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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">On 15 Dec 2005 at 18:10, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> > Yeah, Christian Parenti, too. As Christian said just the other  </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> > night, a bunch of GIs in Iraq read his piece in Hustler, which you  </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> > couldn't say about The Nation.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> ></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> > Doug</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> Hustler's circulation is said to be currently about 500,000 (down  </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> from the peak of 2 million [Barry M. Horstman, "Larry Flynt," <http:// </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> www.cincypost.com/living/1999/flynt112299.html>]).  What's the  </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> proportion of 500,000 Hustler readers who actually _read_ words on  </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> its pages, as opposed to just looking at pix and masturbating?   </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> Probably something like 1%, and only a small proportion of that 1%  </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> get to a particular article in the whole issue.  If Christian wants  </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> to reach the masses, I say he should try to get on Oprah.  Even only  </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> with regard to attempts to reach GIs, it makes sense to write for The  </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> Nation, CounterPunch, and the like than Hustler and make sure his  </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> writings are available widely on the Net -- after all, today's GIs  </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> have access to the Internet, and most of them probably get their porn  </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> as well as reading materials there (which probably explains the  </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> decline in the Hustler circulation.).</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> Yoshie Furuhashi</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">I bet way more than 1% read the stuff inside. Shooting from the hip I'd guess better than 50%. If you just
want porn pictures there are cheaper and easier ways to get them. Hustler subscribers like the content,
that's why they subscribe.  Some of the college students I know subscribe and read it and several of the
employees of one of the chicken plants here that I occasionally hang out with also read it. They are more
than happy to discuss what they read concerning politics in Hustler and not the least bit reticent to tell you
they read it there. There is no stigma attached to it for them. Why should there be?</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Certainly there are larger outlets but I'd take whatever exposure I could get if I were Christian Parenti or
Amy Goodman. Most Hustler readers probably don't sub to the Nation or Mother Jones so it is a venue to
reach people who might not otherwise be exposed to those pieces.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">I'd like to see Christian on Oprah but I'm not sure how much more good that would do him than being in
Hustler. When it is convenient to do so it is easy to portray Oprah as nothing but "feel good chick stuff" and
so marginalize anything on it.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">That said I have seen my ugly racist cartoons in Hustler.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">John Thornton</span></font></div>
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