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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (13361)	10/21/2003 11:12:18 PM
From: MSI	Read Replies (1) of 793717

Yep. "What Goes Around Comes Around". The stew has begun to boil over. The lid can only be kept on the pot for so long, even with 400 hrs/day of talk radio propaganda. Apparently these books critical of the administration are actual bestsellers with actual individual consumers buying them. The NYT list doesn't show tell-tale daggers against those, unlike the right-wing books by Coulter, David Limbaugh, Laura Ingram, which indicate phony wholesale purchases to artificially raise the sales level. homepage.mac.com "Thu - October 16, 2003 Bestsellers - Fraud or Manipulation? In PW Daily last month, Al Franken suggested that the ranking of titles with daggers next to them on the New York Times bestseller list might be artificially inflated by bulk buys from well-financed institutions of the right-wing persuasion. (For the record, a footnote on the Times list says the dagger "indicates that some bookstores report receiving bulk orders.") Last week, in a New York Times article entitled "Among the Best-Selling Authors the Daggers Are Out," Emily Eakin investigated this issue. ... Times bestseller list editor Deborah Hofmann told Eakin that the dagger "is not a pejorative, but it is a communication to the reader that if you don't see a lot of people reading this book on the street, you're not the only one."

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