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To: Don Corleone
BTW the advertising pays for the production of the paper. The street/subscription price is pure gravy.

That's the issue here. I once heard Jack Sweeny, the publisher of the Chronicle, admit that to an audience of businessmen. Subscriber boycotts are good because they push their circulation numbers down, but if you really wanna hit 'em it takes an advertiser boycott.

The Republican Party may be a good place to start - urge its candidates not to take out any ads in the leftist papers, especially during the primaries. They don't lose anything since republicans don't read those papers anyway, and the ads they deny often cost 10-20 thousand or more.

33 posted on 04/19/2005 8:45:13 AM PDT by GOPcapitalist ("Marxism finds it easy to ally with Islamic zealotism" - Ludwig von Mises)
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To: GOPcapitalist

The Comical just has "weekly free subscriptions" where they litter on peoples' yard to get those circulation figure up there again.


34 posted on 04/19/2005 10:03:54 AM PDT by weegee (WE FOUGHT ZOGBYISM November 2, 2004 - 60 Million Voters versus 60 Minutes - BUSH WINS!!!)
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