Rosie's Publisher: Cooking Numbers Since October 2001?

Fox News ^ | 10/21/03 | Roger Friedman

[NYC Republican]

Did magazine publisher Gruner & Jahr purposely inflate the circulation numbers for Rosie O'Donnell's magazine beginning in October 2001? And did they do it to make O'Donnell unable to leave or close the magazine without penalty?

O'Donnell thinks so.

I told you back on January 31, 2003 that O'Donnell had some serious accusations against magazine publisher Gruner & Jahr. They were so serious that she amended her lawsuit against them, charging that they had cooked the books on her magazine.

[NYC Republican]

I can't stand this hypocritical lib (redundant?)... Would love to see her go down. Her play with Boy George is already expected to be a mass failure.

[camle]

sh lemme see if i get this right - the mag was such a success that it sold roughly 60% of what they claimed - that their business was LESS than imagined??

[r9etb]

The ironic beauty of it is this: in order to win the lawsuit, Rosie has to argue that nobody wanted to buy her cage-liner magazine.

[quark]

ROSIE, a Fag-Mag Production.

[Izzy Dunne]

Would love to see her go down.

Would you perhaps care to re-phrase that?

[The Radical Capitalist]

The trouble with Rosie's lawsuit is a lack of evidence. It turns out that after Gruner & Jahr cooked the books, she ate them.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Did magazine publisher Gruner & Jahr purposely inflate the circulation numbers for Rosie O'Donnell's magazine beginning in October 2001?

More importantly, who's responsible for inflating Rosie?

[camle]

pacific gas?

[NYC Republican]

Would you perhaps care to re-phrase that?

LOL- THAT's a visual I don't want to see... or even think about.

[camle]

best be careful around her roundness

[Robert A. Cook, PE]

Funny about the liberal publishing business -

Thought they were screaming about Bush lying about Iraq (when he didn't!) but here the NY (liberal) publisher ARE LYING ... and nobody says anything!

Total silence about this from NY.

Though it brings to question how much the liberal's book sales and presence ARE hyped by the mass media (papers, book reviews, TV, commentary, shows) that supports their fellow travelers (er, fellow associates) in the international socialist culture.

[SengirV]

If anythings been inflate, it's Rosie's girth. Wanting to look like a man is one thing, but when your ideal for a man is Ed Asner(body shape and politically), then you are in trouble.

[kallisti]

Rosie had sold 480,500 copies a month. But when ABC did their audit -- and this is what every publisher lives or die by -- the number was 278,935. That, Bernstein points out, constitutes 45% inflation.

no, it is not 45%. please try again.

[Recovering_Democrat]

Publisher lying about their liberal's sales?? The hell you say.

[exile]

Maybe I haven't been paying attention, but when did this beast have a magazine? I'm sure she has a few copies of the Victoria's Secret catalog stashed in her bathroom, but that's about it.

[NYC Republican]

They messed up, it's 72%!

[kallisti]

you are correct sir. (having a 50s arithmetic education forbids me from passing on things like this.)

[NYC Republican]

That was a great catch! Another example of how we take things for granted (as being fact) when reported by the media. Makes you wonder just how often they spin or lie each day.

[N. Theknow]

Lemme see, hmmm.... a lesbian in a lawsuit...Probably has nothing that will stand up in court.

[kallisti]

trust but verify.
yeah, they spin and lie, but sometimes math-o-phobia just numbs their minds.

[sheik yerbouty]

She is going to be called on the carpet!

[quark]

Used to be McCall's, a [formerly] well-respected, but struggling, women's magazine. Put Rosie on the cover -- before she "came out" -- and sales surged. Brain surgeons at the magazine decided to rename it Rosie Magazine, plus give her/it creative control. O'Donut quits her TV show, announces she's a lesbian [big surprise], gets a butch haircut, and, predictably, magazine sales go in the tank. End of mag.

[AD from SpringBay]

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