Yet another indication that the media's near-constant efforts to hype the “Palin phenomenon” are misguided:

Palin, and daughter Bristol, reportedly took home $100,000 from In Touch to appear on the cover and in photos.

But the Palin family issue, according to Page Six, only sold roughly 500,000 copies on newsstands, “about half the number it sold a few weeks ago with the late Brittany Murphy on the cover.”

Oh, ok. One more:

A new CBS News poll finds that a large majority of Americans say they do not want former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin to run for president.

Specifically, 71 percent say they do not want the former Republican vice presidential nominee to run for president, while 21 percent say they do want her to run.

When the results are split out by party, 56 percent of Republicans say they do not want her to seek the office and 30 percent do. Meanwhile, 88 percent of Democrats do not want her to run. Among independents, 65 percent do not want her to run and 25 percent do.

The poll also finds that more people view Palin negatively than positively and that her book tour did not improve overall views of her.

As Eric Boehlert notes, “Now that we have (yet another) clear picture of Palin's low standing with the public, hopefully the political press corps will stop treating her online press releases (i.e. Facebook posting) as news. They're not. And most Americans don't seem to care about her."

But don't tell Andrew Malcolm -- it would break his heart.