Editor of New Republic on Euro anti-semitism

[Felch]

It's very paritsan, like The Nation, but that doesn't mean that the people who write for it are liars and idiots. There is a legitimate point in there, that people shouldn't criticize the Israelis without criticizing the Palestinians. Even propaganda has some kernel of truth.

Bottom line: Israel is wrong. The PA is wrong. If you blame one, recognize that both are guilty of reprehensible actions.

[Adam Smith]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
Hardly that respected a journal.

Note to non-US posters:
Most liberals in the US treat The New Republic as holy writ.

[Natan]

Most of the stuff in TNR is pretty good. They're anti-Bush but they were also anti-Clinton, pro-gay rights, anti-ANWR drilling, but pro war on terrorism. They've got some very interesting writers, like Andrew O'Sullivan.

[Saint Marcus]

Most of the stuff in TNR is pretty good.

so is this article an exception?

[Sava]

Can I give a negative score? -1.0

[Ming]

Originally posted by Adam Smith
Note to non-US posters:
Most liberals in the US treat The New Republic as holy writ.

While the New Republic is "the" magazine for the liberals in the US... please remember that it's circulation is LESS the 100K.
Many liberals in the US don't even know it exists let alone read it

[Sava]

Originally posted by Ming


While the New Republic is "the" magazine for the liberals in the US... please remember that it's circulation is LESS the 100K.
Many liberals in the US don't even know it exists let alone read it

Good call. Even a psychotic liberal like me hasn't heard of it.

[Adam Smith]

Ming:

it's circulation is LESS the 100K.

How does that compare with other major political opinion magazines?
Dissent, Commentary, and The Nation come to mind.
Others?
I suspect that all of them have relatively small circulations.

I have never been in the business of promoting The New Republic, or anybody like them, so I will leave it at that.

[Ming]

Over the years, I've placed tons of ads in most of those magazines.

The New Republic (1914) = 98K
The Nation (1865) = 94K
National Review (1955) = 156K
Commentary (1945) = 26K
Foreign Affairs = 109K
Human Events (1944) = 80K
Mother Jones (1976) = 165K
Reason (1968) = 53K
The Weekly Standard (1995) = 54K

Then the Big Three Hard Core Washington Insider pubs:

National Journal (1969) = 10K
CQ Weekly (1945) =7K
The Hill (1994) = 20K

You will note that TNR is not the oldest... or the largest...

The National Review, which is TNR's conservative counterpart, has a much higher circulation.

[Roland]

Shouldn' t that be: "How does that compare with other major satire magazines?"

[Bereta_Eder]

The most funny are the magazines that think they're serious - like this one
Entertainment guaranteed

[Ming]

All the magazines I listed take themselves VERY SERIOUSLY

[Adalbertus]

The 1929 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to U.S. Secretary of State Frank Kellogg. And why not? The year before, he had persuaded the great powers to outlaw war. Among those that ratified the historic Kellogg-Briand pact were the democratic countries, plus Germany, Japan, and Italy.

To give some concrete point: In 1929, Germany was a perfectly democratic country. Hitler came to power in 1933. This is something a journalist should be aware of.

The rest of the article is written in a purely polemic style, and as such I don't take it serious.

[loinburger]

If I want news, I stick to The Economist. If I want entertainment, I watch cartoons. Papers like TNR are somewhere in the middle--they don't satisfy you either way.

[TCO]

Originally posted by Ming
Over the years, I've placed tons of ads in most of those magazines.

The New Republic (1914) = 98K
The Nation (1865) = 94K
National Review (1955) = 156K
Commentary (1945) = 26K
Foreign Affairs = 109K
Human Events (1944) = 80K
Mother Jones (1976) = 165K
Reason (1968) = 53K
The Weekly Standard (1995) = 54K

Then the Big Three Hard Core Washington Insider pubs:

National Journal (1969) = 10K
CQ Weekly (1945) =7K
The Hill (1994) = 20K

You will note that TNR is not the oldest... or the largest...

The National Review, which is TNR's conservative counterpart, has a much higher circulation.

1. What type(s) of messages did you deliver? What types of audiences did you target? This is fascinating.

2. Did you consider using the Washington Post, New York Times or Wall Street Journal to hit your target? Maybe the Sunday opinion section of the NYT or WP?

3. NR and TNR aren't as much of counterparts as people say they are. (I know it is popular to do so...) TNR is more scholarly in tone than NR (analogy might be NPR and Limbaugh...although both mags are better than their radio analogues..) TNR is also more middle of the road than hard left. Where NR is pretty hard right.