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Home Front: Culture Wars
"Progressive media" not selling
2006-04-26
'PROGRESSIVE' MEDIA STALLS: 'AIR AMERICA' IN AUDIENCE PLUNG NYC, 'DAILY KOS' BOOK ONLY SELLS 3,600 COPIES
Wed Apr 26 2006 11:39:51 ET

Left-leaning new media has hit turbulence at the marketplace, newly released stats show.

A book hyped as documenting a progressive revolution of "blogs" and political power, DAILY KOS 'CRASHING THE GATE,' has sold only 3,630 copies since its release last month, according to NIELSEN's BOOKSCAN.

Meanwhile, the just released radio Winter Book [Jan-Mar] from ARBITRON shows AIR AMERICA in New York City losing more than a third of its audience -- in the past year!

Among all listeners 12+, it was a race to the bottom for AIR AMERICA and WLIB as mid-days went from a 1.6 share during winter 2005 to a 1.0 share winter 2006.

During PM drive, host Randi Rhodes plunged to 27,900 listeners every quarter hour, finishing 25th place in her time slot, down from 49,000 listeners every quarter hour last year.

Developing...
Posted by:DarthVader

#14  C'mon, do you really expect a blockbuster for Kos when you get reviewers like Melody X, the self-proclaimed "star of the DVD 'the New Sex' and the e-book 9 Free Secrets...", titling her review on Amazon with the curious title, "Uninteresting yet Genius"?

YJCMTSU....check it out on Amazon if you don't believe me. Apparently she IS quite the expert on sex, since her latest review is for the book "What to Expect When You're Expecting". ;)
Posted by: Desert Blondie   2006-04-26 22:40  

#13  More new reasons for the Clinton-led Dems to demand American Hiroshimas. THePresidencne is the Presidency, Power is Power, whether it comes from surviving GOP-Conservative-Rightism caused/blamed new 9-11's, i.e. MUNICH BEER HALL PUTCHS; to saving the world and SSSSHHHHHHHH, mainstream SOCIALIST America from GOP-Conservative-Rightism caused/blamed Nuke Brinkmanship and Nuke Warfare. Whom wants to be Hermann Goering and get shot in the groin in the name of national Potemkinism. ROBIN WILLIAMS > "CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC
CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC..............[Correctness]@".
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2006-04-26 21:33  

#12  Jim: Recommend you return to the library tomorrow and correct your oversight. You have a moral obligation to children and mankind in general, to purchase these books and feed them into a shredder immediately. We can never be quite certain that some innocent soul might come along, pict one up and mistake it's content for truth.
Posted by: Besoeker   2006-04-26 20:36  

#11  A slight related commentary, I often peruse the used books section of our local public library, that's where they sell off the books that are either too old, unread, or otherwise destined to be trashed unless someone wants them.

These books usualy sell for a pittance, usualy a buck or less.

On this visit there were a total of twenty copies of Bill Clinton's autobiography "My Life" all unused, brand new, and unopened since bought, all for a dollar each, no takers.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2006-04-26 20:23  

#10  haHa! Em!
Posted by: 6   2006-04-26 16:47  

#9  What's that title of that Kos book again? Crash & Burn? Crashing Bore? Crushing Disappointment?
Posted by: Mike   2006-04-26 14:36  

#8  LMAO
Posted by: Matt   2006-04-26 14:17  

#7  Kos has only one thing to say: "Thanks, Mom!"
Posted by: Seafarious   2006-04-26 14:02  

#6  3,630 Copies???? Oh, man, that's almost sad enough to make me feel pity for these poor, sick bastards.

Yes, I pity the 3360 people who bought it.
Posted by: JFM   2006-04-26 13:59  

#5  Among all listeners 12+, it was a race to the bottom for AIR AMERICA and WLIB as mid-days went from a 1.6 share during winter 2005 to a 1.0 share winter 2006.

Does this mean they were polling all radio listeneners that are aged 12+, or does it mean there was only "12+" listeners total? Either way, it makes me LMAO.
Posted by: BA   2006-04-26 13:40  

#4  Don't forget the lack of respect for copyright among likely KOS readers. There could be thousands more copies circulating that were xeroxed on university machines, paid for with government grant money.
Posted by: Glenmore   2006-04-26 13:01  

#3  Just remember they are poised to take over the House and Senate in November! Sure they are.
Posted by: Cyber Sarge   2006-04-26 12:46  

#2  Probably the American Library Association directed buy for your local libraries. Not that you'd find too many non-lefty writers with books far higher on the best selling lists among recent orders.
Posted by: Glath Sherese1207   2006-04-26 12:38  

#1  3,630 Copies???? Oh, man, that's almost sad enough to make me feel pity for these poor, sick bastards.

Almost.

Posted by: Dave D.   2006-04-26 12:21  

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