New York Times list is really a list of “the best selling books in the stores that we deem cool list” rather than an actual best sellers list. Yet it is the holy grail list for publishers. Publishers have been afraid to call the listen into question for fear of penalty. Publishers wouldn’t be fearful of retribution if the Times used actual sales. When the methodology isn’t public, that fear is legitimate.
The Grace Revolution with which God is moving in his Body of believers by his Spirit around the world.
“What is” are facts. But with the Divine Providence of God, we can change “facts.” I see change afoot in arts and entertainment as the right people begin to commandeer Hollywood or Hollywood’s Alternative and take the reigns. God is bigger than Hollywood.
Actually, we should pray for the complete collapse of Warner Brothers, Columbia, Disney, and a few other studios.
They aren’t learning. They aren’t looking clear-eyed at their industry-—and I’m not talking just content (that’s big) but I’m talking even thinking about radical new ways to do movies.
For example, I think the time is ripe for a return to the movie that stays around for a month. Why? Because that is the ONLY place you’ll ever see the movie. No DVDs. No sales to HBO, etc. You can see it for a limited time then it will be a year before it comes back, just as use to happen with “Ben Hur” or other similar movies.
Now this wouldn’t occur without some pain and initial dislocation. The first few “event” movies would not do as well as might be expected because people might not believe the Studios are serious. But after 4-5 have NOT gone to TV or DVD, you’d see a change.
Once movies are again viewed as an “event,” like a concert, then the prices can go up significantly.
If people knew that the ONLY place they could see “Guardians of the Galaxy 3” was in the theater, for a limited time, you can be sure the theaters would be packed.
I’m going to think and pray on that one. I defer from trying to predict end-times, as we were warned not to even try and others have failed over tens of centuries during times that make ours seem halcyon. But having met Christians of every race and on every continent with a fervor that should make the complacent here blush, I think I grasp your point.
Yup, they won’t change, they will only be replaced.
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