Awesome: Us Magazine Lost Thousands of Subscribers for Their Biased Sarah Palin Issue......
Even better: Most of the subscribers still haven't received the issue......
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 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 in the industry. Another source claimed that as many as 10,000 readers have already cancelled their subscriptions. A spokesperson for Wenner Media, which publishes Us, says “it is completely false that we are losing 10,000 subscribers.” As for the 5,000 estimate, the spokesperson only said “that is false, too,” but wouldn’t comment further.
Five thousand might not seem like a large number at first glance, but it’s significant in the context of Us’ printing schedule. The magazine goes to press Monday night, which means subscribers don’t receive their issues until Friday or Saturday. In other words, the cancellations are coming from subscribers who, in many cases, haven’t even gotten their hands on the actual issue.
ZIP
Boo hooo hooo
Posted by: Elric66 | September 05, 2008 at 09:12 AM
My wife buys that magazine, no more.
Posted by: JDAM | September 05, 2008 at 09:43 AM
El,
Remember when I posed the question whether Oprah would support Obama because he's black or Palin because she's a woman?
Check out the flash on Drudge. http://www.drudgereport.com/flash3os.htm
Politics is the third rail of business. Her audience is really pissed at her for not inviting Palin on her show.
Posted by: Bob | September 05, 2008 at 09:50 AM
A better name for that rag would be PUS.
Posted by: Poopyhead | September 05, 2008 at 01:08 PM
Hell hath no fury like a terrified advertiser. Let the blood-letting begin, couldn't happen to a more deserving, biased lot.
Posted by: Merrimac | September 05, 2008 at 01:12 PM
Bob,
Its disgraceful she wont have her on. She is going to take a big hit for this.
Posted by: Elric66 | September 05, 2008 at 01:38 PM
When will the left raise the CENSORSHIP claim?
Posted by: Codekeyguy | September 05, 2008 at 03:14 PM
El on "big hit". Deeee-licious.
I've never been able to figure out her appeal. All I see is a round face, big eyes, big smile and lots of emotion with the occasional giveaways to the audience, 98% women. She's like The View with more sophistication. All they do is emote and bitch.
Is it me or is she just for women?
For fun, sometime, I'd like to see a REAL men's show. Something with Jesse Ventura running it. I might even watch it if i can find the time. LOL It would last 1 episode before the wimps and pussies at the networks killed it.
I'm not a misogynist. I just like REAL women. Not fake-o's like Oprah. I think she thinks everyone in her audience is a sucker, frankly.
But let me tell you, just like all the women who are now complaining about the way the mostly male MSM is treating Sarah, there are an equal number of REAL men out there who if given the chance, would cut the balls off of every fucking retard in the MSM if they could starting with NBC and Stepinalloverus.
You know El, the Left may be mad at Bush, but I see a helluva lot of anger, distain and resentment among the men I know toward the Lefturds and the MSMturds, and toward government, the fucking elites like Obama and Biden, the entire bureaucracy at every level and Congress. These people just won't acknowledge how much they're hated and despised. They don't have to. They're beholden to the politicians who have insulated themselves from the people. What happens if a politician loses an election? They go to work for some organization or contractor at 3 times the salary of a congressman. They ALWAYS win. We ALWAYS lose.
When was the last time you had a good "experience" with a bureaucrat or your representative? Did they care one whit about you or your needs?
Posted by: Bob | September 05, 2008 at 03:38 PM
Any pool going on if Oprah will change her mind? Make a great poll question. HINT
:-)
Posted by: Elric66 | September 05, 2008 at 03:52 PM