Open Letter to the Nation magazine

[Steve Perry]

Katrina reportedly gave about $1 mil to the magazine around the time she was appointed editor (this was related to me by Alex Cockburn). The cynics among us always took it that she bought the editorship. Second, as to efforts to broaden readership, that probably was the idea, but in fact the mag's circulation has descended from a high point in the 130,000-140,000 range down to 86,000 at present. The fallacy of centrism once again.

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From: 	Marta Russell
Sent: 	Friday, November 06, 1998 11:55 AM
To: 	lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
Subject: 	Re: Open Letter to the Nation magazine

To add one more thought to this thread.  My partner, Tom, who has
amazing good common sense, says he thinks the Nation has gone middle
road to get more subscriptions, to show profits, to build their empire
so to speak.

Someone told me that the editor, Katrina  vanden Heuval, owns a large
interest in the publication.  Can anyone verify this?

Marta Russell

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