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In March, New Republic Editor-in-Chief and former owner Martin Peretz told subscribers that the weekly magazine's shift to a bi-weekly publication schedule might mean fewer issues, but it would not mean fewer pages! The magazine would now be 80 pages, instead of 40, and would come out half as often. So readers would be receiving the same number of pages per year, just divided among fewer issues. This was immediately shown to be not at all true, and has become even less true as time has gone on.
The second redesigned issue—the one with Hillary Clinton on the cover—clocked in at 64 pages. The May 7 issue was even smaller, as a reader reports (we've stopped reading, mostly!):
the current issue clocks in at 54 pages. at this rate, by the time, Hillary or Barack make it to the white house in 2008, the new republic might be as thick as one of those "street sheets" the homeless peddle for a buck each.Snappity snap! If someone wanted to get really pesky, they'd start putting together a subscribers' class-action lawsuit. Just saying!
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Spy Magazine in its waning days barely tipped the scales at 80 pages. Anything thinner is unsuitable for leveling tables at Starbucks.
That's strange. Since the Canadians bought it you'd have thought it would have doubled in size, to accomodate the French translation...
Who wants MORE pages? The perfect issue of The New Republic, in my opinion, would be a single sheet of glossy stock with a hilarious caricature of George W. Bush on one side and an ad for the Bose Wave Radio on the other.
tnr: jabbering, self important, windup toys
no, wait
tnr: lapdogs of the beltwat establishment, bereft of vision, writing ability, wisdom or common sense
no, wait
tnr: done, ruined, fucked
there; that's it.
As someone who's written the occasional freelance thingy for CanWest, you should know that the great and glorious Lord Tubby of Cockwallow (as we know him) has built an empire by buying local papers, slashing their staff and outsourcing maybe two-thirds of the articles in any paper to CP and CanWest news service.
And then of course, there's the glorious and oft-protested CanWest freelancer's agreement!!
"Freelancer hereby irrevocably grants and assigns to CanWest all rights of every kind in and to the Content (including copyright), and agrees that CanWest shall have the right to exclusively use and exploit the Content in any manner and in any and all media, whether now known or hereafter devised, throughout the universe, in perpetuity."
Which is so ludicrous as to be funny. Now tell me Conrad Black doesn't deserve a hundred years in jail.
How does this impact their circulation numbers? Will it be cut in half?
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