Newsmax chief rushes to Palin's defense over criticism for reading Newsmax
November 30, 2009 2:11 pm ET by Terry Krepel
In his Nov. 30 column, Newsmax president and CEO Christopher Ruddy declared that the "mainstream media" is" simply out of touch with ordinary Americans" and that "the major media establishment lives in a bubble." Ruddy's evidence for this: The media criticized Sarah Palin for reading Newsmax.
Ruddy touts the popularity of Newsmax's website, claiming it "has reached close to 4 million unique visitors monthly." He also promotes Newsmax's magazine, asserting that it has "a monthly readership of more than 800,000." But note that he said "readership," not paid circulation, which is the standard accepted metric for measuring a magazine's reach. Newsmax has previously indicated that it believes the magazine is read by four people for every copy sold, which is apparently where it gets that inflated "readership" number.
Ruddy writes: "The bottom line is this: Those who live in the Big Media Bubble can't comprehend the appeal of Newsmax -- or Sarah Palin." He's got us there. We have trouble grasping the appeal of a website that has published columns advocating a military coup against President Obama, calling for a "tenting" of the White House, blaming the Holocaust Museum shooting on Obama, and embracing the birther conspiracy.
Ruddy also touted how Palin's book "shot to the top of the best-seller lists, reportedly selling 700,000 copies in the first week after its Nov. 17 release." He fails to mention that a not-insignificant amount of those copies are the likely result of below-cost loss-leader deals from online retailers -- including Newsmax's own $4.97 deal for the book.
Over the holidays, someone close to me was at a dinner with some rabidly anti-Obama people and their children.
One of the kids, about 10 years old, was trying to mock someone else, trying to shame them into doing something.
One of the insults the 10 year old kid used was to call the other person "Obama"!
Like father, like son.
I would hope that President Obama has the same sense of humor. Having your name used as an insult is a compliment from a whole bunch of people. I would thoroughly enjoy having either Bill O'Reilly or Glenn Beck go off on me. I'd laugh in their faces.
Hey, Lou Dobbs isn't doing anything!
I wonder if she got paid to mention Newsmax, since they are selling her book for way under the cover price, which I must say, is unusual for a book that just came out.
NEOCONS are not conservatives.
They believe that US should bully,attack and bomb
every little,defensless country that will not conform to neocon's
diktate.
That's the ONLY conviction they have!
Bushes,McCain,Hillary,Joe Liberman,etc,etc!