Fox News won't allow the "Nation" to Advertise/ Nation's Circulation UP!

[KoKo]

Now this… Is Fox Chicken?

Mike Webb of the The Nation writes in:=

In a bit of turnabout is fair play, The Nation magazine recently attempted to buy some late night advertising time on Fox News in the hopes that we might be able to enlighten a few of their viewers. Two years ago, much to the chagrin of 50 Nation readers who cancelled their subscriptions, Fox bought ad space in The Nation to tout what they called their #1 rating (while the rest of the world touted it as a sign that we really needed to work harder to improve our education system). The day The New York Times reported on the annoyed readers, Fox called again and booked another ad that proclaimed "real journalism...America guarantees a free press." Our editors responded with a note that said, "Compared with Murdoch, Mao Zedong, who said, 'Let a hundred flowers bloom,' was a free-speech fanatic."

-SNIP-

It's fair to ask why would The Nation want to spend it's limited, but hard-earned resources with a network it once called "a calculated mouthpiece for the right" in the first place? Well with our circulation continuing to grow (we’ve surpassed the National Review and have twice the circulation of the Murdoch-owned Weekly Standard) we believed now was the right time to invest in promoting the magazine to a wider audience. And our progressive-minded media buyers, Avenging Angels, showed us that a late night buy on Fox was cost-effective because of the number of late night viewers we would reach. Besides, when the world's biggest media baron tries to stick it to you, you can whine about it or make them pay your top ad rate and give them an information-judo-chop right back. Or rather, we would if Fox News genuinely believed in “fair and balanced” journalism, rather than serving as “a 24/7 commercial for the Bush White House.”

I’d ask if there’s no honor among thieves, but the only theft taking place is the hijacking of the public airwaves and further concentration of media power in the hands of Rupert Murdoch and five other media conglomerates.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3449870/

[acmejack]

1. I would expect no less

from the fine folks at Faux. I loved the readership data, thanx!

[durutti]

2. I find The Nation occasionally interesting. However...

Between David Corn, Marc Cooper, and others, it's one of those publications that I suspect of being funded by the CIA.

[gasperc]

3. fairs, fairs the Nation let them run an ad in the mag

Fox news should allow the same in kind

[KoKo]

4. Kick for a little good news...inspite of Fox.

:kick:

[KoKo]

5. kick.....