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meerkat
02/20/09

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The problem is that the MPA has NEVER done enough to help the magazine industry. They should be working on highly visible initiatives with the major publishing companies, on ways to demonstrate the value of print to brand-building; and they should be working with the major agencies to get their clients to participate in those initiatives. Instead, you have to scour their website for some research that might give you some talking points with clients.

Plus, to my knowledge they've been invisible on the whole issue of getting more timely magazine measurements, which was a big initial factor in clients' shifting dollars out of print.

Nina? Grossly overpaid.
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Kid Twist
02/20/09

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I see that Vicki Lawrence is aging really well.
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Lulu82
02/20/09

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I know people who write 100 long features a year - as staff writers, though.
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Hamilton Nolan
02/20/09

@Lulu82: really, 100 3500-word features a year? Who?
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Mount_Prion
02/20/09

@Hamilton Nolan: I wonder how many words you guys write per year.
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saythatscool
02/20/09

@Mount_Prion: If you exclude the swearies and drunken tirades, it's pretty small actually.
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overunderover
02/20/09

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Is this a piece on Lily Tomlin, ca. 9 to 5?
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BadUncle
02/20/09

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So, what has Congress done for the magazine industry, recently? I mean, why do they need a lobbyist, unless they're trying to get free postage?
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Botswana Meat Commission FC
02/20/09

@BadUncle:

Avoided laws that would crack down on their shady re-sellers?
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BookishLookish
02/20/09

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You look like a hair hopper to me. I mean, your hair is realllllly uncool.
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Nice Beaver
02/20/09

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Nina bears a striking resemblance to her cousin, Lancelot.
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saythatscool
02/20/09

@Nard: Stop monkeyin' around. You're bein' a pain in my banana.
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Nice Beaver
02/20/09

@saythatscool: I was really just aping your animal comment.
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saythatscool
02/20/09

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There's something about Nina that makes me horse.
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El Matardillo
02/20/09

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This is also why I no longer give money to the Red Cross. $500k/year in salary for their chief as of several years ago, probably much higher now!

Instead, I send my charitable donations to the Salvation Army, the lowest overhead charity out there.

Oy!
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Heneage
02/20/09

@El Matardillo: $500k/year is a steal when you consider how big of an organization the American Red Cross is. Just because people run non-profits doesn't mean that they should be paupers. If the ARC was a for-profit company it'd probably be the size of a Fortune-500, and it's CEO would make millions. This sort of logic pisses me off when people complain that university presidents make six figure salaries too, they work countless hours managing enormous, complex organizations and could make triple their salary in the private sector.

$740,000 does seem like an awful lot of money for a magazine lobbyist to make, though...
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saythatscool
02/20/09

@Heneage: All due respect H, it's a charity. So $500k is a lot. And they are not running fortune 500 companies, they are out begging people for money which they should not be using to feather their own nests. I agree with you on the university stuff but the Red Cross can just fuck off.
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City_Dater
02/20/09

@saythatscool:

I'll remember that next time I'm volunteering and you're the asshole who got burned out of his apartment building. No blankets and shelter service for you!

Running a GIANT and sometimes controversial not-for-profit organization is a huge headache, and $500,000 is not a large CEO salary.
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El Matardillo
02/20/09

@City_Dater: $500k is more than the President makes. I'd say nobody is getting a good deal out of this.
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saythatscool
02/20/09

@City_Dater: It's great that you volunteer and I applaud anyone who does. You are a charitable and giving person for doing so.

So the next time you're volunteering and run out of blankets and shelter service, go ask Marsha Evans for part of her $650K salary to make up the difference. Running a charity (whether it's a delight or a headache) should require some charity on her part. And don't give me the $650K isn't that much money spiel. It has been mocked so many times here that you should be embarrassed to bring it up at all, much less in the context of a charity.

If she wants a Wall Street salary, she should go work there. Oh wait, their CEO salaries are now smaller than Marsha's and all by popular acclaim of the American public.
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badasscat
02/20/09

@El Matardillo: People always say stuff like this about any big salary, but it's no different than saying "$500k is more than Michael Phelps makes" or something. Sure, as a *salary*, but that's not where people like that make their money. Presidents are no different. Being president of the USA is worth probably $20 million or more when you factor in the book deals, the speaking fees, etc.

I'm quite sure that any US president of the last 50 years has made at least 10 times what the CEO of the Red Cross makes.
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ninety_nine
02/20/09

@El Matardillo: With large salaries at non-profits come large expectations of fund raising. I met a guy who was did development at Harvard. He was expect to raise $2 BILLION dollars a year. Considering the ratios given to Wall Street bankers on a bonus basis, I would say if someone could raise that kind of money for the ARC, a $20MM salary wouldn't be unreasonable. Until we fully fund 'charities' (put in quotes since Bush's policy was to depend on charity to replace social services), arguing about this is pointless.
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BlinkyMcChuck
02/20/09

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So afraid...so very afraid...
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