Once upon a time, you would open a magazine like OK! or Cosmo and see an article that ended with the magazine's website address, ostensibly so readers could find more information about the subject. "More information" usually just meant extraneous lists or irrelevant facts, but more importantly, tons of ads and pop-ups that brought in extra ad revenue.
Well, that was before the era of plummeting newsstand sales, falling at a rate that makes Jann Wenner stay up at night counting solid gold sheep. Now that most celebrity news of the "breaking" variety is fed to the public through blogs and websites, the gossip-mongering print industry fights to keep their newest issues moving off the shelves. Thus, the tried and tired gimmick of offering only glimpses of stories online, with the rest found exclusively in the print edition. Good tactic sure, but it's too bad the pitch will help Sarah Palin/John McCain get elected:
Last week there was the National Enquirer's Palin controversy (no, not the one about Bristol, the one about Palin's alleged affair), where the tabloid withheld the juicy gossip for the print-edition only. OK!'s big Palin story used a similar tactic; offering a tiny slice of intrigue on their website and then announcing, "For the entire story on Sarah Palin's baby scandal, including where she stands on the issues, pick up the new OK! - on newsstands everywhere on Thursday!"
So what's wrong with trying to coerce readers back to the printed word? Well for one, those publications were at the heart of Palin's media attack last week, when she accused the MSM of being unfairly biased and treating Barack Obama like a celebrity (he's been on the National Enquirer's cover too). The more the tabloids use Palin scandals to desperately sell off copies, the more ammo they give the governor in her campaign to become invincible against real journalistic attacks.
Not to say that the National Enquirer isn't a real paper…they broke that Edwards story after all. Just not online.
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I for one am having a great time watching "objective" journalists having to report on Palin with a straight face…all of them, except Peggy Noonan, who cracked.
Ben Stein cracked too.. LOL
He just wasn't having it.. LOL
Come on.
We're not as stupid as mccain and palin think we are!!!
Palin:
She has next to no experience in government. When ask about national security back ground or knowledge regarding foreign affairs the best Ms. McCain could come up with was “she lives right by Russia.â€
She has only traveled outside the country twice in her life.
She was associated with to a 3rd party which among other things supports allowing Alaska to secede from the United States and feels the only thing wrong with the John Birch Society was it was to liberal! Her husband “First Dude†was registered as a member of this party between 1994 and 2004!
She tried to have a local Librarian fired for not banning books. She used her political office to try to have fired and smear a state trooper who is in a custody battle with her sister. She is being investigated for this and is worried enough about the outcome to have recently “lawyered up.â€
Palin currently has pretty messy family issues. She recently gave birth to a son with Downs Syndrome and has a 17 year old daughter who is pregnant. Ironically she has fought sex education in the schools and availability of contraception for minors. I am glad she was able to make the choice to carry her disabled son to term…we all need the right to make our own choices!!!
She believes that for 9 months a woman has no right to control what is happening to her own body and is basically nothing more than a baby container. She does not believe in a women’s right to choose to end a pregnancy, even if she has been raped.
She reminds me of Lynn Spears - Britney’s mom. She is thrusting her children into the spot light for her own gain. I understand her daughter Bristol and her boy friend Levi are dropping out of their senior high school year to become poster children in her pro-life (anti-choice) cause.
I have read recent reports indicating she tried to force her under age daughter into a politically convienent wedding - but Bristol would not have anything to do with it (way to go girl - you rock!)I have read that she likely had an affair with her husbands business partner…I can really see why the "family values" people love her so much!
She does not believe human pollution has anything to do with global warming (even Bush has had to back down on this one). Is so in bed with big oil she is willing to watch as the polar bear and beluga whales become extinct, rather than slow the possibility of drilling. She would open up one of the last great wilderness on earth to exploitation by oil interests.
She laughed when hearing a fellow Republican woman being called a bitch in public (she and the woman had disagreed on several issues) I guess this does make her on par with McCain who thinks it is alright to call your wife a cunt in public.
She has been repeatedly described as stubborn with a vicious streak – even by family and friends. (nick name Sarah Barracuda)
Has an undergraduate degree in Journalism for a small obscure university.It took her 5-6 years to manage to graduate and she attended 5 different colleges…
She did fund raising for Sen. Ted Stevens (think major Alaskan corruption) and accepted money from the same sources as Sen. Ted Stevens. She pushed for the “bridge to no where – the flipped when convenient to do so.
She has been named Sen. John McCain’s VP selection for the Republican ticket. Sen. McCain is 72 years old and has reoccurring cancer as part of his health history. One can not help but question Mr. McCain’s judgment regarding her selection. John McCain has made a calculated choice in selecting his VP, that has unfortunately put an undereducated, inexperienced right wing nut case a “heart beat†away from becoming President at a time when our Nation faces some of the most complex and volatile issues it has in decades.