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MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
Three celebrity weeklies — OK!, People and Us Weekly — featured Sarah Palin on their cover, but one of those magazines is reportedly losing subscribers because of it.
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Stop the ACLU (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
-By Warner Todd Huston Courtney Hazlett over at MSNBC’s “The Scoop” is reporting that thousands of “Us Weekly” subscribers have not only called the magazine to cancel their subscriptions — some reports say up to 10,000 cancellations have occurred — but have also contacted advertisers and expressed their outrage that they are advertising with the celebrity [...]
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Sister Toldjah (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
MSNBC’s The Scoop reports: ST. PAUL, Minn. - Three celebrity weeklies — OK!, People and Us Weekly — featured Sarah Palin on their cover, but one of those magazines is reportedly losing subscribers because of it. Us Weekly, which unlike People and OK!, chose a rather caustic cover line (“Babies, Lies and Scandal”) is said to have [...]
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Alamo Nation (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
McCain's speech did exactly what it needed to do. He made his case that his administration wouldn't be a Bush third term (as much as I wish it would be!) and underscored his dedication to eliminating wasteful spending. Highlights of his speech that I particularly agreed with (text copied & pasted from Newsday ): I've fought corruption, and it didn't matter if the culprits were Democrats or Republicans....
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Lone Star Times (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
Remember the comparison of US Weekly’s treatment of The One and Sarah Palin? Turns out that a whole lot of people got upset about it. Us Weekly, which unlike People and OK!, chose a rather caustic cover line (“Babies, Lies and Scandal”) is said to have lost thousands of subscribers in just the first 24 hours following [...]
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OpiniPundit (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
Free speech is a wonderful thing but malicious ofuscation to sell mags comes with a price. Three celebrity weeklies — OK!, People and Us Weekly — featured Sarah Palin on their cover, but one of those magazines is reportedly losing subscribers because of it. Us Weekly, which unlike People and OK!, chose a rather caustic cover line (“Babies, Lies and Scandal”) is said to have lost thousands of subscribers...
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Random Thoughts from Reno (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
US magazine has suffered because it put a caustic headline on its cover about Sarah Palin.
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THINKing (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
In our last post, we talked about newspapers’ decline. Today, the industry moved into ICU. Despite recent economic challenges, online ad revenues have remained fairly stable. According to TechCrunch, online ad revenues are now in the toilet, too, Total print ads in the U.S. were down 16 percent in the second quarter to $8.8 billion. [...]
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HolyCoast.com (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
There was a lot of noise in the blogosphere in the last day over the slanderous cover that US Magazine ran on Sarah Palin. The "Babies, Lies and Scandal" title implied wrongdoing that wasn't even detailed in the article. It was a cheap shot at Palin and the Republicans, aimed at the millions of women who subscribe along with millions of others who would see only the cover on grocery store checkstands....
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Anorak News (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
US Magazine treats Sarah Palin badly. and the readers repsond: Us Weekly, which unlike People and OK!, chose a rather caustic cover line (“Babies, Lies and Scandal”) is said to have lost thousands of subscribers in just the first 24 hours following the printing of the issue. “I’m hearing it’s 5,000, maybe more,” says one well-placed source [...]
