Posted by PWalker<\/p>\n
Not very long ago, there was a lot of talk about how sales of conservative books proved that liberalism was dead.<\/a> Of course, that was before the wildly successful books by Bill and Hillary Clinton. I don’t know how many times I heard Ann Coulter say something like this<\/a>:<\/p>\n The American people really have shown an enormous capacity to withstand the propaganda, especially in those media … where they are allowed to choose.<\/p>\n That is the Internet, radio and books, where conservatives absolutely dominate the list, dominate the top Internet sites, dominate talk radio. When Americans are given a choice, they choose conservatives. They’re not given a choice on ABC, NBC and CBS. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n Then came the dot-com bust, sapping away the paper’s classified employment advertising revenue. Then came the Sept. 11, 2001-fueled recession, causing what he described as a “horrendous drop” in ad dollars.<\/p>\n That’s when the cheating began in earnest.<\/p>\n Because circulation is counted by subtracting the number of unsold papers from the number of printed papers, the Sun-Times paid its distributors to not return unsold papers, artificially inflating circulation, an internal investigation revealed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The same kind of thing has happened in the book world, where liberals and conservatives regularly trade accusations of padded sales due to bulk purchases. This site<\/a> chronicles the sales battle between Bill O’Reilly and Hillary Clinton. Who won that one anyway?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Posted by PWalker Not very long ago, there was a lot of talk about how sales of conservative books proved that liberalism was dead. Of course, that was before the wildly successful books by Bill and Hillary Clinton. I don’t know how many times I heard Ann Coulter say something like this: The American people […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWell, today we found out that the conservative-leaning Chicago Sun-Times<\/a> has been padding its circulation numbers<\/a>.<\/p>\n