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2007-09-12 Fifth Column

NYT Gave MoveOn.org Huge Discount For Their Attack Ad

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Posted by Anonymoose 2007-09-12 16:59|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1757 views ] Top

1 Who cares what the list price is. The value of a single page ad in any newspaper is falling like a rock. The relevant question is how does the $65k rate compare to other one time only ad placements?

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-09-12 17:20|| 2007-09-12 17:20|| Front Page Top

2 And we are suprised? What shocks me is they did not run it for free.

Posted by 49 Pan 2007-09-12 18:00|| 2007-09-12 18:00|| Front Page Top

3 New York Slimes and moveon.whorg

A match made in heaven.

Posted by gorb 2007-09-12 18:04|| 2007-09-12 18:04|| Front Page Top

4 I'll bet the Ad backfired, and I'll bet the NYT gets some of the splashback.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2007-09-12 18:34|| 2007-09-12 18:34|| Front Page Top

5 Sorry, this isn't news and isn't important, and for a couple of reasons:

1) the NYT is a private company, and can give a discount to whomever they want, for whatever reason they want (excepting discrimination, of course).

2) ev'ryone knows that the NYT and MoveOn are sympatetico.

It's their paper -- only people who should be complaining are the shareholders, and we already know what Pinchy thinks of them.

Posted by Steve White">Steve White 2007-09-12 18:36|| 2007-09-12 18:36|| Front Page Top

6 And the NYT wonders why it's readership is falling like a brick.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-09-12 18:42|| 2007-09-12 18:42|| Front Page Top

7 Why put it in the Times? Isn't that kinda like preaching to the choir?
Helluva waste of money if you ask me.

Posted by tu3031 2007-09-12 20:08|| 2007-09-12 20:08|| Front Page Top

8 The only way to read the news is to avoid any story with a NY Times byline. The NY Times ranks below the newspaper that used to print stories about the "bat boy" that the FBI was chasing, and about Hillary's alien lover, and about those seven U.S. Senators who were really aliens from outer space. The Washington insiders thought that the newspaper had it wrong and that there were at least 15 aliens in the Senate. At least that newspaper, now defunct, had a sense of style, a sense of what was important, and never pretended to let the facts get in the way of a good story. Perhaps things would improve if the NY Times would stop pretending to be a fact-based paper.

Posted by whatadeal 2007-09-12 20:38|| 2007-09-12 20:38|| Front Page Top

9 The New York Times has been dealing with sinking revenues along with every other newspaper in America. The newspaper business has been losing out to the internet, both as a news medium and as a way of passing time. Ad revenues are getting stomped by the internet as well. That's what Google and Yahoo are doing - they're sucking up all the revenues that used to go exclusively to newspapers. If anything, they are more liberal than the New York Times.

Note that the New York Post, which is pretty conservative, hasn't made money in all the years that Murdoch has owned it. The Wall Street Journal, which has a conservative editorial page, has been doing so poorly that it had to be put up for sale. The fact is that the economics of the newspaper business aren't what they used to be, as shareholders and the hapless victims of layoffs are rapidly finding out.

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