Who To Believe ….
Excerpt and Fact of the Day
“We no longer know whom to believe. All reporters are deemed too drive-by. All politicians are thought to be too compromised. The Pope is too Catholic, and Obama is too black. Cantor is too right, and Pelosi is too wrong. Reid is too mumbly, and Boehner is too tan. Cronkite is too dead, and Limbaugh is too self-infatuated. The networks can’t be trusted, and Fox is too biased. The South is too conservatrive, and New England is too liberal. The Almanac’s too ancient, and Wikipedia is too unreliable. And while we’re at it, Kardashian is too everywhere …. ” Borgen, M., The Relevance of Reason – The Hard Facts and Real Data About the State of Current America – Business and Politics (2013), p. 3.
Fact of the Day
Opinion Magazines – Major Publications, Trends and Circulation.
As stated in the Pew Research Study, readership of opinion magazines is, to a substantial degree, a function of which party is in power. Conservative publications do well when Democrats are in power, and liberal publications do well when Republicans are in power. The approximate circulation of four of the largest opinion magazines are as follows:
Publication Peak Year(s) 2010 Circulation Percentage of U.S. Adult Populaiton
National Review 1992-1996 200,000 0.08%
The Nation 2005-2006 149,000 0.06%
Weekly Standard 1988-1999 100,000 0.04%
New Republic 1988-2000 52,000 0.02%
TOTAl: 499.000 0.20.%
Borgen, M., The Relevance of Reason – Business and Politics (2013), p. 292, citing Pew Research Center Project’s for Excellence in Journalism; stateofmedia.org.
