Nadine, do you have any idea what the circulation of "The Nation" is? I couldn't find an exact figure when I looked, but it seems it'd be lucky if it hits 100k from this snippet from an article about "Reason":
Although the magazine's circulation is tiny by Time or Reader's Digest standards, it has more than doubled in the past 10 years to 61,000, surpassing the conservative Weekly Standard and closing in on the liberal Nation and New Republic. (google cache hit, 64.233.167.104 )
For comparison, a list of general magazine circulation figures can be seen at adage.com . To a first order approximation, I'd say essentially nobody reads "The Nation", or equivalent political commentary magazines in general. Which is all to the good, from my point of view, as near as I can tell "political commentary" in general is more or less synonymous with the Fox News sense of "fair and balanced". Unfortunately, way too many people apparently listen to Rush Limbaugh, who seems capable of making practically anybody who shows up in print seem reasonable by comparison, but that's another story. |
