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NY Observer Hopes People Still Read

MoeGolden — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:06:01 EDT

They know their core audience really don't care about doubling the cover price, and they're shooting for the advertisers that want to reach them.

MoeGolden

NY Observer Hopes People Still Read

SeaBassTian — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:46:27 EDT

So they are trying to stop their dwindling circulation by doubling the news stand price? I am no arithmetician, but something doesn't quite add up about that plan!

SeaBassTian

NY Observer Hopes People Still Read

mladen — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:33:06 EDT

@Mike_Jahn: Two words: James Wood. And the NYO Review of Blogs is just around the corner. Polish up your resume, Ian. The editor's job itself wouldn't be much but it'd be a step to the real prize: editing the New York(er?) Review of Blogs.

mladen

NY Observer Hopes People Still Read

Aatom — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:07:01 EDT

@Carol Gardens: that was kind of the point i was making. obviously not very well.

Aatom

NY Observer Hopes People Still Read

Carol Gardens — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:02:08 EDT

@Aatom: Recently, considering the constant links to Observer content, and the ex-Gawker bylines that show up there regularly, it seems that the traffic is going in one directions: from blogs to print. Interesting. Perhaps they pay a living wage.

Carol Gardens

NY Observer Hopes People Still Read

SchmatSchmaymon — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:57:53 EDT

@KarenUhOh: Morally bankrupt, intellectually peerless.

SchmatSchmaymon

NY Observer Hopes People Still Read

Aatom — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:56:07 EDT

@famousauthor: I thought the Observer was already a review of blogs? Or maybe reviews by bloggers?

Aatom

NY Observer Hopes People Still Read

Mike_Jahn — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:54:45 EDT

@famousauthor: Quick, copyright that idea!

Mike_Jahn

NY Observer Hopes People Still Read

KarenUhOh — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:48:30 EDT

I handle April Fool's jokes as I would any item: in deadly earnest. Thus, if exposed as a prank, I will lay claim to the most ironically ingenious response of all.

KarenUhOh

NY Observer Hopes People Still Read

Hamilton Nolan — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:44:56 EDT

This is a non-April Fool's item. I hope if we did an April Fool's joke it would be funnier than this.

Hamilton Nolan

NY Observer Hopes People Still Read

dawnofthedead — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:44:06 EDT

@Koreanish:
I'd pay good money to see that. Hell, I'd pay good money to get in a room with Heidi Julavits and get my snark on.

dawnofthedead

NY Observer Hopes People Still Read

Carol Gardens — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:35:34 EDT

I'm afraid to comment today, as I am not too good at telling the April Fool's items from the real ones. I'm going to read my copy of the Observer instead.

Carol Gardens

NY Observer Hopes People Still Read

Koreanish — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:33:33 EDT

I think they should do a Web TV show called Book Club, sort of like Fight Club, with people talking about whether or not a book sucks. This whole review thing is way too highbrow. It would be like Ultimate Fighting and Charlie Rose, together at last.

Koreanish

NY Observer Hopes People Still Read

Mediahohoho — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:29:04 EDT

Okay, I keep getting tripped up by this April Fool's thing. When you wrote that the observer was "read by the city's liberal elite," I didn't understand how someone could confuse that group with "conservatives who want to appear at least a few IQ points smarter than Bill Kristol."

Mediahohoho

NY Observer Hopes People Still Read

famousauthor — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:24:49 EDT

Next they will come out with an Observer Review of Blogs.

famousauthor

NY Observer Hopes People Still Read

Gravy Train — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:19:47 EDT

Peter Kaplan rocks.

Gravy Train

NY Observer Hopes People Still Read

Mike_Jahn — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:18:15 EDT

Do the guys who review literature get paid any better than the guys who write it?

Mike_Jahn

NY Observer Hopes People Still Read

mitchel_stevens — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:14:22 EDT

April Fool's!

mitchel_stevens