[lbo-talk] Nation thrives

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Jan 3 12:14:51 PST 2005


J Cullen wrote:


>David Shaw writes about The Nation thriving under the Bush
>administration. In the second graf he quotes Victor Navasky saying
>the Nation had only 28,000 subscribers when he bought it 10 years
>ago for $1 million. Was its circulation really that low in the
>mid-90s? It is now reportedly 185,000.

If Big Vic says so, it must be true. When Navasky took over editing The Nation in the late 70s, the recently departed Jack Newfield commented: "The Nation? When their subscribers expire, they really expire!"

Doug



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