Posted on 06/05/2020 10:43:29 PM PDT by knighthawk
The team of Sen. Martha McSally (R-AZ) is crying foul as the New York Times blocks her book from appearing on its bestseller list while the senator is up for re-election despite having sold more copies than other books on the list.
McSally’s latest book Dare to Fly: Simple Lessons in Never Giving Up, sold, according to the publisher Harper Collins, 10,000 hardcover copies, 400 e-books, and 300 digital audiobooks. That is significantly more than the Times’ lowest-ranked book on its top 15 nonfiction bestsellers list, My Vanishing Country written by CNN contributor and Democrat Bakari Sellers and published by Amistad. Sellers’ book sold 2,200 copies, per BookScan data as reported by Harper Collins. The highest-ranking book on the list, Untamed by activist Glennon Doyle, sold 38,100 copies.
But the fact that McSally’s book, according to BookScan sales data collected by Nielsen and reported by Harper Collins, sold nearly five times as many as the lowest-ranked book on the newspaper’s bestseller list and somehow did not make the cut has the senator’s team raising concerns of “political bias.”
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NYT biased ?
The nyt has been playing with the numbers of bestsellers for forty years. Dobson from focus on th family spoke about it back in the nineties when he had many mega bestsellers and was denied nyt status. Leftists have been lying for years as they reshape the world into their preferred image.
There was an author named David Vise who bought a garage full of his own book and then later returned them that first tipped off the NYT that people were seriously gaming the ratings.
They want books in the bestseller list that people actually are buying to read, not just as a way to backdoor a political contribution.
I think Congressman Jim Wright had a scandal with the same sort of nonsense.
I actually saw a copy of Jim Wright’s book in an elementary school office one time. Some pages had one sentence and others were blank. Total scam.
Wright was a really rotten human being.
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